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can you reccmoned some novels fo me please( esp modern ones)

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CODalmighty · 20/05/2007 11:45

htink i need bossykate - she likes books i do

ok have liked int he past:
secret history
Mitford biog
piers moron
that zoe heller
margaret forster
isabel allende
last king of schotland

etc

NO chick lit

NO dead babies or kids in horibel circstmancces( is we need to tlak abotu kevin terrible?)
no indian books
no farking grails

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foxinsocks · 21/05/2007 10:17

oh cod, if you haven't read The Rotters Club, you should give it a go.

I'm reading Restless at the moment - struggling slightly to get into it but that's probably just me not getting enough time to do it justice!

PrincessPeaHead · 20/05/2007 16:13

boyd

forster

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CODalmighty · 20/05/2007 16:11

is the mf good?
hmm i looke d at that

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PrincessPeaHead · 20/05/2007 16:11

I' ve just read the new william boyd and it is really excellent. Also the new margaret forster which was also good. Of course i can#t remember the name of either of them...

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CODalmighty · 20/05/2007 16:08

whast shopaholic?

and have read milan - years ago in a poser pahse

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robinpud · 20/05/2007 15:01

drat, pressed post not preview
try again

robinpud · 20/05/2007 15:00

What about Amy Tan stuff- I like Isabel allende but not that magical stuff. The kitchen god's wife.
Has the fish read any Carol Shields?

This is a good autobiographical story link{\www.abc.net.au/widebay/stories/s939694.htm\here}

Rantmum · 20/05/2007 14:58

Also,

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Immortality

etc by Milan Kundera.

Love rereading these.

Rantmum · 20/05/2007 14:40

Another J. Irving fan here, hellish - you should persevere with Own Meany, though - it is a good story. Didn't like "Until I Find You" though - I think he lost the plot a bit with that.

Also, I read The Dante Club and liked it (yes a murder mystery, but in a different league from DaVinci type stuff, I think)

NomDePlume · 20/05/2007 14:34

Fish, I sentance you to reading the entire Shopaholic series

hellish · 20/05/2007 14:33

love Margaret Attwood ( I got her autograph!), best recent book by her is Oryx and Crake (but quite different from most of her stuff.
John Irving is fab, Hotel New Hampshire especially, have read all his books except Owen Meany (just couldn't get into it)
And I loved Time Traveler's Wife

NappiesGalore · 20/05/2007 14:33

christopher brookmyer.
i rad this one but my sis has read more and says they are all v enertaining.

Rantmum · 20/05/2007 14:32

Another vote for The Shadow of the Wind - 'twas a good yarn.

Rantmum · 20/05/2007 14:32

Another vote for The Shadow of the Wind - 'twas a good yarn.

Rantmum · 20/05/2007 14:30

The No1 Ladies' Detective Agency was a good, easy to read series.

Elasticwoman · 20/05/2007 14:25

If you enjoyed the Mitford biog, you might enjoy Nancy Mitford's novels Love in a Cold Climate and Pursuit of Love. Both v witty.

Have you tried any Kate Atkinson?

Certainly recommend Rebecca, and other Du Maurier novels, umm, Jamaica Inn for example.

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CODalmighty · 20/05/2007 14:10

oh yes hadv done lodge
alst king of scotland nto heeavy goign at all

loved it

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purpleduck · 20/05/2007 14:04

sarah kate lynch! love her stuff!!!

stleger · 20/05/2007 13:50

Kate Atkinson? Mavis Cheek? Deborah Moggach?

DontCallMeBaby · 20/05/2007 13:29

Cod, on the Richard & Judy link, my gut feeling is that you would like the Hislop book, but not The Historian, going by what you've said you've liked and disliked.

Boco · 20/05/2007 13:09

Read david lodge for A Level English - what was that one that was made into a tv serial, about a working class man and a middle class academic woman who have an affair? Was that nice work? I always remember my lovely male english teacher blushing and stammering when he got the an explicit sex scene involving a blow job. Had a little sexual awakenign in that class.

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saltire · 20/05/2007 12:50

Cod, what's the Last King of Scotland like? I really fancy reading it? Is it very heavy going?

ArtichokeTagine · 20/05/2007 12:41

I guess O'Farrell is a bit chick-litesque in that most men would not be interested. But it is way better written and more intelligent than most chick-lit. Her stories are very haunting and memorable. Never about shopping, shagging or child rearing. I hate most chick-lit but love her stuff.

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CODalmighty · 20/05/2007 12:37

grr the du maruier biog is too logn on dealy

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