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ROMANTIC LOVE INTEREST:
Music and Silence by Rose Tremain
Tulip Fever by Deborah Moggach
Miss Wyoming by Douglas Coupland
Mary Barton by Mrs Gaskell
Weathercock by Glen Duncan
Fred And Edie by Jill Dawson
The Way I Found Her by Rose Tremain
Whatever Love Means by David Baddiel
A Map of Love by Ahdaf Soueif
Paris Trance by Geoff Dyer
Iris
by John Bayley
The Carpenter's Pencil by Manuel Rivas
The Quiet American by Graham Greene
The
Emperor's Babe by Bernardine Evaristo
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"It is admitted that a novel can hardly be made interesting or successful
without love…It is necessary because the passion is one which interests
or has interested all. Everyone feels it, has felt it, or expects to feel
it".
- Anthony Trollope, Autobiography |
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SICKO
BOLLOCKS:
The
Unicorn by Iris Murdoch
Time's
Arrow by Martin Amis
Iris
by John Bayley
The Diving Bell & the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby
Patient by Ben Watt
A Heartbreaking Work ... by Dave Eggers
The House Gun by Nadine Gordimer
The Blackwater Lightship by Colm Toibin
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
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"Illness is the night-side of life, a more onerous citizenship. Everyone
who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in
the kingdom of the sick. Although we all prefer to use only the good passport,
sooner or later each of us is obliged, at least for a spell, to identify
ourselves as citizens of that other place."
- Susan Sontag, New York Review of Books |
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KNOW NOTHING ABOUT HISTORY:
The
Emperor's Babe by Bernardine Evaristo
Time's
Arrow by Martin Amis
Fugitive
Pieces by Anne Michaels
The
Glass Palace by Amitav Ghosh
Dan
Leno and the Limehouse Golem by Peter Ackroyd
If
This Is A Man by Primo Levi
The
People's Act Of Love by James Meek
Arthur and George by Julian Barnes
The
Colour by Rose Tremain
A
Dead Man In Deptford by Anthony Burgess
Music and Silence by Rose Tremain
Industry of Souls by Martin Booth
The Carpenter's Pencil by Manuel Rivas
Jack Maggs by Peter Carey
Quarantine by Jim Crace
Year Of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks
A Place of Greater Safety by Hilary Mantel
The Quiet American by Graham Greene
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"The historian, essentially, wants more documents than he can really
use; the dramatist only wants more liberties than he can really take"
- Henry James, Aspern Papers |
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COLD:
Music and Silence by Rose Tremain
Industry of Souls by Martin Booth
Titus Groan by Mervyn Peake
If This Is A Man by Primo Levi
The People's Act Of Love by James Meek
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
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"Keep
cold, young orchard. Goodbye and keep cold.
Dread fifty above more than fifty below."
- Robert Frost (1874 - 1963) |
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FILTHY
SEWER FOREIGNERS:
The
Famished Road by Ben Okri
Red
Dust by Ma Jian
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
If I Told You Once by Judy Budnitz
The Tortilla Curtain by T C Boyle
The War of Don Emmanuel … by Louis de Bernières
Miss Wyoming by Douglas Coupland
Shalimar The Clown by Salman Rushdie
The Glass Palace by Amitav Ghosh
A History of Insects by Yvonne Roberts
The House Gun by Nadine Gordimer
The Rebel Angels by Robertson Davies
All the Pretty Horses by Cormac MacCarthy
The Farewell Angel by Carmen Martin Gaite
A Sin of Colour by Sunetra Gupta
The Diving Bell & the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby
Potiki by Patricia Grace
Hideous Kinky by Esther Freud
The Carpenter's Pencil by Manuel Rivas
Mad Cows by Kathy Lette
Desperadoes by Joseph O' Connor
A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
A Map of Love by Ahdaf Soueif
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"I
want to go south, where there is no autumn, where the cold doesn't crouch
over one like a snow-leopard waiting to pounce. The heart of the North
is dead, and the fingers of cold are corpse fingers"
- DH Lawrence, Collected letters
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WAR:
Time's
Arrow by Martin Amis
Fugitive
Pieces by Anne Michaels
If
This Is A Man by Primo Levi
Regeneration by Pat Barker
The People's Act of Love by James Meek
A Star Called Henry by Roddy Doyle
The Dark Room by Rachel Seiffert
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"My argument is that War makes rattling good history; but Peace is
poor reading"
- Thomas Hardy, Dynasts |
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(AUTO)BIOGRAPHICAL:
Experience by Martin Amis
Red
Dust by Ma Jian
A
Dead Man In Deptford by Anthony Burgess
Iris
by John Bayley
Patient by Ben Watt
If This Is A Man by Primo Levi
Once In A House On Fire by Andrea Ashworth
Reading in the Dark by Seamus Deane
Love is Where it Falls by Simon Callow
The Diving Bell & the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby
Fred And Edie by Jill Dawson
A Heartbreaking Work ... by Dave Eggers
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"Every
great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is always Judas who writes
the biography".
- Oscar Wilde, Intentions "The Critic as an Artist" |
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CONTEMPORARY:
Industry of Souls by Martin Booth
White Teeth by
Zadie Smith
The Human Stain
by Philip Roth
Enduring Love by Ian McEwan
The Tortilla Curtain by T C Boyle
The War of Don Emmanuel … by Louis de Bernières
Miss Wyoming by Douglas Coupland
Weathercock by Glen Duncan
The Way I Found Her by Rose Tremain
The House Gun by Nadine Gordimer
Whatever Love Means by David Baddiel
All the Pretty Horses by Cormac MacCarthy
The Farewell Angel by Carmen Martin Gaite
Amsterdam by
Ian McEwan
Paris Trance by Geoff Dyer
The Debt To Pleasure by John Lanchester
Mad Cows by Kathy Lette
Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk
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"Speak of the moderns without contempt, and of the ancients without
idolatry"
- Lord Chesterfield, Letters to his son |
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CLASSIC:
The Ambassadors by Henry James
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Mary Barton by Mrs Gaskell
Titus Groan by Mervyn Peake
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"A classic - something that everybody wants to have read and nobody
wants to read."
- Mark Twain |
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CHILD'S
POINT OF VIEW:
The Orchard On Fire by Shena Mackay
The Way I Found Her by Rose Tremain
Hideous Kinky by Esther Freud
A History of Insects by Yvonne Roberts
The Dark Room by Rachel Seiffert
Reading in the Dark by Seamus Deane
Gaglow by Esther Freud
Once In A House On Fire by Andrea Ashworth
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"All
God's children are not beautiful. Most of God's children are, in fact,
barely presentable"
- Fran Lebowitz, Metropolitan Life |
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NETHERLANDISH:
Tulip Fever by Deborah Moggach
The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers
Amsterdam by Ian McEwan
Headlong by Michael Frayn
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"You
ask if they were happy. This is not a characteristic of a European.
To be contented - that's for the cows"
- Coco Chanel
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