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

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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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Atonement, Ian McEwan

Like Water for Chocolate, similar to Allende

Anything by Anne Tyler - latest out in paperbook is Digging to America (?)

oht eh tractors book was ok
alexnader maccll smoith i ma bored of

kite runner was ok
suite francsie not as i epxected and nto so good

have bought the " you haev never had it so good" history of britain in teh 50s

have read attonement
tell me of hte ohter one

The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen

The biog of Georgiana Duchess of Devonshie (old so you've possibly read it)

The Kite Runner - or is that too Asian?

I'll have a think about some more....

I don't like any of your 'NO' list either

I would also add to that 'no books where the whole point is a Family Secret Being Uncovered that you couldn't give a toss about anyways'

Kate Pullinger's A Little Stranger is good

Also any stories by Alice Munro or Helen Simpson

have just read Gentlemen and Players by Joanne Harris that is a daft old romp you might like that

have not read for a while I admit have been ploughing through something by David Mitchell which was v good but hard going as it kept starting all over again

not sure if i like anne tyler - is she "pilots wife" owman? she is chick lit surely?

the candian women annie proux and so on
liek them

jenny diski possibly

ooh Joanne harris
tihink she wears crocs

Fugitive Pieces by Anne Mitchells I think?

that was good

Kite Runner oh dear god

i tired the corrections but oh no got bored half way

yes have read devonshire hting
mum and sister mad ont hat period of hist

ok i need links to thses good ones

oh used to like Jenny Diski

but characters always ended up institutionalised

Anne Tyler clever chicklit, did like that one where she ran away from her family for a year

a prayer for owen meany by john irving
a widow for one year by john irving
maggie o' farrel - my lover's lover, after you've gone
zadie smith - on beauty
eden close by anita shreeve
blonde - joyce carol oates
anything by carol shields or e annie proux

the oter one of which I speak is set in Mexico in 19th C and is Magic Realism about a daughter who's cooking casts spells and induces flights of fancy

vair good

hmm
am suprised i liek allende tbha s i hate all that magic crap

yes love shiedls
and proux
i DID liek the secret bees htign which suprised me

yes i like water for chocolate too

hideous kinky

Ali Smith good

would be able to do far better tomorrow when am in work

can you wait?

it's not bleeding harry potter, cod. Tut

really?
the cover looks odd