The Bookshop
By: Penelope Fitzgerald
3.28
Format: 163 pages, Kindle Edition
In 1959 Florence Green, a kindhearted widow with a small inheritance, risks everything to open a bo…
Want to Read $ 13.99"Morality is seldom a safe guide for human conduct."-Penelope Fitzgerald, The Bookshop
"El corage y la perseverancia son inútiles si no se ponen a prueba"-Penelope Fitzgerald, The Bookshop
"Hojear libros es parte de la tradición de una libreria -le dijo Florence-. Debes dejar que se queden y toquen los libros."-Penelope Fitzgerald, The Bookshop
"Hojear libros es parte de la tradición de una librería —le dijo Florence—. Debes dejar que se queden y toquen los libros."-Penelope Fitzgerald, The Bookshop
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1. The Girls of Slender Means (New Directions Classic)
By: Muriel Spark
3.65
Format: 140 pages, Paperback
Like the May of Teck Club itself—"three times window shattered since 1940 but never directly hit"—i… read more
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"it never really occurred to her that literary men, if they like women at all, do not want literary women but girls."-Muriel Spark, The Girls of Slender Means (New Directions Classic)
"- 'Poise is perfect balance, an equanimity of body and mind, complete composure whatever the social scene. Elegant dress, immaculate grooming, and perfect deportment all contribute to the attainment …"-Muriel Spark, The Girls of Slender Means (New Directions Classic)
2. Hotel du Lac
By: Anita Brookner
3.93
Format: 245 pages, Paperback
"Impeccably written and suffused with pleasing wit."--Newsweek In the novel that won her the Booker… read more
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3. Alive
By: Petronela Rotar
3.32
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
,,Nu imi e frica de moarte. Stiu ca intr-o zi va suna telefonul ca s-a dus mama-mare, care are apro… read more
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4. A Month in the Country
By: J.L. Carr , Michael Holroyd
3.76
Format: None pages,
In J. L. Carr's deeply charged poetic novel, Tom Birkin, a veteran of the Great War and a broken ma… read more
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- literary fiction
- british literature
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5. Three Letters from the Andes
By: Patrick Leigh Fermor
4.03
Format: 606 pages, Paperback
In 1971 the celebrated traveller Patrick Leigh Fermor accompanied five friends on a remarkable jour… read more
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6. Quartet in Autumn
By: Barbara Pym
3.90
Format: 186 pages, Paperback
This is the story of four people in late middle-age - Edwin, Norman, Letty and Marcia - whose chief… read more
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7. The Robber
By: Robert Walser , Susan Bernofsky
4.28
Format: 364 pages, Paperback
The Robber, Robert Walser's last novel, tells the story of a dreamer on a journey of self-discovery… read more
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8. The Lemoine Affair
By: Marcel Proust , Charlotte Mandell
3.56
Format: 259 pages, Paperback
This is the first-ever translation into English of this startling tour-de-force by one of the twent… read more
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10. 84, Charing Cross Road
By: Helene Hanff
3.57
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
This charming classic love story, first published in 1970, brings together twenty years of correspo… read more
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11. Where Water Comes Together with Other Water: Poems
By: Raymond Carver
3.74
Format: 70 pages, Paperback
Winner of Poetry Magazine's Levinson Prize, an illuminating collection from the middle of his caree… read more
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12. Foster
By: Claire Keegan
3.92
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
A small girl is sent to live with foster parents on a farm in rural Ireland, without knowing when s… read more
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13. Penelope Fitzgerald: A Life
By: Hermione Lee
3.71
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
Penelope Fitzgerald (1916-2000) was a great English writer, who would never have described herself … read more
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14. Small Things Like These
By: Claire Keegan
4.18
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
It is 1985 in a small Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal me… read more
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"Always, Christmas brought out the best and the worst in people."-Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These
"for people were bound, he knew, to reveal not only themselves, but what they knew, in conversation"-Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These
