Dear Reader: The Comfort and Joy of Books
By: Cathy Rentzenbrink
4.20
Format: 230 pages, Hardcover
From the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Last Act of Love. 'Reading has saved my life, ag…
Want to Read $ 11.49"It is both simple and profound to consider the vastness of human experience that sits on one small shelf of books"-Cathy Rentzenbrink, Dear Reader: The Comfort and Joy of Books
"Don’t allow anything to dent your reading pleasure. Don’t let anyone tell you that what you like isn’t proper, that what brings comfort and ease to your soul isn’t good enough."-Cathy Rentzenbrink, Dear Reader: The Comfort and Joy of Books
"The very way that fiction works – the process of conflict and resolution at the heart of every story – means that novels are full of people encountering challenging situations and, usually, surviving them. Books are a masterclass in how to carry on."-Cathy Rentzenbrink, Dear Reader: The Comfort and Joy of Books
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1. The Year of Reading Dangerously: How Fifty Great Books (and Two Not-So-Great Ones) Saved My Life
By: Andy Miller
4.75
Format: 335 pages, Paperback
A working father whose life no longer feels like his own discovers the transforming powers of great… read more
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2. Reading Allowed: True Stories and Curious Incidents from a Provincial Library
By: Chris Paling
3.70
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Chris works as a librarian in a small-town library in the south of England. This is the story of th… read more
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3. Moon Tiger
By: Penelope Lively
3.91
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
The elderly Claudia Hampton, a best-selling author of popular history, lies alone in a London hospi… read more
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- literature
"We all act as hinges - fortuitous links between other people."-Penelope Lively, Moon Tiger
"God," she says, 'is an unprincipled bastard, wouldn't you agree?"-Penelope Lively, Moon Tiger
"I've grown old with this century; there's not much left of either of us."-Penelope Lively, Moon Tiger
"Mythology is much better stuff than history. It has form; logic; a message."-Penelope Lively, Moon Tiger
4. Pictures Or It Didn't Happen (Spilling CID, #8.5)
By: Sophie Hannah
4.11
Format: 14 pages,
Would you trust a complete stranger? After Chloe and her daughter Freya are rescued from disaster b… read more
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5. You Are Here
By: David Nicholls
4.08
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Sometimes you need to get lost to find your way . . . Michael is coming undone. Adrift after his… read more
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- audiobook
"It’s true I do have time and freedom and I love it, sometimes. But the notion that I should be “making the most of it"-David Nicholls, You Are Here
"You were traumatised.’ ‘I wonder if people use that word too much.’ ‘It’s the right word for something traumatic.’ ‘But it wasn’t war. People get beaten up every Friday night.’ ‘And are traumatised b…"-David Nicholls, You Are Here
"she went on a solo trip to Italy, role-playing a character in a Forster novel. In Florence, she read performatively in cafés and sat in the cool of exquisite churches, straining for some kind of spir…"-David Nicholls, You Are Here
"Books saw her through the pupal stage of thirteen to sixteen, frowning at Kafka and Woolf, then tearing through John Irving and Maeve Binchy, widely read in the proper sense, making no distinction be…"-David Nicholls, You Are Here
6. So Late in the Day
By: Claire Keegan
4.00
Format: 47 pages, Hardcover
After an uneventful Friday at the Dublin office, Cathal faces into the long weekend and takes the b… read more
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- audiobook
7. Dear Reader: The Comfort and Joy of Books
By: Cathy Rentzenbrink
4.20
Format: 230 pages, Hardcover
From the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Last Act of Love. 'Reading has saved my life, ag… read more
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- essays
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"It is both simple and profound to consider the vastness of human experience that sits on one small shelf of books"-Cathy Rentzenbrink, Dear Reader: The Comfort and Joy of Books
"Don’t allow anything to dent your reading pleasure. Don’t let anyone tell you that what you like isn’t proper, that what brings comfort and ease to your soul isn’t good enough."-Cathy Rentzenbrink, Dear Reader: The Comfort and Joy of Books
"The very way that fiction works – the process of conflict and resolution at the heart of every story – means that novels are full of people encountering challenging situations and, usually, surviving…"-Cathy Rentzenbrink, Dear Reader: The Comfort and Joy of Books
8. Soldier Sailor
By: Claire Kilroy
4.10
Format: 256 pages, ebook
