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10 best books like All the Dogs of My Life (Elizabeth von Arnim): Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, A Novel Bookstore, The Diary of a Bookseller, The Dutch House, Olive, Again, Now We Shall Be Entirely Free, A Long Way Down, The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography, The Curiosity Keeper, Five Days Gone: The Mystery of My Mother's Disappearance as a Child

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
AuthorOlga Tokarczuk
ISBN0525541330
WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE

In a remote Polish village, Janina devotes the dark winter days to studying astrology, translating the poetry of William Blake, and taking care of the summer homes of wealthy Warsaw residents. Her reputation as a crank and a recluse is amplified by her...
A Novel Bookstore
AuthorLaurence Cossé
ISBN1933372826
Ivan, a one-time world traveler, and Francesca, a ravishing Italian heiress, are the owners of a bookstore that is anything but ordinary. Rebelling against the business of bestsellers and in search of an ideal place where their literary dreams can come true, Ivan and Francesca open a store where the...
The Diary of a Bookseller
AuthorShaun Bythell
ISBN1781258627
Shaun Bythell owns The Bookshop, Wigtown - Scotland's largest second-hand bookshop. It contains 100,000 books, spread over a mile of shelving, with twisting corridors and roaring fires, and all set in a beautiful, rural town by the edge of the sea. A book-lover's paradise? Well, almost ... In these...
The Dutch House
AuthorAnn Patchett
ISBN0062963678
At the end of the Second World War, Cyril Conroy combines luck and a single canny investment to begin an enormous real estate empire, propelling his family from poverty to enormous wealth. His first order of business is to buy the Dutch House, a lavish estate in the suburbs outside of Philadelphia. Meant...
Olive, Again
AuthorElizabeth Strout
ISBN0812996542
The iconic Olive struggles to understand not only herself and her own life but also the lives of those around her in the town of Crosby, Maine. Whether with a teenager coming to terms with the loss of her father, a young woman about to give birth during a hilariously inopportune moment, a nurse who confesses...
Now We Shall Be Entirely Free
AuthorAndrew Miller
By the Costa Award-winning author of PURE, a stunning historical novel with the grip of a thriller, written in richly evocative, luminous prose.

One rain-swept February night in 1809, an unconscious man is carried into a house in Somerset. He is Captain John Lacroix, home from Britain's disastrous...
A Long Way Down
AuthorNick Hornby
ISBN1594481938
In his eagerly awaited fourth novel, New York Times-bestselling author Nick Hornby mines the hearts and psyches of four lost souls who connect just when they've reached the end of the line.

Meet Martin, JJ, Jess, and Maureen. Four people who come together on New Year's Eve: a former TV talk show...
The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography
AuthorDeborah Levy
A searching examination of all the dimensions of love, marriage, mourning, and kinship from two-time Booker Prize finalist Deborah Levy.

To strip the wallpaper off the fairy tale of The Family House in which the comfort and happiness of men and children has been the priority is to find behind...
The Curiosity Keeper
AuthorSarah E. Ladd
ISBN0718011783
“It is not just a ruby, as you say. It is large as a quail’s egg, still untouched and unpolished. And it is rumored to either bless or curse whomever possesses it.”

Camille Iverness can take care of herself. She’s done so since the day her mother abandoned the family and left Camille to...
Five Days Gone: The Mystery of My Mother's Disappearance as a Child
AuthorLaura Cumming
ISBN1501198718
Acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of The Vanishing Velazquez Laura Cumming shares the riveting story of her mother’s mysterious kidnapping as a toddler in a small English coastal village—and how that event reverberated through her own family and her art for decades.

In the...
The Fifth Child
AuthorDoris Lessing
ISBN0679721827
Doris Lessing's contemporary gothic horror story—centered on the birth of a baby who seems less than human—probes society's unwillingness to recognize its own brutality.

Harriet and David Lovatt, parents of four children, have created an idyll of domestic bliss in defiance of the...
The Hog's Back Mystery
AuthorFreeman Wills Crofts
‘As pretty a piece of work as Inspector French has done … On the level of Mr Crofts’ very best; which is saying something.’ – Daily Telegraph
Dr James Earle and his wife live in comfortable seclusion near the Hog’s Back, a ridge in the North Downs in the beautiful Surrey countryside. When...
Mystery in the Channel
AuthorFreeman Wills Crofts
ISBN0712356517
Mystery in the Channel is a classic crime novel with a strikingly modern sub-text. The story begins with a shocking discovery. The captain of the Newhaven to Dieppe steamer spots a small pleasure yacht lying motionless in the water, and on closer inspection, sees a body lying on the deck. When members...
Gertrude Bell: Queen of the Desert, Shaper of Nations
AuthorGeorgina Howell
ISBN0374161623
A marvelous tale of an adventurous life of great historical import
 
