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  • Daphne du Maurier: The King's General
  • Deborah Lawrenson: The Secretary
  • Richard Cohen: How to Write like Tolstoy
  • Adrian Tinniswood: Noble Ambitions
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  • Martin Williams: The King is Dead, Long Live the King
  • Gavin Plumley: A Home for all Seasons
  • Robert Harris: Precipice
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  • Joan Aiken: Tales of London Town
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Rhys

Sometimes Colm Toibin doesn't suit me especially the gay thing which is not for me of great interest or a central concern but I think Brooklyn is very worthwhile reading, modest and understated and I have read somewhere it is a take on one of James Joyce's stories in Dubliners which gives it another dimension so I think you might enjoy that one.....

cindyf

Brooklyn was a perfect book for me - concise, beautiful, not a word wasted. Fascinating plot, wonderful sense of place. Everyone I've recommended it to, of differing ages and reading persuasion, also loved it. I'm slightly put off reading anything else by Mr Toibin in case it doesn't live up to 'Brooklyn', but I may pick up these short stories for some summer reading.

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