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Best of The Book Monkey's Reads
Some highlights from "This Week the Book Monkey is reading..." If you missed them first time round, take a look now and see if anything takes your fancy.
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This Book Will Save Your Life A.M.Homes Richard is a super-rich divorced trader in L.A. whose only regular human interaction is with his nutritionist, his trainer and his house-keeper. But a rush to hospital after sudden pains make him begin really living his life. He's soon trying his first donut in years, making new friends (incl… |
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Agent Zigzag Ben Macintyre Eddie Chapman was perhaps the perfect double-agent, safe-breaker, blackmailer, seducer and egotist but also deeply loyal, courageous and ultimately patriotic. His story, as his WW2 case-handler wrote, would in fiction be rejected as improbable. A cross between a more real Bond and a more exciting Sm… |
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Any Human Heart William Boyd This was chosen as our first “book of the week” because in my pre-bookselling life it was almost universally liked by everyone I recommended it to. A contemporary novel of huge scope that follows a long lifetime of diary entries of its main character, Logan Mountstuart, trackin… |
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Counting the Stars Dunmore, Helen Delving into the intrigue, passion and back-stabbing of ancient Rome, Helen's new historical novel gives a powerful fictionalised account of the obsessive love-affair of Roman poet Catallus with the callous but fascinating Clodia, the Lesbia of his passionate poems. A simple plot but with ornate… |
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English Passengers Matthew Kneale A hilarious novel with 2 stories on a collision course. The first is about a zany clergyman who inadvertently charters a smuggler's ship to sail to Tasmania, where he firmly believes he will find the garden of Eden. The second tells of Peevay and other Tasmanian natives as they deal with the arr… |
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Half of a Yellow Sun Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Brand-spanking new winner of this year's Orange Prize AND picked up by Richard & Judy - now if that doesn't make it the choice of all book groups the country over, I'll eat my own waistcoat. It weaves together the lives of three characters swept up in the turbulence during Biaf… |
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Hotel Savoy Joseph Roth Austrian Writing - Roth shoehorns so much emotion, intrigue and atmosphere into this tiny novel. A former soldier checks in to Hotel Savoy in an anonymous Eastern European town as a pause on his return home from WW1's Eastern front. As he tries to rest his weary mind and body he becomes em… |
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House of Orphans Helen Dunmore Another excellent historical novel by Helen Dunmore, this was chosen by the Bath Literature Festival as the "Bath Big Read". A beautifully written story of love, history and change set during the uprising of the Finns against Russian domination in 1901, with lyrically written descript… |
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Imagine This - Sade Adeniran You're unlikely to have heard of this new talented author but we're sure you soon will be hearing lots of word-of-mouth recommendations about this book. Lola Ogunwole is forced to leave behind everything she knows in London to move to a village with her extended family in Nigeria. Her … |
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Labyrinths Jorge Luis Borges Why write a novel when you can fit it into a short story? Borges is to Eco what diamonds are to mountains. Borges' imagination is staggering and unique and one of the summits of 20th century art. Paperback - Penguin - 2000 … |
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Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name Vendela Vida A perfect “toast a marshmallow, curl-up by the fire and read it in one sitting” novel. After her father dies (and she discovers he wasn’t her father after all!) Clarissa Iverton sets off on a frosty journey of discovery from New York to Helsinki and then to the Arctic Circle. Lots … |
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Perfume Patrick Suskind A brilliantly written book full of Gothic imagination and twisted eroticism, where smells putrid and divine wash around you with every page. Starting on the stinking streets of 18C Paris, a wretched orphan with an incredible sense of smell leaves the perfumeries of Paris to go South in search of the… |
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