20 Top fiction books like The Gardener by Salley Vickers

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The Gardener

By: Salley Vickers

3.57

Format: 296 pages, Hardcover

The new novel from Salley Vickers, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Librarian and Grandmother…

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1. 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

Similar categories in Sarah Winman's A Year of Marvellous Ways book and Salley Vickers's The Gardener

  • contemporary
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • british literature
"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

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2. 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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  • fiction
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3. 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

Similar categories in Joanna Quinn's The Whalebone Theatre book and Salley Vickers's The Gardener

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • british literature
"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

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4. 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

Similar categories in Richard Coles's Murder Before Evensong (Canon Clement, #1) book and Salley Vickers's The Gardener

  • fiction
  • british literature
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5. Cuddy

By: Benjamin Myers

4.33

Format: 447 pages, Hardcover

Cuddy is a bold and experimental retelling of the story of the hermit St. Cuthbert, unofficial patr… read more

Similar categories in Benjamin Myers's Cuddy book and Salley Vickers's The Gardener

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • british literature
"Some say owls carry within them the souls of those who in life never had a name, a place or a purpose, and were cast out to wander alone. Some say their stained-glass eyes are windows into other worl…"

-Benjamin Myers, Cuddy

Cover of Absolutely and Forever by Rose Tremain

6. 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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  • contemporary
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • british literature
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7. 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

Similar categories in Jessie Burton's The House of Fortune (The Miniaturist, #2) book and Salley Vickers's The Gardener

  • fiction
  • family
"The road in front is empty: it is behind them that something waits."

-Jessie Burton, The House of Fortune (The Miniaturist, #2)

Cover of The Gardener by Salley Vickers

8. The Gardener

By: Salley Vickers

3.57

Format: 296 pages, Hardcover

The new novel from Salley Vickers, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Librarian and Grandmother… read more

Similar categories in Salley Vickers's The Gardener book and Salley Vickers's The Gardener

  • literary fiction
  • british literature
  • gardening
  • modern
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of The Great Deceiver (The Brighton Mysteries, Book 7) by Elly Griffiths

9. The Great Deceiver (The Brighton Mysteries, Book 7)

By: Elly Griffiths

4.07

Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition

The next gripping volume in The Brighton Mysteries series by bestselling author Elly Griffiths. … read more

Similar categories in Elly Griffiths's The Great Deceiver (The Brighton Mysteries, Book 7) book and Salley Vickers's The Gardener

  • fiction
Cover of Broken Light by Joanne Harris

10. Broken Light

By: Joanne Harris

3.88

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

Bernie Moon is feeling invisible. She's given her life to other people - her husband, her son, her … read more

Similar categories in Joanne Harris's Broken Light book and Salley Vickers's The Gardener

  • contemporary
  • fiction
  • british literature
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11. 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

Similar categories in Rose Tremain's Lily book and Salley Vickers's The Gardener

  • fiction
  • british literature
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12. Restless Dolly Maunder

By: Kate Grenville

3.88

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

Dolly Maunder was born at the end of the nineteenth century, when society’s long-locked doors were … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • family
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13. Mother's Boy

By: Patrick Gale

4.16

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

One of the joys of Gale's writing is how even the smallest of characters can appear fully formed, d… read more

Similar categories in Patrick Gale's Mother's Boy book and Salley Vickers's The Gardener

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • british literature
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14. The Perfect Golden Circle

By: Benjamin Myers

3.92

Format: 211 pages, Hardcover

From a British literary sensation, the story of two rural outcasts and the crop circles they create… read more

Similar categories in Benjamin Myers's The Perfect Golden Circle book and Salley Vickers's The Gardener

  • contemporary
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • british literature
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15. The Fair Botanists

By: Sara Sheridan

3.91

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

It's the summer of 1822 and Edinburgh is abuzz with rumours of King George IV's impending visit. I… read more

Similar categories in Sara Sheridan's The Fair Botanists book and Salley Vickers's The Gardener

  • fiction
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16. This Family

By: Kate Sawyer

3.83

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

This house. This family. Mary has raised a family in this house. Watched her children play and l… read more

Similar categories in Kate Sawyer's This Family book and Salley Vickers's The Gardener

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • family
  • contemporary
Cover of Murder at the Monastery (Canon Clement Mystery #3) by Richard  Coles

17. Murder at the Monastery (Canon Clement Mystery #3)

By: Richard Coles

3.87

Format: 399 pages, Kindle Edition

Daniel Clement has suffered a secret humiliation and to recover, takes respite at the monastery whe… read more

Similar categories in Richard Coles's Murder at the Monastery (Canon Clement Mystery #3) book and Salley Vickers's The Gardener

  • fiction
  • british literature
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18. Bonjour, Sophie

By: Elizabeth Buchan

4.15

Format: 394 pages, Kindle Edition

It's 1959 and eighteen-year-old Sophie is determined that now is the time for her real life to star… read more

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19. Fifteen Wild Decembers

By: Karen Powell

4.20

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

A creative re-imagining of the short life of Emily Brontë, one of England’s greatest writers Pra… read more

Similar categories in Karen Powell's Fifteen Wild Decembers book and Salley Vickers's The Gardener

  • fiction
Cover of The Botanist's Daughter by Kayte Nunn

20. The Botanist's Daughter

By: Kayte Nunn

3.90

Format: 400 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Winner of the 2020 Winston Graham Historical Fiction Prize Discovery. Desire. Deception. A wondr… read more

Similar categories in Kayte Nunn's The Botanist's Daughter book and Salley Vickers's The Gardener

  • contemporary
  • fiction
  • british literature
"You just have to keep walking through the fire. And then you'll bloom."

-Kayte Nunn, The Botanist's Daughter

"The truth had been hiding in plain sight: a margeurite was a type of daisy."

-Kayte Nunn, The Botanist's Daughter

"I love you as the plant that never blooms but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers. - Sonnet XVII, Pablo Neruda "

-Kayte Nunn, The Botanist's Daughter

"Elizabeth had lent her an aquamarine dress, originally made for Georgiana, with elbow-length sleeves and intricate embroidery of butterflies and bees. It set Daisy's red hair ablaze. 'Fire on water,'…"

-Kayte Nunn, The Botanist's Daughter

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21. The Three Graces

By: Amanda Craig

3.75

Format: 405 pages, Kindle Edition

Ruth, Diana and Marta are three very different friends having a last 'adventure before dementia' af… read more

Similar categories in Amanda Craig's The Three Graces book and Salley Vickers's The Gardener

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary

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3.90

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Joanne Harris

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Kate Ellis

4.13

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Domenica de Rosa

3.00

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