Godmersham Park
By: Gill Hornby
3.69
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
On 21 January 1804, Anne Sharpe arrives at Godmersham Park in Kent to take up the position of gover…
Want to Read $ 17.99"She was simply a creature of the most passionate nature. She felt intensely; where she loved, there she loved absolutely."-Gill Hornby, Godmersham Park
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1. Jane Austen at Home
By: Lucy Worsley
3.16
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
On the eve of the two hundredth anniversary of Jane Austen's death, take a trip back to her world a… read more
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- historical
- audiobook
2. Agatha Christie: A Very Elusive Woman
By: Lucy Worsley
4.20
Format: 498 pages, Kindle Edition
A new, fascinating account of the life of Agatha Christie from celebrated literary and cultural his… read more
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- historical
- audiobook
3. Murder on Lake Garda
By: Tom Hindle
3.55
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
One happy couple. Two divided families. A wedding party to die for. On the private island of C… read more
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- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
4. The Household
By: Stacey Halls
3.94
Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition
From the Sunday Times bestseller and winner of the Women's Prize Futures Award, the captivating, hi… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- audiobook
5. The Whalebone Theatre
By: Joanna Quinn
4.06
Format: 558 pages, Hardcover
A transporting, irresistible debut novel that takes its heroine, Cristabel Seagrave, from a theatr… read more
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- british literature
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- audiobook
"Without passion we are only machines."-Joanna Quinn, The Whalebone Theatre
"A place where exiles gather to talk of passion."-Joanna Quinn, The Whalebone Theatre
"The men repeatedly request that she play Elgar’s “Nimrod"-Joanna Quinn, The Whalebone Theatre
"It pleases her immensely that she has created this. It reminds her of playing with the cardboard theatre in the attic, how her favourite part was lying on the floor, doing the voices, making the char…"-Joanna Quinn, The Whalebone Theatre
6. Murder Before Evensong (Canon Clement, #1)
By: Richard Coles
3.32
Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition
Canon Daniel Clement is Rector of Champton. He has been there for eight years, living at the Rector… read more
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- audiobook
- adult
- fiction
- british literature
7. Godmersham Park
By: Gill Hornby
3.69
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
On 21 January 1804, Anne Sharpe arrives at Godmersham Park in Kent to take up the position of gover… read more
Want to Read $ 17.99Similar categories in Gill Hornby's Godmersham Park book and Gill Hornby's Godmersham Park
- romance
- british literature
- historical
- regency
- historical romance
- fiction
- contemporary
- historical fiction
- adult
- audiobook
"She was simply a creature of the most passionate nature. She felt intensely; where she loved, there she loved absolutely."-Gill Hornby, Godmersham Park
8. The Other Bennet Sister
By: Janice Hadlow
4.16
Format: 463 pages, Hardcover
Mary, the bookish ugly duckling of Pride and Prejudice’s five Bennet sisters, emerges from the shad… read more
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- romance
- british literature
- historical
- regency
- historical romance
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- audiobook
"Watching what happens isn’t the same as being part of it."-Janice Hadlow, The Other Bennet Sister
"And anyway, in our house, no-one is obliged to sparkle. Which, I find, makes it far more likely that they might."-Janice Hadlow, The Other Bennet Sister
"If I don’t have the genius to create a thing of beauty myself, at least I have the judgement to appreciate the art of others."-Janice Hadlow, The Other Bennet Sister
"...in truth, there is no state that better demonstrates real firmness of affection than the ability to remain quietly comfortable together without conversation."-Janice Hadlow, The Other Bennet Sister
9. The Marriage Portrait
By: Maggie O'Farrell
4.01
Format: 355 pages, Hardcover
An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here. The author of award-winning Hamnet… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- audiobook
"May I keep this?"-Maggie O'Farrell, The Marriage Portrait
"Was there no hope? the tigress seemed to be asking her. Will I always remain here? Will I never return home?"-Maggie O'Farrell, The Marriage Portrait
"The animal was orange, burnished gold, fire made flesh; she was power and anger, she was vicious and exquisite;"-Maggie O'Farrell, The Marriage Portrait
"Is it possible for a woman to be so unsettled in spirit that a child will have no hope of taking root within her?"-Maggie O'Farrell, The Marriage Portrait
