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I'd second A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini.. it's such an amazing, moving book. Me and my hubbie loved it so much that we named our daughter after the heroine of the book, a wonderfully strong woman! It's a great read ..about the treatment of women in Afghanistan, which probably doesn't sound too appealing but such a brilliant read. Also the Larsson trilogy.. half way through the 3rd and they're addictive. The other book I'd really recommend is The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen... funny and sad in equal measures!

i'm there with english passengers, absolute classic could not recommend it more highly.


any of the recent julian rathbones for historical fiction


william boyd restless, female spy. daughter discovers mums past...i am about to start his new one thunderstorms (can't remember full title) and i am assured that this too is a page turner.


any of the aurelio zen italian detective novels are hilarious by dibden. just finished cosi fan tutti and his description of life in naples and the corruption is fantastic.

I'm having a paperback clean out, fair amount of crime fiction (Val McDiarmid, Peter James) and some modern fiction and chick lit - basically bookshelves are full so I am shedding some of the books I don't think I'll read again. If you want to come around and help yourself to some, PM me.
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sanity girl Wrote:

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> Also Star of the Sea by Joseph O'Connor - about a

> ship taking irish emigrants to the US during the

> potato famine - totally gripping and great if you

> love historical fiction



Got that and read it and it was great

sophiechristophy Wrote:

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> Just read The Help - black perspective of working

> as domestic help in Mississippi in the 1960s,

> really good:

>

> http://www.amazon.co.uk/Help-Kathryn-Stockett/dp/0

> 141039280/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=127912702

> 7&sr=8-1


Yes, brilliant!

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