Reading recommendations
If you liked Sophie Consella’s Remember Me, why not try these other chick-lit reads:
Life Swap, Jane Green
Two women with two very different lifestyles find out that life isn’t always greener on the other side.
The Cinderella Moment, Gemma Fox
Cass meets her very own Prince Charming in a carriage - a railway carriage, that is – but is he just a Big Bad Wolf in disguise?
What’s on Jenny Colgan’s bedside table:
The Road to Nab End, William Woodruff
A gritty tale of hardship and growing up in Blackburn, Lancashire during the post-war years of the 1920s.
One Good Turn, Kate Atkinson
Atkinson uses her trademark dry wit and subversive philosophy in this crime tale set in Edinburgh.
A touchingly illustrated children’s book, the first in a series depicting the childhood of Hiawatha, an American Indian.
If you liked Terry Pratchett’s 36th book in the Discworld series, Making Money, you’ll love:
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
Surreal, satirical and still as timeless as ever, follow Arthur Dent as he explores the universe in his dressing gown.
Neverwhere, Neil Gaiman
Described as ‘the sort of book Terry Pratchett might have produced if he’d spent a month in a cell with Kafka’, this is artist Neil Gaiman’s first solo novel.
If you liked Tony Benn’s More Time For Politics, why not try these other daring political works:
The Oona King Diaries: House Music, Oona King
The diaries of one of Blair’s original ‘Blair’s Babes’, charting her political life until her defeat at the hands of George Galloway in 2005, and beyond.
The Duff Cooper Diaries, John Julius Norwich
Read eyewitness accounts of World War I to Edward VIII’s abdiction, from a politician, diplomat and socialite of the day, covering events from 1915 – 1950.
Till’s Books, Edinburgh, recommends:
Oranges are not the only Fruit, Jeanette Winterson
A semi-autobiographical tale of a young Jeanette growing up in a staunchly religious family in industrial Northern England in the 1960s - peppered with fairytales, fantasy and the Bible.
Books they wished they’d written:
Sophie Consella -
Alice Through the Looking Glass (And What Alice Found There), Lewis Carroll
Catherine O’Flynn -
The Unconsoled, Kazui Ishiguro
Simon Sebag Montefiore -
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Edward Gibbon
Conn Iggulden -
Ender’s Game, Orson Scott Gard