 | Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky
Buy new: £4.90 / Used from: £0.35 very sharp and at times shocking portrayal of the french bourgeoise during the occupation of france - made all the more moving by the author's own fate
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 | The Piano Tuner by Daniel Mason
Buy new: £2.90 / Used from: £0.01 A bit slow at times and rather indulgent in Burmese history, but worth a read - a bit like E M Forster
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 | Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Buy new: £3.15 / Used from: £1.30 fantastic! A great read, gripping, shocking and moving. I liked it so much I ordered her first book....
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 | Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Buy new: £4.79 / Used from: £2.25 ... which is also great, much more focused on an individual than historic events; poignant and emotive.
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 | London in the Twentieth Century: A City and Its People by Jerry White
Buy new: £7.69 / Used from: £6.44 An extremely readable thematic look at the last 100 years of London's history. Fab.
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 | Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
Buy new: £3.14 / Used from: £0.01 I thought the story line a bit far fetched and drawn out - would a siege really last that long? The characterisation saved it. A 3 out of 5.
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 | Property by Valerie Martin
Buy new: £5.59 / Used from: £0.01 Very readable and disturbing view of slavery from the point of view of a slave owner's wife. Someone should make a play of this. Haunting.
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 | Blood, Sweat and Tea: Real Life Adventures in an Inner-city Ambulance by Tom Reynolds
Buy new: £2.99 / Used from: £1.76 From blog to book - a good insight into the daily life of an ambulance driver. Felt a bit edited into "book format" but one of those books you'll read in two days!
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 | The Impressionist by Hari Kunzru
Buy new: £5.59 / Used from: £0.01 Extremely well written novel, an odyssey across Empire which plays with notions of identity. Funny but sad.
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 | The History of Love by Nicole Krauss
Buy new: £2.97 / Used from: £0.01 This was quite sweet - some interesting ideas but a little bit too much like chick lit. 2.8 out of 5
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 | Headlong by Michael Frayn
Buy new: £2.81 / Used from: £0.01 rubbish! what a waste of my reading time! all of the characters were horrible, extremely overindulgent in terms of art history. Don't bother.
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 | The Glass Palace by Amitav Ghosh
Buy new: £4.28 / Used from: £0.01 Good follow on from the piano tuner - a look at 100 years of burmese history through three generations. Really enjoyed view of WW2 from the colonised, but think have read enough post-colonial sagas!
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 | The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly
Buy used from: £5.16 Just started on my sister's recommendation - she thought it was fantastic
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