Member: pamela17

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About meJust a a middle aged lady who happens to love reading.
I love music as well, my tastes are varied but I mostly listen to jazz these days.

About my libraryMy library is varied, it really depends on my mood. Will read chick lit on the odd occasion.

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Favorite authorsEnid Blyton, Michael Bond, F. Scott Fitzgerald, GRACE FOAKES, Henning Mankell, George Orwell, Philip Pullman, Alexander McCall Smith, John Steinbeck (Shared favorites)

LocationLondon, United Kingdom

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Member sinceOct 19, 2009

Currently readingVisions Of Suburbia by R. Silverstone
The Outsider (Penguin Modern Classics) by Albert Camus
Modern Baptists by James Wilcox
The Man Who Went Up in Smoke (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard) by Per Wahloo
Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell
Tea Time for the Traditionally Built [Large Print]: 16 Point by Alexander McCall Smith
The American Future: A History by Simon Schama
DREAMS FROM MY FATHER. A Story of Race and Inheritance. by Barack Obama
Brixton Beach by Roma Tearne
A thousand splendid suns by Khaled Hosseini
The Unbearable Lightness of Scones by Alexander McCall SMith
The Grapes of Wrath (Penguin Classics) by John Steinbeck
We Need to Talk About Kevin: A Novel (P.S.) by Lionel Shriver
The Rapture by Liz Jensen
We Are All Made of Glue by
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Last Chance Saloon by Marian Keyes
BRAZZAVILLE BEACH: A NOVEL by William Boyd
The Road (Movie Tie-in Edition 2009) (Vintage International) by Cormac McCarthy
Any Human Heart by William Boyd
Remembrance of Things Past, Complete in 2 Volumes (Boxed Set) (v. 1-3) by Marcel Proust
Julie & Julia by Julie Powell
Charlotte Gray by Sebastian Faulks
The Collected Stories of Richard Yates (Vintage Classics) by Richard Yates
Farewell, My Lovely by Raymond Chandler
PC Orwell Diaries (Penguin Modern Classics) by
Civil to Strangers and Other Writings by Barbara Pym
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Pleasure of My Company: A Novel by Steve Martin
Papa Hemingway by A E Hotchner
The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford
Zelda Fitzgerald by Nancy Milford
Save Me the Waltz by Zelda Fitzgerald
The New Confessions by William Boyd
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
Devil in a Blue Dress (Five Star) by Walter Mosley
Fearless Jones by Walter Mosley
The Shadow Of The Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The art of travel by Alain De Botton
Four Meals for Fourpence by Grace Foakes
Three Weeks in Paris by Barbara Taylor Bradford
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (P.S.) by Muriel Spark
My Antonia by Willa Cather
Good Soldier (Penguin Modern Classics) by Ford Madox Ford
A Most Wanted Man: A Novel by John le Carre
Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned by Walter Mosley
The Old Devils: A Novel by Kingsley Amis
Tunnel Vision (V.I. Warshawski Novels) by Sara Paretsky
Samaritan by Richard Price
Recovery by Stephen Benatar
Beautiful Shadow: A Life of Patricia Highsmith by Andrew Wilson
Adventures of a Suburban Boy by John Boorman
The Slaves of Solitude (New York Review Books Classics) by Patrick Hamilton
Brooklyn: A Novel by Colm Toibin
A Dog's Ransom by Patricia Highsmith
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
Post-Mortem by Patricia Cornwell
Crome Yellow by Aldous Huxley
The Preacher: A Novel (Pegasus Crime) by Camilla Läckberg
Engleby: A Novel by Sebastian Faulks
Mildred Pierce (Movie Tie-in Edition) (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard) by JAMES M CAIN
When We Were Orphans: A Novel by Kazuo Ishiguro
Excellent Women (Penguin Classics) by Barbara Pym
At Risk (Win Garano) by Patricia Cornwell
The Talented Mr. Ripley: A Screenplay by Anthony Minghella
