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10 best books like Day (A.L. Kennedy): The Balkan Trilogy, Theory of War, Twelve Bar Blues, Picture Palace, Docherty (Coronet Books), Covenant With Death, Confederates, Master Georgie, The Comforts Of Madness, Swing Hammer Swing!
| Author | Olivia Manning |
| ISBN | 0099427486 |
Since you're here reading this you probably understand that it's no problem to wait.
"Yes, we can do your car service on Friday. Do you want to leave your car or would you like to wait?"
"Oh, I can wait."
I can wait, because...
| Author | Joan Brady |
TIME
Taking flight from an extraordinary real-life family history, here is a riveting novel of how the past lives on, generation after generation. THEORY OF WAR is the richly imagined story of one...
| Author | Patrick Neate |
| ISBN | 0802140564 |
The book begins with a Prologue set in the mythical Afican kingdom of Zimindo in 1790, where two young...
| Author | Paul Theroux |
| ISBN | 0140050728 |
| Author | William McIlvanney |
| ISBN | 0340407573 |
Newborn Conn Docherty, raw as a fresh wound, lies between his parents in their tenement room, with no birthright but a life's labour in the pits of his...
Covenant With Death
| Author | John Harris |
When war breaks out in 1914, Mark Fenner and his Sheffield friends immediately flock to Kitchener's call. Amid waving flags and boozy celebration, the three men - Fen, his best friend Locky and self-assured Frank, rival for the woman...
Confederates
| Author | Thomas Keneally |
| ISBN | 0060122994 |
| Author | Beryl Bainbridge |
A misadventure in a brothel links the destiny of the enigmatic George Hardy, a surgeon and amateur photographer, to a foundling who becomes his obsessively devoted...
The Comforts Of Madness
| Author | Paul Sayer |
| ISBN | 0340508043 |
| Author | Jeff Torrington |
| ISBN | 0156001977 |
“Maggie, god rest’re, never had tae hinge her back tae mend oor fire – bunker aye full tae the gunnels, so it was.” Or this: “Cauld enough tae make a polar bear...
| Author | William Golding |
| ISBN | 0571225411 |
| Author | Richard Aldington |
| ISBN | 0701206047 |
| Author | Jo Shapcott |
| ISBN | 0571254705 |
| Author | George Mackay Brown |
| ISBN | 0862418143 |
Seamus Heaney once remarked that George Mackay Brown passed everything “through the eye of the needle of Orkney”, those remote islands north of Scotland where he was born and spent his life. This observation is certainly true of Magnus. The novel treats of aristocratic ambition, rousing...
| Author | James Robertson |
| ISBN | 0007150253 |
| Author | Anthony Powell |
| ISBN | 0006540503 |
“The Military Philosophers” is the third and final part of the Autumn sequence in the Dance to the Music of Time. It also covers the second world war up to the time of final victory. As usual, I looked into the first pages for a powerful, allegoric image to set the mood and to act as a catalyst for the...
| Author | Gore Vidal |
| ISBN | 0910457344 |
Into the minds of a half dozen men aboard a ship making a three day voyage amongh the trecherous Aleutians,...
| Author | Norman Douglas |
| ISBN | 1406926981 |
The Ship
| Author | C.S. Forester |
| ISBN | 1931313172 |
| Author | H.E. Bates |
| Author | Robert Stone |
| ISBN | 0330370979 |
| Author | Raphael Selbourne |
| ISBN | 0955647673 |
England having disgraced her family by fleeing an abusive arranged marriage. Forced onto
the jobseeker's treadmill and under extreme domestic pressure, she cracks and runs away.
Her encounters with officialdom,...
| Author | Christopher Reid |
| ISBN | 0955455367 |
the size and shape of a house.
As so often seems to happen to me, this collection came into my hands by serendipity. Perusing the shelves with poetry in the native language in the local library, A Scattering apparently had wandered off to...