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10 best books like Bed (David Whitehouse): Half of the Human Race, Derby Day, Autumn Laing, A Man of Parts, Little Hands Clapping, What the Family Needed, Sun Dog, Nurse! Nurse!: A Student Nurse's Story, Exley, Long Time, No See

AuthorAnthony Quinn
ISBN0224087290
This is an intelligent and assured novel which eschews the melodrama that tends to accrue around subjects like the suffragettes and the first world war. Instead this feels subtle and deeply-felt with a kind of emotional and historical integrity to it.

Spanning a nine year period, this opens...
AuthorD.J. Taylor
ISBN0701183594
As the shadows lengthen over the June grass, all England is heading for Epsom Downs' high life and low life, society beautifies and Whitechapel street girls, bookmakers and gypsies, acrobats and thieves. Whole families stream along the Surrey back-roads, towards the greatest race of the year. Hopes...
AuthorAlex Miller
Autumn Laing has long outlived the legendary circle of artists she cultivated in the 1930s. Now 'old and skeleton gaunt', she reflects on her tumultuous relationship with the abundantly talented Pat Donlon and the effect it had on her husband, on Pat's wife and the body of work which launched Pat's career....
A Man of Parts
AuthorDavid Lodge
ISBN1846554969
'The mind is a time machine that travels backwards in memory and forwards in prophecy, but he has done with prophecy now...'

Sequestered in his blitz-battered Regent's Park house in 1944, the ailing Herbert George Wells, 'H.G.' to his family and friends, looks back on a life crowded with incident,...
Little Hands Clapping
AuthorDan Rhodes
ISBN1847675298
In a room above a bizarre German museum, and far from the prying eyes of strangers, lives the Old Man. Caretaker of the museum by day, by night he enjoys the sound of silence, broken by the occasional crunch of a spider between his blackened teeth. Little Hands Clapping brings together the Old Man with the...
AuthorSteven Amsterdam
ISBN1594486395
In this incandescent novel, a family’s superpowers bestow not instant salvation but the miracle of accepting who they are.

“Okay, tell me which you want,” Alek asks his cousin at the outset of What the Family Needed. “To be able to fly or to be invisible.” And soon Giordana, a teenager...
AuthorMonique Roffey
ISBN0743220633

August Chalmin feels the weather like no one else.
A large awkward recluse, with bright orange hair and sun-shy eyes, August hides himself away behind the counter of a Shepherd's Bush deli. One winter's day two things change his life forever: his mother's ex-lover Cosmo shambles back into...
AuthorJimmy Frazier
ISBN1845293959
A very worthwhile read.

I've read quite a few of these nurse/doctor/paramedic 'confessions' style books and this is an excellent example. I have seen this before in my amazon recommendations but perhaps been put off by the cover of the book-it is a bit 'cartoon style' so I thought it was going...
AuthorBrock Clarke
ISBN1565126084
A nine-year-old boy named Miller, who lives in Watertown, NY, struggles to make sense of his father's disappearance, for which he blames himself. Later, when he is convinced that his father is lying in a coma in the local VA hospital, he searches for the one person he thinks can save his father, the famously...
Long Time, No See
AuthorDermot Healy
ISBN0571210740
Long Time, No See introduces us to the unforgettable world of Mister Psyche .

In the isolated coastal townland of Ballintra in the Northwest of Ireland Recent school-leaver, occasional worker, full-time companion and Malibu-provider to Uncle Joe-Joe and his friend, The Blackbird, Psyche...
AuthorSteve Erickson
ISBN1609450639
One November night in a canyon outside L.A., Zan Nordhoc-a failed novelist turned pirate radio DJ-sits before the television with his small, adopted black daughter, watching the election of his country's first black president. In the nova of this historic moment, with an economic recession threatening...
AuthorHelen Humphreys
ISBN1846687985
When Charles Saint-Beuve, a French literary journalist met Victor Hugo, an ambitious young writer who intended to become famous, he was swept into a world of grand emotions, a world where words can become swords. But it is not Victor he is really attracted to - it is his wife Adele. Soon the two lovers are...
AuthorLeo Benedictus
'Hi,' the man said, stepping forward. 'I'm such a big fan.' No one had briefed Hugo about him.

