Lit Fic for ME please

[Hullygully]

Any recommendations? Need lots of books for hols. I want lit fiction eg I do not want Khaled Hossein, Harold Fry, JoJo Moyes etc etc (nothing wrong with them, but I don't want them).

I want Mantel/Mitchell/Houllebecq type stuff please and thank you.

Three men.....the tent erecting scene...oh dear God. Have a cylinder of oxygen at the ready.

Hully, I agree with you about Anne Tyler, but even her not-so-great is better than many writers' best.

"Three Men on a Bummel" the sequel to "three men in a boat" is free on Kindle. It's worth getting it for the dog incident alone.

The Janes:

Jane ?

and Jane?

Jane Smiley
Jane damn

my kindle is currently having a nervous breakdown being bombarded with 5000 of france's finest

VS Naipaul - his book about Pakistan is fabulous. Fuck knows what it's called

And his and Paul Theroux's books about their feud with each other. So good.

Fave Anne?

I love Searching for Caleb

Anita Brookner

Have you read The Outcast by Sadie Jones?

Bummel on the download

The thing about Anita, the comforting thing, is that every book is exactly the same.

YY Les Mis is free on Kindle too.

Right, I like the look of Anne tyler but I don't know which one to go for. help please.

No, I feel suspicious about it (Outcast)

Ooo, let me look.

Oh, Breathing Lessons is HILAIRE

Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
Searching for Caleb

those were the ones I was tempted by! Ta.

Why suspicious?

Hully, my favorite Rose Tremain is Restoration; I am a history geek and Tudor-Stuart is my period. I also think the film of Restoration could be in the running for a most-faithful-to-the-book adaptation award, right up there with To Kill a Mockingbird.

OK, in the free list what about Riki Tiki Tavi by Rudyard Kipling?

'This is the story of a boy and his weasel, a bird and a snake, India and the British Empire. Rudyard Kipling's dramatic tale, here excerpted from the greater volume of The Jungle Book, is the story of the loyal mongoose, Rikk-Tikki-Tavi, and the lengths to which he must go to protect his adoptive human family.'

suspicious - I don't know, I don't like the cut of its jib

is it good then?

Restoration v gd too

TheRealFellatio,

Anne Tyler: Ladder of Years and The Accidental Tourist are my two of my favorites.

don't like kipling

yy how could I forget Accidental Tourist?

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