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callign book gals - presnet for sistser urgento

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DualCycloneCod · 20/02/2008 21:07

ok sister ia keen reader lieks modern fic and also historical stuff ( liek georgiana - but not historicla romances)
also has a secret fetish for celeb biogs, but generalyl si very intellgient of choise...

any ideas

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DualCycloneCod · 20/02/2008 21:29

ah i have read hte lovell mitofrd book it IS great

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DualCycloneCod · 20/02/2008 21:30

and is elgance meaty ll?

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foxinsocks · 20/02/2008 21:30

hmmmmm I hate recommending books but am reading 'A Gathering Light' at the moment which is quite good (have not finished it yet though grr).

Also just read Philip Roth's Everyman which I didn't think I'd enjoy but did.

I haven't started the big Mitford letters book (that Enid linked to) but it does look like a wonderful book. If she likes history, Austerity Britain is also fab. I always think proper big books are lovely as presents.

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DualCycloneCod · 20/02/2008 21:31

www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/014028978X/ref=pd_luc_000010670915645014028978X
this is for enid

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littlelapin · 20/02/2008 21:31

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DualCycloneCod · 20/02/2008 21:31

ah iw as looking at austerity gb

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littlelapin · 20/02/2008 21:32

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TotalChaos · 20/02/2008 21:33

www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/customer-reviews/0752860550/sr=1-1/qid=1203543015/ref=cm_rev_next ?ie=UTF8&customer-reviews.sort%5Fby=-SubmissionDate&n=266239&s=books&customer-reviews.start=41&qid=1 203543015&sr=1-1

(the one by peanuts/john crace)

lennygrrl · 20/02/2008 21:33

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chonky · 20/02/2008 21:34

I'm about to buy it lennygrrl. Nothing like reading about a spot of 'keep buggering on'.

filthymindedvixen · 20/02/2008 21:35

kate mosse is shite...dh bought me an eclectic mix of fiction for christmas, including that one. I tried 4 chapters and passed out with boredom..

filthymindedvixen · 20/02/2008 21:35

want the obit one. NOW!

littlelapin · 20/02/2008 21:36

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TotalChaos · 20/02/2008 21:36

How about the Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid

www.amazon.co.uk/Reluctant-Fundamentalist-Mohsin-Hamid/dp/0241143659/ref=sr_1_1?ie=U TF8&s=books&qid=1203543319&sr=1-1

foxinsocks · 20/02/2008 21:37

is she an older sister or a younger sister?

ArcticRoll · 20/02/2008 21:37

Margaret Forster-Diary of an Ordinary Woman?

filthymindedvixen · 20/02/2008 21:38

oh he did buy me a fab one about an irish prossie's daughter who ends up as ladies maid to a very bizarre mistress who makes her do really odd tasks for her book about servants. Tis funny, and odd and mysterious and sad. But helpfully, I can remember neither the autheor or title (I loved it so much I sent it to my mother)

TheHonEnid · 20/02/2008 21:38

I thank you lapin [bows]

lennygrrl · 20/02/2008 21:40

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LadyG · 20/02/2008 21:41

Just finished 'When we were bad' Charlotte Mendellson v good also liked that 'Can any mother help me' book about 1930s correspondence magazine version of Mumsnet only if mother though obviously-I would have found it dull as anything a few years ago.

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MrsWednesday · 20/02/2008 21:44

This is very good, especially if she is literary (lots of references to historical nobels);

The Thirteenth Tale

fishie · 20/02/2008 21:46

i have got mitford sister letters from library. it is so far (i am on 1936) really good, poignant and very well done. would be an excellent sisterly present. it is a whopping great volume too.

lenny's dead ladies better xmas pres. death on bdays not great.

MrsJohnCusack · 20/02/2008 21:51

wow great books on here - love |The Spire marina

and lennygrrl, MUST now purchase that book - looks fab

mitfords fab
elegance fab

dora damage fab

pointydog · 20/02/2008 21:52

This book is just fabulous - intelligent, exciting, var funny, brilliant idea. Not odd (although I object to that - I lik eodd)

buy Woman's World