REALLY need a good book, what do you recommend??

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Just read "a short history" by Trollope, was tripe, utter UTTER tripe. Slogged to the end.

Am reading all of my old Bill Brysons, and have picked up Angelas Ashes again (for the 300th time!)

But need something really good, whats the best book you have read in ages??

Am desperate got to keep my mind occupies waiting for bloody scans etc.

I love Cornwall and i could almost feel myself down there with Notes on an Exhibition.

Can I recommend Rachel Heath's Finest Type of English Womanhood again too? It's got some great write ups in the papers this week. Is a romping story.

Intriguing, sarcastic and strangely emotional - The Brutal Art by Jesse Kellerman

Funny - Frost On My Moustache by Tim Moore (all of his books are great but this is the best IMO)

Just last night finished reading, The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry.

I'd highly recommend it, very moving and so beautifully written.

Feel quite sad to have come to the end of it.

Have you read Woman in White by Wilkie Collins? BEst book ever!!

And the best heroine!

Or if you fancy a challenge, try The Quinqunx - do a search for it on here, it's loved and hated in equal measures, I'm in the love camp.

The Thirteenth Tale by diane Setterfield is a corker. Recommended it to loads of people and every single one has loved it.

Yes to 'Town Like Alice' and 'Notes From An Exhibition' but no, no, no to 'Attonement'! Yes to 'Hi Fidelity'. Also 'About A Boy' - is that Nick H too?

'The Woman Who Walked Into Doors' by Roddy Doyle iirc.

Am afraid I hated 'The Quincunx'.

How do you feel about classics?

Middlesex

MN choice
is a v good one
or the finest type of english womanhood

vvg

i LOVE anything by Roddy Doyle, read the woman who walked into doors years ago, fab fab fab.

Not a fan of Cornwall i am afraid, and Atonement had to give up on which i never ever do.

Ha ha - just started a thread saying I'd read a Trollope book and had actually quite enjoyed it (but agree that it was really tripe)

hahaha!
Not just me then?

Just read "The nineteenth wife". An easy read, but extremely well written and totally gripping. It's a modern day murder story but intertwined with the history of polygamy amongst Mormons in the US. Ok, I know it sounds odd, but honestly, it was great.

I would also recommend anything by William Boyd and would second someone else who has recommended Black Swan Green.

I thought Notes on an Exhibition was OK, not great though.

One Dog At A Time by Pen Farthing.

Hello Margeret!
Patrick Gale- Notes from an exhibition- yes, fab.

Neolara- absolutely William Boyd- he's one of my all time favourite authors.
I read a sunday paper article the other day, and he's got a new one out in this year......
and, half listening to radio 4 I heard they're serialising Restless, (which is a brilliant one.. as is Any Human Heart, The New Confessions, The Blue Afternoon)

hated that gale book
i have one here you can HAVE

Sorry, Doodle, I'm laughing at your choice of book in light of your other thread.

There's a bit of a dog theme going on with you today

don't do Notes if you don't do cornwall then deany

but do try Rotters Club

and Finest Type of English Womanhood

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I'd like to recommend again the Finest Type of English Womanhood.

Just in case you didn't hear me or anyone else the first hundred few times

checking out what you DID there foxster

If you like Bryson then anything by Stuart Maconie might go down well.

What is this Finest Type of English Womanhood?