 | Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire by Amanda Foreman
Buy new: £6.96 / Used from: £0.01 Georgiana! What a gal! She had it all: fame, wealth, brains, beauty. Like Diana, she worked for charity, she had affairs; unlike Diana, she partied thru the night like a true rock-chic!
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 | Forget You Had a Daughter: Doing Time in the Bangkok Hilton - Sandra Gregory's Story by Sandra Gregory
Buy new: £5.59 / Used from: £0.01 I love books about Women from other cultures. Here Gregory is thrown into another world: the infamous Bangkok Hilton. Not the best story, nor the best written book, but unputdownable!
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 | The Full Cupboard of Life: Winner of the Saga award for Wit (No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency) by Alexander McCall Smith
Buy new: £4.99 / Used from: £0.01 Another book that influenced my choice of drink: Rooibusch tea! Great, easy reading from Botswana. A philosopy for life from the larger lady!
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 | Boo Hoo: A Dot Com Story by Ernst Malmsten
Buy new: £6.71 / Used from: £0.01 This is one of two books that influenced my drink of choice: I started drinking vodka grapefruit whilst reading this book. Great explanation of the madness that was the dot com boom and bust madness.
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 | The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
Buy used from: £4.55 Beautiful, harrowing. Recomended to me by a friend. I can't pick up Alice Sebold's next novel, Lucky, because I'm still slightly damaged from this one.
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 | Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Buy new: £5.40 / Used from: £0.01 You can see why this one won the Booker prize! The twists and turns of the plot are wilder than you could ever imagine. I don't know if I love or hate the Epilogue.
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 | The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
Buy new: £5.00 / Used from: £0.01 Beautiful, quirky book from south India. The story of a family; a love story between a caste Indian and a Dalit; also the tale of twins. Has a great gran.
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 | Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis De Bernieres
Buy new: £4.92 / Used from: £0.01 Great book, shame about the film, which does not manage to touch upon the themes of love and war covered by Berniere's beautiful book.
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 | One Hundred Years of Solitude (Essential Penguin) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Buy used from: £0.01 Wonderful! I read this on a beach in Mexico, and even if you can't, read this wise book that covers the story of generations of a family deep in Latin America somewhere....has an even greater gran...
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 | Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (International Writers) by Patrick Suskind
Buy new: £4.96 / Used from: £0.01 Great book! Better than Chocolat! This one stays with you; perhaps because smell touches the deepest recesses of your memory...
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 | Fast Food Nation: What the All-American Meal is Doing to the World by Eric Schlosser
Buy new: £5.69 / Used from: £0.01 I haven't eaten in Mackie D's since this book, nor have my friends, and nor will you once you have read this book. The film Super Size Me is based on Schlosser's immaculate research
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 | Eats shoots and leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation by Lynne Truss
Buy used from: £0.01 God, love Lynne Truss?Or should that be God love, Lynne Truss!
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