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1	The House at Riverton more books like this by Kate Morton add to wishlist Summer 1924: On the eve of a glittering Society party, by the lake of a grand English country house, a young poet takes his life. The only witnesses, sisters Hannah and Emmeline Hartford, will never speak to each other again. Winter 1999: Grace Bradley, 98, one-time housemaid of Riverton Manor, is visited by a young director making a film about ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £6.15! \| first editions
2	The Madonnas of Leningrad more books like this by Debra Dean add to wishlist Bit by bit, the ravages of age are eroding Marina's grip on the everyday. see all copies from £1.24! new only from £6.27! \| signed copies \| first editions
3	Grace more books like this by Richard Paul Evans add to wishlist From the author of the #1 "New York Times" bestseller "The Christmas Box" comes a new holiday novel of hope, love, and faith that will surely thrill Evans' legions of devoted fans. see all copies from £4.11! new only from £4.11! \| signed copies \| first editions
4	City of Thieves more books like this by David Benioff add to wishlist Benioff follows up "The 25th Hour" with this hard-to-put-down novel based on his grandfather's stories about surviving World War II in Russia. see all copies from £1.24! new only from £6.08! \| signed copies \| first editions
5	Sarah's Song more books like this by Karen Kingsbury add to wishlist The ritual is the same every December: 12 handmade paper Christmas ornaments and a small plastic Christmas tree. Twelve days for Sarah to remember her long-ago love. Twelve chances for Sarah to sing her song once more, even from her room in the lonely nursing home.But this year is different. Because this time, a young woman is listening and ... see all copies from £6.76! new only from £9.42! \| first editions
6	Embers more books like this by Sandor Marai add to wishlist This 1942 novel, by a Hungarian expatriate writer, takes place in the late 1930s. An aging general named Henrik awaits the arrival at his remote castle of his boyhood friend Konrad, who stole the affections of Henrik's wife years before. A New York Times Notable Book for 2001. see all copies from £1.24! new only from £6.78! \| first editions
7	Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistlestop Cafe more books like this by Fannie Flagg add to wishlist Released for the first time in mass market paperback, this classic and folksy novel takes readers back to the thirties, where a friendship blooms between two girls who run a homey, little cafe in Alabama. A story of food, love, laughter, and even murder unfolds as an elderly woman relates her life story to a middle-aged friend. see all copies from £5.57! new only from £5.73! \| first editions
8	Remembering the Bones more books like this by Frances Itani add to wishlist "Itani's writing is merely breathtaking." --"Newsday" The new novel from the award-winning author of "Deafening "is a poignant exploration of one eighty-year-old life, as its heroine lies at the bottom of a ravine where she has crashed en route to visit the queen. Born the same day as Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II, Canadian Georgina Danforth ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £1.25! \| signed copies \| first editions
9	When Light Breaks more books like this by Patti Callahan Henry add to wishlist Garnering comparisons to Anne Rivers Siddons and Pat Conroy, Patti Callahan Henry has woven her lyrical Southern voice throughout the Lowcountry landscape. Now, as two women from opposite sides of the same sea meet, a tale unfolds that will draw readers into the heart's remembrances-and the tender awakenings of first love. Though bogged down in ... see all copies from £1.25! new only from £5.57! \| signed copies \| first editions
10	The Leisure Seeker more books like this by Michael Zadoorian add to wishlist This is the unforgettable cross country journey of a runaway couple in their twilight years determined to meet the end of all roads on their own terms. "The Leisure Seeker" is the story of John and Ella Robina, a couple married 50+ years - she has stopped her cancer treatments, he has Alzheimer's - who kidnap themselves from the adult children and ... see all copies from £6.81! new only from £7.36!
11 view cover	Dom Casmurro more books like this by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, Maria M De Assis, Joaquim Maria Machado De Assis add to wishlist This crisp new translation by John Gledson is the only complete, unabridged, and annotated edition available of one of the most distinctive novels of the turn of the century. see all copies from £5.88! new only from £7.60!
12 view cover	More Than You Know more books like this by Beth Gutcheon add to wishlist Hannah Gray, an elderly widow, remembers her first love; her story alternates with that of an ancestor, Claris Osgood, who tells the story of her miserable marriage to a narrow-minded bigot. The two stories intertwine when Hannah encounters a ghost and discovers some unsettling family truths. see all copies from £1.99! new only from £4.95! \| signed copies \| first editions
13 view cover	The Sweet by and by more books like this by Todd Johnson add to wishlist "Steel Magnolias" meets "Fried Green Tomatoes" in this moving and poetically written story of five Southern women whose lives come together in a journey of courage, hope, and humor. see all copies from £13.56! new only from £13.56!
