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1.		The Kite Runner from Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Price: £4.77 Customer Review: This book is so powerful and moving, one can only be moved by the storyline of Hassan and Amir and what trauma's both of these character's endured, will keep you entapped until the end.	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information

2.		The Visible World from Portobello Books Ltd Price: £3.96 Customer Review: The story itself is not remarkable, although it is intriguing. A young man's childhood memories as he tries to piece together the story of his parents' past. Memories of his American childhood, interspersed with tales of wartime horrors and escapades in Czechoslovakia, a real love affair that's... more info	Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information

3.		The Welsh Girl from Sceptre Price: £4.99 Customer Review: ...but I thought it was quite enjoyable. Nothing earth-shattering but it did keep my interest all the way through. The Welsh slant to a WWII story was something that I hadn't really considered before but I'm afraid I really didn't see the point of the Hesse storyline, I didn't feel that it... more info	Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information

4.		Animal's People from Pocket Books Price: £4.14 Customer Review: Animal's People is a grand novel, combining the epic with the personal. On the epic scale, we have the fight of the victims of an explosion in a poison factory to seek their justice through the corrupt court system in India. And on the personal level, we have the individual drama of the victims... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

5.		Afghanistan, Where God Only Comes to Weep from Century Price: £5.99 Customer Review: One would have to either question Ms. Shakib's intentions while writing this book or question her sources. As an Afghanistani I found finding a lot of what she wrote suspect. She wanted to mention all the extreme casing ranging from the times of the Soviet to the Taliban era, which would cover a... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

6.		A Perfect Revenge from Pocket Books Price: £5.49 Customer Review: I had high expectations for this book - the other Amazon reviews are glittering - so I was more than a little dismayed to find it a big let down. Quite simply, I found the writer's style to be clumsy (i.e. awkward use of adverbs such as 'very brazenly') and the plot rambled on dreadfully until, in... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

7.		The Book Thief from Doubleday Customer Review: At first I found this book irritating as I got used to the unusual narrative style and the page layout. However after about 50 pages or so you are drwn into the world of Liesel (The book Thief) and her surrogate family and friends. The book runs to over 500 pages and I read it in a little under 2... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information

8.		The Kabul Beauty School: The Art of Friendship and Freedom from Hodder Paperbacks Price: £4.95 Customer Review: Great subject - I read a lot of books on the Middle East/Asia/India but after reading the Kiterunner I found the prose very weak. I didn't feel myself getting absorbed in the same way as I did when I read the Kiterunner or Purple Hibiscus - which were so well written. I think some of the American... more info	Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information

9.		The Sleeping Buddha from Constable Customer Review: I really wanted to like this book. The writer was a similar age to me and Afghanistan is a fascinating country - unfortunately I found I had little empathy with the author which meant the book didn't really gain momentum beyond a factual review of the country	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

10.		The Last Empress from Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Price: £5.01 Customer Review: In 'Empress Orchid', Orchid herself was a young woman - naive, impressionable, and with good intentions. Min portrayed her protagonist's desperation very well, and in that novel Orchid's methods of surviving in the Forbidden City were justified - she was dealing with a hostile court, a weak husband,... more info	Customer Rating: 3.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

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