She has been called the female Lawrence of Arabia, which, while not inaccurate, fails to give Gertrude Bell her due. She was at one time the most powerful woman in the British Empire: a nation builder, the driving force behind...
The Kites
AuthorRomain Gary
ISBN0811226549
On a small farm in Normandy, as Hitler rises to power in Germany, young Ludo comes of age in the care of his Uncle Ambrose, an eccentric mailman, kite-maker, and pacifist. Ludo’s quiet existence changes the day he meets Lila, a girl from the aristocratic Polish family who own the estate next door. In...
The Fur Person
AuthorMay Sarton
This enchanting story and classic of cat literature is drawn
from the true adventures of Tom Jones, May Sarton’s own
cat. Prior to making the author’s acquaintance, he is a fiercely
independent, nameless Cat About Town. Growing tired of
his vagabond lifestyle, however, he concludes...
Six Against the Yard
AuthorDorothy L. Sayers
ISBN0425117782
Extremely interesting and thought provoking! 'Six against the Yard' takes six of the most well loved crime writers of the day and challenges each of them to write a 'perfect crime story.' This is then analysed by a real, retired detective who informs us whether or not the ideas are credible enough to be...
The 12:30 from Croydon
AuthorFreeman Wills Crofts
ISBN1842323776
We begin with a body. Andrew Crowther, a wealthy retired manufacturer, is found dead in his seat on the 12.30 flight from Croydon to Paris. Rather less orthodox is the ensuing flashback in which we live with the killer at every stage, from the first thoughts of murder to the strains and stresses of living...
Antidote to Venom
AuthorFreeman Wills Crofts
ISBN1464203792
‘Mr Wills Crofts is deservedly a first favourite with all who want a real puzzle’ – Times Literary Supplement
‘He always manages to give us something that really keeps us guessing’ – Daily Mirror
George Surridge, director of the Birmington Zoo, is a man with many worries: his marriage...
Nella Notte
AuthorConcita De Gregorio
Nora D. studia a Pisa. Ha scelto di raccontare, nella sua tesi di dottorato, le ragioni che portarono alla mancata elezione del presidente della Repubblica nel corso di una celebre congiura politica di alcuni anni prima. Prova a ricostruire la vicenda attraverso il racconto confidenziale di alcuni...
Ils m'ont menti
AuthorDaniel Pennac
ISBN2070142310
«Ma plus jeune sœur Verdun est née toute hurlante dans La Fée Carabine, mon neveu C’Est Un Ange est né orphelin dans La petite marchande de prose, mon fils Monsieur Malaussène est né de deux mères dans le roman qui porte son nom, ma nièce Maracuja est née de deux pères dans Aux fruits de la passion....
Le Cri Des Pierres
AuthorGilbert Sinoué
ISBN2081219115
Da bambina Leila abitava a Haifa, in una piccola casa che i suoi possedevano vicino al quartiere ebraico di Hadar Hacarmel. I vicini si chiamavano Abramovitch, Aronstein o Eisenberg. Una delle sue migliori compagne di giochi si chiamava Tamara. Era ebrea, e la loro vita era dolce, poiché a Haifa vivevano...
Sweet Sorrow
AuthorDavid Nicholls
ISBN1444715410
One life-changing summer
Charlie meets Fran...

In 1997, Charlie Lewis is the kind of boy you don't remember in the school photograph. His exams have not gone well. At home he is looking after his father, when surely it should be the other way round, and if he thinks about the future at all,...
An Independent Woman
AuthorHoward Fast
ISBN0515124281
From the author of the multimillion selling immigrants saga--chronicling the generations of the Lavette family through more than a century of American history--comes "a beautiful, intriguing story of one woman's final years of life"(Booklist). From Europe to Israel to her home in San Francisco,...
Dentro soffia il vento
AuthorFrancesca Diotallevi
ISBN8854512362
In un avvallamento tra due montagne della Val d’Aosta, al tempo della Grande Guerra, sorge il borgo di Saint Rhémy: un piccolo gruppo di case affastellate le une sulle altre, in mezzo alle quali spunta uno sparuto campanile.
Al calare della sera, da una di quelle case, con il volto opportunamente...
Treason's Harbour
AuthorPatrick O'Brian
ISBN0393308634
All Patrick O'Brian's strengths are on parade in this novel of action and intrigue, set partly in Malta, partly in the treacherous, pirate-infested waters of the Red Sea. While Captain Aubrey worries about repairs to his ship, Stephen Maturin assumes the center stage for the dockyards and salons of...
A Reckoning
AuthorMay Sarton
ISBN0393316211
Only my third of Sarton’s novels (after Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing and As We Are Now), and my favorite so far. A woman with terminal lung cancer decides to die on her own terms, but first she has some messy relationships to deal with, including those with her difficult mother, Sybille, now...
The Far Side of the World
AuthorPatrick O'Brian
ISBN0393308626
The war of 1812 continues, and Jack Aubrey sets course for Cape Horn on a mission after his own heart: intercepting a powerful American frigate outward bound to play havoc with the British whaling trade. Stephen Maturin has fish of his own to fry in the world of secret intelligence. Disaster in various...
The Third Miss Symons
AuthorF.M. Mayor
ISBN0860681319
The story of Henrietta Symons from her birth to her death, and the most perfect account in English fiction of those women who, through the ages, have neither married nor loved, the spinster, the maiden aunt, the surplus woman. Henrietta is the third daughter in a large Victorian family, the misfit girl...
The Reverse of the Medal
AuthorPatrick O'Brian
ISBN0393309606
Captain Jack Aubrey, R. N., ashore after a successful cruise, is persuaded by a casual acquaintance to make certain investments in the City. This innocent decision ensnares him in the London criminal underground and in government espionage—the province of his friend Stephen Maturin. Is Aubrey's...
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