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Away by Amy Bloom
The Deadly Space Between by Patricia Duncker
Behind the scenes at the Museum by Kate Atkinson
Beyond Black by Hilary Mantel Eh...Beyond Black still might be a stretch:-)
From Publishers Weekly
Instead of celebrating the mystical side of "sensitives," the people who travel England's contemporary psychic "fayre" circuit, Mantel (A Change of Climate, etc.) concentrates on the potential banality of spiritualism in ... Let's not forgot the July/August theme read also - perhaps Hillary Mantel's Beyond Black, which I have not read but which was shortlisted, I believe, for the OP, might qualify (it's a bit of a stretch, I suppose)?:-) Geesh, I'd hate to leave linsacl and juliette07 all by their lonesome over ... ... Ghost Girls
Gail Jones, Dreams of Speaking
Nicole Krauss, The History of Love - shortlist
Hilary Mantel, Beyond Black - shortlist
Sue Miller, Lost in the Forest
Joyce Carol Oates, Rape A Love Story
Marilynne Robinson, Gilead
Curtis Sittenfeld, Prep
Ali Sm ... ... Round the Shipping Forecast by Charlie Connelly
Beyond belief : the secret Gospel of Thomas by Elaine Pagels
Beyond black by Hilary Mantel
Boy A By Jonathan Trigell
Calendar : Humanity's Epic Struggle to Determine a True and Accurate Year David Ewing Duncan
Cast ... ... Round the Shipping Forecast by Charlie Connelly
Beyond belief : the secret Gospel of Thomas by Elaine Pagels
Beyond black by Hilary Mantel
Boy A By Jonathan Trigell
Calendar : Humanity's Epic Struggle to Determine a True and Accurate Year David Ewing Duncan
Cast ... ... The Accidental by Ali Smith, The Constant Princess by Philippa Gregory, The Night Watch by Sarah Waters, Beyond Black by Hilary Mantel, Rape: A Love Story by Joyce Carol Oates, and The History of Love by Nicole Krauss. I thought they were all excellent. I'm reading Beyond Black by Hilary Mantel. I've never read any of hers before but I joined a reading group for the first time and this is the book they will be discussing next. I would probably not have picked it otherwise (one reason why I joined, to widen my reading habits), but am enjoying it. ... ... (there was a BIG chunk of historical information that slowed the pace for me).
Am currently reading Hilary Mantel's Beyond Black for a book group I have recently joined, and Matthew Pearl's The Dante Club.
Nice to meet you all.
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