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THE GREAT GATSBY

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ot a great success when it was first published, The Great Gatsby has gone on to achieve much-deserved status as one of the finest American novels. Set in the years following World War One, among the wealthy but dysfunctional elite of Long Island and New York, it sees everyman Nick Carraway become part of the fashionable set for a summer only to watch the group spectacularly implode in a mess of adultery, decadence and lies. The enigmatic Gatsby, owner of the finest house and thrower of the wildest parties, entrances Nick and ends up teaching him much more than how to be a great host. Dripping in glamour, cocktails and ambition, it feels like a treat despite the shocking ending. Its easy to feel more sophisticated just owning it and the read itself is a treat.

neighbours house through the summer nights. In his blue gardens, men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars. Nick Carraway

About the author: Now much admired,

Fitzgerald was never convinced that he was taken seriously during his lifetime. One of the most famous writers of the Jazz Age, he was a notorious drinker and party-goer, constantly lurching between financial crises. However exhausting it must have been for him, though, it made for great material.

Did you know? Finished before the book,

the first-edition cover art for The Great Gatsby is one of the most famous dust jackets in history. By a relatively unknown artist named Francis Cugat, it so inspired Fitzgerald that he wanted to incorporate the painting and how it made him feel into the book. Look at the irises of the womans face: theyre reclining nudes.
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HOWARDS END
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EM Forster
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ssentially a story about English class warfare, this is also a novel with a huge heart. It sees three types: a wealthy family determined to play by the book, an ambitious but pitifully poor young man, and two feisty, well-educated sisters in the middle trying to bring the two together. Howards End is a house in the Hertfordshire countryside that means a huge amount to each of them and also symbolises the future of England. What seems like a gentle Edwardian-read turns out to be much, much more about love, sex, marriage, money, sympathy and snobbery. These are characters created over a century ago, but their struggles remain powerfully moving. The movie adaptation starring Emma Thompson and Anthony Hopkins won the Oscar for best picture, as well as Best Actress for Thompson.

About the author: Born in 1879 novelist,

short-story writer and essayist, Edward Morgan Forster is well known for the gentle irony and dry humour with which he wrote about the English class system in the early 20th century. His Italianset novels, Where Angels Fear To Tread and A Room With A View, are also classics.

whole Wilcox family was a fraud, just a wall of newspapers and motor-cars and golf-clubs, and that if it fell I should find nothing behind it but panic and emptiness. Helen Schlegel

Did you know? Zadie Smiths Orange

Prize-winning 2006 novel On Beauty is a modernday homage to and retelling of Howards End; set in New England at the turn-of-the-millenium .
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LOVE IN A COLD CLIMATE

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Nancy Mitford
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he follow-up to The Pursuit Of Love, this novel also features narrator Fanny, based on Mitford herself. The novel is largely about her relationship with her dear cousin Polly and her eccentric family, the Montdores. Set amidst the society classes of England, it sees Pollys exasperated parents trying to encourage her to make a great marriage, largely to her indifference. But where the real interest lies is in Mitfords rapier-sharp wit and screamingly funny asides about the eccentricities of the English upper class. They all seem blindingly insane and utterly intriguing.

About the author: Born in 1904, Nancy

was the oldest of the six famous Mitford sisters. Her younger siblings included fellow author Jessica, Deborah now Dowager Duchess of Devonshire, and Unity, who married Oswald Mosley, leader of the British Union of Fascists. Famously witty, Nancy was one of the Bright Young Things of London society between the world wars, and incorporated what she saw into her novels.

the verge of love but not yet quite in it. Thats a very nice state of mind, while it lasts. But of course, I had already dived over the verge and was swimming away in a blue sea of illusion towards, I supposed, the island of the blest, but really towards domesticity, maternity and the usual lot of womankind. Lady Montdore talking to Polly

Did you know? Carrie Bradshaw is seen

reading a copy of the novel in Sex And The City 2. We can but wonder what Mitford would have made of the film.
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TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD
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Harper Lee
1 9 6 0

o one is ever the same after reading To Kill A Mocking Bird. Not only does it work as a cracking page-turner, but it is also one of the most powerful novels dealing with the issues of rape and racial inequality ever written. Based on the experiences and Alabama hometown of the author herself, it has six-year-old Scout Finch narrating her own coming-of-age story one summer as she makes unexpected friends and sees her father, widowed lawyer Atticus, take on a case defending a local black man accused of rape. One of the few set texts that consistently enthrals in the classroom, it also leaves adult readers kinder, more thoughtful and passing their copy of the book on to anyone they love.