This book is different. You've really never read a book like this before.

It's the story of an April night that never happened. A night that changes everything for nerdy Michael, a Fleet Street...
AuthorJoanna Briscoe
ISBN1608194833
Dora Bannan hopes for a new life when she moves her husband and their three children to the wild moorland. She finds a job teaching music at a progressive school, where she also enrolls the children- their fellow students the progeny of back-to-the-land bohemians. But when the school's elegant art teacher,...
AuthorDavid Adams Richards
ISBN0385666535
Highly charged and profoundly important, Incidents in the Life of Markus Paul is a new masterpiece from one of Canada’s greatest writers.
 
On a bright morning in June 1985, a young Micmac man starts his first day of work—but by noon he is dead, killed mysteriously in the fourth hold of the...
Collecting Cooper
AuthorPaul Cleave
ISBN1439189625
From the international bestselling author of Blood Men comes a gripping new thriller that paints a brutally vivid picture of a killer's mind.

People are disappearing in Christchurch. Cooper Riley, a psychology professor, doesn’t make it to work one day. Emma Green, one of his students,...
AuthorEmma Henderson
ISBN1444703994
A startling, first-person debut and a unique, spirit-soaring love story.

This isn't an ordinary love story. But then Grace isn't an ordinary girl.

'Disgusting,' said the nurse.

And when no more could be done, they put her away, aged eleven.

On her first day at the...
The Facility
AuthorSimon Lelic
ISBN0143120689
"Who are you? Are you the police? This isn't legal, you know. You can't hold me like this."

In a near-future dystopian Britain, democracy has been undermined. Emboldened by new anti-terrorism laws, police start to “disappear” people from the streets for unspecified crimes. But...
AuthorMary Horlock
ISBN0062065092
On the English Channel island of Guernsey, a teenage girl’s Mean Girls-like experience pushes her to murder her best friend in a scandal, she will discover, that mirrors her uncle’s previously unknown story from the days of the island’s Nazi occupation during WWII. Told  through  the voices...
Then
AuthorJulie Myerson
ISBN0224093754
It was 9.22, the moment when everything stopped. First there was the burning air, then came the darkness, the fire, and finally the frost.





Now, in a frozen, wasted London, a woman - uncertain even of her own name - is fighting to stay alive. Along with a small group of fellow survivors,...
My Two Worlds
AuthorSergio Chejfec
ISBN1934824283
Approaching his fiftieth birthday, the narrator in My Two Worlds is wandering in an unfamiliar Brazilian city, in search of a park. A walker by inclination and habit, he has decided to explore the city after attending a literary conference—he was invited following the publication of his most recent...
AuthorKira Henehan
ISBN1571310754
Immediately captivating, Orion You Came and You Took All My Marbles introduces readers to Finley, an investigator of indiscernible origins and prowess who is assigned to a mysterious Professor Uppal and his puppets. The nature of the investigation isn’t clear, but Finley nonetheless forges ahead,...
AuthorPhilip Hensher
ISBN0007301332
Picturesque Hinmouth lies on an estuary in the southwest of England, and is close to Barnstaple University. These are obvious stand-ins for Exmouth/ Exeter and the University of Exeter (where Philip Hensher teaches English), and he surveys the lay of the social land with an intimate, brilliantly...
De handelsreiziger van de Nederlandsche Cocaïne Fabriek
AuthorConny Braam
ISBN9046806758
Zomer 1917 rent de 26-jarige Engelse onderwijzer Robin Ryder bij Ieper vanuit een loopgraaf overmoedig de Duitse mitrailleurs tegemoet. Hij raakt zwaargewond; voortaan moet hij zijn gezicht verbergen achter een maskertje.
Terzelfdertijd haalt zijn leeftijdsgenoot Lucien Hirschland,...
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