Books like So much life left over by Louis de Bernières

A lonely orphan girl on the Yorkshire moors befriends a disabled cousin and unlocks the secrets of a hidden garden.

A sweeping coming‑of‑age story set on Nebraska’s prairie, following Jim Burden’s journey with his grandparents amid immigrant families, especially the Czech Shimerdas, and his complex love and friendship with Antonia.

In nineteenth‑century China, Lily, a humble farmer’s daughter, discovers her feet will be unbindable—good fortune for her marriage—and meets Snow Flower, an educated classmate, whose nu shu letters deepen a secret friendship that endures the hardships of feudal life.

A love story set against the backdrop of World War II in Greece.

A novel about religious intolerance, nationalism, and the impact of World War I on the lives of ordinary soldiers and civilians, with a focus on the tragic love story of Philothei and Ibrahim.

A sweeping family saga that follows the Clifton and Barrington families through love, betrayal, and corporate intrigue in 1960s Britain as secrets and ambition collide.

A 19th‑century tale of poverty, family, and the perils of a fraudulent antique dealer, centered on the young orphan Nell and her loyal grandfather.

Harry Clifton navigates the fallout of an IRA bombing, using a newly acquired radio station to support a political prisoner while his family faces political pressure and secret pasts.

In mid‑life, Willa Knox faces a crumbling inherited home and a family in crisis, prompting her to uncover Vineland, New Jersey’s Utopian roots and a nineteenth‑century connection that may save them.

A tale of manners and expectations in the city versus the countryside, exploring the clash between Polly and her wealthy friend Fanny Shaw.

A humorous tale of a South American village’s residents tangled with an army of soldiers, blending fantastical mishaps with a lighthearted critique of authoritarian rule.

Notwithstanding is a lively collection of short stories that sketches life in a late‑twentieth‑century English village, capturing its humor, quirks and community spirit.

A love story between a middle-aged man and a young woman from a partisans' family in London, set against the backdrop of the 1970s, exploring the seductive power of storytelling.

The Dust That Falls From Dreams follows the McCosh sisters in Kent during World War I, exploring love, family bonds, and the task of rebuilding lives amid the conflict’s devastation.

A wealthy Alabama planter confesses his hidden past when he marries off his daughter to a husband who rejects their child, forcing his family into a web of secrets that threatens to unravel their prosperity.

A book lover today might sometimes feel like the fictional medieval friar William of Baskerville in Eco's The Name of the Rose, watching the written word become lost to time. In This Is Not the End of the Book, that book's author, Umberto Eco, and his fellow raconteur Jean-Claude Carriere sit down for a dazzling dialogue about memory and the pitfalls, blanks, omissions, and irredeemable losses of which it is made. Both men collect rare and precious books, and they joyously hold up books as hardy survivors, engaging in a critical, impassioned, and rollicking journey through book history, from papyrus scrolls to the e-book. Along the way, they touch upon science and subjectivity, dialectics and anecdotes, and they wear their immense learning lightly. A smiling tribute to what Marshall McLuhan called the Gutenberg Galaxy, this dialogue will be a delight for all readers and book lovers. - Publisher.

An Australian dogman's story of man's relationship with the dog