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8 best books like Deceived With Kindness (Angelica Garnett): Portrait of a Marriage: Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson, The Secret Commonwealth, Bookworm: A Memoir of Childhood Reading, Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell, The School Inspector Calls!, Violet to Vita: The Letters of Violet Trefusis to Vita Sackville-West, 1910-1921, Sweet Sorrow, Roar

Portrait of a Marriage: Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson
AuthorNigel Nicolson
ISBN0226583570
Vita Sackville-West, novelist, poet, and biographer, is best known as the friend of Virginia Woolf, who transformed her into an androgynous time-traveler in Orlando. The story of Sackville-West's marriage to Harold Nicolson is one of intrigue and bewilderment. In Portrait of a Marriage, their...
The Secret Commonwealth
AuthorPhilip Pullman
ISBN1448194512
It is twenty years since the events of La Belle Sauvage: The Book of Dust Volume One unfolded and saw the baby Lyra Belacqua begin her life-changing journey.

It is seven years since readers left Lyra and the love of her young life, Will Parry, on a park bench in Oxford's Botanic Gardens at the end...
Bookworm: A Memoir of Childhood Reading
AuthorLucy Mangan
ISBN0224098853

When Lucy Mangan was little, stories were everything. They opened up new worlds and cast light on all the complexities she encountered in this one.

She was whisked away to Narnia – and Kirrin Island – and Wonderland. She ventured down rabbit holes and womble burrows into midnight gardens...
Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell
AuthorJane Dunn
ISBN1860498515
3.5 stars rounded up
This is a very interesting book about Vanessa Bell and Virginia Woolf; it isn’t a joint biography. Dunn is looking at their relationship with and influence on each other over the years the rivalry and competitiveness as well as love and support. The relationship was certainly...
The School Inspector Calls!
AuthorGervase Phinn
ISBN1444706055
Summer has arrived in Barton-in-the-Dale, and as a new term begins at the little primary school, it's not just the warm weather that's getting people hot under the collar. Meetings with the teachers from Urebank School to discuss the merger are producing more than a few fireworks, a disruptive new pupil...
Violet to Vita: The Letters of Violet Trefusis to Vita Sackville-West, 1910-1921
AuthorJohn Phillips
ISBN0140157964
The Letters of Violet Trefusis to Vita Sackville-West are the one-sided conversation between the two writers. Vita's letters to Violet were destroyed by Violet's husband Denys and the racier ones destroyed by Violet herself. Their affair was much longer than the twenty-two years represented by...
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,...
Roar
AuthorCecelia Ahern
From the best-selling author of P.S., I Love You, a fiercely feminist story collection that illuminates - sometimes in fantastical ways - how women of all kinds navigate the world today.

In this singular and imaginative story collection, Cecelia Ahern explores the endless ways in which women...
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