14 view cover	No! I Don't Want to Join a Book Club more books like this by Virginia Ironside add to wishlist This wonderfully astute novel based on the author's own experiences is the funny--and often poignant--fictionalized diary of an older woman a decade or two past her prime and content to leave it all behind her. see all copies from £2.95! new only from £5.57! \| first editions
15 view cover	The J.A.P. Chronicles more books like this by Isabel Rose add to wishlist "Sex and the City" meets Jane Austen in a wickedly funny, razor-sharp novel about the fortunes and misfortunes, expectations and regrets of seven women who shared long-ago summers at an elite Jewish girls' camp. Anyone who's ever wondered what happened to the girls in the exclusive cliques of adolescence will delight in "The J.A.P. Chronicles." ... see all copies from £4.95! new only from £4.96! \| signed copies \| first editions
16 view cover	The Rain Before It Falls more books like this by Jonathan Coe add to wishlist 'What I want you to have, Imogen, above all, is a sense of your own history; a sense of where you come from, and of the forces that made you.' Rosamund lies dying in her remote Shropshire home. But before she does so, she has one last task: to put on tape not just her own story but the story of the young blind girl, her cousin's granddaughter, who ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £3.10! \| signed copies \| first editions
17 view cover	Follow Your Heart more books like this by Susanna Tamaro add to wishlist Driven by the fear of encroaching death, an elderly woman describes to a write a long letter to her granddaughter, in the shape of a diary. Part love letter and part confession, it is most importantly a bequest from an old woman at last brave enough to acknowledge that she has too long repressed her feelings and submitted to convention. Reliving ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £5.30! \| first editions
18 view cover	No! I Don't Want to Join a Book Club: Diary of a Sixtieth Year more books like this by Virginia Ironside add to wishlist This wonderfully astute novel based on the author's own experiences is the funny--and often poignant--fictionalized diary of an older woman . . . a decade or two past her prime and content to leave it all behind her. see all copies from £5.57! new only from £5.95! \| first editions
19 view cover	These Granite Islands more books like this by Sarah Stonich add to wishlist Isobel and Victor fall in love and marry during the Great Depression, and they even manage to make a living by opening a shop. But the years pass, and Isobel becomes involved mainly in raising their three children, until the glamorous Cathryn Malley moves to town. The two women become friends, gossiping and making hats together--and Isobel finds ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £5.50! \| signed copies \| first editions
20 view cover	Shroud more books like this by John Banville add to wishlist All his life, a rude, bad-tempered old man named Axel Vander has taken delight in telling lies--particularly about his true identity, which is a secret he refuses to divulge. Then a young woman named Cass, who may be mad, and who is undeniably brilliant, threatens to expose him for who he really is, and Vander is forced to travel back into the ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £5.19! \| signed copies \| first editions
21 view cover	Seek My Face more books like this by John Updike add to wishlist In his 20th novel, John Updike creates the character of Hope Chafetz, a successful painter, who was married to a Jackson Pollock-like figure and then to another artist, reminiscent of Andy Warhol. Now aging and settled down with a stockbroker, Hope is being interviewed by a journalist named Kathryn, and this provides the occasion for her to ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £1.69! \| signed copies \| first editions
22 view cover	Dom Casmurro more books like this by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, Joaquim Maria Machado De Assis, Robert L Scott-Buccleuch (Translator) add to wishlist Originally published in 1900, this novel is about a lawyer who is tormented by suspicions of his wife, despite the happiness of his marriage. Widely considered to be one of Machado's masterpieces, it relishes the ambiguity of the situation, and the difficulty of knowing the truth about another human being. see all copies from £6.46! new only from £8.73! \| first editions
23 view cover	The War in Sallie's Station more books like this by Mignon Franklin Ballard add to wishlist see all copies from £5.57! new only from £6.19! \| signed copies \| first editions
24 view cover	A Harlot's Progress more books like this by David Dabydeen add to wishlist This tale reinvents William Hogarth's famous painting of 1732 which tells the story of a whore, a jewish merchant, a magistrate and a quack doctor, bound together by sexual and financial greed. see all copies from £1.51! new only from £1.51!
25 view cover	The Holy City more books like this by Patrick McCabe add to wishlist In this disturbing and darkly funny new novel from the award-winning author of "Breakfast on Pluto" and "Winterwood," Chris McCool, the dandyish, debonair playboy of a small and insulated community, reflects on his two lives: the one he lives and the darker one he's tried hard to forget. see all copies from £1.24! new only from £1.81! \| first editions

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