Ripley Under Ground by Patricia Highsmith
Body of Evidence: A Scarpetta Novel by Patricia Cornwell
Ripley Under Water by Patricia Highsmith
Indemnity Only (V.I. Warshawski Novels) by Sara Paretsky
A Surrey State of Affairs. by Ceri Radford by Ceri Radford
The Boy Who Followed Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
A Glass Of Blessings (Virago Modern Classics) by Barbara Pym
The Novel in the Viola by Natasha Solomons
A Handful of Dust (Penguin Modern Classics) by Evelyn Waugh
London Belongs to Me (Penguin Modern Classics) by Norman Collins
Cruel and Unusual by Patricia Cornwell
Waiting by Ha Jin
Hons and Rebels by Jessica Mitford
The Double Comfort Safari Club (No 1 Ladies Detective Agency) by Alexander McCall Smith
The Angel's Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Little Boy Lost (Persephone Classics) by Marghanita Laski
The Girl On The Landing by Paul Torday
The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler
The Echo by Minette Walters
Running with Scissors: A Memoir by Augusten Burroughs
Something Sensational to Read in the Train by Gyles Brandreth
Hypothermia (Reykjavik Murder Mysteries 6) by Arnaldur Indridason
The Pearl (Centennial Edition) by John Steinbeck
The Mystic Masseur by V.S. Naipaul
Lord of the Flies Centenary Edition by William Golding
But Beautiful: A Book About Jazz by Geoff Dyer
May Contain Nuts: A Novel of Extreme Parenting by John O'Farrell
Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel by David Guterson
Yoga for People Who Can't Be Bothered to Do It by Geoff Dyer
The Blood of Flowers: A Novel by Anita Amirrezvani
So Much for That: A Novel by Lionel Shriver
Less Than Angels: A Novel by Barbara Pym
Burning Bright: A Play in Story Form (Penguin Classics) by John Steinbeck
The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
Dream When You're Feeling Blue: A Novel by Elizabeth Berg
Armadillos & Old Lace by Kinky Friedman
The Driver's Seat (New Directions Bibelot) by Muriel Spark
From Potter's Field (Scarpetta) by Patricia Cornwell
A Happy Death by Albert Camus
Big Sur: (Penguin Ink) by Jack Kerouac
Ava: My Story by Ava Gardner
Cause of Death. by Patricia Cornwell
Starter for Ten: A Novel by David Nicholls
The Wayward Bus by John Steinbeck
BELOVED INFIDEL: The Education of a Woman by
The Bradshaw Variations: A Novel by Rachel Cusk
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? by Jeanette Winterson
Out of the Whirlpool (Transaction Large Print Books) by Alan Sillitoe
Bringing Out the Dead by Joe Connelly
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Revised Edition (Penguin Classics) by Mark Twain
Aunt Margaret's Lover by Mavis Cheek
Gods in Alabama by Joshilyn Jackson
Down Around Midnight: A Memoir of Crash and Survival by Robert Sabbag
Jamrach's Menagerie: A Novel (Vintage) by Carol Birch
Love Unknown by A. N. Wilson
The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
Metroland by Julian Barnes
Pigeon English by Stephen Kelman
The Journey of Ibn Fattouma by Naguib Mahfouz
New York Trilogy by Paul Auster
Unnatural Exposure (Scarpetta) by Patricia Cornwell
The School at Thrush Green by Miss Read
Rhode Island Blues by Fay Weldon
Travels with Charley in Search of America: (Centennial Edition) by John Steinbeck
Hemingway's Chair by Michael Palin
My Family and other Animals by GERALD DURRELL
The Colossus of Maroussi by Henry Miller
... and the wife ran away by Fay Weldon
Daisy Miller (Penguin Popular Classics) by Henry James
Rules of Civility by Amor Towles
No Holly for Miss Quinn by Miss Read
The Long Valley (Penguin Modern Classics) by John Steinbeck
Bertie Plays The Blues: A 44 Scotland Street Novel by Alexander McCall Smith
The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency) by Alexander McCall Smith
The Midnight Palace by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The Forgotten Affairs Of Youth: An Isabel Dalhousie Novel (Isabel Dalhousie Novels) by Alexander McCall Smith
