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Similar categories in Ros Schwartz's I Who Have Never Known Men book and Kiran Millwood Hargrave's The Mercies

• feminism
• adult
• fiction

"Survival is never more than putting off the moment of death."

-Ros Schwartz, I Who Have Never Known Men

"I thought it was unfair, and then I understood that, alone and terrified, anger was my only weapon against the horror"

-Ros Schwartz, I Who Have Never Known Men

"Look at them. They’re pretending, they behave as though they still have some control over their lives and make momentous decisions about which vegetable to cook first."

-Ros Schwartz, I Who Have Never Known Men

"Only now, I tell myself that what I'd felt for her, the trust that slowly built up, the constant preference for her company and the joy each time I was reunited with her after an expedition were prob…"

-Ros Schwartz, I Who Have Never Known Men

Similar categories in Claire Keegan's Small Things Like These book and Kiran Millwood Hargrave's The Mercies

• audiobook
• historical
• fiction
• historical fiction

"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

Similar categories in Julia Armfield's Our Wives Under the Sea book and Kiran Millwood Hargrave's The Mercies

• lesbian
• audiobook
• lgbt
• fiction
• adult
• queer

"El océano profundo es una casa embrujada: un lugar donde se mueven en la oscuridad cosas que no deberían existir."

-Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea

"She refused almost every aspect of my help, the way women will when they've been bred to accept little more than the baset civility."

-Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea

"I don't know why I expected you to read my mind,' I say, when I call back to leave her a message, 'I was just doing what I always do, assuming the world revolves around me."

-Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea

"The space around us is a claw half grasped, holding tight without quite crushing, and I wish, in the idle way I always wish these days, that I felt more confident in my ability to breathe."

-Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea

Similar categories in Elif Shafak's The Island of Missing Trees book and Kiran Millwood Hargrave's The Mercies

• audiobook
• historical
• fiction
• historical fiction

"She was no part of anything. In her unbroken loneliness, she was complete. Never had she felt so exposed, yet si powerful."

-Elif Shafak, The Island of Missing Trees

"So I guess it is in my genes, this melancholy I can never quite shake off. Carved with an invisible knife into my arborescent skin."

-Elif Shafak, The Island of Missing Trees

"You don't share a language, you think, and then you realise, grief is a language. We understand each other, people with troubled pasts."

-Elif Shafak, The Island of Missing Trees

"To immigrants and exiles everywhere, the uprooted, the re-rooted, the rootless, And to the trees we left behind, rooted in our memories ..."

-Elif Shafak, The Island of Missing Trees

Similar categories in Alice Winn's In Memoriam book and Kiran Millwood Hargrave's The Mercies

• audiobook
• lgbt
• historical
• fiction
• historical fiction
• adult
• queer

"It’s intimate."

-Alice Winn, In Memoriam

"Call me Sidney,"

-Alice Winn, In Memoriam

"Where’s the rest of it?"

-Alice Winn, In Memoriam

"Do you believe in magic?"

-Alice Winn, In Memoriam

Similar categories in Stacey Halls's The Familiars book and Kiran Millwood Hargrave's The Mercies

• historical
• fiction
• historical fiction
• witches
• adult
• audiobook

"Loyalty is earned, not demanded."

-Stacey Halls, The Familiars

"Respect is earned, not demanded."

-Stacey Halls, The Familiars

"Si el diablo es pobreza, hambre y dolor, entonces sí, creo que lo conocen."

-Stacey Halls, The Familiars

"Egy leánygyermek élete ugyanaz, mint egy feleségé – épp csak egy másik férfi mondja meg, mit csinálj."

-Stacey Halls, The Familiars

Similar categories in R.F. Kuang's Yellowface book and Kiran Millwood Hargrave's The Mercies

• adult
• fiction
• audiobook

"The truth is fluid, there is always another way to spin the story."

-R.F. Kuang, Yellowface

"They tell authors never to look at Goodreads, but nobody follows that advice—none of us can resist the urge to know how our work is being received."

-R.F. Kuang, Yellowface

"Writing is the closest thing we have to real magic. Writing is creating something out of nothing, is opening doors to other lands. Writing gives you power to shape your own world when the real one hu…"

-R.F. Kuang, Yellowface

Similar categories in Maggie O'Farrell's The Marriage Portrait book and Kiran Millwood Hargrave's The Mercies

• 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

Similar categories in Maggie O'Farrell's Hamnet book and Kiran Millwood Hargrave's The Mercies

• historical
• fiction
• historical fiction
• adult
• audiobook

"He has, Anges sees, done what any father would wish to do, to exchange his child’s suffering for his own, to take his place, to offer himself up in his child’s stead so that the boy might live."

-Maggie O'Farrell, Hamnet

"And there, by the fire, held in the arms of his mother, in the room in which he learnt to crawl, to eat, to walk, to speak, Hamnet takes his last breath. He draws it in, he lets it out. Then there is…"

-Maggie O'Farrell, Hamnet

"Ahora esa persona se ha perdido para siempre. Va a la deriva, no reconoce su propia vida. Está desamarrada, extraviada. Es una persona que llora si no encuentra un zapato, si cuece la sopa más de lo …"

-Maggie O'Farrell, Hamnet

"The sound that comes out of him is choked and smothered, like that of an animal forced to bears great weight. It is a noise of disbelief, of anguish. Anges will never forget it. At the end of her lif…"

-Maggie O'Farrell, Hamnet

Similar categories in Natalie Haynes's Stone Blind book and Kiran Millwood Hargrave's The Mercies

• historical
• feminism
• fiction
• historical fiction
• adult
• audiobook

"Then look."

