 | The Mitford Girls by Mary S. Lovell
Buy new: £7.69 / Used from: £0.01 Intriguing and ensnaring biography about a unique family.
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 | Geisha of Gion: The Memoir of Mineko Iwasaki by Mineko Iwasaki
Buy new: £4.76 / Used from: £0.01 Gripping autobiography, if you're interested in the geisha way of life.
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 | The Secrets of Jin-Shei by Alma Alexander
Buy used from: £0.01 I could not put this down, dramatic, compelling, moving and very colourful.
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 | Wish Upon a Star by Olivia Goldsmith
Buy used from: £0.01 Very very good light reading in a satisfyingly chunky book.
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 | Round Ireland with a Fridge by Tony Hawks
Buy new: £4.00 / Used from: £0.01 A different type of travel writing, very funny.
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 | Keeping Faith by Jodi Picoult
Buy used from: £0.01 I could recommend most Jodi Picoult books but this was the first one I read. Absorbing, makes you think.
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 | Mort: A Discworld Novel by Terry Pratchett
Buy new: £4.79 / Used from: £0.01 Pratchetts are generally very good but Mort is brilliant.
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 | Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £0.01 Wonderfully written moving romance, with excellent surreal bits and a good Mexican recipe at the start of every chapter.
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 | Beryl Cook: The Bumper Edition by Beryl Cook
Packed with Beryl Cook's unmistakeably joyous and keenly observant paintings.
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 | The Beach by Alex Garland
Buy used from: £0.01 Enjoyable, adventurous thriller, makes a change in that it's not set in dark city streets.
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 | All Families are Psychotic by Douglas Coupland
Buy new: £4.73 / Used from: £0.01 At times rambling, at other times sharply comic, tale. Extremely readable.
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 | Rat Scabies and the Holy Grail by Christopher Dawes
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £2.00 Where do I start? A new look at the Holy Grail corpus of legends as seen through the eyes of Rat Scabies and the journalist who was dragged along on the quest.
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 | The Holocaust on Trial: History, Justice and the David Irving Libel Case by D.D. Guttenplan
Buy new: £5.82 / Used from: £3.61 Excellent and insightful coverage of the Irving trial and intelligent investigation into the issues raised, particuarly that of 'proving' History.
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 | Asta's Book by Barbara Vine
Buy used from: £0.01 Family secrets type of mystery, kept me enthralled and guessing.
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 | Chocolat by Joanne Harris
Buy new: £5.08 / Used from: £0.01 My favourite Joanne Harris, do not read without a supply of chocolate handy.
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 | A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth
Buy new: £6.96 / Used from: £0.01 Hefty and occasionally hard-going but worth it.
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 | An Equal Music by Vikram Seth
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 Beautiful story, moving, heartbreaking, wonderfully written.
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 | Hotel Babylon by Imogen Edwards-Jones
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £0.01 An eye-opener, entertainingly written.
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 | Making History by Stephen Fry
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £1.95 Brilliant comic adventure history novel. Has been pressed upon friends who have found it unputdownable.
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 | Dead Famous by Ben Elton
Buy new: £7.19 / Used from: £0.01 An incisive satire/crime mystery based around 'Big Brother', great stuff.
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 | Our Mutual Friend (Penguin Classics) by Charles Dickens
Buy new: £6.49 / Used from: £3.56 Wonderful plot, acute social observations, brilliantly developed characters and touching human stories. A great meaty steak of a book.
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 | Emma (Penguin Classics) by Jane Austen
Buy new: £4.46 / Used from: £0.23 I never tire of this meddling yet likeable heroine.
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 | Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
Buy used from: £0.01 Part travel book, part history, part biography. Wonderful and enthralling.
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 | The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory
Buy new: £4.97 / Used from: £0.01 Philippa Gregory brings the Tudor court vividly to life, this book is my favourite of hers.
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 | Eucalyptus (Panther) by Murray Bail
Buy new: £5.00 / Used from: £0.01 Ethereal, heady, modern fairy tale, you learn a bit about the trees too.
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