 | Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard by Kiran Desai
Buy new: £2.97 / Used from: £0.01 a 'time out' book, beautifully written about a reluctant prophet
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 | I Wish I Had a Red Dress by Pearl Cleage
Buy new: £0.01 / Used from: £0.01 Issues, dealt with in style. Pearl Cleage is a great, honest writer
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 | Solitaire Mystery by Jostein Gaarder
Buy new: £5.14 / Used from: £0.01 Off-beat. A nice sideways look at the world with a pack of cards.
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 | La Cucina (A Black Swan book) by Lily Prior
Buy new: £2.60 / Used from: £0.01 Nice almost incidental love story interspersed with a finding yourself story and some nice recipes. (Yum. Still awaiting a recipe book tie-in)
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 | A Patchwork Planet by Anne Tyler
Buy new: £2.97 / Used from: £0.01 A down-to-earth, feel-good in the end people book, about responsibility and realisation.
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 | Miss Garnets Angel (Thorndike General) by Salley Vickers
Buy used from: £2.53 a little gem of a book about art, life, sex, death and reawakening AND its set in Venice
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 | The Discovery of Chocolate: A Novel by James Runcie
Buy new: £1.31 / Used from: £0.01 Converted me to dark chocolate - get some decent spicy orange choc and savour piece by piece as you read
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 | The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
Buy new: £3.99 / Used from: £0.01 Gentle, wise, funny and wonderful characters. Some detecting goes on but mainly about human life.
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| Fior son of the King by Jenny Robertson
Buy used from: £3.19 Sort of religious part Scottish fairies under the hill kiddies book. Read and re-read it. Ok its got a bit of blood in it too but ends happily
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 | Auntie Mame: An Irreverent Escapade by Patrick Dennis
Buy new: £3.70 / Used from: £1.89 I wish she was my auntie. If I had one.
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 | Love in the Time of Cholera (Read Red) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Buy used from: £0.33 Slightly sad, slightly pathetic, entirely human and extraordinary central character.
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 | Three to See the King by Magnus Mills
Buy new: £0.01 / Used from: £0.01 A man lives alone in a desert. Then it all starts to change. Subtle, vast and beautifully written.
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