i need a good book - i am book less and am pacing around like a caged lion

[NoahFence]

i enjoyed recently ( rather guiltily) the dreaded " theisland"
19th wife
american wife
road home etc
senators wife( that was odd)

that one about the shopping centre

tell me some more.

anyoen read the new WIlliam boyd?

oh i read that 44

i think best read in winter though

Year of wonders- yy - really gripping and well written

Last Days of Dogtown -Anita Diamant

Definitely recommend Year of Wonders. I knew very little about the plague in Britain. The book made me visit Eyam this Summer and I can safely say although fiction, Year of Wonders is a good thought-provoking account of what it must have been like.

I've just finished The postman always rings twice and really enjoyed it.

I have both the Raisin and Nicholls One Day here if you want them? (Reading One Day is like reading a richard curtis film, in a good way, but is an odd experience. Though also a lot of work has gone into making it so readable, I thought. Lots of it will make you in particular laugh, I think). Let me know, will send.

Other things - would you like The Age of Wonder - about romantic scientists? Is v. good - you will like all the early stuff about Cook and the islands. Because of your island thing

erm, if you liked American Wife you might like her other one - Prep? I want to read but haven't yet.

Will think on.

Oooh.

The Age of Wonder

and

Year of Wonders

you are going to be FULL of wonder

lol
they werent in stock in quarterstones

but then you want it back adn so prob cheaper to just buy psotage wise
but htanks for offer

oh okay

I don't get your new name

is it a Real Person

bloody hell can't believe you like the island!

engleby is fab

plague one is also good

more wonder for you
am reading this at the moment
v. entertaining

omg CIS - that's reminded me

EVERYONE must read Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon.

immediately. get to it

Is actually called The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

TheFoosa - you need to say it out loud a couple of times

Oh yes, Noah - do read Max Tivoli - tis lovely.

Also - This Thing Of Darkness - about Darwin's trip to Tierra del Feugo (sounds weird but is bloomin' brilliant).

Did you finish Guernica and do you rec? Tis on my pile.

have you read Winter In Madrid?

i didint get on wiht winter in madrith
am willing to accept that It Was Me

I get your name btw!

Have you read the Matthew Shardlake ones?

its only you erudite lot who ever like my names.

thank you
Idi was a bit of a family let down shall we say

I don't know if its still in print but I have just recently read and loved DEMON BARBER which is a collection of Lyn Barber's interviews from The Observer and she is such a beatch (subtly) but really gets to the interesting little nub of a person. Perhaps someone will be selling 2nd hand on Amazon.

oh yes
now my parents read some book of interviews recently
what wAs it...

oh, no wa I mean?

noahfence better

Read Doris Lessing's Mara and Dann

Wvweyone should read that book.