 | The Hummingbird's Daughter by Luis Alberto Urrea
Buy used from: £1.39 Lesser known Latin-A author. Touches of magical realism.
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 | Tokyo Cancelled by Rana Dasgupta
Buy new: £13.59 / Used from: £0.99 A lovely mix of stories (again with threads of magical realism).
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 | Drinking Coffee Elsewhere by ZZ Packer
Buy new: £8.99 / Used from: £0.01 Short stories from the viewpoint of people of colour for a change.
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 | Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
Buy new: £4.78 / Used from: £0.01 Transports you there. Not all pretty.
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 | The Moonstone (Penguin Classics) by Wilkie Collins
Buy new: £5.47 / Used from: £0.01 My first (teen/adult) favourite book. Love the multiplicity of authorial voices. - no surprise that I ended up addicted to detective fiction then !!!
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 | Garnethill by Denise Mina
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £0.01 Set in Glasgow. Not high literarure but evokes REAL characters and language.
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 | Dancing Girls (Contemporary classics) by Margaret Atwood
Buy new: £5.92 / Used from: £0.01 Let's not forget the (contemporary) classics! Atwood at her best.
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 | The House Gun by Nadine Gordimer
Buy new: £9.76 / Used from: £0.88 The Housegun - Nadine Gordimer. A classic story. South African born writer.
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 | The Grass Is Singing by Doris May Lessing
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £0.73 Lessing at her best (and a cat-lover too !!).
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 | Under My Skin: Volume One of My Autobiography, to 1949 by Doris May Lessing
Buy new: £5.98 / Used from: £0.13 So good you need to read the autobiography...
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 | Star of the Sea by Joseph O'Connor
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £0.01 Again not high Lit, but a good story. Took me a few pages to get into the language.
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 | Dickens: Dombey & Son (Everyman Dickens) by Charles Dickens
Buy used from: £0.01 Not one of his best-known, but I liked it. Great observer of character.
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 | The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
Buy new: £4.89 / Used from: £0.45 Another classic - teen author's voice so believable.
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 | The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (Penguin Modern Classics) by Carson McCullers
Buy new: £5.24 / Used from: £2.93 ..and in a similar vein to Catcher, but with a female as the central character...
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 | The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Buy new: £6.48 / Used from: £4.00 One cannot ignore a masterpiece... So evocative of the time.
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 | Behind the Scenes at the Museum by Kate Atkinson
Buy used from: £2.97 Another creative genius at work (though in a slightly different setting).
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 | The Boy from the Chemist is Here to See You by Paul Farley
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £2.70 And how about a little poetry for the unsuspecting or uninitiated ??
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 | Head Above Water (African Writers Series) by Buchi Emecheta
Buy used from: £4.00 A real tale of survival in a new country. My reading sparked by a "Black Writers" module at A level.
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 | Round About a Pound a Week by Maud Pember Reeves
Buy new: £12.00 / Used from: £7.97 Really interesting - should be essential reading for everyone. Made me understand why my Granny was so careful with soap etc
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 | Significant Sisters: The Grassroots of Active Feminism 1839-1939 by Margaret Forster
Buy new: £7.19 / Used from: £2.47 A small bit of HerStory written. I found this book really inspiring while I was developing my Feminist politics.
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 | Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (Persephone Classics) by Winifred Watson
Buy new: £6.90 / Used from: £3.09 Farcical. A drop of silliness, because everyone needs to lighten up now and then !!!
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 | Autobiography of Malcolm X by X Malcolm
Buy new: £6.72 / Used from: £4.02 Everyone should read this book too... Insights into the place, the time and the charismatic character.
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 | Wide Sargasso Sea (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics) by Jean Rhys
Buy used from: £1.22 Scary. She sure knew how to write about pain this lady...
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 | Broadcasting a Life by Olive Shapley
Very readable and inspiring - what a woman !! So much energy.
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 | Charlie Chan is Dead: An Anthology of Contemporary Asian-American Fiction
Buy used from: £1.09 Wonderful mix and fascinating span of cultures !! Don't make any assumptions prior to reading this book !!!
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