What I loved : a novel by Siri Hustvedt
Double indemnity by James M. Cain
Out of this century : confessions of an art addict by Peggy Guggenheim
Seize the Day (Penguin Classics) by Saul Bellow
Goodbye To Berlin by Christopher Isherwood
Shame by Jasvinder Sanghera
An Old Man's Love. by Anthony Trollope
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel by Deborah Moggach
The Colour of a Dog Running Away by Richard Gwyn
Final Demand by DEBORAH MOGGACH
Angel (New York Review Books Classics) by Elizabeth Taylor
Nancy Mitford (Vintage) by Selina Hastings
The Cleverness of Ladies. by Alexander McCall Smith (Quick Reads 2012) by Alexander McCall Smith
Worst Fears by Fay Weldon
Every Light in the House Burnin' by Andrea Levy
Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay
Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas by Maya Angelou
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
The Bell by Iris Murdoch
Washington Square by Henry James
Twelve Bar Blues by Patrick Neate
The Christmas Mouse by Miss Read
Other Voices, Other Rooms (Modern Library) by Truman Capote
Timbuktu: A Novel by Paul Auster
Clarice Cliff by Lynn Knight
Sunset Park by Paul Auster
Oracle Night by Paul Auster
Van Gogh: The Life by Steven Naifeh
Along with Youth: Hemingway, the Early Years by Peter Griffin
Iris and Her Friends: A Memoir of Memory and Desire by John Bayley
In the Dark by Deborah Moggach
Steppenwolf: A Novel by Hermann Hesse
The Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith
Visions of Kerouac: The Life of Jack Kerouac by Charles E. Jarvis
Imaginative Experience by Mary Wesley
Village School by Miss Read
Visions of Cody by Jack Kerouac
Love All by Elizabeth Howard
Saints and Sinners by Edna O'Brien
Elizabeth Alone by William Trevor
Winter Journal by Paul Auster
MICHAEL PALINS HEMINGWAY ADVENTURE by Michael Palin
The Uncommon Appeal of Clouds by Alexander McCall Smith
Anne Frank: The Biography by Melissa Müller
To Have and Have Not (Scribner Classics) by Ernest Hemingway
Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America by Firoozeh Dumas
Peril at End House by Agatha Christie
The murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
Auto Da Fay by Fay Weldon
Sad Cypress by Agatha Christie
Nothing That Meets the Eye by PATRICIA HIGHSMITH
Fortnight in September by R.C. Sherriff
The Cook's Tale: Life Below Stairs as It Really Was by Nancy Jackman
A Pocket Full of Rye by agatha christie
The Little Friend by Donna Tartt
The Road to Nab End: A Lancashire Childhood by Woodruff William
Call the Midwife by Jennifer Worth
The Death and Life of Sylvia Plath by Ronald Hayman
Grief by Andrew Holleran
Une vie by Guy de Maupassant
Someone at a Distance (Persephone Classics) by Dorothy Whipple
Neon Rain by James Lee Burke
Metropole by Ferenc Karinthy
Shadows Of The Workhouse by Jennifer Worth [2008] by Jennifer Worth
FALL OUT: A MEMOIR OF FRIENDS MADE AND FRIENDS UNMADE by JANET STREET-PORTER
Travels with My Aunt (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Graham Greene
Waiting for Sunrise: A Novel (P.S.) by William Boyd
Mr. Vertigo by Paul Auster
The lost decade : short stories from Esquire, 1936-1941 by F. Scott Fitzgerald
A Fool's Alphabet by Sebastian Faulks
The Man From Beijing by Henning Mankell
Jar City (Reykjavik Murder Mysteries 1) by Arnaldur Indridason
Ellis Island by Kate Kerrigan
In the Midst of Life by Jennifer Worth
Lord Edgware Dies (Poirot) by Agatha Christie
The Priory by Dorothy Whipple
James Dean: Boulevard of Broken Dreams by Paul Alexander
Homer's Odyssey by Gwen Cooper
Die Trying: (Jack Reacher 2) by Lee Child
A Home at the End of the World by Michael Cunningham
The Namesake: A Novel by Jhumpa Lahiri
Her People by Kathleen Dayus
Invisible by Paul Auster
Symposium (VMC) by Muriel Spark
The Promise of Happiness by Justin Cartwright
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