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		<title>I Will Have Vengeance</title>
		<link>http://www.curiousbookfans.co.uk/2012/fiction-books/9139/i-will-have-vengeance-maurizio-de-giovanni</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:07:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Bor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Crime fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fiction Books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Maurizio De Giovanni]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The year is 1931, the setting the Italian city of Naples. Commissario Luigi Alfredo Ricciardo is working late one evening when he is summoned to the famous San Carlo Opera House where a mysterious death has been reported. There he is faced with the dead body of Maestro Vezzi, one of the country’s foremost operatic singers and a particular favourite of Il Duce. The singer is sitting at a table in his dressing room, an arm out-stretched, a tear running down one cheek and a shard of glass from a smashed mirror sticking out of his neck. Vezzi’s death could be the result of a tragic accident but for a couple of items in the room that Ricciardo thinks odd. From www.curiousbookfans.co.uk]]></description>
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		<title>Turn the Tides Gently (The Portsmouth Stories)</title>
		<link>http://www.curiousbookfans.co.uk/2012/fiction-books/9130/turn-the-tides-gently-the-portsmouth-stories-by-matt-wingett</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 21:29:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>frangliz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Contemporary fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fiction Books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Matt Wingett]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[“Turn the Tides Gently” is a novella for Kindle by Matt Wingett. It takes place in Matt's hometown of Portsmouth and neighbouring Southsea, centring around a character named Dave. Dave is being looked after in a hostel as he appears to be suffering from schizophrenia. From www.curiousbookfans.co.uk]]></description>
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		<title>Solace</title>
		<link>http://www.curiousbookfans.co.uk/2012/fiction-books/9111/solace-by-belinda-mckeon</link>
		<comments>http://www.curiousbookfans.co.uk/2012/fiction-books/9111/solace-by-belinda-mckeon#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 22:51:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ian</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Contemporary fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fiction Books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Belinda McKeon]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Solace by Belinda McKeon is a novel about loss and the difficulty which so many people have communicating about important issues, particularly across generations.  It is set against the background of Ireland in the early part of this century, at a time when rural areas continued to cling to traditional values and ways of life while brash modern Ireland epitomised by the Dublin property boom gradually began to encroach. From www.curiousbookfans.co.uk]]></description>
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		<title>The Crime of Reporting</title>
		<link>http://www.curiousbookfans.co.uk/2012/fiction-books/9100/the-newsroom-mafia-oswald-pereira</link>
		<comments>http://www.curiousbookfans.co.uk/2012/fiction-books/9100/the-newsroom-mafia-oswald-pereira#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 22:28:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anjana Basu</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Crime fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fiction Books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thriller fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oswald Pereira]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[To paraphrase a quote from the Sharukh Khan film Don, ‘capturing the Don is not difficult, just impossible’. Oswald Pereira’s Newsroom Mafia explores a perennially fascinating terrain for fans of any kind of Mafia fiction. Pereira used to be a crime reporter in Mumbai before he retired, so he draws on his experiences to tell his story. Newsroom Mafia is the tale of the invincible Don Narayan Swamy and the struggle of ‘supercop’ Donald Fernandez to bring him to book. Narayan Swamy is based on the infamous godfather of Matunga Vardarajan Mudaliar and bears full testimony to the accuracy of the gangster films that crop up in Bollywood. Supporting him the Don has an entourage of journalists who run planted stories in exchange for lucrative remuneration and bottles of scotch. From www.curiousbookfans.co.uk]]></description>
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		<title>The Stag and Hen Weekend</title>
		<link>http://www.curiousbookfans.co.uk/2012/fiction-books/9089/the-stag-and-hen-weekend-mike-gayle</link>
		<comments>http://www.curiousbookfans.co.uk/2012/fiction-books/9089/the-stag-and-hen-weekend-mike-gayle#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 22:24:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kingfisher</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Contemporary fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fiction Books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mike Gayle]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If I am looking for a light and entertaining read then I am always happy to pick up any of Mike Gayle's books. His novels are always amusing and provide a fabulous insight into a lad's point of view. In his latest book, 'The Stag and Hen Weekend', the readers still gets this but they are also treated to the female perspective too. To be honest, this is really two books in one as the reader is invited along on both Helen's hen weekend at a country spa and Phil's stag weekend in Amsterdam. From www.curiousbookfans.co.uk]]></description>
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		<title>The Soldier&#8217;s Wife</title>
		<link>http://www.curiousbookfans.co.uk/2012/fiction-books/9079/the-soldiers-wife-joanna-trollope</link>
		<comments>http://www.curiousbookfans.co.uk/2012/fiction-books/9079/the-soldiers-wife-joanna-trollope#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 10:45:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kingfisher</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Contemporary fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fiction Books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joanna Trollope]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Joanna Trollope is one of my favourite writers and her latest novel, 'The Soldier's Wife', is just as good as, if not better than, as all of her other books. This story is a keen observation and fascinating insight into what it is like to be an army wife.