About the author: Notoriously publicity-

shy, reclusive Lee has been played on screen by no fewer than four actresses, including Sandra Bullock and Catherine Keener, but hasnt been published again since her debut. She hasnt given an interview since 1964, claiming Its better to be silent than to be a fool, and the residents of her hometown of Monroeville, Alabama are famously protective of her.

thing that doesnt abide by majority rule is a persons conscience. Atticus Finch

Did

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to think that and theyre entitled to full respect for their opinions... but before I can live with other folks, Ive got to live with myself. The one

you know? Not only was the Beckhams first daughter Harper Seven named after the author, but so is Harper Peck Voll, the grandson of Gregory Peck, who played Atticus in the Oscar-winning film adaptation.
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THE GROUP
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Mary McCarthy
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et in New York in the Thirties, this novel is an exciting feminist read, as gossipy as it is inspiring. When eight young women graduate from the swish Vassar College and move to the city, their paths diverge as they find happiness and success in varying measure. Watching women lust for education and a career, as much as a family or an unsuitable man is as refreshing now as it must have been upon publication, and it is invigoratingly honest about friendship and sex, as well as being laugh-outloud funny at times. Once youve read it, youll judge every other friendship novel you come across against this one.

About the author: Seattle-born McCarthy

attended the same Vassar College in New York as her characters, before embarking on life as an author and critic. Those she studied with were not amused to recognise themselves in her novel, and years later she admitted that she had borrowed from real life, calling it putting real plums into an imaginary cake.

afterward, sort of shaken and depleted and wondering what people would think if they could see her, especially when she took herself what she called over the top.

Did you know? Candace Bushnell claims to

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have read the novel more than 10 times. In the mid-Nineties, her editor told her she should write a modern-day version of The Group. She did just that and called it Sex And The City.
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she sometimes made love to herself, on the bath mat, after having her tub. She always felt awful

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EXCELLENT WOMEN
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Barbara Pym
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comedic novel about a spinster, an anthropologist and a fanciable vicar admittedly doesnt sound like an exciting proposition, but youre going to have to trust us: this is a hugely under-appreciated treat. Set shortly after World War Two and narrated by self-deprecating thirty-something Mildred Lathbury, it is defiant, painfully honest and genuinely hilarious. The title refers to the sort of capable woman who inexplicably never marries, as Mildred spends most of the novel either being set up by the well-meaning or let down by the feckless, while always clocking the wiles of those who are better with men than her. The humour is razor-sharp and the gags remain so relevant, its hard to believe that it was published over half a century ago.

irrelevantly if I was to be caught with a teapot in my hand on every dramatic occasion. Mildred Lathbury

About the author: Pym could have been

a character from one of her own novels; hers was a life of quiet dignity, she was clearly one of lifes observers. She graduated from Oxford University and then served as a WREN during World War Two before having her first novel published in 1950.

Did you know? Pym took a long hiatus

from writing from 1963 to 1977 when she fell out of literary favour. An article by Philip Larkin describing her as the most underrated writer of the century reignited interest and her next novel, Quartet In Autumn went on to be nominated for the Man Booker Prize.
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REBECCA
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Daphne du Maurier
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ave you ever had the creeping suspicion that your boyfriend wishes he were still with his ex? Welcome to the second Mrs de Winters life. We never learn her name because she is the narrator of the novel. After meeting and falling in love with Max de Winter, she moves into his splendid West Country mansion, only to realise that there are reminders of his first wife Rebecca everywhere. Menacing housekeeper Mrs Danvers is particularly keen to keep her old bosss memory alive and makes a point of tormenting her successor. Romantic, sinister and with a better sense of place than any property show could ever hope, this is a literary page-turner with class.

About the author: Born in early 20th-

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century London into a theatrical family, du Maurier spent much of her life in Cornwall, the setting for many of her novels. While her work sold well during her lifetime, it received little in the way of critical acclaim. Movie adaptations of her suspenseful novels and short stories have helped to change the perception of her work. Rebecca won Best Picture at the Oscars, while her short stories were the basis for both Hitchcocks The Birds and Nicholas Roegs Dont Look Now.

twice, the fever of first love. For it is a fever, and a burden too, whatever the poets may say. Mrs de Winter

Did you know? During World War Two,

a copy of Rebecca was used as the basis for a system of codes among German spies. This true story was later used as the basis for the Ken Follett spy thriller The Key To Rebecca.
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HEARTBURN
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Nora Ephron
1 9 8 3

ased on the real-life breakdown of her marriage to Watergate journalist Carl Bernstein, this is essentially the story of one hell of a split. Were left in no doubt as to Ephrons intense pain on learning while pregnant that her husband is cheating on her, but nevertheless this novel remains darkly, endearingly humorous throughout. The supporting cast, also based on Ephrons real friends and family, are utterly bonkers and of little help, but they only serve to strengthen the apparent heart-warming message of the book that we muddle through life. Oh, and as the fictional Nora Rachel is a cookbook writer, there are fab recipes between the chapters too. What more could you want?

