The Sopranos
10 best books like The Sopranos (Alan Warner): Day, The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill and Came Down a Mountain, Sweet Thames, Beauty and the Beast and Other Classic French Fairy Tales, The Fanatic, Electric Brae, Grace Notes, The Major Works, Conquest of the Planet of the Apes, Beneath The Planet of The Apes
| Author | A.L. Kennedy |
| ISBN | 0224077864 |
Ms Kennedy should have a category of her own with different coloured stars, or the option to have the stars squared, 3D at the very least. She's a writer who expects a lot of her reader, and I like that. The opening chapter of this novel is a struggle, even the second time round it's not a smooth ride, no familiar...
The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill and Came Down a Mountain
| Author | Christopher Monger |
| ISBN | 0786881402 |
1917. The peace of a remote Welsh village, nestling comfortably in the shadow of what the inhabitants reverently call their 'mountain', is rudely shatterred by the arrival of two English mapmakers who have the temerity to announce that the 'mountain' is merely a 'hill' in geographical terms.
It...
| Author | Matthew Kneale |
| ISBN | 0140296638 |
This is my new most favorite author in the world. By accident, I noticed my swelling bookshelves housed TWO books by him (chosen seperately at different times and bookstores). I went on to buy a third book by him. All are completely different and completely wonderful. Though none can top the greatness...
| Author | Jack D. Zipes |
| ISBN | 0451526481 |
This is by and large the best anthology of "Beauty and the Beast" fairy tales out there, in my opinion, and I mean the original story that was conceived in the luxurious salons of the French nobility, not the countryside folktales of animal bridegrooms told by the peasantry, and definitely not retellings...
| Author | James Robertson |
| ISBN | 1841151890 |
An impressive debut from an exciting new Scottish voice – a stunning novel about history, identity and redemption. A no. 2 best-seller in Scotland.
It is Spring 1997 and Hugh Hardie needs a ghost for his Tours of Old Edinburgh. Andrew Carlin is the perfect candidate. So, with cape, stick and...
| Author | Andrew Greig |
| ISBN | 0571212859 |
What a wonderful book this is, one of those that lingers with you long after you’ve finished reading it. It’s got a deep melancholy running through it but also lots of passion, love, and light(ish)-hearted comment on Scotland’s east/west divide. Author Andrew Greig has published books on mountaineering,...
| Author | Bernard MacLaverty |
| ISBN | 0393318419 |
The award-winning Grace Notes is a compact and altogether masterful portrait of a woman composer and the complex interplay between her life and her art. With superb artistry and startling intimacy, it brings us into the life of Catherine McKenna — estranged daughter, vexed lover, new mother, and...
| Author | Francis Bacon |
| ISBN | 0192840819 |
This authoritative edition brings together an extensive collection of Bacon's writing - the major prose in full, together with sixteen other pieces not otherwise available - that reveals the essence of his work and thinking.
Francis Bacon held some of the highest public offices in the land...
Conquest of the Planet of the Apes
| Author | John Jakes |
| ISBN | 0095132414 |
Go ahead and yuck it up...but I'll have you know these books were my only friend that long lonely summer when I was thirteen and stuck on my grandparent's farm in the middle of South Dakota with nobody to talk to except a fat shetland pony who chewed her oats and stared all drowsy-eyed at me and a dog named Brownie...
Beneath The Planet of The Apes
| Author | Michael Avallone |
| ISBN | 0553080334 |
Since I am a huge science fiction fan I had to read Beneath the Planet of the Apes. It’s the last book of the series, which were movies before. I was sucked into this book very quickly and finished it in two days between reading other books. Packed with heroic action and cheesy romance, the story delivered...
| Author | Rudyard Kipling |
| ISBN | 0486264718 |
In such poems as "Gunga Din," "Mandalay," "Tommy," "Danny Deever," "If —," "The White Man's Burden," and "The Female of the Species," Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) evoked stirring images and created archetypes of British character at the height of the Empire. Filled with character study, dramatic...
Ian McEwan’s Atonement meets Guillermo del Toro’s Pan’s Labyrinth in this extraordinary debut.
A novel set between the past and present with magical realist elements. Goblin is an outcast girl growing up in London during World War 2. After witnessing a shocking event she increasingly...
| Author | James Kelman |
| ISBN | 0156031728 |
In the superbly crafted and critically acclaimed You Have to Be Careful in the Land of the Free, James Kelman has created an unforgettable character and a darkly comic portrait of a post-9/11 America.
Jeremiah Brown, a Scottish immigrant in his early thirties, has lived in the United States...
| Author | Vladimir Nabokov |
| ISBN | 0141022353 |
A masterful novelist in both his native Russian and in English, Nabokov shocked a generation when Putnam, now a part of the Penguin group, published Lolita, the account of one man's longing for a very young girl in 1955. Stylish, intricate and sensuous, these five wickedly inventive stories are a rich...
| Author | Marina Gottlieb Sarles |
| ISBN | 0983918821 |
Toward the end of World War II, as Germany’s hold on East Prussia grows increasingly tenuous, a childhood friendship between Manya Von Falken, the daughter of an aristrocratic family, and Joshi Karas, a Romani doctor, blossoms into unlikely love. But the young lovers are torn apart.
...
| Author | Louise Welsh |
| ISBN | 1841958905 |
When down-at-heel conjurer William Wilson gets booked for a string of cabaret gigs in Berlin, he is hoping his luck is on the turn. There were certain spectators from his last show he'd rather forget.
Amongst the showgirls and tricksters of Berlin's scandalous underground William can abandon...
| Author | Barbara Trapido |
| ISBN | 0140159533 |
Jem McCrail is a fantastical godsend to the timid young Alice Pilling. “Like a dropped acorn,” she appears halfway through the week, halfway through the term, and halfway through Miss Aldridge’s Silent Reading Hour. Through the doorway she barely clears, wearing clothes like the cowshed-crouching...
| Author | Katherine V. Forrest |
| ISBN | 1555837190 |
When a successful gay restaurateur is stabbed to death, Kate Delafield’s investigation puts her in conflict with her own fear of being outed as a lesbian. Can Kate testify for the prosecution with her integrity intact, when the killer’s attorney, the only man who knows the truth about Kate’s...
| Author | Stephanie Calman |
| ISBN | 0330438751 |
Funny, acutely observed, frighteningly honest and drawing on her own and hundreds of other mum's real experiences, Stephanie Calman serves up the perfect antidote to all those books that tell you that your children must be perfect, and to all those Stepford mums and kids out there who look as if they...
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Dr. Gideon Box, world-famous surgeon, is extremely good at his job. He’s never lost a patient…but he has issues. He’s antisocial. Doesn’t mix well with others. Breaks into people’s homes and assumes their identities. Occasionally kills other doctor’s...
| Author | Jim Crace |
| ISBN | 0312424426 |
November, 1836. A fierce gale beaches an American sail ship off the English coast, injuring an African slave below decks and eventually disgorging 300 head of cattle and rowdy American sailors into a hardscrabble fishing village. The same storm drives into port a steamer, bearing one Aymer Smith,...
| Author | Roopa Farooki |
| ISBN | 0312375565 |
There are only two tragedies in life. One is not getting your heart's desire - and the other? Getting it. Fourteen-year-old Lucky Khalil loves three things: football, Star Wars and Portia, the girl who works in his grandfather's corner shop. In that order. But Lucky has a destiny – worse than a destiny,...
