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What is the best non fiction book,(novel )you have read

I enjoy biographies, true crime, etc but would like to try more novels, last one I read was Alice Sebold The Lovely Bones. Favourite classic was The Mayor Of Casterbridge.

vakayu

literature

Has anyone read "Our Kate" the Catherine Cookson autobiography and can recommend it as there seem to be several memoirs and I am trying to decide if this one is best?

Golem

I'm trying to find a short story about an elderly person who lives alone (I think she is a woman) and who doesn't have the strength to get out of the bath. She considers her situation and how the bath...

chaptazbru

Just started reading my first Tess Gerritsen book

'Keeping the Dead' Like it so far. Anybody else like her ?

Stargazer

A Thousand splendid Suns and The Kite Runner

Is it necessary to read The Kite Runner before reading A Thousand splendid suns? I was buying the latter from a Charity shop when another customer assured me that it was best to read the Kite Runner...

derrynoose

Lee Child/Jack Reacher/Tom Cruise

I heard at the weekend that Tom Cruise is to play the part of Jack Reacher in a film edition of one of Lee Child's books. Can this be true???

Stargazer

Has anyone read Star of the Sea by Joseph O'Connor?

I know it is not the latest best seller but IMO it is one of the best books I have read for years. I reread it several times in order to extract every morsel that I may have missed over the first few...

brionon

War time Autibiographies.

Any ideas please ? I would like to read one from a German or someone who spent the War in Occupied Europe.

Jo0306

Help needed - cannot remember book title/author

I read a book a few years back and cannot remember the title. It's about a girl who wants to make it as an actress. She marries a well known actor who has a stroke (or something similar), she nurses...

wiltsman

Is this a First Edition?

I have a few books that I intend to sell on Amazon. I need to know whether if some of the books are First Editions. I know this probably wont add much value to recently published books, but it might...

puzzleking123

Collection of 3 books with the lead character a doctor who went to Iceland to collect bird's eggs.

Any ideas please. Thanks folks

chizzy22

Books by Mitch Albom

This author has been recommended to me. Would someone who has read his books please advise on which one I should read first? Thank you

albaqwerty

Sherlock Holmes Titles

The student Alba was asking me last night if I could recommend any titles for him to look at/read. It is part of his college course, but can't think of any. I know we could google but I'd prefer a...

lightbulb247

50 shades...

i have not read it, however i know lots, both female and male who do. what is so special about the book?

shamsuddoulah

Rabindranath Tagore & Nobel Prize in 1913

Was it known to the Nobel Committee that Rabindranath Tagore was a Bengalee writer?

lacmag3

Irish Short Story

I once read an Irish short story of a fisherman who is ultimately lost at sea. The story is made up of seven chapters, one for each day of the week, but spanning the fisherman's lifetime. Does this...

HowardKennitby

Rogue Male by geoffrey household

Does anyone remember who was asking about this some weeks ago?

TheArisen

looking for Robert Bloch

can anyone remember a short story by Robert Bloch about a small, gentle breeze in a city alley that develops into a raging storm that destroys whole cities? I can't remember the title - thanks

Caribeing

Maeve Binchy RIP

Just heard on the news that Maeve Binchy the Irish novelist as died, she was a very popular author I enjoyed her books I have friends who knew her personally and they tell me she was really lovely,...

Tilly2

Talking of books..........

What has become of the AB reading club set up by sunny dave? Have I missed it?

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