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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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Lilymaid · 20/05/2007 12:07

Daphne du Maurier bio excellent. Mary Wesley one - well you can't have muuch sympathy with her, the grasping old snob.

Swizzler · 20/05/2007 12:07

Both biogs look great. Loved (rel) new biog of PG Wodehouse but can't remember author

MrMariella · 20/05/2007 12:07

"The Pilot's Wife" is Anita Shreeve. Read it earlier this year.....not her best at all.

The Handmaids Tale was fabbo......esp. the warning in the epilogue.

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CODalmighty · 20/05/2007 12:06

forgot i was wiating for htis too

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BreeVanDerCamp · 20/05/2007 12:05

Four letters of love

Synopsis
'When I was twelve years old God spoke to my father for the first time. God didn't say much. He told my father to be a painter and left it at that ...' So begins Niall Williams' magical tale about love and destiny. Nicholas Coughlan and Isabel Gore were made for each other - but fate doesn't always take the easiest or the most obvious route to true love. For a start, Nicholas and Isabel have never met and nor are they likely to, without some kind of divine intervention. But as God, ghosts, a series of coincidences and seemingly chance events and encounters conspire to bring the couple together, other - often more human - forces attempt to keep them apart. 'What will be, will be,' of course, but that doesn't guarantee a happy-ever-after ending, nor answer the question 'Will they, won't they?' Written in a lyrical, lilting tone, "Four Letters of Love" is a glorious, uplifting story about faith, about seizing the moment, believing in your instincts and acting on impulse - and about following your heart, no matter where it may lead.

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CODalmighty · 20/05/2007 12:05

btw pies and predjudice is a great read

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CODalmighty · 20/05/2007 12:04

this looks good

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GColdtimer · 20/05/2007 12:03

I am finding it hard going actually - but everyone tells me it is worth it.

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CODalmighty · 20/05/2007 12:02

i htink i covered china after doign wild swans(fab) and mao biog( nto so good) a few years ago
god i am terribel
you are doign really well

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suzywong · 20/05/2007 12:02

kate Atkinson Case Histories

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CODalmighty · 20/05/2007 12:02

is this good? htin i heard hiom on radio 4

oh NO to shdwo of hte wind
tried it

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GColdtimer · 20/05/2007 12:02

What about The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon? Just started it.

Think you'd better stay clear of the lovely bones then.

ledodgy · 20/05/2007 12:01

What about Chinese books? I've recently read and enjoyed Snowflower and the Secret Fan By Lisa See it's fictional about the foot binding era in China.

Also liked The Book Thief by Markus Zusak.

bakedpotato · 20/05/2007 12:01

Yes v good, kept going to bed at 9.30 to read it.
It reminded me of In the Line of Beauty, beautifully written and lots of decadence

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CODalmighty · 20/05/2007 12:00

oh am sick of dead poepel who talk fgs
go adn die properly

although my sister lent me one abotu a btoehr who died nad haunted a grave yard( se t on new engladn cost)t hat defied epxectaions and was ogod

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Swizzler · 20/05/2007 12:00

If you like Boyd what about Evelyn Waugh (tho not that modern). Brideshead his best but other stuff like Decline and Fall sharp and funny (tho cruel)

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CODalmighty · 20/05/2007 11:59

aha now is emepreors children good?
thast intersting
i read a review of it whe it cmae out in hard back

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GColdtimer · 20/05/2007 11:59

Ah, I see, don't like time travelles shitty wife! Lovely bones isn't like that but it is told from a dead person's point of view!

Lilymaid · 20/05/2007 11:59

Gryff Rhys Jones - interesting but doesn't show him in a good light - but the ex-girlfried he has for years and dumps is still apparently a friend, so perhaps he isn't so bad.

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CODalmighty · 20/05/2007 11:59

liekd smal island a LOT

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bakedpotato · 20/05/2007 11:59

The Emperor's Children, Claire Messud, is fantastic
The Last Curtsey by Fiona Macarthy, about the final Season, should be in p/back by now

Taylormama · 20/05/2007 11:59

the lovely bones is a hard read
nothing like time traveller's wife

GColdtimer · 20/05/2007 11:59

Just finished reading Small Island, Andrea Levy. That was pretty good.

Sarah Waters stuff - or is that not modern enough?

What about The Time Travellers Wife, Audrey Niffenegger? That surprised me.

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CODalmighty · 20/05/2007 11:58

have read
am on boyd atm fabbo

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CODalmighty · 20/05/2007 11:58

lovely bones?
is ti liek time travllers shitty wife?

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