"And then the nights came on and the frosts took hold again, and blades of cold slid under doors and cut the knees off those who still knelt to say the rosary."-Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These
"When he reached the yard gate and found the padlock seized with frost, he felt the strain of being alive and wished he had stayed in bed, but he made himself carry on and crossed to a neighbour’s hou…"-Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These
15. Treacle Walker
By: Alan Garner
3.13
Format: 152 pages, Hardcover
Treacle Walker is a stunning fusion of myth and folklore and an exploration of the fluidity of time… read more
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16. Pričakovanja
By: Anja Mugerli
4.21
Format: 300 pages, Hardcover
V drugem romanu Anje Mugerli spremljamo zgodbo Jane in Primoža, ki si želita otroka, na to, da je ž… read more
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17. Diary of a Tuscan Bookshop: A Memoir
By: Alba Donati
3.50
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Under the Tuscan Sun meets Diary of a Bookseller in this charming memoir by an Italian poet recount… read more
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"A Lucignana non abbiamo regine ma fate si, molte."-Alba Donati, Diary of a Tuscan Bookshop: A Memoir
"How did I get the idea? Ideas don't just spring out of nothing - they smoulder, ferment, crowd our mind while we sleep. Ideas walk on their own two legs, follow their own parallel path in part of us …"-Alba Donati, Diary of a Tuscan Bookshop: A Memoir
"Cit. p.81 "I fiori come noi pensano, intuiscono la via più semplice, evitano percorsi difficili. e lottano, hanno spiriti rivoluzionari. ... Penso alla povera erba medica che ripone dentro leggere sp…"-Alba Donati, Diary of a Tuscan Bookshop: A Memoir
18. The Bookshop
By: Penelope Fitzgerald
3.28
Format: 163 pages, Kindle Edition
In 1959 Florence Green, a kindhearted widow with a small inheritance, risks everything to open a bo… read more
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- literary fiction
- british literature
- literature
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- 20th century
- novels
- books about books
- audiobook
"Morality is seldom a safe guide for human conduct."-Penelope Fitzgerald, The Bookshop
"El corage y la perseverancia son inútiles si no se ponen a prueba"-Penelope Fitzgerald, The Bookshop
"Hojear libros es parte de la tradición de una libreria -le dijo Florence-. Debes dejar que se queden y toquen los libros."-Penelope Fitzgerald, The Bookshop
"Hojear libros es parte de la tradición de una librería —le dijo Florence—. Debes dejar que se queden y toquen los libros."-Penelope Fitzgerald, The Bookshop
19. Enlightenment
By: Sarah Perry
3.70
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A dazzling new work of literary fiction from the author of The Essex Serpent, a story of love and a… read more
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- british literature
- historical
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- historical fiction
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"Thomas [Hart] lived where he'd been born, and where (so he often thought without rancor) he'd very likely die; and if he lived alone he was not lonely, that being a condition not of solitude but of l…"-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment
"So I told her this: that it's true I've only rarely been happy, and perhaps more often been sad. But I have been content. I have lived. I have felt everything available to me: I've been faithless, de…"-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment
"I wish I could say, James, that we forgave each other in the end. I wish I could say: she put her head on my shoulder and I welcomed it and we laughed and said all was well. But in fact we were quiet…"-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment
"...in the ordinary way we love because we're loved, and give more or less what we're given. But to love without return is more strange and more wonderful, and not the humiliating thing I'd once taken…"-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment
20. A Fragile Heritage
By: Sheryl Leinbach
4.59
Format: 476 pages, Paperback
The doctor spoke sympathetically, but his words were devastating. “Yes, it is genetic. This mutatio… read more
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21. El domador de cerebros: 40 propuestas para dominar tu mente y mejorar tu vida (Spanish Edition)
By: David Serrano
3.88
Format: 158 pages, Kindle Edition
El domador de cerebros es una invitación a tomar conciencia de cómo tus proyecciones mentales alter… read more
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