About the author: Born in New York to

two Hollywood screenwriters, Ephron was born to write. A director, novelist, journalist and playwright, she is behind some of the best romantic comedies of the past few decades, penning When Harry Met Sally and Sleepless In Seattle, as well as a perfect pastiche of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo for the New Yorker: The Girl Who Fixed The Umlaut.

I see the lights and the skyline and the people on the street rushing around looking for action, love, and the worlds greatest chocolate chip cookie, and my heart does a little dance. Rachel Samstat

Did you know? The novel was turned into

an underrated 1986 movie of the same title, starring Meryl Streep and Jack Nicholson as Ephron and Bernstein and a very young Kevin Spacey as the thief on the subway who stars in a key scene.
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GHOSTWRITTEN
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David Mitchell
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his, David Mitchells debut, is a precursor to his later, betterknown novels. But for our money, its all the more magical for displaying the extraordinary talent of a first-time author. Telling nine seemingly independent stories that are in fact loosely interlinked, it is a masterpiece in storytelling. There are so many brilliantly captured voices, from the Tokyo jazz-lover, to the Russian art-thief or London-based ghostwriter that it makes almost anything seem possible. Even a description of the different personalities of each London tube line is extraordinary in how right it is. Several of the characters in Ghostwritten reappear in Mitchells later novels Cloud Atlas, number9dream and Black Swan Green. You will be left dazzled, blinking at Mitchells talent by the end of this book.

About the author: David Mitchell is a rare

author about whom relatively little is known, despite his internationally best-selling status and crop of prestigious literary awards. Born in Merseyside, hes 42, has lived in Sicily and Japan, and currently lives with his family in Ireland. He has an occasional stammer and has written about how The Kings Speech is the first film to portray my speech defect realistically.

Things happen because of people wanting. Watch closely, and youll see what I mean.

Cloud Atlas, by the Wachowski brothers of Matrix fame, recently began production in Germany. It is to star Tom Hanks, Halle Berry and The Hours Ben Whishaw and will be the most expensive German film ever made.
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COVER HER FACE

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PD James
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his was crime doyenne Baroness Jamess debut and her first novel to feature the now famous detective Adam Dalgliesh, the poetry-writing policeman who stars in most of her bestsellers. Beautiful young housemaid Sally Jupp is strangled in her bed but behind a bolted door. Cool, methodical Dalgliesh works out who the murderer must be. The gripping novel follows his clear-headed process of elimination in a house full of suspects who all seem to have a motive. The novel heralded a new standard for crime fiction, allowing the genre to be perceived as something more than narrative-driven pot-boilers, but to have literary ambitions as well. It is an absorbing read not just because of the case in hand, but because of the perfect snapshot of early Sixties society that it provides.

About the author: Phyllis Dorothy James

was born in 1920, her father was a tax inspector and James herself became a civil servant, working for the police, National Health Service, Home Office and Criminal Policy Department until she finally became a full-time writer in 1979.

unconvincingly to simulate death. Her eyes were almost closed , but her face held that look of faint surprise which he had often noticed in the faces of the dead.

Did you know? The novel was written on

the train while Baroness James commuted to her job in the NHS. Puts those creative writing courses and retreat holidays into perspective
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THE BLIND ASSASSIN

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Margare t Atwood
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ntricately plotted and perfectly observed, Atwoods Man Booker winner is as readable as it is admirable. Featuring two sisters cool, reserved Iris and the feistier Laura it sees the family hit hard times during the North American Depression. Iris is married off to a wealthy industrialist, while Laura meets a sticky end when she drives off a bridge. But she leaves a pulp novel behind her which, presented alongside Iris version of events, provides a novel within a novel that slowly unfolds into a jawdropping twist. Atwood, always a masterful storyteller, is at her very best here.

