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Old 22-01-2011, 12:22
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The 3 rd Book By John Manuel called Tzatziki for you to say
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Old 22-01-2011, 13:23
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just given up on Gideon Mack, going to read the last Ruth Rendell next.
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Old 22-01-2011, 13:34
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Have just finished Sisters Who Would be Queen by Leanda de Lisle, about Lady Jane Grey and her sisters - really interesting.
I might try The Redbreast next by Jo Nesbo.
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Old 22-01-2011, 14:11
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I have just finished "13 Treasures" by Michelle Harrison, and am now reading the sequel, "13 Curses". Both are very enjoyable.
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Old 22-01-2011, 16:10
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle - a Kindle freebie.
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Old 22-01-2011, 17:38
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Peter Robinson- Friend of the Devil
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Old 22-01-2011, 18:53
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'Twilight in Venice' by Steven Carroll. I didn't like the first few pages but I'm really into it now, and thoroughly enjoying it.
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Old 22-01-2011, 19:34
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Room by Emma Donaghue
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Old 22-01-2011, 19:50
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Darkly Dreaming Dexter, although with all the comments about them am getting very tempted to get the Nesbo books!
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Old 22-01-2011, 20:51
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Ghost Hunters - Deborah Blum.
It's about victorian spiritualism and the scientific experiments into it in the 19th century. Quite good so far.
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Old 23-01-2011, 09:19
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The Enemy - Lee Child
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Old 23-01-2011, 09:27
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Gold by David Hill about the Australian Gold Rush
David Hill, the bestselling author of 1788: The Brutal Truth Of The First Fleet, draws on official diaries, letters, newspapers and records to reimagine the story of Australia’s gold rushes.
The gold fields were some of the coldest, hottest, wettest and driest places in Australia. They were often wild, lawless and dangerous. But despite all the dangers, fortune hunters went there in droves. Gold! is the story of this gold 'fever' that spread across Australia.
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My Revolutions by Hari Kunzru. Good so far (first chapter read only)

It’s the day before Mike Frame’s fiftieth birthday and his quiet provincial life is suddenly falling apart. But perhaps it doesn’t matter, because it’s not his life in the first place. He has a past that his partner Miranda and step-daughter Sam know nothing about, lived under another name amidst the turbulence of the revolutionary armed struggle of the 1970s. Now Mike is seeing ghosts – a dead ex-lover and an old friend who wants to reminisce. Mike can no longer ignore the contradiction between who he is and who he once was. Which side was he on back then? And which side is he on now?
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Old 23-01-2011, 10:07
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Cedilla by Adam Mars-Jones

Cedilla continues the history of John Cromer begun by Pilcrow, described by the London Review of Books as "peculiar, original, utterly idiosyncratic" and by the Sunday Times as "truly exhilarating". These huge and sparkling books are particularly surprising coming from a writer of previously (let’s be tactful) modest productivity, who had seemed stubbornly attached to small forms. Now the alleged miniaturist has rumbled into the literary traffic in his monster truck, and seems determined to overtake Proust’s cork-lined limousine while it’s stopped at the lights.John Cromer is the weakest hero in literature -- unless he’s one of the strongest. In Cedilla he launches himself into the wider world of mainstream education, and comes upon deeper joys, subtler setbacks. The tone and texture of the two books is similar, but their emotional worlds are very different. The slow unfolding of themes is perhaps closer to Indian classical music than the Western tradition -- raga/saga, anyone? This isn’t an epic novel as such things are normally understood, to be sure. It contains no physical battles and the bare minimum of travel, yet surely it qualifies.
And I've just downloaded 'Gold' on my Kindle having been tempted by Kimindex's post above!
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Old 23-01-2011, 10:13
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Cedilla by Adam Mars-Jones



And I've just downloaded 'Gold' on my Kindle having been tempted by Kimindex's post above!
Hope you enjoy it, maybe!
Only just started it but good so far! I've been fascinated with gold/diamond etc discoveries since I read a book about it, as a child.
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Old 23-01-2011, 13:19
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Just finished Jamaica Inn by Daphne du Maurier, which I'm pretty sure I read in my teens but had completely forgotten.

Now starting Justine Picardie's biography of Coco Chanel.
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Old 23-01-2011, 16:11
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Darkly Dreaming Dexter, although with all the comments about them am getting very tempted to get the Nesbo books!
Oh, I'm reading that right now too. Not really sure what I think of it. It's growing on me I think.
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Old 23-01-2011, 20:17
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The Girl With The........ had it for a while, just got round to reading it
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Old 23-01-2011, 20:43
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just given up on Gideon Mack, going to read the last Ruth Rendell next.
I gave up on Gideon Mack too a couple of years ago, but will have another try (I hate to be beaten). Reading 'The Reader' (Bernhard Schlink) at the mo.
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Old 24-01-2011, 07:45
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Hope you enjoy it, maybe!
Only just started it but good so far! I've been fascinated with gold/diamond etc discoveries since I read a book about it, as a child.
Thanks!

Some members of my family went out to the Australian Gold Rush in the late 1800's and I'm always interested to read about it.
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Old 24-01-2011, 08:27
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Reading 'The Reader' (Bernhard Schlink) at the mo.
I think I missed the point with that one - I have no idea why it ws so critically acclaimed
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Old 24-01-2011, 10:06
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Finished Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead last night - can't believe I've never read it before! Now I really want to see it performed.
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Old 24-01-2011, 10:27
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Old 24-01-2011, 10:30
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Oh, I'm reading that right now too. Not really sure what I think of it. It's growing on me I think.
I'm enjoying it, but just finished series 3 of the TV show so liking seeing the differences between TV and telly character so far.
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Old 24-01-2011, 10:36
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Diane Chamberlain - The Lost Daughter

I bought it when it was £1 on the Kindle offer and only just getting round to reading it. Quite an easy, enjoyable read so far.
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Old 24-01-2011, 16:59
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Port Mortuary by Patricia Cornwell - love her books
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