10. Shrines of Gaiety
By: Kate Atkinson
3.85
Format: 439 pages, Hardcover
London 1926. Roaring Twenties. Corruption. Seduction. Debts due. In a country still recovering … read more
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- british literature
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- audiobook
"The library had not been a career choice. After all, who would choose to be a librarian?"-Kate Atkinson, Shrines of Gaiety
"His head was always in the clouds. 'I'm writing a novel,' he told her. As if that was something to crow about. As if there weren't enough novels in the world already."-Kate Atkinson, Shrines of Gaiety
11. The Maiden
By: Kate Foster
4.05
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Inspired by a real-life case and winner of the Bloody Scotland Pitch Perfect Award, Kate Foster's T… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- audiobook
12. Mrs England
By: Stacey Halls
3.91
Format: 424 pages, Hardcover
West Yorkshire, 1904. When newly graduated nurse Ruby May takes a position looking after the chi… read more
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- british literature
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- audiobook
"I wondered if there was a word for homesickness not for a place but for people."-Stacey Halls, Mrs England
"The room was so quiet I could hear my heart breaking, and it sounded like a daisy snapping at the stem."-Stacey Halls, Mrs England
"sometimes,' I said, 'When people we love die, we have all sorts of thoughts to try to cope with it better. We try to imagine their last hours and what we might have done differently."-Stacey Halls, Mrs England
"It made my spirits low, and when your spirits are low it's hard to see the point in anything. Nobody understood how I suffered. Everybody told me I was lucky to be alive, that it was a miracle. They …"-Stacey Halls, Mrs England
13. The House of Fortune (The Miniaturist, #2)
By: Jessie Burton
3.87
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Alive with the magic of Amsterdam, the enchanting new historical novel from the author of the sensa… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- audiobook
"The road in front is empty: it is behind them that something waits."-Jessie Burton, The House of Fortune (The Miniaturist, #2)
14. The Book of Beginnings
By: Sally Page
4.24
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
From the author of the phenomenal bestseller The Keeper of Stories, comes the next uplifting story … read more
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- romance
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
15. The Square of Sevens
By: Laura Shepherd-Robinson
4.14
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
An orphaned fortune teller in 18th-century England searches for answers about her long-dead mother … read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- audiobook
"If time with those we love is measured by the hourglass, then God’s greatest cruelty is not to let us see the size of that vessel."-Laura Shepherd-Robinson, The Square of Sevens
16. Pandora
By: Susan Stokes-Chapman
3.67
Format: 408 pages, Paperback
London, 1799. Dora Blake, an aspiring jewelry artist, lives with her odious uncle atop her late par… read more
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- romance
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
"but since when did gratitude mean the acceptance of rage?"-Susan Stokes-Chapman, Pandora
"It amazes him how much money rich people seem happy to waste on entertainment for one mere evening."-Susan Stokes-Chapman, Pandora
17. The Hapless Milliner (Miss Austen Investigates, #1)
By: Jessica Bull
3.59
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
A witty, engaging murder mystery featuring Jane Austen as an intrepid amateur sleuth—the first in a… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
18. The Painter's Daughters
By: Emily Howes
3.93
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A story of love, madness, sisterly devotion, and control, about the two beloved daughters of renown… read more
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- romance
- british literature
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- audiobook
19. The Second Sight of Zachary Cloudesley
By: Sean Lusk
3.90
Format: 356 pages, Paperback
Zachary Cloudesley is gifted in a remarkable way. But not all gifts are a blessing... Leadenhall… read more
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- audiobook
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
20. The Secrets of Blythswood Square
By: Sara Sheridan
4.19
Format: 413 pages, Kindle Edition
You wouldn't suspect it, but scandalous secrets are being kept on Blythswood Square... 1846. Glasg… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
21. The Trouble With Mrs Montgomery Hurst
By: Katie Lumsden
4.50
Format: 439 pages, Kindle Edition
1841. Mr Montgomery Hurst of Radcliffe Park is getting married. To the great consternation of the c… read more
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