About the author: Novelist, poet, critic,

environmentalist, legend and Twitter-fiend, Atwood was home-schooled until her teens and has published more than 30 books, including The Edible Woman, The Handmaids Tale, Alias Grace and Oryx & Crake.

to close our mouths. Tell me where it hurts, shed say. Stop howling. Just calm down and show me where. But some people cant tell where it hurts. They cant calm down. They cant ever stop howling. Iris Chase

Sample quote: Mother might be resting,

or doing good deeds elsewhere, but Reenie was always there. Shed scoop us up and sit us on the white enamel kitchen table, alongside the pie dough she was rolling out, or the chicken she was cutting up, or the fish she was gutting, and give us a lump of brown sugar to get us

Did you know? Not only has Atwood been

nominated for the Man Booker prize a staggering five times (winning it in 2000 for The Blind Assassin), she has also won the Arthur C Clarke award for science fiction.
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WOLF HALL
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Hilary Mantel
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Set in Tudor England, covering the 35 years that follow the rise to power of Cardinal Wolsey, and 650-pages long its not a classic beach read. But Mantel has two secret weapons the England of the 1520s was a genuinely exciting time, with the king trying to marry the intoxicating Anne Boleyn, and the charismatic Wolsey cutting a devastating swathe through society, and Mantel tells the story with a pacy modern tone, which makes the pages fly. If you have spent any of this summer transfixed by the political and media power play dominating the headlines, youll be just as entranced by this 16th-century version. Genuinely gripping and beautifully written, it is a Man Booker winner to treasure.

About the author: Derbyshire-born law

graduate Mantel has written 11 books, as well as having been employed as a social worker, teacher and film critic. She spent five years researching and writing Wolf Hall and is currently working on a sequel.

fears, fantasies, desires. Thomas Cromwell

Sample quote: A mans power is in the

half-light, in the half-seen movements of his hand and the unguessed-at expression of his face. It is the absence of facts that frightens people: the gap you open, into which they pour their

Booker, Wolf Hall had the shortest odds ever given by bookmaker William Hill thats what a red-hot favourite it was.
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VALLEY OF THE DOLLS

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Jacqueline Susann
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ovelist Gore Vidal dismissed Susann by sniping, She doesnt write, she types! and critics carped that she typed on a cash register, but any girl who has read a book on a sun lounger knows the power of Valley Of The Dolls. Beginning in Forties New York, it sees three ambitious young women turn up in the city determined to make something of themselves. The friends drift in and out of each others lives as they each make a spectacular rise and in some cases fall in show business. Its brash and trashy but those are its strengths, not weaknesses: what it lacks in serious literary themes it makes up for in ballsy women who want more than just domestic happiness, and what it lacks in long words it makes up for in crackling, quotable dialogue.

About the author: A one-time bit-part

actress and playwright, Susann never became a somebody until she wrote this novel. It was an immediate runaway success and made good use of everything she saw during her showbiz days. She hated the movie adaptation, though, and walked out of its premiere.

beggar of one. I wouldnt want love if I had to beg for it, to barter or qualify it. And I should despise it if anyone ever begged for my love. Love is something that must be given it cant be bought with words or pity or even reason. Allen Cooper (to Anne)

Did you know? Susanns editor was the

legendary Michael Korda, who also published fellow bonkbuster superstar Harold Robbins, as well as work by Richard Nixon.
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Douglas Coupland
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he story of a teen romance with an epic twist, it opens in Vancouver in 1979 with a monster house party at which Karen not only loses her virginity, but also ends up falling into a coma. What follows is years of her boyfriend Richard doing his best to cope including looking after the child that their union brings, then Karens eventual awakening. Told through a series of narrators, the bizarre series of events which also include the end of the world dont make this feel so like a big voice of a generation novel as an intimate, emotional one. The earlier teen scenes are particularly moving. If you ever worried that Coupland is all about the gimmicks, this is the novel to prove otherwise.

understanding as they are quirky and zeitgeisty.

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About the author: Born in 1961 on a

Canadian air base, Coupland was first offered a writing job after a magazine editor read a postcard hed sent to a friend. He became instantly renowned when his first book Generation X: Tales For An Accelerated Culture was published in 1991. Perfectly capturing the ennui of that eras grunge-obsessed youngsters, he has since become known as one of the great satirists of consumerism. His novels are often as tender and

so much of being adult is reconciling ourselves with the awkwardness and strangeness of our own feelings. Youth is the time of life lived for some imaginary audience Richard

Did you know: The books title is inspired

by the 1987 single of the same name by The Smiths. Several other song titles and lyrics from the band are sprinkled throughout the novel.
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ts getting harder and harder to find someone who hasnt read (and adored) One Day. With the film adaptation out in September and a flip-book edition in shops now, its going to be everywhere this autumn. Taking place over 20 years, revisiting a pair of newly graduated students who spent one night together, it charts the couples friendship and what that becomes with a tenderness and humour that has made both men and women cry on public transport. If ever there was a book that deserved this level of success, its this one: as funny as it is sad, and as romantic as it is knowing, the story of Dexter and Emma is one of the reads of the decade.

