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i need a good book - i am book less and am pacing around like a caged lion

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NoahFence · 10/09/2009 10:05

i enjoyed recently ( rather guiltily) the dreaded " theisland"
19th wife
american wife
road home etc
senators wife( that was odd)

that one about the shopping centre

tell me some more.

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Pielight · 10/09/2009 17:15

Oooh.

The Age of Wonder

and

Year of Wonders

you are going to be FULL of wonder

Pielight · 10/09/2009 17:13

I have both the Raisin and Nicholls One Day here if you want them? (Reading One Day is like reading a richard curtis film, in a good way, but is an odd experience. Though also a lot of work has gone into making it so readable, I thought. Lots of it will make you in particular laugh, I think). Let me know, will send.

Other things - would you like The Age of Wonder - about romantic scientists? Is v. good - you will like all the early stuff about Cook and the islands. Because of your island thing

erm, if you liked American Wife you might like her other one - Prep? I want to read but haven't yet.

Will think on.

hotcrossbunny · 10/09/2009 11:01

Definitely recommend Year of Wonders. I knew very little about the plague in Britain. The book made me visit Eyam this Summer and I can safely say although fiction, Year of Wonders is a good thought-provoking account of what it must have been like.

I've just finished The postman always rings twice and really enjoyed it.

CaptainScarlet · 10/09/2009 10:52

Last Days of Dogtown -Anita Diamant

CaptainScarlet · 10/09/2009 10:51

Year of wonders- yy - really gripping and well written

NoahAmin · 10/09/2009 10:45

oh i read that 44

i think best read in winter though

NoahAmin · 10/09/2009 10:44

anyoen read the new WIlliam boyd?

ClaraDeLaNoche · 10/09/2009 10:44

This one's a cracker - "Child 44" by Tom Rob Smith. It's a thriller, which I don't normally like. Set in USSR in the 50's, good god they were tough.

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NoahFence · 10/09/2009 10:41

right have great long list now

ta

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Flamesparrow · 10/09/2009 10:40

It is sort of like a full length version of Benjamin Button - guy born old, living back and getting younger. A love story too.

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NoahFence · 10/09/2009 10:39

oh GOD is raisin utterly depressing?

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mollyroger · 10/09/2009 10:37

year of wonders - gripping and I blubbed!

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NoahFence · 10/09/2009 10:37

have new girl with dragon tattoo edition on preodrer too

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mollyroger · 10/09/2009 10:37

Yes i am sure - i am a pedant [offended]

Quite dark. review here.

TheFoosa · 10/09/2009 10:36

I like the look of the new Faulks

TheFoosa · 10/09/2009 10:36

white tiger was ok, but not really worthy of Booker win

I recently finished this, although not fiction but still very readable

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NoahFence · 10/09/2009 10:34

ross Raisin?

are you sure?
like Carlos Sultana?

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NoahFence · 10/09/2009 10:34

love faoulkes

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mollyroger · 10/09/2009 10:34

year of wonders - bout the plague village Eyam - bu geraldine brooks

Engleby - sebastian falkes

God's own country - Ross Raisin

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NoahFence · 10/09/2009 10:32

wots tivoli about?

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NoahFence · 10/09/2009 10:31

wil look at ray klun

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Hassled · 10/09/2009 10:31

I'm reading The Interpretation of Murder - tis very good.

I liked the new Tracey Chevalier here. Not what you'd call gripping, but interesting.

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NoahFence · 10/09/2009 10:31

eeyone liekd white tiger apart from me... ta anway tho

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NoahFence · 10/09/2009 10:31

TELL ME GIRLFRIEN' abotu hislop second on

was so wooden and crap

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PestoSurfMonster · 10/09/2009 10:30

I have just finished

the White Tiger

very interesting (& funny) take on life how it is (or was) in India