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| TITLE | AUTHOR | Blurb | Rec'd by: |
| Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil | John Berendt | Journalist-style; discovering unkown town and its people;murder | M W |
| The Adventure of English | Melvin Bragg | Non-fiction: tracing ancestry of our language | A H's R |
| Our Lady of the Forest | David Guterson | Visions of the Virgin cause a stir | A H |
| Blindness | Jose Saramago | Explores sightlessness | A H |
| Small Island | Andrea Levy | 1st generation Jamaican immigrants' experience | R B |
| Diary of an Ordinary Woman | Margaret Forster | Fictional, but realistic | R B |
| Notes on a Scandal | Zoe Heller | V gripping; teacher affair with pupil from several angles | R B / J C |
| Flint | Paul Eddy | Spy/thriller, well written & gripping | M E |
| Fear of Fifty | Erica Jong | some of us are almost there, others long past...! | M E |
| An Amateur Marriage | Anne Tyler | ** | S H |
| A Long Way Down | Nick Hornby | 4 would-be suicides don't jump, but decide to help each other Touching but funny too | S H / C D |
| The Great Gatsby | F. Scott Fitzgerald | American classic; who is the person behind the millionaire socialite? | S H |
| Havoc in its third year | Ronan Bennett | Puritans and morals | S H's J |
| Alias Grace | Margaret Attwood | Really well written ** | J C |
| The Shadow of the Wind | Carlos Ruiz Zafon | Set in Barcelona; thriller around forgotten library. Bit Da Vinci Code-ish | J C |
| Falling Angels | Tracy Chevalier | Unfulfilled Edwardian women, their families, life & death | W R |
| The Photograph | Penelope Lively | What happens when you read other people's mail | W R |
| The Snow Geese | William Feines | Travel - this book part of our roving set | W R |
| The Siege | Helen Dunmore | Harrowing account of siege of Lenningrad | W R |
| A Party in San Nicolo | Christobel Kent | Thriller, set in Florence | W R |
| Easy Silence | Angela Huth | Funny, clever observation of middle-age & marriage | A H |
| Anything by | E H Young | Lovely writing but not widely available today | A H |
| Tomboy Bride | Harriet Fish Backus | The hardships suffered by Colorado silverminer's wife | F S |
| The Falls | Joyce Carol Oates | Tragedy at Niagra: mystery and romance | F S |
| Mother Tongue | Bill Bryson | NF: Another angle on the english language | |
| Fanny | ** | Story of pre-Raphaelite model Fanny Siddel | Q B |
| The Lambs of London | Peter Ackroyd | Ficticious episode in the lives of Charles & Mary Lamb, and an undiscovered Shakespeare work. Short but beautifully formed | C D |
| The Shortest Way to Hades | Sarah Caudwell | Genteel whodunnit with legal and mythological overtones. Witty & well plotted | C D |
| Spies | Michael Frayn | Elderly gent revisits childhood & painful half-memories; prejudice, social mores, personal morals & responsibility | C D |
| Number Ten | Sue Townsend | Another witty fantasy on T. Blair trying to be 'ordinary' | C D |
| Hannah's Gift | Thomas Eadeson (?) | ** | ?? |
| A Short History of Everything | Bill Bryson | Not that short, but interesting (NF) | R D |
| Astonishing Splashes of Colour | Clare Morrall | ** | C F |
| Pillars of the Earth | Ken Follett | Big book, slow start but worth sticking with | A H's US friends |
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