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

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

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.

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.

is this good? htin i heard hiom on radio 4

oh NO to shdwo of hte wind
tried it

kate Atkinson Case Histories

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

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

this looks good

btw pies and predjudice is a great read

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.

forgot i was wiating for htis too

"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.

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

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

really?
go dmayeb i shodul get rebecca tooo andread it
there was ahtign on radio 4 abtou classic novels fomr that era and htere wa antoher one mybe by herabotu dead tiwns? or somwhting?

oh oh
I know
Stephen Fry's Revenge - unputdownable

do you serioulsy mean you haven't read rebecca

Anita Shreve leaves me cold.

And she threw away the ending of the Pilots Wife. Lazy, Lazy, Lazy.

is this good?

BVDC - sound like the sort of story I adore.

I tell you what I read recently that someone lent me when I was having a drought and I really didn't think i'd enjoy it. It's a biography about about Bette Davis and Joan Crawford called Bette & Joan The Divine Feud. It may be out of print now because it was from a charity shop but it was a great read.

I hated the HM tale. It was deeply disturbing.

maybe i ll read all the du maruierier then the biog

Here it is.

sometimes the old ones are the best

This has popped up on lots of threads, it appears to something that endures.