Listmania!
My Favourite Books
Dolce VitaDolce Vita by Iseult Teran
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Cleverly written - with a harrowing and unexpected turn.
Dusty Answer (Virago modern classics)Dusty Answer (Virago modern classics) by Rosamond Lehmann
Buy used from: £7.00
Beautiful!
The Greengage SummerThe Greengage Summer by Rumer Godden
Buy new: £4.71 / Used from: £0.35
Simple storytelling at its very best.
The Last Time They MetThe Last Time They Met by Anita Shreve
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My introduction to Shreve - a must for all romantics.
A Celibate SeasonA Celibate Season by Carol Shields
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Wonderfully crafted.
A Handful of Dust (Essential Penguin)A Handful of Dust (Essential Penguin) by Evelyn Waugh
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Brilliant
I Capture the Castle (Red Fox Older Fiction)I Capture the Castle (Red Fox Older Fiction) by Dodie Smith
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Funny, moving, wonderful.
The Velveteen RabbitThe Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams
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Do I need to justify this choice?! Read it to your children and enjoy it all over again.
A Literature of Their Own: British Women Novelists from Bronte to LessingA Literature of Their Own: British Women Novelists from Bronte to Lessing by Elaine Showalter
Buy new: £8.44 / Used from: £3.98
Thinking woman's fodder.
The Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Women Who Started It: The Memoir of Jo Ann Gibson RobinsonThe Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Women Who Started It: The Memoir of Jo Ann Gibson Robinson by Jo Ann Gibson Robinson
Buy new: £8.15 / Used from: £5.46
I am in awe of these women - I have read this book again and again.
A Room of One's Own (Penguin Modern Classics)A Room of One's Own (Penguin Modern Classics) by Virginia Woolf
Buy new: £4.09 / Used from: £1.98
In some ways as pertinent today as it was then...
Where Angels Fear to Tread (Penguin Modern Classics)Where Angels Fear to Tread (Penguin Modern Classics) by E.M. Forster
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One of the less celebrated, but equally worthy, of Forster's novels.
Where Blue BeginsWhere Blue Begins by Janice Deaner
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Harrowing and captivating.
To Kill a MockingbirdTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Buy new: £4.30 / Used from: £1.22
Or ...How to treat a fellow human being... Should be mandatory reading in schools.
Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles RyderBrideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder by Evelyn Waugh
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Toffee-nosed brilliance!