About the author: Nicholls was an actor

for eight years before he made the move into scriptwriting. He worked on Cold Feet, and adaptations of Much Ado About Nothing and Tess Of The DUrbervilles. His first novel, Starter For Ten, was made into a film starring James McAvoy. He is currently working on his fourth novel and a movie adaptation of Dickens Great Expectations.

or you felt a bit glandy? It just wasnt practical. Better by far to simply try and be good and courageous and bold and to make a difference. Not change the world exactly, but the bit around you. Cherish your friends, stay true to your principles, live passionately and fully and well. Experience new things. Love and be loved, if you ever get the chance. Emma Morley

Did you know? Nicholls makes a cameo

Sample quote: Live each day as if its your

appearance in the movie adaptation of One Day, walking up a staircase in a key nightclub scene.
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last, that was the conventional advice, but really, who had the energy for that? What if it rained

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THE NEW FAVOURITE

SUPER SAD TRUE LOVE STORY

BY

Gary Shteyngart
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et in New York in the not-toodistant future, this love story takes place in a society where people barely talk any more, preferring to stream thoughts, emotions or just stats to each other via souped-up smart phones called apparti. It all seems very far away and yet alarmingly close. Lenny is a 39-year-old who doesnt seem to fit in: hes a romantic, he still reads books, he longs for a girlfriend. The commodified world that Shteyngart presents is both terrifying and hilarious, and the romance he creates is as adorable as it is heartbreaking. There are few books as likely to make you laugh out loud on the bus and then look in terror at your own phone.

in the US last year. He writes his books in bed.

Sample quote: Do not throw away your

heart. Keep your heart. Your heart is all that matters. Throw away your ancestors! Throw away your shyness and the anger that lies just a few inches beneath. Accept the truth! And if there is more than one truth, then learn to do the difficult work learn to choose. You are good enough, you are HUMAN ENOUGH, to choose! Lenny Abramov

About the author: Born in St Petersburg,

Shteyngart lived there until he was seven in a square featuring a huge statue of Lenin. He moved to America with his family but much of his work remains rooted in his Russian-ness, now mixed with his New York Jewishness. His first novel, The Russian Debutantes Handbook (2002) was named one of the decades best debuts by The Guardian and follow-up Absurdistan (2006) won numerous awards, as did Super Sad True Love Story when it came out

Did you know? There are a series of

hilarious spoof book trailers for Super Sad True Love Story on YouTube starring James Franco.
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VISION OF LOVELINESS
BY

Louise Levene
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eve all eyed a well-cut cocktail dress on TV and found ourselves wishing wed been born in time to enjoy the Sixties. Vision Of Loveliness turns up the dial on that feeling, then smacks you with the consequences of a career based on a well-turned ankle. Jane is bored of her life in suburbia and dreams of glamour, excitement, even just a decent cashmere jumper. When she finds a crocodile-skin Herms bag full of cash, she tracks down its owner, Suzy St John and makes an exciting new friend. Together they take to the clubs, shops and bars of London, using their charm and good looks to live the life they believe they deserve. Yet, before long Jane realises presents dont come for free. Indeed, they often come at a very high price. Perfectly evoking the grime and the glamour of the early Sixties, just before they started swinging, this is an absolute must for anyone whos ever wished they could just pull on a wasp-waisted pencil skirt and become someone else.

Sample quote: Suzy and Henrys chat had

reached the whispers and giggles stage and he was stroking her tiny white wrist as he spoke. She was leaning across the table with her pretty face propped on her other hand, smiling into his eyes and occasionally lowering those big, fat false eyelashes as if everything he said was utterly fascinating. Which it wasnt, quite honestly, not what Jane could catch.

About the author: Levene is the dance

Did you know? Joan Collins OBE herself is

a fan, saying, I loved this book. It wonderfully evokes the essence of the Sixties. If its good enough for Joanie
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critic for The Sunday Telegraph. She has also worked as an advertising copywriter, window dresser, radio presenter, office cleaner, crossword editor, college professor and a salesperson.