Dan Riley is a major in the British army and is returning home from a six month tour serving in Afghanistan. From www.curiousbookfans.co.uk]]></description>
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		<title>All That I am</title>
		<link>http://www.curiousbookfans.co.uk/2012/fiction-books/9036/all-that-i-am-anna-funder</link>
		<comments>http://www.curiousbookfans.co.uk/2012/fiction-books/9036/all-that-i-am-anna-funder#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 16:13:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>elkiedee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Contemporary fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fiction Books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anna Funder]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[“When Hitler came to power, I was in the bath”.

In Sydney, Australia in the 1990s, Dora Becker receives a package, containing the writings of a long dead friend. Those writings and the memories of Dora, a German woman now in her nineties, form the narrative structure of this thought provoking novel. I have read a lot of novels and non fiction about this period recently, but All That I Am is more than just another tale about more victims and survivors of Nazism. From www.curiousbookfans.co.uk]]></description>
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		<title>Interesting Times</title>
		<link>http://www.curiousbookfans.co.uk/2012/fiction-books/9031/interesting-times</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:11:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anjana Basu</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Contemporary fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fiction Books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[History fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kunal Basu]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The exploration of the unknown has fascinated writers since time immemorial, wanderings, encounters with a new culture and the induction into it. This has been seen in popular fiction as well as literary – the latter starting perhaps with Marco Polo, who was accused of manufacturing much of his information. What is also curious is that people have been fascinated by encounters between the west and the orient – one could number books like Lord Jim, Shogun, River of Smoke and most recently The Yellow Emperor’s Cure, the last two written by Indian authors. Amitabh Ghosh and Kunal Basu. In fact, the last two have hit the public gaze within a year of each other.  From www.curiousbookfans.co.uk]]></description>
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		<title>The Winter Palace</title>
		<link>http://www.curiousbookfans.co.uk/2012/fiction-books/9004/the-winter-palace-eva-stachniak</link>
		<comments>http://www.curiousbookfans.co.uk/2012/fiction-books/9004/the-winter-palace-eva-stachniak#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 23:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Bor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fiction Books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[History fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eva Stachniak]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Eva Stachniak’s The Winter Palace is a colourful tale of the first years spent by Princess Sophie – who in the course of the novel becomes Catherine the Great – in St. Petersburg’s infamous Winter Palace. Told from the point of view of Vavara, a Polish girl who finds herself at the heart of Empress Elizabeth’s court, ‘The Winter Palace’ is a veritable assault on the senses as well as a thoroughly absorbing tale. From www.curiousbookfans.co.uk]]></description>
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		<title>The Betrayal</title>
		<link>http://www.curiousbookfans.co.uk/2012/fiction-books/9002/the-betrayal-helen-dunmore</link>
		<comments>http://www.curiousbookfans.co.uk/2012/fiction-books/9002/the-betrayal-helen-dunmore#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 22:38:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Bor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Contemporary fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fiction Books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Helen Dunmore]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In Helen Dunmore’s ‘The Betrayal’ we catch up with doctor Andrei, his nursery school teacher wife Anna and Anna’s younger brother Kolya, now a teenager and the source of much anxiety for his sister. The family first appeared in Dunmore’s Whitbread and Orange short-listed “The Siege” set during the harsh Leningrad winter of 1941-2. From www.curiousbookfans.co.uk]]></description>
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		<title>Last Man in Tower</title>
		<link>http://www.curiousbookfans.co.uk/2012/fiction-books/8993/last-man-in-tower-aravind-adiga</link>
		<comments>http://www.curiousbookfans.co.uk/2012/fiction-books/8993/last-man-in-tower-aravind-adiga#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 22:47:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>koshkha</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Contemporary fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fiction Books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aravind Adiga]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Aravind Adiga’s latest book ‘Last Man in Tower’ explores what it takes to turn ordinary respectable middle-class people into evil, devious, greedy beasts prepared to contemplate murder. It looks at how neighbours so emotionally and physically close that they live like extended family can become enemies. I would also say it offers wholly believable insights into the psychology of bullying and persecution – tracking how the perpetrators of abuse can convince themselves that they are in fact the victims despite their abusive behaviour. From www.curiousbookfans.co.uk]]></description>
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		<title>The Teahouse of the August Moon</title>
		<link>http://www.curiousbookfans.co.uk/2012/fiction-books/8937/the-teahouse-of-the-august-moon</link>
		<comments>http://www.curiousbookfans.co.uk/2012/fiction-books/8937/the-teahouse-of-the-august-moon#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 21:06:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kate</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Comic fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fiction Books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vern Sneider]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Teahouse of the August Moon, by the American novelist Vern Sneider, is a gentle comedy about the American occupation of Japan after the Second World War, where the Japanese get the better of the Americans, the Americans organise the Japanese more efficiently, and everyone learns to love each other’s way of life. My fascination with this book began because it was a beautiful fairy story with a happy ending. Later, I reread it to enjoy the tidy way that everything worked out just fine: I do like the practical organisation of happy endings. I also reread it endlessly to get to the bottom of the mysterious geisha girls: why were they such a problem? They seemed so nice, and did their own sewing. From www.curiousbookfans.co.uk]]></description>
