 | The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
Buy new: £5.47 / Used from: £0.01 Wonderful story of Dinah - Jacob's only daughter. All women should read this book.
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 | The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris
Buy used from: £0.01 A real page turner. Well drawn characters and great twists in the plot - the film gets it more or less spot on.
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 | The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
Buy new: £4.97 / Used from: £0.43 A nice book - lovely imagery and feel good factor - a bit 'sickly sweet' at times.
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 | Lola Rose by Jacqueline Wilson
Buy used from: £0.01 A typical Jacqueline Wilson - cute, clever, no faff. Dealing with domestic violence, single parent families and other difficult issues in a simple and non patronising way.
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 | Utterly Me, Clarice Bean by Lauren Child
Buy new: £4.18 / Used from: £0.01 Bright, colourful, funny, witty. I wish I'd written it. I will definitely be reading more of Lauren Child's books.
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 | The Comfort of Strangers by Ian McEwan
Buy new: £4.99 / Used from: £0.01 Dark, unsettling, short. The setting is described wonderfully and McEwan captures the Meditteranean feel very well, but the ending is a bit random in my opinion.
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 | I Don't Know How She Does it by Allison Pearson
Buy used from: £0.01 Terrible. Contrived, irritating chick-lit. Yuck. How many contemporary references can you cram into a paragraph??? Hated the protagonist, didn't care about her life one bit.
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 | The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
Buy new: £3.99 / Used from: £0.01 Fantastic book. Chilling, sad, sorrowful, funny. I wouldn't be surprised if this became a film soon.
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 | Eats shoots and leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation by Lynne Truss
Buy used from: £0.01 Quite funny in places, but sometimes annoying and smug. Definitely a 'bathroom book' (ie - to read when you're on the toilet!)
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 | Adventures in a TV Nation by Michael Moore
Buy new: £7.99 / Used from: £0.01 Americans. You've gotta luv 'em. This book highlights just how dumb some of them really are. Not the most challenging read, but mildly amusing and eye opening.
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 | Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Buy new: £5.40 / Used from: £0.01 Vivid, gripping, surreal, moving, lovely. A really good book.
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 | She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb
Buy new: £5.81 / Used from: £0.49 A bit of a plodder. The protagonist isn't very likeable, but she grew on me towards the end. Left me feeling a bit drained.
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 | Red Dragon by Thomas Harris
Buy new: £5.97 / Used from: £0.01 Scary!
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 | The Boy Who Lost His Face by Louis Sachar
Buy used from: £0.01 Not as good as Holes, but still quite clever.
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 | Heaven Eyes by David Almond
Buy used from: £0.01 Better than Kit's Wilderness, but not as good as Skellig. Almond writes such ethereal literature.
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