-Natalie Haynes, Stone Blind

"The sea gods keep their secrets deep; they always have."

-Natalie Haynes, Stone Blind

"There is one question that devours me still. Why didn’t I close my eyes?"

-Natalie Haynes, Stone Blind

"And the monster? Who is she? She is what happens when someone cannot be saved."

-Natalie Haynes, Stone Blind

Similar categories in Kate Foster's The Maiden book and Kiran Millwood Hargrave's The Mercies

• historical
• fiction
• historical fiction
• adult
• audiobook

Similar categories in Emilia Hart's Weyward book and Kiran Millwood Hargrave's The Mercies

• historical
• fiction
• historical fiction
• witches
• adult
• audiobook

" Altha . A strange name. Soft and yet powerful. Like an incantation."

-Emilia Hart, Weyward

"It took skill, Violet thought, to make even your handwriting look angry"

-Emilia Hart, Weyward

"She named me Altha, after all. Not Alice, meaning noble woman, nor Agnes, lamb of God. Altha. Healer."

-Emilia Hart, Weyward

"I thought he loved me for myself. But you were right. To him I am but an animal, like those he hunts and puts on display"

-Emilia Hart, Weyward

Similar categories in Elodie Harper's The Temple of Fortuna (Wolf Den Trilogy #3) book and Kiran Millwood Hargrave's The Mercies

• historical
• fiction
• historical fiction
• adult
• audiobook

Similar categories in Stacey Halls's Mrs England book and Kiran Millwood Hargrave's The Mercies

• 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

Similar categories in Kiran Millwood Hargrave's The Mercies book and Kiran Millwood Hargrave's The Mercies

• lesbian
• audiobook
• lgbt
• historical
• feminism
• fiction
• historical fiction
• witches
• adult
• queer

"Handsome man, as these Scots often seem to be…"

-Kiran Millwood Hargrave, The Mercies

"It is written, and once written, things aren’t easily forgotten."

-Kiran Millwood Hargrave, The Mercies

"…she isn’t sure a life spent here is worthy of the label of living."

-Kiran Millwood Hargrave, The Mercies

"This is your land?' 'No.' The girl's tone was firm as her gaze. 'We only lived here."

-Kiran Millwood Hargrave, The Mercies

Similar categories in Elodie Harper's The House with the Golden Door (Wolf Den Trilogy, #2) book and Kiran Millwood Hargrave's The Mercies

• historical
• fiction
• historical fiction
• adult
• audiobook

Similar categories in A.K. Blakemore's The Manningtree Witches book and Kiran Millwood Hargrave's The Mercies

• historical
• fiction
• historical fiction
• witches
• adult
• audiobook

""

-A.K. Blakemore, The Manningtree Witches

"I wish freely to embrace the deliciousness of sin.To sin with abandon is, after all, the only prerogative of the damned."

-A.K. Blakemore, The Manningtree Witches

"I wish freely to embrace the deliciousness of sin. To sin with abandon is, after all, the only prerogative of the damned."

-A.K. Blakemore, The Manningtree Witches

"My imps need no doors, sir. They go where I tell them. Through any crack, be it as narrow as a nun's or wide as your wife's."

-A.K. Blakemore, The Manningtree Witches

Similar categories in Anya Bergman's The Witches of Vardø book and Kiran Millwood Hargrave's The Mercies

• historical
• feminism
• fiction
• historical fiction
• witches
• adult
• audiobook

Similar categories in Costanza Casati's Clytemnestra book and Kiran Millwood Hargrave's The Mercies

• historical
• feminism
• fiction
• historical fiction
• adult
• audiobook

"She will bow to no one. Her destiny will be what she wants it to be."

-Costanza Casati, Clytemnestra

"It is unwise to let a man who isn't king sit on a throne for too long."

-Costanza Casati, Clytemnestra

"As for queens, they are either hated or forgotten. She already knows which option suits her better. Let her be hated forever."

-Costanza Casati, Clytemnestra

Similar categories in Elodie Harper's The Wolf Den (Wolf Den Trilogy, #1) book and Kiran Millwood Hargrave's The Mercies

• historical
• feminism
• fiction
• historical fiction
• adult
• audiobook

"Amara looks at Dido, at the joy on her face, and realises there is nobody she loves more. Warmth spreads through her. She has never had a friend like Dido. She is the light in the darkness of her lif…"

-Elodie Harper, The Wolf Den (Wolf Den Trilogy, #1)

"Amara thinks of her time as a slave in Chremes' household. It does not cheer her up to see parallels between her past and that of the destitute old woman beside her. "You didn't start life as a slave…"

-Elodie Harper, The Wolf Den (Wolf Den Trilogy, #1)

Similar categories in Mattia Tortelli's Solo i santi non pensano book and Kiran Millwood Hargrave's The Mercies