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10 best books like The Quality of Mercy (Barry Unsworth): A Single Thread, Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang, The Porpoise, Now We Shall Be Entirely Free, The Obstacle Race: The Fortunes of Women Painters and Their Work, Headlong, Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore, Crossing the River, The Great Shame: And the Triumph of the Irish in the English-Speaking World, A Wood of One's Own

A Single Thread
AuthorTracy Chevalier
1932. After the Great War took both her beloved brother and her fiancé, Violet Speedwell has become a "surplus woman," one of a generation doomed to a life of spinsterhood after the war killed so many young men. Yet Violet cannot reconcile herself to a life spent caring for her grieving, embittered mother....
Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang
AuthorKate Wilhelm
ISBN0060146540
David Sumner has a problem: the world as he knows it is about to end. what's a brilliant young man and his equally brilliant family to do? why, bring back members of that extended family, store supplies, circle the wagons, and build a lab which will eventually help the Sumner family to repopulate the...
The Porpoise
AuthorMark Haddon
ISBN1784742821
‘I really am so very, very sorry about this,’ he says, in an oddly formal voice… They strike the side of a grain silo. They are travelling at seventy miles per hour.

A newborn baby is the sole survivor of a terrifying plane crash.

She is raised in wealthy isolation by an overprotective...
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...
The Obstacle Race: The Fortunes of Women Painters and Their Work
AuthorGermaine Greer
ISBN1860646778
If men and women are equally capable of genius, why have there been no female artists of the stature of Leonardo, Titian or Poussin? In seeking to answer this question, Germaine Greer introduces us to major but underestimated figures in the history of Western painting--Angelica Kauffmann, Natalia...
Headlong
AuthorMichael Frayn
ISBN0571225586
The combined smell of mildew, old food and wet dog was about to make me heave undigested pot roast, when our host had finally gotten around to telling us why he invited us to dinner.

“I heard you were something of a comic book aficionado and wanted your opinion on something.”

I eyed...
Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore
AuthorElizabeth Rush
ISBN1571313672
WINNER OF THE NATIONAL OUTDOOR BOOK AWARD
A CHICAGO TRIBUNE TOP TEN BOOK OF 2018
A GUARDIAN, NPR's SCIENCE FRIDAY, PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, AND LIBRARY JOURNAL BEST BOOK OF 2018

Hailed as "deeply felt" (New York Times), "a revelation" (Pacific Standard), and "the book on climate change...
Crossing the River
AuthorCaryl Phillips
ISBN0679757945
From the acclaimed author of Cambridge comes an ambitious, formally inventive, and intensely moving evocation of the scattered offspring of Africa. It begins in a year of failing crops and desperate foolishness, which forces a father to sell his three children into slavery. Employing a brilliant...
The Great Shame: And the Triumph of the Irish in the English-Speaking World
AuthorThomas Keneally
ISBN0385720262
In The Great Shame, Thomas Keneally--the bestselling, Booker Prize-winning author of Schindler's List--combines the authority of a brilliant historian and the narrative grace of a great novelist to present a gripping account of the Irish diaspora.

The nineteenth century saw Ireland...
A Wood of One's Own
AuthorRuth Pavey
ISBN0715652230
After years of living in London's urban jungle, Ruth Pavey dreamt of reconnecting with the British countryside. In pursuit of a haven from the unrest of city life, she embarked on a journey to find the perfect plot of land on which to plant a wood. But creating this would-be sanctuary proved more daunting...
Seashaken Houses: A Lighthouse History from Eddystone to Fastnet
AuthorTom Nancollas
ISBN1846149371
'A thrilling celebration of lighthouses' i newspaper

An enthralling history of Britain's rock lighthouses, and the people who built and inhabited them

Lighthouses are enduring monuments to our relationship with the sea. They encapsulate a romantic vision of solitary homes amongst...
The Testament of Mary
AuthorColm Tóibín
ISBN1451688385
Provocative, haunting, and indelible, Colm Tóibín’s portrait of Mary presents her as a solitary older woman still seeking to understand the events that become the narrative of the New Testament and the foundation of Christianity.

In the ancient town of Ephesus, Mary lives alone, years...
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