A Crime in the Neighborhood
10 best books like A Crime in the Neighborhood (Suzanne Berne): The Idea of Perfection, Girl, Woman, Other, A Single Thread, The Offing, Larry's Party, Fugitive Pieces, A Spell of Winter, The Road Home, The Confession, When I Lived in Modern Times
| Author | Kate Grenville |
| ISBN | 0330490656 |
Girl, Woman, Other
| Author | Bernardine Evaristo |
| ISBN | 0241364906 |
Teeming with life and crackling with energy - a love song to modern Britain and black womanhood
Girl, Woman, Other follows the lives and struggles of twelve very different characters. Mostly women, black and British, they tell the stories...
A Single Thread
| Author | Tracy Chevalier |
The Offing
| Author | Benjamin Myers |
| ISBN | 1526611317 |
One summer following the Second World War, Robert Appleyard sets out on foot from his Durham...
| Author | Carol Shields |
| ISBN | 0679309519 |
| Author | Anne Michaels |
| ISBN | 0679776591 |
Winner of the Lannan Literary Fiction Award
Winner of the Guardian Fiction Award
In 1940 a boy bursts from the mud of a war-torn Polish city, where he has buried himself to hide from the soldiers who murdered his family. His name is Jakob Beer....
| Author | Helen Dunmore |
| ISBN | 0871137828 |
| Author | Rose Tremain |
| ISBN | 0701177934 |
The journey begins with Lev's bus journey from his home in Eastern Europe to the loneliness of impersonal London. Lev is into his early forties, has recently lost his wife to cancer and believes that the only way that he can support his very young...
The Confession
| Author | Jessie Burton |
| ISBN | 1509886141 |
One winter's afternoon on Hampstead Heath in 1980, Elise Morceau meets Constance Holden and quickly falls under her spell. Connie is bold and alluring, a successful writer whose novel is...
| Author | Linda Grant |
| ISBN | 0452282926 |
In the spring of 1946, Evelyn Sert stands on the deck of a ship bound for Palestine. For the twenty-year-old from London, it is a time of adventure and change when all things seem possible.
Swept up in the spirited, chaotic churning of her new, strange...
| Author | Valerie Martin |
| Author | Louise Wener |
| ISBN | 0060841737 |
Set...
The Doll: The Lost Short Stories
| Author | Daphne du Maurier |
| ISBN | 0062080342 |
Before she wrote Rebecca, the novel that would cement her reputation as a twentieth-century literary giant, a young Daphne du Maurier penned short fiction in which she explored the images, themes, and concerns...