Have got £25 Amazon vouchers as a birthday present - what to buy?

[bossykate]

Would love some ideas for books (fiction, history, cookery...), kitchen gadgets, electronics... er anything really - except cds and dvds.

TIA

What books do you like?

most of them! am a literature graduate... like history... er... hence mnet post!

would prefer literary...

thank you

hmm ER don't quite understand your post

Are you after something historical

I've just read Nightwatch by Susan errrr that bird that did Tipping the Velvet - 2nd world war lesbian drama

v good

sarah waters

give us the name of five books you have really enjoyed.

If you like a bit of gentle political satire which is slightly reminiscent of yes minister I would recommend "Salmon Fishing in the Yemen" by ?Alan Torday.

yikes 5 best books recently???

here goes

gilead - marilyn robinson
a short history of tractors in ukrainian - marina lewycka
the testament of gideon mack - james robertson
the colour of a dog running away - richard gwyn
the tenderness of wolves - stef penney

thanks very much everyone

mp i have read the night watch and enjoyed the fingersmith.

there's a brand new paperback out by Richard Gwyn called "Deep Hanging Out", and a new one by Marina Lewycka out the very end of this month called "Two caravans" (about immigrant fruit pickers IIRC).

If you like imitation Victoriana, how about "Meaning of Night" by Michael Cox or "The Dark Clue" by James Wilson (sort of sequel to the woman in white, lots of references to biogs of Turner).

If you are interested in the Pre-Raphaelites at all there is an interesting biog of Lizzie Siddall by Lucinda Hawksley.

For matters spiritual, "Beyond Black" by Hilary Mantel possibly?

thank you v. much mts

i have in fact read "beyond black" and thought it was very interesting - although ultimately flawed

Aother vote for Sarah Waters -though I preferred Fingersmith to Nightwatch.
I'm currently reading Silvertown by Melanie McGrath which I'm finding interesting.
She documents her grandmother's childhood in the East End at the turn of the century.
Also Diary of An Ordinary Woman by Margaret Forster is a fascinating insight into a life of a woman in first half of twentieth century.
Favourite novel recently- The Kite Runner.

thank you articroll, i also preferred fingersmith to the night watch, haven't read tipping the velvet so that might be another suggestion...

Oops sorry bossykate just read through thread again and I'm recommending books you've already read...