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The End of the Affair
Graham Greene
One of Robert Harris' favourite books.
One hundred years ago a writer was born who captured the essence of the 20th Century like no other: Graham Greene.
To mark this, literary publishing house Vintage is reissuing eight titles with new...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/03/2012
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The Secret River
Kate Grenville
One of Anne Berry's favourite books.
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2006.
An epic novel of the early settlers in Australia, of the plight of the Aborigines and the crushing of ambition by the pure hardship of developing...
Format: Paperback (b Format) - Released: 05/05/2011
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Drop Dead Beautiful
Jackie Collins
One of Katie Agnew's favourite books.
The Queen of Glitz comes up trumps – she brings Lucky Santangelo back with a fistful of problems, both emotional and lethal. Jackie Collins no longer produces just glitz-filled glamour of old but has...
Format: Paperback - Released: 14/04/2011
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To the Lighthouse
Virginia Woolf
One of Helen Dunmore's favourite books.
'There are novels which have an almost uncanny power to renew themselves in the reader's imagination. Each time I return to To the Lighthouse I'm struck by something that I haven't noticed before: a...
Format: Paperback - Released: 07/04/2011
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Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Thomas Hardy
One of Anne Michaels' favourite books.
'Why does Tess continue to move us?...One is Hardy's relentless compassion. His characters are deeply human…and there is Tess herself, her lack of self-pity, her humility, her heorism…And of course, it is Hardy's writing,...
Format: Paperback - Released: 07/04/2011
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Life and Fate
Vasily Grossman
One of Linda Grant's favourite books.
'It took three weeks to read and three weeks to recover from the experience. Novels fade, your immersion in their world turns into a faint dream, and then is forgotten. Only great literature grows...
Format: Paperback - Released: 07/04/2011
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So Long, See You Tomorrow
William Maxwell
The start of this story is an account of a murder and suicide set in the 1920s in a town in rural America. It's easy to get into and absorbing from the word go. It is also a slim volume...
Format: Paperback - Released: 07/04/2011
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Revolutionary Road
Richard Yates, Lionel Shriver
One of Lionel Shriver's favourite books.
'It's the complexity of the author's relationship to his characters - a complexity readers share - that most distinguishes Richard Yates as a fiction writer. He combines a searing, sometimes brutal clear-sightedness with an...
Format: Paperback - Released: 07/04/2011
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Eugenie Grandet
Honore de Balzac
One of Rose Tremain's favourite books.
'This brilliant but devastatingly sad novel moved me so much, I began it again the moment I got to the end.' You can read Rose Tremain's full Introduction to Eugenie Grandet in this Orange...
Format: Paperback - Released: 07/04/2011
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The Eagle (Film Tie-In Edition)
Rosemary Sutcliff
Top historical novelist Manda Scott has selected this title as one of her favourite books. See below our review for her comment.
STOP PRESS: The UK premiere of The Eagle took place in Leicester Square on 9 March 2011. Huge...
Format: Paperback - Released: 03/02/2011
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Struwwelpeter
Heinrich Hoffmann
One of the Dowager Duchess of Devonshire's favourite books.
These classic cautionary tales contained in Struwwelpeter have sent shivers of fear and delight down the spines of children and their parents for generations. Almost every foible from sucking your thumb,...
Format: Hardback - Released: 19/07/2010
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Perfume The Story of a Murderer
Patrick Suskind
One of Trinny Woodall's favourite books.
Survivor, genius, perfumer, killer: this is Jean-Baptiste Grenouille. He
is abandoned on the filthy streets of Paris as a child, but grows up to
discover he has an extraordinary gift: a sense of smell...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/04/2010
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The Pursuit of Love
Nancy Mitford
One of P. D. James' favourite books.
February 2011 Guest Editor Carmen Reid on Nancy Mitford...
I gobbled up all of Nancy Mitford’s books when I was a young teenager. I loved them. I still re-read them every now...
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/03/2010
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One Day
David Nicholls
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 23 February 2012.
One of Richard Bacon's favourite books.
A 2011 World Book Night selection.
Winner of...
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/02/2010
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The Bone Garden
Tess Gerritsen
One of Lisa Gardner's favourite books.
January 2011 Guest Editor Lisa Gardner on Tess Gerritsen...
