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The Inn at the Edge of the World

6 best books like The Inn at the Edge of the World (Alice Thomas Ellis): Big Sky, No Time to Spare: Thinking About What Matters, Small Island, A New Orleans Voudou Priestess: The Legend and Reality of Marie Laveau, Poor Banished Children, The Innocents

Big Sky
AuthorKate Atkinson
Jackson Brodie, ex-military police, ex-Cambridge Constabulary, currently working as a private investigator, makes a highly anticipated return, nine years after the last Brodie, Started Early, Took My Dog.

Jackson Brodie has relocated to a quiet seaside village, in the occasional company...
No Time to Spare: Thinking About What Matters
AuthorUrsula K. Le Guin
ISBN1328661598
From acclaimed author Ursula K. Le Guin, and with an introduction by Karen Joy Fowler, a collection of thoughts—always adroit, often acerbic—on aging, belief, the state of literature, and the state of the nation.

Ursula K. Le Guin has taken readers to imaginary worlds for decades. Now...
Small Island
AuthorAndrea Levy
ISBN0312424671
Hortense Joseph arrives in London from Jamaica in 1948 with her life in her suitcase, her heart broken, her resolve intact. Her husband, Gilbert Joseph, returns from the war expecting to be received as a hero, but finds his status as a black man in Britain to be second class. His white landlady, Queenie,...
A New Orleans Voudou Priestess: The Legend and Reality of Marie Laveau
AuthorCarolyn Morrow Long
ISBN0813029740
Legendary for an unusual combination of spiritual power, beauty, charisma, showmanship, intimidation, and shrewd business sense, Marie Leveau also was known for her kindness and charity, nursing yellow fever victims and ministering to condemned prisoners, and her devotion to the Roman Catholic...
Poor Banished Children
AuthorFiorella De Maria
ISBN1586176323
An explosion is heard off the coast of sixteenth-century England, and a woman washes up on the shore. She is barely alive and does not speak English, but she asks for a priest... in Latin. She has a confession to make and a story to tell, but who is she and where has she come from?

Cast out of her superstitious,...
The Innocents
AuthorMichael Crummey
From prizewinning author Michael Crummey comes a spellbinding story of survival in which a brother and sister confront the limits of human endurance and their own capacity for loyalty and forgiveness.
A brother and sister are orphaned in an isolated cove on Newfoundland's northern coastline....
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