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THE NEW FAVOURITE

THE RULES OF CIVILITY

BY

Amor Towles
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f you think you dont like historical fiction but know you do like Art Deco jewellery, then this is the novel for you. Taking place in 1937 after New Yorks Wall Street crash, The Rules of Civility is a year in the life of twentysomething Katey Kontent whos been described as Dorothy Parker meets Holly Golightly. A wannabe career woman with an eye for a party who knows how to type fast, steal silk stockings and get strangers to buy her champagne. What she doesnt know is how to stop falling in love, which messes things up for her. Set in the world of sleazy jazz clubs, louche literary magazines and men youre not sure if you can trust, this is a novel packed with period detail, yet wearing it lightly. It has the kick of a modern read with the setting of a classic one, and is the most glamorous page-turner of the year.

of Civility in his spare time. He says hes a fan of early 20th-century painting, Fifties jazz, Seventies cop shows, breakfast pastries, pasta, liquor and cookies made by his grandmothers.

Sample

About the author: Boston-born Towles

was educated at Yale and Stanford. He moved to New York when his fellowship to teach in China was cancelled on account of the Tiananmen Square massacre: I had all my belongings in my car and had no idea what to do with myself. As it turned out, an old friend needed a roommate in New York, so I moved here. It's this idea of New York being a city of chances that is played out in the novel. Towles now has a day job at a Manhattan investment firm and wrote The Rules

quote: That New Years, we started the evening with a plan of stretching three dollars as far as it would go. We werent going to bother ourselves with boys. More than a few had had their chance with us in 1937, and we had no intention of squandering the last hours of the year on latecomers. Katey Kontent Did you know? Towles says that his
grandmother, who lived in New York during the Thirties, provided much inspiration for the book.
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THE NEW FAVOURITE

THE BEST OF EVERYTHING

BY

Rona Jaffe
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riginally published in 1958 but newly reissued, Jaffes debut novel was a great success but gradually fell out of literary favour until Don Draper was seen reading it in bed in an episode of Mad Men. The story of a group of five girls working together at a New York publishing company, its a classic tale of friendship and ambition, and a prototype Sex And The City. What makes it worthy of a place on our bookshelves over 50-years later is the humour and sparky dialogue, which makes it feel as if those girls could sidle up to our desks today for a proper gossip. The hemlines might be different but the banters all too familiar.

About the author: This was the first of

seven novels written by New Yorker Rona Jaffe, who sadly died of cancer six years ago, written in the Fifties while she was working in publishing. She later established The Rona Jaffe Foundation, the only scheme of its kind dedicated to supporting women writers exclusively. Its gone on to award US$850,000 (515,000) to nearly 100 female writers.

meet anyone non-boring at this party, actually she was only going there because there would be food and good Scotch and it would be a way not to be alone.

Sample quote: In her messy, overcrowded

closet she found a red dress she had liked and forgotten she owned. It was a meeting-people dress for parties; a blonde girl in a red dress always seemed to be able to manage without introductions. It wasnt as if she hoped to

Did you know? The book was made into a

1959 movie of the same name. Starring some of New Yorks most famous buildings and Joan Crawford it was nominated for two Oscars.
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THE NEW FAVOURITE

A VISIT FROM THE GOON SQUAD

BY

Jennifer Egan
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t first this seems like a novel all about Bennie Salazar, rock starturned-record executive, and his assistant Sasha. But A Visit From The Good Squad is much, much more. Told as a series of 13 short stories looking at the past, present and near future of a cast of characters, its actually a novel about feelings, about music, and about human beings. Edgy and individual (one notorious chapter is presented in the style of a PowerPoint presentation), yet completely inclusive, its a book that will bring out the obsessive in you. Smiling at people reading it, searching online for others who have read it, buying copies for those you want to read it: these are symptoms of having encountered one of the very best novels of the past year. No wonder it won this years Pulitzer prize for fiction.

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the author: Raised in San Francisco, Egan now lives in Brooklyn and writes for magazines. She realised she wanted to be a writer when backpacking as a teenager, she started a journal to stave off homesickness. She still writes her fiction long-hand onto legal pads. Sample quote: The pause makes you think

the song will end. And then the song isnt really over, so youre relieved. But then the song does actually end, because every song ends, obviously, and THAT. TIME. THE. END. IS. FOR. REAL. Sashas son

Did you know? The same week Egan won

this years Pulitzer Prize, it was confirmed that the novel is currently being made into a series by HBO. WE. CAN. NOT. WAIT.
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