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Type: fiction

Status: I recommend

Author: Kate Grenville

Tags: fiction historical historicalfiction australia historicalnovel

Description: Mixing Colonial Australia and Aboriginees.

2006-12-03

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Type: fiction

Status: I recommend

Author: Diane Setterfield

Tags: british fiction family memoir life novel loss ghost odd feelings discontent

2006-11-25

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Type: fiction

Status: I recommend

Author: Jeanette Winterson

Tags: fiction historical novel historicalfiction favorites historicalnovel Napoleon

2006-09-22

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Type: fiction

Status: I recommend

Author: Jeanette Winterson

Tags: british fiction novel favorites

Description: "With the same stylistic daring and emotional energy that have made her one of Englands's"With the same stylistic daring and emotional energy that have made her one of Englands's most celebrated young writers, Jeanette Winterson has written her most beguilingly seductive novel to date.
"The narrator of 'Written On The Body' has neither name nor gender; the beloved is a married woman. And as Winterson chronicles their consuming affair, she compels us to see love stripped of cliches and categories, as a phenomenon as viceral as blood and organs, bone and tissue--and as strange as an undiscovered continent."...

2006-09-22

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Type: documentary

Status: I recommend

Author: Kay Redfield Jamison

Tags: science nonfiction favorites psychiatry

2006-09-22