The Librarian
By: Salley Vickers
3.37
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A charmingly subversive novel about a library in 1950s England, by the acclaimed author of The Clea…
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1. The Unseen
By: Katherine Webb
3.74
Format: 464 pages, Paperback
Katherine Webb’s debut novel, The Legacy, was an international bestseller—and her remarkable second… read more
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- romance
- british literature
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- drama
"Anyone may be free. It's only a matter of finding a way."-Katherine Webb, The Unseen
"Not easy is it? People are supposed to be able to talk their way through anything these days."-Katherine Webb, The Unseen
"Men. Why do you fight so hard to carve your names into history? To... leave some mark of yourselves for after you've gone?' 'Is that the difference between men and women then? Is that why men excel, …"-Katherine Webb, The Unseen
2. Love & Treasure
By: Ayelet Waldman
3.52
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A spellbinding new novel of contraband masterpieces, tragic love, and the unexpected legacies of fo… read more
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- historical
- novels
- fiction
- historical fiction
"Amitai shook his head, almost smiling, because here he was, feeling for the first time that the tragedy of European Jewry did belong to him. Before today, his lack of personal connection to the Holoc…"-Ayelet Waldman, Love & Treasure
"In the end the real wealth of the Hungarian Jewish community had not been packed in crates and boxes and loaded onto that train. What is the value to a daughter of a single pair of Sabbath candlestic…"-Ayelet Waldman, Love & Treasure
3. The Night in Question
By: Tobias Wolff
4.16
Format: 206 pages, Hardcover
A man is shot dead while standing in line at the bank, another is fired for printing an obituary of… read more
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- adult fiction
- fiction
"I'm a survivor, " I said. But I didn't think that claim would carry much weight in an obituary."-Tobias Wolff, The Night in Question
"Getting from La Jolla to Alta Vista State Hospital isn't easy, unless you have a car or a breakdown. April's Father had a breakdown and they got him there in no time."-Tobias Wolff, The Night in Question
"Someday Miller is going to die. He knows that and he prides himself on knowing it when everyone else only pretends to, secretly believing that they will live forever.....A simple truth . His mother i…"-Tobias Wolff, The Night in Question
4. A Year of Marvellous Ways
By: Sarah Winman
3.87
Format: 310 pages, Hardcover
Cornwall, 1947. Marvellous Ways is a ninety-year-old woman who's lived alone in a remote creek for … read more
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- british literature
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- book club
"He dived into a bottomless pit of sleep"-Sarah Winman, A Year of Marvellous Ways
"You have to risk failure to become excellent."-Sarah Winman, A Year of Marvellous Ways
"There was no point in tears outliving eyes, so she let them fall."-Sarah Winman, A Year of Marvellous Ways
"Coming back from the dead is not quite the same as coming back to life."-Sarah Winman, A Year of Marvellous Ways
5. The Colonel's Daughter
By: Rose Tremain
3.69
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
At the moment that Colonel Browne is standing in the shallow end of the swimming pool of the Hotel … read more
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- fiction
- british literature
6. A Place of Secrets
By: Rachel Hore
3.91
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
The night before it all begins, Jude has the dream again... Can dreams be passed down through famil… read more
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- romance
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
7. The Dreams of Bethany Mellmoth
By: William Boyd
5.00
Format: 500 pages, Hardcover
A philandering art dealer tries to give up casual love affairs - seeking only passionate kisses as … read more
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9. Bricks and Mortality (Campbell and Carter Mystery, #3)
By: Ann Granger
4.09
Format: 315 pages, Hardcover
An old house, long left empty, burns to the ground one night and a body is discovered in the ashes.… read more
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10. When God Was a Rabbit
By: Sarah Winman
3.43
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
When God was a Rabbitis an incredibly exciting debut from an extraordinary new voice in fiction. Sp… read more
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11. The Horse Boy: A Father's Quest to Heal His Son
By: Rupert Isaacson
3.33
Format: 153 pages,
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12. Exposure
By: Helen Dunmore
4.33
Format: None pages, Hardcover
London, November, 1960: the Cold War is at its height. Spy fever fills the newspapers, and the poli… read more
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13. Still Life
By: Sarah Winman
4.17
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
Tuscany, 1944: As Allied troops advance and bombs fall around deserted villages, a young English so… read more
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- historical
- book club
- fiction
- historical fiction
"But when have women not sacrificed to live as they feel?"-Sarah Winman, Still Life
"We were an unconventional family. Scandal was a rite of passage."-Sarah Winman, Still Life
"No single act of generosity remains in isolation. The ripples are many."-Sarah Winman, Still Life
"He needed to know everyone was safe because without them he was nothing."-Sarah Winman, Still Life
14. A Terrible Kindness
By: Jo Browning Wroe
4.30
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
When we go through something impossible, someone, or something, will help us, if we let them . . . … read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- novels
- book club
15. 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
- drama
- fiction
- historical fiction
16. 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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- adult fiction
- british literature
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- novels
"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
17. 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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- fiction
- british literature
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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- british literature
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- novels
- books about books
"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 librería —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 libreria -le dijo Florence-. Debes dejar que se queden y toquen los libros."-Penelope Fitzgerald, The Bookshop
19. Absolutely and Forever
By: Rose Tremain
3.90
Format: 177 pages, Kindle Edition
A piercing short novel of thwarted love and true friendship from one of our greatest living writers… read more
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- romance
- british literature
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- novels
20. 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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- historical
- historical fiction
- fiction
- british literature
"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
21. 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
- novels
- fiction
- historical fiction
"The road in front is empty: it is behind them that something waits."-Jessie Burton, The House of Fortune (The Miniaturist, #2)
22. The Librarian
By: Salley Vickers
3.37
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A charmingly subversive novel about a library in 1950s England, by the acclaimed author of The Clea… read more
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- romance
- adult fiction
- british literature
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- novels
- book club
- books about books
- drama
23. The Carer
By: Deborah Moggach
3.77
Format: 204 pages, Kindle Edition
From the bestselling author of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel and Tulip Fever, a deliciously funny,… read more
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- novels
- book club
- fiction
- british literature
24. Lily
By: Rose Tremain
3.82
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Nobody knows yet that she is a murderer... Abandoned at the gates of a London park one winter's … read more
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- british literature
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- novels
25. The Wildflowers
By: Harriet Evans
3.97
Format: 439 pages, Kindle Edition
The new novel by Sunday Times bestseller Harriet Evans will transport you to a Dorset beach house, … read more
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- romance
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
26. Paradise Lodge
By: Nina Stibbe
3.81
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
This is the story of Lizzie Vogel, a 15 year old girl who finds herself working in an old people's … read more
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- adult fiction
- british literature
- fiction
- historical fiction
- novels
27. The Vintage Shop of Second Chances
By: Libby Page
4.19
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Among the cobbled streets of the Somerset town of Frome, Lou is embarking on the start of something… read more
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- fiction
28. La biblioteca de fuego
By: María Zaragoza
3.76
Format: 528 pages, Paperback
En el efervescente Madrid de los años treinta, Tina sueña con convertirse en bibliotecaria. Junto c… read more
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29. The Good, the Bad and the Little Bit Stupid
By: Marina Lewycka
2.98
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
The bestselling author of A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian is in top form tackling money la… read more
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- british literature
30. The Figurine
By: Victoria Hislop
4.14
Format: 568 pages, Kindle Edition
In her irresistible new novel, Sunday Times No 1 bestselling author Victoria Hislop shines a light … read more
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- romance
- historical
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- historical fiction