While I’m a huge fan of her characters Rizzoli and Isles, my favourite novel remains The Bone Garden, a historic thriller that captures gruesome...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/01/2010
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The Godfather
Mario Puzo
One of Simon Kernick's favourite books.
The ultimate gangster book and yet this is not just a story of the mafia in the 1940’s but also a story about family. Don Corleone, The Godfather, is a powerful, dangerous and devoted...
Format: Paperback - Released: 02/07/2009
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Nightingale Wood
Stella Gibbons
One of Veronica Henry's favourite books.
August 2010 Guest Editor Veronica Henry on Nightingale Wood...
Stella is most famous for Cold Comfort Farm and most people are unfamiliar with her other works. This recently reissued oeuvre is a...
Format: Paperback - Released: 02/04/2009
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Team of Rivals
Doris Kearns Goodwin
One of Alastair Campbell's favourite books.
With over a million copies sold, several literary prizes in the bag and now Barack Obama's comment that this is the book he could not live without in the White House, this must be...
Format: Paperback - Released: 12/02/2009
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First Among Sequels
Jasper Fforde
One of Kerry Reichs' favourite books.
The fifth in this madcap series
starring the wonderful Thursday Next, an agent with her work cut out
trying to save our fictional, but very real, heroes. To try and explain
these books is impossible, they are...
Format: Paperback - Released: 24/07/2008
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The Uncommon Reader
Alan Bennett
One of the Dowager Duchess of Devonshire's favourite books.
An absolute gem, this novella is Alan Bennett’s take on the Queen
becoming a bibliophile and it is absolutely delightful. At one point
the Queen laments not having read books of authors she...
Format: Paperback - Released: 03/07/2008
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The Inimitable Jeeves
P.G. Wodehouse
One of Diana Gabaldon's favourite books.
A collection of stories about Wodehouse's terrifically funny Jeeves and Wooster. A marvellous introduction if you have never read any and a joyous reminder if it has been some time since you escaped in...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/05/2008
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The Bible : Authorized King James Version
One of Jeanette Winterson's favourite books.
Chosen by the public through a survey to coincide with the 10th birthday celebrations of World Book Day 2007, this title is one of ‘the ten books the nation can’t live without’. Have you...
Format: Paperback (b Format) - Released: 17/04/2008
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Black Beauty
Anna Sewell
One of Clare Balding's favourite books.
What a ride. No child can fail to laugh and cry in equal measure as they jump on for the ride of a lifetime with Black Beauty. His unbreakable spirit, strong will and determination...
Format: Paperback - Released: 06/03/2008
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Treasure Island
Robert Louis Stevenson
One of Dan Snow's favourite books.
Marcus Sedgwick, July 2010 Guest Editor, says:"I continually list this book in my top five, because it's my belief that most people haven't actually read it, and know it only from bowdlerised abridgements,...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/03/2008
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Fantastic Mr Fox
Roald Dahl
One of Hardeep Singh-Kohli's favourite books.
Ideal as an early introduction to Roald Dahl just as a child is starting to read alone because it’s a short story by comparison to some of his others. Filled with quirky black and...
Format: Paperback - Released: 06/09/2007
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Wind in the Willows
Kenneth Grahame
One of Alan Titchmarsh's favourite books.This timeless tale has never been out of print and remains one of the best loved children’s titles in English literature. Grahame’s wonderful imagination and quiet humour continue to charm children and adults...
Format: Hardback - Released: 01/09/2007
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One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
One of Dan Snow's favourite books.
June 2010 Good Housekeeping selection.
On My Bookshelf by Isabel Allende...One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Márquez is arguably the best Latin Americannovel ever written. I found characters that seemed to...
Format: Paperback - Released: 02/08/2007
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Hound of the Baskervilles
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
One of P D James' favourite books.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s classic tale featuring the famous detective Sherlock Holmes and his erstwhile side-kick Dr Watson is an unforgettable and haunting tale that will have the reader on the edge of...
Format: Hardback - Released: 02/08/2007
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Little Face
Sophie Hannah
One of Emily Barr's favourite books.
A thriller to make the hairs on the back of your neck stand up. A compulsive read that once started you can’t and won’t put down. Make sure you have n afternoon free or...
Format: Paperback - Released: 24/08/2006
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