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Death on the Nile
Agatha Christie

Format: Paperback - Released: 04/06/2001
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One of Sister Wendy Beckett's favourite books. The wonderful Hercule Poirot works his magic in this murder mystery set in the exotic location of Egypt.   July 2010 Guest Editor Louise Candlish on Agatha Christie... I read this when I was about eleven and remember it being the first time I felt that nothing else mattered in the world except finding out what happened on the pages in my hands. I thought it was the most ingenious thing ever to have come out of anyone’s imagination. ]]> http://www.lovereading.co.uk//book/4579/Death-on-the-Nile-by-Agatha-Christie.html

The Beginning of Spring
Penelope Fitzgerald

Format: Paperback - Released: 01/09/2003
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One of Katharine McMahon's favourite books. Highly evocative of time and place this wonderful novel set in the early 20th century is funny, touching and curious. A real treasure of a novel.   A "Piece of Passion" from the publisher... Perhaps Penelope Fitzgerald’s finest novel, The Beginning of Spring is the story of Frank Reid, an ex-pat Englishman struggling to run his printing firm and keep his family together in turn-of-the-century Moscow. Written in Fitzgerald’s beautifully light, careful and evocative style and packed with her perfectly observed portraits of human nature (particularly of Frank’s young, but precociously intelligent, children), it is a wonderfully touching novel, about the confusions that life can throw at any of us.   April 2010 Guest Editor Katharine McMahon on Penelope Fitzgerald... I was introduced to this author just as I began to be published, and I love her wit, and her quirky approach to plot.  The Beginning of Spring is a delicious novel, and it's as if the entire book is pitched towards the very last few lines.  This reads like a small, perfectly formed, Russian novel, but amazingly is written by a very English author. ]]> http://www.lovereading.co.uk//book/4247/The-Beginning-of-Spring-by-Penelope-Fitzgerald.html

The House of the Spirits
Isabel Allende

Format: Paperback - Released: 03/02/1994
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One of Carol Drinkwater's favourite books.   May 2011 Guest Editor Carol Drinkwater on The House of the Spirits... Since discovering this book, I have bought every Allende, but for me this remains her finest. It recounts the horrors of living under Pinochet’s regime in Chile. At the heart is a family’s story. Allende paints a world that is magical, epic, heartrending, harrowing. A masterpiece.   The Lovereading view... Spanning four generations, Isabel Allende's family saga is populated by an often eccentric cast of characters. Together, men and women, spirits, the forces of nature and of history, converge in a brlliantly realised novel. ]]> http://www.lovereading.co.uk//book/5816/The-House-of-the-Spirits-by-Isabel-Allende.html

The Blue Flower
Penelope Fitzgerald

Format: Paperback - Released: 05/08/1996
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One of One of Joanna Trollope's favourite books.   February 2012 Guest Editor Joanna Trollope on Penelope Fitzgerald... Alas, dead too, but of old age. I had supper with her once, in the converted garage of her daughter’s house, where she was then living, and she was as warm and restrained and acute and beguiling as her books, of which my absolute favourite is The Blue Flower, the story of an extraordinary betrothal in eighteenth century Germany. If anyone needs a pattern of How To Write, Penelope Fitzgerald is IT. ]]> http://www.lovereading.co.uk//book/5127/The-Blue-Flower-by-Penelope-Fitzgerald.html

One Day
David Nicholls

Format: Paperback - Released: 04/02/2010
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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 the Galaxy Book of the Year 2010.   Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 6 May 2010.   Now a film starring Anne Hathaway as Emma and Jim Sturgess as Dexter.   Two people meet on the last day of university and forge a friendship which the reader follows on the same day of the year, every year, for the next twenty years. Emma and Dexter are so believable, so simply and eloquently drawn that you will take them to your heart. You will laugh and you will cry and if you don’t you are a hard, hard person!! Absolutely brilliant!   Our Editorial Guru, Sarah Broadhurst, has suggested others book and authors that would be perfect for you to read next or to pass on the recommendation - so your gift will keep on giving enjoyment. Her selections for this title are: Jonathan Coe, Nick Hornby. ]]> http://www.lovereading.co.uk//book/4228/One-Day-by-David-Nicholls.html

One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Format: Paperback - Released: 02/08/2007
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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 have escaped from my crazy family – the voice of my grandfather, the history of my continent, and much, much more. ]]> http://www.lovereading.co.uk//book/4347/One-Hundred-Years-of-Solitude-by-Gabriel-Garcia-Marquez.html