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1.		A Thousand Splendid Suns from Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Price: £6.49 Customer Review: This is a magnificent story of the plight of women in Afghanistan, both before, during and after the Taliban. It traces the story of Mariam and Laila, both from very different background, but both finding themselves living without freedom, with constant violence and with nothing but their love for... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information

2.		A Thousand Splendid Suns from Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Price: £3.86 Customer Review: This book tells the story of two very different Afghani women, Mariam and Laila, who both struggle with life under the Taliban. I didn't expect this book to be so gripping or so easy to read. It offers a wonderful insight into the lives of two women who are not so different from us and... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

3.		The Time Traveler's Wife from Vintage Price: £3.15 Customer Review: I tried to start this book a number of times and found it quite hard to get into. But based on so many good reviews, I decided to persist and am so glad that I did. The idea for the book is so original, that the time travelling aspect could have taken over the story. But it is primarily a love... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information

4.		A Thousand Splendid Suns from Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Price: £11.89 Customer Review: Khaled Hosseini's "A Thousand Splendid Suns" is a genuine instant literary classic, and one destined to be remembered as one of 2007's best novels. It should be compared favorably to such legendary Russian novels like "War and Peace" and "Doctor Zhivago". And yet it is ironic to compare Hosseini's... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information

5.		The Kite Runner [2007] from Paramount Home Entertainment Price: £6.48 Customer Review: A good poetic look on Afghan pre-wars (80') society, with a rich and poors, casts and kites. All vanished in the storm of russian invasion and taliban's terror. Two boys, two brothers, a sad story of violence and treason, with a "sugar" happy final (but the movie isn't a "easy" film). Good cast,... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

6.		The Book Thief from Black Swan Price: £3.86 Customer Review: I can't recommend this book highly enough. It's true that its very setting fills it with sadness but its originality, delicacy, poetry and certainly humour make it a very special book indeed. I's one of those books that risks making you unpopular as you try desperately to convince... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information

7.		Random Acts of Heroic Love from Black Swan Price: £3.86 Customer Review: What I loved most about this book, is that fact that the author managed to write beautifully, and still weave a wonderful plot line, two in fact. I sometimes find books either have the plot, or the writing. I love the way the two stories parallels eachother, where two men are going through... more info	Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information

8.		On Chesil Beach from Vintage Price: £4.18 Customer Review: Edward and Florence - intelligent and well educated, yet unable to communicate and express their fears and expectations regarding married love. This lack of communication leads to unspoken misunderstandings that, in turn, inevitably destroy all that could have been. Ian McEwan's descriptive writing... more info	Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information

9.		Purple Hibiscus from HarperPerennial Price: £3.99 Customer Review: This is just a beautiful read! The writing is as clear as a bell and the characters are heartbreakingly real. Kambili is a 15-year old Nigerian girl who is caught between and old order and the new: as Nigeria is suddenly brutalised by a military dictatorship, she is forced to make her own choices,... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information

10.		The Outcast from Vintage Price: £2.99 Customer Review: If you ever feel you are too happy this is the book for you! Badly written two-dimensional stereotypical characters in a totally depressing story. Do not recommend at all	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

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