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Old 23-06-2011, 18:40
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High Society- Ben Elton
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Old 24-06-2011, 09:40
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Bill Bryson - At Home
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Old 24-06-2011, 10:49
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I was just taking about that the other day. Great book, couldn't put it down.
Had it given to me and have to say I wasn't sure I'd like it before I started reading it but have to agree with you.
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Old 24-06-2011, 18:35
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Just finished reading One Day by David Nicholls. Everyone's been raving about it so I finally succumbed and was completely sucked into their world and by the end I was in tears. Wonderful novel.
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Old 24-06-2011, 18:44
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Kym Marsh - From the Heart
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Old 24-06-2011, 19:54
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Just finished reading One Day by David Nicholls. Everyone's been raving about it so I finally succumbed and was completely sucked into their world and by the end I was in tears. Wonderful novel.
I loved it too.

I'm still ploughing my way through Jeffrey Deaver's The Empty Chair and I'm finding it hard work to be honest. All of his other books I've read I've been hooked and really enjoyed them but this one hasn't grabbed me at all but I'm determined to finish it.
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Old 25-06-2011, 00:51
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Twilight World (1961) by Poul Anderson

2 short stories about a post-nuclear America padded out to novel length with a longer section about the colonisation of Mars.
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Old 25-06-2011, 05:37
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Tess Gerritsen's 'The Bone Garden', it's been quite good, if a bit gruesome but then it is a forensic thriller, not surprising!
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Old 25-06-2011, 12:08
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Martina Cole- Maura's Game
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Old 25-06-2011, 22:28
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Just started 'In The Blink Of An Eye' by Lisa J Skone

So far Loving it ....
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Old 26-06-2011, 00:16
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A Spectacle of Dust - Pete Postlethwaite's autobiography
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Old 26-06-2011, 03:07
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Just finished reading Starter for Ten by David Nicholls, which was great!

Next read is going to be The Understudy by the same man.
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Old 26-06-2011, 06:09
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Martina Cole- Maura's Game
I may give her books another go at some point but the bad language and style put me off last time..
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Old 26-06-2011, 08:55
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Don't Look Back, by Karin Fossum. Norwegian detective story. My first of hers, but she has a good reputation so I expect there will be more.
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Old 26-06-2011, 09:49
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Scarpeta by Patricia Cornwell
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Old 26-06-2011, 09:55
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My Race Against Me by Dwain Chambers.

It's an autobiography by Dwain Chambers: I was given it a couple of years ago as a present & have only just got round to reading it.

It's a good read thus far & very illuminating.

Dwain really highlights the hypocrisy of the Atheltics authorities really well.
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Old 26-06-2011, 14:32
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I may give her books another go at some point but the bad language and style put me off last time..
Her earlier ones are ok, steer clear of her later ones. Ive only picked up this up in the library- i wouldnt buy any of them!
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Old 26-06-2011, 17:43
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Just finished Simon Scarrow's - Centurian. I love his books, just straight forward adventure's in the time of the Roman empire.
This one was as good as the rest in the series.
Now reading Jacqueline Yallops- OBEDIENCE it has yet to be released , won it in a competition on waterstones site and the deal is that you have to write a review once you have read it. So far its very good and engaging..its about a convent in rural France, home now to only three aging nuns..they are being forced to leave, as their lives unravel, we learn about their pasts and actions during the second world war.
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Old 26-06-2011, 18:04
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Secrets She Left Behind- Diane Chamberlain
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Old 26-06-2011, 20:29
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finished Charles Dickens's "Bleak House". A wealth of colourful characters and a very flimsy plot .. par for the course for Charlie.
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Old 26-06-2011, 20:31
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Finished Dominic Sandbrook's "White Heat". Social History at its very best. The 60s condensed in one well researched volume.
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Old 26-06-2011, 20:41
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Just started "Sister" by Rosamund Lupton.
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Old 27-06-2011, 00:53
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Just finished Death and the Penguin by Andrey Khurkov quirky little book I enjoyed

now reading NeverWhere by Neil Gaiman, enjoying it, about half way through
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Old 27-06-2011, 08:49
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Secrets She Left Behind - Diane Chamberlain

Got to the end of After The Storm by the same other (on Kindle) to be told there was a sequel - downloaded and reading within a minute. Think this Kindle lark is going to cost me a fortune!!! (love it really tho )
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Old 27-06-2011, 10:24
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A Clash of Kings, George R.R. Martin.

Can't believe I didn't discover this writer years ago!
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