Annette J. Dunlea's Blog, page 647

My Favourite Hillary Mantel Book 1 : Wolf Hall

Title: Wolf Hall
 
Author: Hilary Mantel
Paperback: 400 pages
Publisher: Fourth Estate Ltd (4 Mar 2010)
ISBN-10: 0007230206
ISBN-13: 978-0007230204
Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 13 x 4.6 cm
Product Description
Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2009 'Lock Cromwell in a deep dungeon in the morning,' says Thomas More, 'and when you come back that night he'll be sitting on a plush [...:]

My Book Recommendation: Solar

Title: Solar
 
Author:  Ian McEwan
Hardcover: 304 pages
Publisher: Jonathan Cape Ltd (18 Mar 2010)
ISBN-10: 0224090496
ISBN-13: 978-0224090490
Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 15.8 x 3.6 cm
Product Description
Michael Beard is a Nobel prize-winning physicist whose best work is behind him. Trading on his reputation, he speaks for enormous fees, lends his name to the letterheads of renowned scientific institutions and [...:]

My Favourite Jhumpa Lahiri Book 2 – Interpreter of Maladies

Title: Interpreter of Maladies: Stories of Bengal, Boston and Beyond
 
Author:  Jhumpa Lahiri
Paperback: 208 pages
Publisher: Flamingo; New Ed edition (15 May 2000)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0006551793
ISBN-13: 978-0006551799
Product Dimensions: 19.9 x 12.9 x 1.7
Product Description
Pulitzer-winning, scintillating studies in yearning and exile from a Bengali Bostonian woman of immense promise. A couple exchange unprecedented confessions during nightly blackouts in [...:]

My Favourite Jhumpa Lahiri Book: 1 – Unaccustomed Earth

Title: Unaccustomed Earth
 
Author:  Jhumpa Lahiri
Paperback: 352 pages
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC (1 Jun 2009)
Language English
ISBN-10: 074759659X
ISBN-13: 978-0747596592
Productions Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.8 x 2.6 cm
Product Description
Beginning in America, and spilling back over memories and generations to India, Unaccustomed Earth explores the heart of family life and the immigrant experience. Eight luminous stories – longer and richer [...:]

My Book Recommendation : Trespass

Title: Trespass
 
Author:  Rose Tremain
Hardcover: 320 pages
Publisher: Chatto & Windus (4 Mar 2010)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0701177942
ISBN-13: 978-0701177942
Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 15.6 x 2.8 cm
Product Description
In a silent valley stands an isolated stone farmhouse, the Mas Lunel. Its owner is Aramon Lunel, an alcoholic so haunted by his violent past that he's become incapable of all meaningful [...:]

My Favourite Book 2 From Khaled Hosseini: The Kite Runner

Title: The Kite Runner
 
Author:  Khaled Hosseini
Paperback: 336 pages
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC; New edition edition (7 Jun 2004)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0747566534
ISBN-13: 978-0747566533
Product Dimensions: 19.2 x 12.8 x 2.4 cm
Product Description
Twelve-year-old Amir is desperate to win the approval of his father and resolves to win the local kite-fighting tournament, to prove that he has the makings of [...:]

My Favourite Khaled Hosseini Book 1 – A Thousand Splendid Suns

Title: A Thousand Splendid Suns
 
Author: Khaled Hosseini
Paperback: 432 pages
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC (18 Sep 2008)
Language English
ISBN-10: 074758589X
ISBN-13: 978-0747585893
Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 12.8 x 3 cm 
Product Description
Mariam is only fifteen when she is sent to Kabul to marry Rasheed. Nearly two decades later, a friendship grows between Mariam and a local teenager, Laila, as strong [...:]

My Book Recommendation : 61 Hours

Title: 61 Hours
 
Author: Lee Child
Hardcover: 400 pages
Publisher: Bantam Press (18 Mar 2010)
ISBN-10: 0593057066
ISBN-13: 978-0593057063
Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 15.8 x 3.4 cm 
Product Description
Winter in South Dakota. Blowing snow, icy roads, a tired driver. A bus skids and crashes and is stranded in a gathering storm. There's a small town twenty miles away, where a vulnerable [...:]

My Favourite Sarah Dunant Book : 2 -The Birth of Venus

Title : The Birth of Venus: Love and Death in Florence
 
Author:  Sarah Dunant
Paperback: 432 pages
Publisher: Virago Press Ltd; New Ed edition (5 Feb 2004)
Language English
ISBN-10: 1844080358
ISBN-13: 978-1844080359
Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.4 x 3.3 cm
Product Description
Alessandra is not quite fifteen when her prosperous merchant father brings a young painter back with him from Holland to [...:]

My Favourite Sarah Dunant Book 1 : Sacred Hearts

Title: Sacred Hearts
 
Author: Sarah Dunant
Paperback: 480 pages
Publisher: Virago Press Ltd (5 Jan 2010)
Language English
ISBN-10: 1844083306
ISBN-13: 978-1844083305
Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.6 x 3.6 cm
Product Description
1570 in the Italian city of Ferrara, and the convent of Santa Caterina is filled with noble women who are married to Christ because many cannot find husbands outside. Enter sixteen-year-old [...:]