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Read so far this year:-

 

Peter Tremayne - The Leper's Bell

Kate Long- The Bad Mothers Handbook

Philippa Gregory - The Constant Princess

Philippa Gregory - Wideacre

Philippa Gregory - The Favoured Child

Ian Rankin - Dead Souls

Rosamunde Pilcher - The Shell Seekers

Jodi Picoult - Salem Falls

Jodi Picoult - Keeping Faith

Jodi Picoult - Perfect Match

Jodi Picoult - The Tenth Circle

Philippa Gregory - A Respectable Trade

Rowan Coleman - The Accidental Mother

Dan Brown- The Da Vinci Code

Dan Brown - Angels and Demons

Nicholas Evans - The Divide

Ruth Rendall - End in Tears

Tracy Chevalier - The Lady and the Unicorn

Kate Mosse - Labyrinth

Mary Higgins Clark - No Place Like Home

Richard Montanari - The Rosary Girls

Daphne Du Maurier - Jamaica Inn

Jeanne Kalogridis - The Borgia Bride

Jean Plaidy - in The Shadow of the Crown

Tracy Chevalier - Girl With a Pearl Earring

Dianna Appleyard - Playing with Fire

Candace Robb - The Nun's Tale

Cecelia Ahern - Where Rainbows End

Katie Fforde - Flora's Lot

Catherine Alliott - The Wedding Day

Joanne Harris - Gentlemen and Players

Mary Higgins Clark - Night-time is My Time

Lee Jackson - The Last Pleasure Garden

Wendy Holden The Wives of Bath

Adele Parks -Playing Away

Maeve Binchy -Tara Road

Cathy Kelly - Never Too Late

Erica James - Gardens of Delight

Guillermo Martinez - The Oxford Murders

Patricia Finney - Unicorn's Blood

Jill Mansell - Making Your Mind Up

Catherine Alliott - Not That Kind of Girl

Katy Fowler - The Jane Austen Book Club

Kate Long - Swallowing Grandma

Maeve Binchy - the Copper Beech

Victoria Hislop - The Island

Katie Fforde - Stately Pursuits

Thomas Hardy - Desperate Remedies

Kate Ellis - The Devil's Priest

Katie Fforde - Paradise Fields

Catherine Alliott - Olivia's Luck

Kathy Reichs - Cross Bones

Kathy Reichs - Monday Mourning

Marian Keyes -The Other Side of the Story

The Baby Trail - Sinead Moriaty

Philippa Gregory - The Boleyn Inheritance

Anne Perry - Dark Assassin

Dorothy Koomson - My Best Friends Girl

C. J. Sansom - Sovereign

Jodi Picoult - Mercy

Sophie Kinsella - The Undomestic Goddess

E. V Thompson - The Vagrant King

On the shelf waiting to be read:-

 

Brian Lynch - The Winner of Sorrow

Susan Howatch - Penmarric

Philippa Gregory - Meridion

Victoria Holt - The Shimmering Sands

Brian Lynch - The Winner of Sorrow

Ellis Peters - The Knocker on Deaths Door

Ian Rankin - Set in Darkness

Ian Rankin - The Falls

Philippa Gregory - Earthly Joys

Philippa Gregory - Virgin Earth

Joanne Harris - Chocolat

Katherine McMahon - The Alchemist's Daughter

Jane Austen - Emma

Jane Austen - Mansfield Park

Jane Austen Persuasion

John Banville - The Sea

Peter Tremayne -Master of Souls

Jane Harris - The Observations

Emma Blair - Goodnight Sweet Prince

Emma Blair - Wild Strawberries

Barbara Taylor- Bradford - A Woman of Substance

Barbara Taylor Bradford - Hold the Dream

Barbara Taylor Bradford - To be the Best

Christie Dickason - The Firemaster's Mistress

Jim Lynch - The Highest Tide

Anya Seton - The Winthrop Woman

Ruth Rendell - The Waters Lovely

Maeve Binchy - Quentins

Ian Rankin - Hide and Seek

Marcia Willett - The Dipper

From the library

 

P. D. James - A Sight for Sore Eyes

Melanie Gifford - The Gallows Girl

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The Bad Mothers Handbook

I've got this one on my list too & I know a few members have already read it, so it's proving rather popular. I cant wait to get to grips with it!

