The Adventures of Miss Barbara Pym
By: Paula Byrne
4.05
Format: 686 pages, Hardcover
A brilliant, intimate biography of English writer Barbara Pym. She was Pym to friends. Miss Pym …
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1. Less Than Angels
By: Barbara Pym
3.92
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
It is surely appropriate that anthropologists, who spend their time studying life and behavior in v… read more
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- 20th century
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"Of course it's alright for librarians to smell of drink."-Barbara Pym, Less Than Angels
"What was the point of living in a suburb if one couldn’t show a healthy curiosity about one’s neighbours?"-Barbara Pym, Less Than Angels
"Not that the making of tea can ever really be regarded as a petty or trivial matter and Miss Clovis did seem to have been seriously at fault."-Barbara Pym, Less Than Angels
"Like so many men, he needed a woman stronger than himself, for behind the harsh cragginess of the Easter Island façade cowered the small boy, uncertain of himself."-Barbara Pym, Less Than Angels
2. A Natural
By: Ross Raisin
3.71
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Tom has always known exactly the person he is going to be. A successful footballer. A man others lo… read more
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- british literature
3. No Fond Return of Love
By: Barbara Pym
3.70
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
Dulcie Mainwaring, the heroine of the book, is one of those excellent women who is always helping o… read more
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- 20th century
- british literature
4. Crampton Hodnet
By: Barbara Pym
3.70
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
Here, Barbara Mary Crampton Pym sails off into a wickedly comedic farce, focusing on the unsuitable… read more
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- 20th century
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5. Jane and Prudence
By: Barbara Pym
3.70
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
If Jane Cleveland and Prudence Bates seem an unlikely pair to be walking together at an Oxford reun… read more
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- 20th century
- british literature
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7. A Glass of Blessings
By: Barbara Pym
4.43
Format: 320 pages,
Well dressed and looked after, Wilmet is married to Rodney, a handsome army Major, working nine thi… read more
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- 20th century
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8. Henry VIII
By: William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine
3.50
Format: None pages,
Henry VIII is a history play generally believed to be a collaboration between William Shakespeare a… read more
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9. Angel
By: Hilary Mantel , Elizabeth Taylor
3.76
Format: 6 pages, Paperback
Writing stories that are extravagant and fanciful, fifteen-year old Angel retreats to a world of ro… read more
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- 20th century
- british literature
10. The Millstone
By: Margaret Drabble
3.17
Format: None pages, Paperback
Margaret Drabble's affecting novel, set in London during the 1960s, about a casual love affair, an … read more
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- british literature
11. 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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- 20th century
- british literature
12. Purity of Heart is to Will One Thing: Spiritual Preparation for the Office of Confession
By: Søren Kierkegaard , Douglas V. Steere
3.36
Format: None pages, Paperback
Crossing the boundaries of philosophy, theology, psychology, and literature, the Danish writer Sore… read more
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13. A Girl in Winter
By: Philip Larkin
3.62
Format: None pages,
This story of Katherine Lind and Robin Fennel, of winter and summer, of war and peace, of exile and… read more
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14. A Few Green Leaves
By: Barbara Pym
3.76
Format: 85 pages, Paperback
In A FEW GREEN LEAVES the author combines the rural settings of her earliest novels with many of th… read more
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16. An Academic Question
By: Barbara Pym
3.58
Format: 182 pages, Paperback
Caroline Grimstone, the bored young wife of an ambitious anthropologist, finds a cure for her tediu… read more
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- 20th century
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17. The House in Paris
By: Elizabeth Bowen
4.45
Format: 864 pages, Paperback
One of Elizabeth Bowen's most artful and psychologically acute novels, The House in Parisis a timel… read more
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18. Caledonian Road
By: Andrew O'Hagan
3.96
Format: 608 pages, Hardcover
A biting portrait of British class, politics, and money told through five interconnected families a… read more
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- audiobook
- british literature
19. Went to London, Took the Dog: A Diary
By: Nina Stibbe
3.66
Format: 346 pages, Hardcover
How do I get rid of the mosquitoes infesting the garden? Should my kids be drinking so much? And wh… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
- audiobook
20. The Mars House
By: Natasha Pulley
4.02
Format: 469 pages, Hardcover
From the author of The Watchmaker of Filigree Street, a queer sci-fi novel about an Earth refugee a… read more
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21. Macbeth
By: William Shakespeare
3.89
Format: None pages, Paperback
What he hears will change everything. Egged on by his wife, he decides to kill in order to gain the… read more
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"What, you egg?"-William Shakespeare, Macbeth
"What's done, is done"-William Shakespeare, Macbeth
"What's done cannot be undone."-William Shakespeare, Macbeth
"And nothing is, but what is not."-William Shakespeare, Macbeth
22. The Adventures of Miss Barbara Pym
By: Paula Byrne
4.05
Format: 686 pages, Hardcover
A brilliant, intimate biography of English writer Barbara Pym. She was Pym to friends. Miss Pym … read more
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- history
- biography
- memoir
- british literature
- historical
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- 20th century
- books about books
- audiobook
23. Lucky
By: Jane Smiley
3.13
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
From the best-selling, Pulitzer Prize–winning writer, a soaring, soulful novel about a folk musicia… read more
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- historical
- audiobook
24. 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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- audiobook
- historical
- british literature
"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
25. The Fortnight in September
By: R.C. Sherriff
3.97
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
The Fortnight in September embodies the kind of mundane normality the men in the dug-out longed for… read more
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- 20th century
- british literature
26. The Full English: A Journey in Search of a Country and its People
By: Stuart Maconie
4.08
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Three years before George Orwell made his expedition to the far and frozen North JB Priestley – who… read more
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- biography
- british literature
- nonfiction
- audiobook
27. Extranjeros, bienvenidos
By: Barbara Pym
3.92
Format: 215 pages, Paperback
Cuando Barbara Pym murió en 1980, dejó una cantidad considerable de material inédito. Entre éste, u… read more
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28. Death at the Sign of the Rook (Jackson Brodie, #6)
By: Kate Atkinson
4.09
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The stage is set. Marooned overnight by a snowstorm in a grand country house are a cast of characte… read more
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29. Truss at 10: How Not to Be Prime Minister
By: Anthony Seldon
4.36
Format: 403 pages, Kindle Edition
Liz Truss's disastrous premiership was the shortest and most chaotic in British history. In the spa… read more
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- history
- biography
- nonfiction
