 | Other Women by Lisa Alther
Buy new: £30.66 / Used from: £2.18 Fantastic book about one woman's emotional journey. Old but good.
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 | Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.53 Clever story. By far her best.
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 | Brothers by Bernice Rubens
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 | The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
Buy new: £2.99 / Used from: £0.01 One of her earlier ones but all of them are fantastic.
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 | Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg
Buy new: £5.94 / Used from: £0.01 Much better than the film - which was really good.
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 | Interview with the Vampire (Vampire Chronicles) by Anne Rice
Buy new: £2.44 / Used from: £0.01 Loved this whole series and the film of this was brilliant too. Very descriptive, rich books.
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 | The Wire in the Blood by Val McDermid
Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £2.49 Anything by Val is a pleasure to read. Well researched.
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 | Before I Forget by Andre Brink
Buy new: £2.97 / Used from: £0.19 One of my favourite books by this South African author who also wrote A Dry White Season
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 | Blindsighted by Karin Slaughter
Buy new: £4.84 / Used from: £0.01 The first in the series by this writer. Very clever plots.
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 | Want to Play? by P.J. Tracy
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 The first of the books by a mother and daughter team. Loved all of them so far.
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 | Demolition Angel by Robert Crais
Buy new: £0.90 / Used from: £0.01 Fantastic book about a former demolition expert Carol Starkey. He also wrote Hostage and the Elvis Cole series of books. All excellent.
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 | Promise Me by Harlan Coben
Buy new: £4.84 / Used from: £0.01 The latest by a fantastic author. Probably the best written books I've read in a long time.
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 | Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende
Buy new: £2.97 / Used from: £0.01 Quirky books that speak to the spirit. They make you remember the magic in the world.
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 | City of the Beasts by Isabel Allende
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 The first in what is supposed to be a children's series but work well as adults books too.
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 | Aphrodite by Isabel Allende
Buy new: £3.68 / Used from: £6.67 A scrumptious book for those who understand the relationship between food and sensuality.
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 | Princess Smartypants (Picture Puffin) by Babette Cole
Buy new: £3.99 / Used from: £0.01 Babette Cole turns traditional fairytales on their head. I love this one about the princess who tames the dragon and turns the prince into a frog.
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 | The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
Buy new: £3.15 / Used from: £0.36 Such an interesting book - reminded me of the Richard Bach books.
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 | Women by Annie Leibovitz
The most beautiful book of photographs of women both famous and not.
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 | Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin
Buy new: £3.01 / Used from: £1.43 Lovely book that introduces you to a diverse group of characters.
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| Violet to Vita: The Letters of Violet Trefusis to Vita Sackville-West- 1910-21 by Phillips John
Buy used from: £5.09 Adds an interesting dimension to the biased view put forward in Portrait of A Marriage.
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 | My Traitor's Heart by Rian Malan
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £0.28 He really captures what it was like to be a white, liberal Afrikaaner in apartheid South Africa.
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 | Miss Garnet's Angel by Salley Vickers
Buy new: £4.79 / Used from: £0.01 A lovely book about a woman's life changing trip to Venice.
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 | The Eyre Affair (Thursday Next) by Jasper Fforde
Buy new: £5.14 / Used from: £1.63 A quirky book that introduces Thursday Next the literary detective. Lent it to a friend who found it hard to get into though.
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 | Northern Lights (His Dark Materials) by Philip Pullman
Buy new: £3.94 / Used from: £0.01 I loved this trilogy about an alternate Oxford.
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 | Chicken Run (A Letty Campbell Mystery) by Alma Fritchley
Buy used from: £0.01 The first of the Letty Campbell mysteries. Light-hearted, fun reading.
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