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Peter Tremayne - The Leper's Bell - Read

 

The Bad Mothers Handbook - read

 

Jodi Picoult - Perfect Match - read

 

Philippa Gregory - The Constant Princess read

 

Brian Lynch - The Winner of Sorrow

 

Susan Howatch - Penmarric

 

Sally Beauman - Rebecca's Tale

 

Nicholas Evans - The Divide

 

Ellis Peters - The Knocker on Deaths Door

 

Ruth Rendall - End in Tears - Read

 

Dan Brown - The Da Vinci Code -read

 

Dan Brown - Angels and Demons

 

Jodi Picoult - Keeping Faith (which was only released on Mon, 16th!) - reading

 

Haven't checked the upstairs shelves yet!!

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Susan Howatch - Penmarric

 

 

I read Wheel of Fortune a few months back. I'd had it on my shelf in hardback for years and never fancied it. I was stuck for a book to read and when I started it I couldn't put it down, I loved it.

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Jodi Picoult - Perfect Match.

 

I enjoyed this albeit with the horror of a mother. Nina Frost as a District DA knows how difficult it is to convict child rapists - it's her speciality. However when her own son is raped as a 5yr old. she takes the law into her own hands..................

 

As a mother I know and deeply understand why she does this - what would I do if God forbid one of my children were attacked??????????? Wait for 'justice' or follow my heart???

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Philippa Gregory - The Constant Princess -reading

Ooh, let me know how this one goes - I've got The Other Boleyn Girl on my list & I'm planning on getting to it sooner, rather than later, I think.

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Jodi Picoult - Perfect Match.

 

I enjoyed this albeit with the horror of a mother. Nina Frost as a District DA knows how difficult it is to convict child rapists - it's her speciality. However when her own son is raped as a 5yr old. she takes the law into her own hands..................

 

As a mother I know and deeply understand why she does this - what would I do if God forbid one of my children were attacked??????????? Wait for 'justice' or follow my heart???

 

Oooh sounds like a good book Angel, what would you rate it out of 10?

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Kell wrote

Ooh, let me know how this one goes

 

I started this yesterday afternoon and I'm really enjoying it. I'm having to slow down abit so that I can make it last longer!! It is about the life of Katherine of Aragon.

 

It is classic Philippa Gregory. :D

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Inanna wrote

 

what would you rate it out of 10?

 

I think I would give it 8/10 - it is very emotive, if you agree with the ending or not.

 

It makes you realise that the way trials are conducted in some parts of the USA are very different to how we do things over here -& I would say that our system is much better

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Finished The Constant Princess and really quite enjoyed - I learnt alot about Katherine of Aragon and she is not the shrinking, pious woman that the classic history leads us to believe...............

 

Amazon review -

 

Splendid and sumptuous historical novel from this internationally bestselling author, telling of the early life of Katherine of Aragon. We think of her as the barren wife of a notorious king; but behind this legacy lies a fascinating story. Katherine of Aragon is born Catalina, the Spanish Infanta, to parents who are both rulers and warriors. Aged four, she is betrothed to Arthur, Prince of Wales, and is raised to be Queen of England. She is never in doubt that it is her destiny to rule that far-off, wet, cold land. Her faith is tested when her prospective fahter-in-law greets her arrival in her new country with a great insult; Arthur seems little better than a boy; the food is strange and the customs coarse. Slowly she adapts to the first Tudor court, and life as Arthur's wife grows ever more bearable. But when the studious young man dies, she is left to make her own future: how can she now be queen, and found a dynasty? Only by marrying Arthur's young brother, the sunny but spoilt Henry. His father and grandmother are against it; her powerful parents prove little use. Yet Katherine is her mother's daughter and her fighting spirit is strong. She will do anything to achieve her aim; even if it means telling the greatest lie, and holding to it. Philippa Gregory proves yet again that behind the apparently familiar face of history lies an astonishing story: of women warriors influencing the future of Europe, of revered heroes making deep mistakes, and of an untold love story which changes the fate of a nation.

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Half way through Bad Mothers Handbook - been a bit busy week so have not done as much reading. Won't be doing much at the weekend either as it's my Graduation Ceremony on Friday, and then see each set of parents on Sat/Sun.

 

Really enjoying it so far, so typical of many mad families that I know LOL :D

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