Well, Sailor. Here we are once more, you and me in one another's arms. The Earth rotates beneath us… read more
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- audiobook
"I laughed and then we were doing that thing again, our thing: laughing into one another's eyes. All that time I had thought I was jollying you along when all that time you were jollying along me."-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor
"I tell my husband about my childhood and he tells me about his but it isn't the same. We can never know each other as we were then. But I know you. I will see the child you were in the man you will b…"-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor
"Hated cling film. Hated it more than I hated kinetic sand. Defeated by something that lacked a third dimension. While I'd been off tinkering on the cerebral plane, the smart money has been mastering …"-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor
"I knelt down to pick up the hatchling to . . . . what? Give it back to its mother? Here is your dying chick? Just before I made contact with it, she dive-bombed me. The mother actually dive-bombed me…"-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor
9. Comfort Eating: What We Eat When Nobody's Looking
By: Grace Dent
4.17
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Have you ever wondered why eating cheese can sometimes feel like a cuddle? Or how a good curry can … read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
10. Steeple Chasing: Around Britain by Church
By: Peter Ross
4.37
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
*Featuring a brand new chapter!* Churches are all around us. Their steeples remain landmarks in … read more
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11. The Unfinished Business of Eadie Browne
By: Freya North
4.25
Format: 420 pages, Kindle Edition
When your present meets your past, what do you take with you – and what do you leave behind? Ea… read more
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- audiobook
12. Bookworm: A Memoir of Childhood Reading
By: Lucy Mangan
3.93
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
When Lucy Mangan was little, stories were everything. They opened up new worlds and cast light on … read more
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"Each book is a world entire. You're going to have to take more than one pass at it."-Lucy Mangan, Bookworm: A Memoir of Childhood Reading
"The intensity of childhod reading, the instant and complete absorption in a book - a good book, a bad book, in any kind of book - is something I would give much to recapture"-Lucy Mangan, Bookworm: A Memoir of Childhood Reading
"The philosopher and psychologist Riccardo Manzotti describes the process of reading and rereading as creating both locks and keys with which to open them; it shows you an area of life you didn't even…"-Lucy Mangan, Bookworm: A Memoir of Childhood Reading
13. Big Date Energy
By: Bethany Rutter
3.52
Format: 370 pages, Kindle Edition
Fran’s done with looking for long-term love.She’s got Big Date Energy…Serial monogamist Fran has wa… read more
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14. The Other Edie Trimmer
By: Jacqueline Wilson
4.18
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
A brilliant new middle-grade novel from the bestselling Jacqueline Wilson!"I seemed to be seeing do… read more
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15. What Writers Read: 35 Writers on Their Favourite Book
By: Pandora Sykes
4.08
Format: 126 pages, Kindle Edition
In this love letter to reading, curated by Pandora Sykes in aid of the National Literacy Trust, bes… read more
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16. The Hiding Game
By: Naomi Wood
3.69
Format: 383 pages, Kindle Edition
In 1922, Paul Beckermann arrives at the Bauhaus art school and is immediately seduced by both the c… read more
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17. The Librarian: A Memoir
By: Allie Morgan
4.17
Format: 296 pages, Hardcover
The library saved her. Now she wants to save the library. "The day I had my interview for my lib… read more
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18. Think Again
By: Jacqueline Wilson
3.90
Format: 344 pages, Kindle Edition
⭐ Whatever happened to beloved Girls series characters Ellie, Magda and Nadine? ⭐They're all grown … read more
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19. Sunbirds
By: Penelope Slocombe
4.13
Format: 348 pages, Kindle Edition
In 1997 Anne's eighteen-year-old son Torran walked out of his hotel in the notorious Himalayan town… read more
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20. One Girl, One Summer: An emotional pageturner with dark secrets that will take your breath away (A Highcap Mystery)
By: Isabel Ashdown
4.22
Format: 335 pages, Kindle Edition
Some summers cast long shadows...On a peaceful hilltop campsite in the heat of summer, a private pl… read more
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