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1.		Half of a Yellow Sun from HarperPerennial Price: £3.15 Customer Review: I'm one of those minority reviewers who was less than gripped by this novel. I finished it but it seemed a bit of a chore at times (although other parts seemed to flow). I felt frustrated by the characters - the love stories between them never seemed convincing. I was hugely interested in the... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information

2.		On Chesil Beach from Jonathan Cape Ltd Price: £6.91 Customer Review: A very sad and sensitively written story, a young woman's innocence and naivety was to change the course of a couple's life irretrievably; when all it had needed was a little reassurance from her lover. Edward and Florence young well educated and both virgins when they married are the... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

3.		The Kite Runner from Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Price: £3.15 Customer Review: I instantly fell in love with the characters and was deeply moved by the story. I usually read on the train and did not expect to cry my eyes out with this one; but I did.	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information

4.		The Gift of Rain from Myrmidon Books Ltd Price: £5.99 Customer Review: This was a true find. I finished reading in and it has stayed in my mind. I've recommended it to everyone I know. It is a moving, troubling, unrelenting story of a young man's life and his search for meaning. It was on the Man Booker prize list and it deserved it. I hope they make a film of... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information

5.		Suite Francaise from Vintage Price: £4.90 Customer Review: Suite Francaise sat on my permanent "mountain" of waiting-to-be-read books for about a year, unopened. Had I only known... The Holocaust claimed the lives of innumerable people. Irene Nemirovsky was among them. She died at Auschwitz a year after writing the first two novels (out of intended... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information

6.		The House at Riverton from Pan Price: £3.79 Customer Review: A non-demanding book, an easy read. This book has in it every thing bad that other reviewers have mentioned; simplistic in plot, heavily contrived events and clichéd characters but thoroughly enjoyable for all that. Grace, the narrator is a mixed up character; in her younger persona she... more info	Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information

7.		Engleby from Vintage Price: £4.84 Customer Review: Sebastian Faulks has taken a daring step with his latest novel, taking the reader deeper then his previous novels. Faulks opens the door into the mind of the eccentric and aloof Mike Engleby, forcing you to step into a world which often leaves you feeling uneasy and perplexed. Full of satirical... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

8.		The Memory Keeper's Daughter from Penguin Price: £4.95 Customer Review: The title and description of the book lead me to believe that the story would focus mainly on the Phoebe, which is what lead me to read this book. I thought reading about the challenges that she faced in everyday life would have made a very interseting story. However, the book does not really focus... more info	Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information

9.		The Savage Garden from Harper Price: £3.99 Customer Review: Alex, an art history student in the 1950s, is broken up with and finds an offer to study the garden of the Docci villa in Tuscany a welcome chance to get away. He is drawn into a wilderness of a family secret and the secret of the centuries' old garden and its artwork. "The Savage Garden" is about... more info	Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information

10.		A Spot of Bother from Vintage Price: £4.73 Customer Review: This is a superb novel about a group of characters that might just be real but clearly are not. Haddon is able to write to produce a whole gamut of reactions, from amusement to stomach-churning. His characters fill a whole host of societal boxes: mentally ill, homosexual, single mother, adulteress.... more info	Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information

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