Recommendations from our site
“Jane Austen’s purpose is to illustrate this very Aristotelian virtue of prudence: that you’ve got to look out for your interests, you mustn’t just give in to passion.” Read more...
Edward Skidelsky, Philosopher
“As I kept rereading it, I started to realise that it is actually a very dark novel, probably the darkest of Jane Austen’s novels….. because of the very real sense of financial danger which hovers around the characters, or at least the characters one likes. “ Read more...
Patricia Meyer Spacks, Literary Scholar
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Cleanness
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The Mirror and the Light
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Weather: A Novel
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The Secret Lives of Trebitsch Lincoln
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Piranesi
by Susanna Clarke and Chiwetel Ejiofor (narrator) -
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About The World — And Why Things Are Better Than You Think
by Hans Rosling
