 | Too Close to the Falls: A Memoir by Catherine Gildiner
Buy new: £7.19 / Used from: £0.01 A fabulous memoir; funny and very poignant at times.
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 | Holy Fools by Joanne Harris
Buy used from: £0.01 This is a great book to read in the winter as it's full of sunshine and lavender as well as being a cracking story.
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 | The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
Buy new: £4.96 / Used from: £0.29 The best book I read in 2005.
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 | If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things by Jon McGregor
Buy new: £13.00 / Used from: £1.51 Very different to what I usually read but brillIant. The threads of the different narratives come together unexpectedly. It made a real impression on me.
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 | Mr.Golightly's Holiday by Salley Vickers
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £0.01 Read this a while ago but it is so good, real soul food.
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 | Falling Angels by Tracy Chevalier
Buy used from: £0.01 Love all her stuff but I think this is my favourite - at least it is today! She seems to capture the Victorian sensibility perfectly.
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 | The Love of Stones by Tobias Hill
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £0.01 Again, another real favourite author of mine. This is the first of his that I read and it taught me a lot, especially about the history of the middle east.
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 | Starter for Ten by David Nicholls
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 I laughed out loud reading this - and missed being an undergraduate until I finsied reading it!
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 | The Wise and Foolish Virgins by Don Hannah
Buy used from: £0.01 I loved this; uncomfortable in places but a really inventive novel.
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 | Flying Under Bridges by Sandi Toksvig
Buy new: £4.99 / Used from: £0.01 She is wonderful, both as a broadcaster and as a writer.
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 | Eden Close by Anita Shreve
Buy new: £5.89 / Used from: £0.01 I love all her novels but this is especially good. She captures places and times of day so well.
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 | Saint Maybe by Anne Tyler
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 My favourite writer - ever. Impossible to chose a favourite book by her so you'll just have to read them all. It's also a favourite of Colin Firth's & he writes more eloquently about it than I could.
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 | Shade by Neil Jordan
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £0.01 This is a great novel, proving that Neil Jordan can work with sensitivity and style in prose as well as on film.
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 | The Spire by William Golding
Buy new: £4.79 / Used from: £1.93 This is a book I expect to read again and again; his descriptions are almost impossibly rich and need revisiting.
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