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BOOKS FOR WOMEN SECTION OF OUR NOT THE RICHARD AND JUDY SHOW

by Susan Hill on Tue 24 Oct 2006 15:20 BST | Permanent Link

Ladies of Grace Adieu by Susanna Clark.. offcuts from Jonathan Strange and Mr Norris. If you iked that.. a most beautiful book, without a dustcover but with lovely embossed cloth binding. You`d have to like this sort of faery book though.

THE PRIVATE WORLD OF GEORGETTE HEYER by JANE AIKEN HODGE.. A paperback and you`d have to be a Heyerite but if you are...

COME, TELL ME HOW YOU LIVE. AN ARCHAEOLOGICAL MEMOIR by AGATHA CHRISTIE. Memoir of her travels in the 1930s in SyriA and Iraq, with her archaelogist husband. Absolutely fascinating and quite another side of AC.

MAYA ANGELOU. HALLELUJAH. THE WELCOME TABLE. Wonderful bok about food and the memories it holds for her.

EAT, PRAY, LOVE by Elizabeth Gilbert . A journey in search of - everything really. Herself. Happiness. Enlightenment. Contentment. Peace. God. A wonderfully truthful and brave book - and I usually hate this sort of thing. Might seem an odd Christmas present; you`d have to pick your recipient carefully. But I don`t see that Christmas is only for froth.

LAST CURTSEY. THE END OF THE DEBUTANTES by Fiona McCarthy. You can`t believe it used to go on, but it did, until more recently than you think ... amazing. 'Coming out' was barmy- girls in white curtsied to a cake. Then queued to be presented at court. You couldn`t make it up - and this book doesn`t.

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COPPER by ANNABEL GOLDSMITH. For absolutely any dog lover, especially female. I don`t know why.

THE PERFECT SUMMER. DANCING INTO SHADOW IN 1911. JULIET NICOLSON.. evokes a year, a period, a way of life, quite beautifully. I loved this.

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Re: BOOKS FOR WOMEN SECTION OF OUR NOT THE RICHARD AND JUDY SHOW

by jonathanm on Tue 24 Oct 2006 16:18 BST | Profile | Permanent Link

Am reading Eat, Pray, Love, at the moment and it's terrific.

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by emasl on Tue 24 Oct 2006 17:19 BST | Profile | Permanent Link

Have my eye on Ladies of Grace Adieu having loved Jonathan Strange and I do like the way it has been produced; Private World of Georgette Heyer - I am a great Heyerite and this is already on my shelves; as is The Last Curtsey and The Perfect Summer. Come tell me how you Live is fascinating. Agatha Christies was purported to have said about being married to a younger husband who was an archeologist 'that they found you more interestin as you got older'. Not sure whether this is apocryphal or not but it sounds good!

May I also suggest in the Women section, books by Agatha C under the name of Mary Westmacott? Absent in the Spring is a good one.

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by Philippa on Tue 24 Oct 2006 21:26 BST | Profile | Permanent Link

Eat, pray and love sounds like just the sort of book I'd like someone to give ME for Christmas. I live with two non-reading men though (husband and youngest son) so it doesn't look hopeful, I'll just have to drop hints I think. .Your continued suggestions are so interesting Susan, thank you.

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by crimeficreader on Tue 24 Oct 2006 21:26 BST | Profile | Permanent Link

Thank you Susan for the heads up on THE PRIVATE WORLD OF GEORGETTE HEYER by JANE AIKEN HODGE. My mother is a Heyerite and this has potential for her as a Christmas present. Actually, she's a die hard Heyerite, so as it's not something written by Heyer herself, this may be a little problem. But as she's been re-reading for years now, I hope she can get over that fact!

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by Susan Hill on Tue 24 Oct 2006 21:29 BST | Profile | Permanent Link

Oh I think she would find it very interesting.. once I have a really favourite author then I want to read sideways from them, as it were.. well worth a punt I would have thought.