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		<title>The Help</title>
		<link>http://www.curiousbookfans.co.uk/2012/fiction-books/8930/the-help</link>
		<comments>http://www.curiousbookfans.co.uk/2012/fiction-books/8930/the-help#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 14:29:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eilidhcatriona</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Contemporary fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fiction Books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kathryn Stockett]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Kathryn Stockett’s The Help is set in Jackson, Mississippi in the 1960s, during the Civil Rights movement. Life in Jackson, however, does not really seem to be changing. The Help is a story of two black maids (the help), and one white woman who writes a book about the experiences of maids in Jackson. From www.curiousbookfans.co.uk]]></description>
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		<title>Care of Wooden Floors</title>
		<link>http://www.curiousbookfans.co.uk/2012/fiction-books/8906/care-of-wooden-floors</link>
		<comments>http://www.curiousbookfans.co.uk/2012/fiction-books/8906/care-of-wooden-floors#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 12:39:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Bor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Contemporary fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fiction Books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Will Wiles]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When Oskar asks an old university friend to look after his apartment while he goes to attend to his divorce in Los Angeles, he clearly has some inkling that the property may not be looked after exactly as he would wish. Why else would he leave notes hidden around the flat outlining the action to be taken should the worst occur? The worst, it seems, would be damage to the apartment’s pristine wooden floor and Oskar’s notes stress the importance of acting quickly should anything be spilled on the boards. from www.curiousbookfans.co.uk]]></description>
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		<title>The Delta</title>
		<link>http://www.curiousbookfans.co.uk/2012/fiction-books/8901/the-delta</link>
		<comments>http://www.curiousbookfans.co.uk/2012/fiction-books/8901/the-delta#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 11:51:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eilidhcatriona</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Adventure fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fiction Books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tony Park]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Having thoroughly enjoyed Tony Park’s recent novel, African Dawn, I added his other novels to my wishlist – all of them set in Africa and sounding similarly exciting. He hasn’t written that many novels, so I decided to ration them so as to make the enjoyment of them last. My first purchase was The Delta. From www.curiousbookfans.co.uk]]></description>
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		<title>Lone Wolf</title>
		<link>http://www.curiousbookfans.co.uk/2012/fiction-books/8880/lone-wolf-jodi-picoult</link>
		<comments>http://www.curiousbookfans.co.uk/2012/fiction-books/8880/lone-wolf-jodi-picoult#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 21:30:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kingfisher</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Contemporary fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fiction Books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jodi Picoult]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Jodi Picoult is one of my favourite authors as her novels always challenge and provoke whilst tackling controversial topics. In her latest book, 'Lone Wolf', she prompts one to think about the sanctity of life as her main character is kept alive by machines in his hospital bed while his children argue about whether he should be allowed to die. The novel is made more interesting though as we learn about Luke Warren's past and the somewhat unorthodox relationships he has had with his family. From www.curiousbookfans.co.uk]]></description>
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		<title>Daughter of Smoke and Bone</title>
		<link>http://www.curiousbookfans.co.uk/2011/fiction-books/8828/daughter-of-smoke-and-bone-laini-taylor</link>
		<comments>http://www.curiousbookfans.co.uk/2011/fiction-books/8828/daughter-of-smoke-and-bone-laini-taylor#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2011 20:30:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eilidhcatriona</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fantasy fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fiction Books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Laini Taylor]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Karou lives a double life. On the one hand she is a seventeen year old art student in Prague, only concerned about fending off her ex-boyfriend. On the other, she runs errands for Brimstone, a decidedly non-human being who raised her. Then one day, she meets an angel...From www.curiousbookfans.co.uk]]></description>
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		<title>One Moment, One Morning</title>
		<link>http://www.curiousbookfans.co.uk/2011/fiction-books/8725/one-moment-one-morning-sarah-rayner</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 12:27:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eilidhcatriona</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Contemporary fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fiction Books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sarah Rayner]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It was just another day on the 7.44 from Brighton to London, when suddenly a man is taken ill and dies. One Moment, One Morning by Sarah Rayner is a novel about how one moment is all it takes to change lives. From www.curiousbookfans.co.uk]]></description>
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		<title>Le Divorce</title>
		<link>http://www.curiousbookfans.co.uk/2011/fiction-books/8713/two-fates-judy-balan</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 11:19:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anjana Basu</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Contemporary fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fiction Books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Judy Balan]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Ad woman turned writer, Judy Balan takes her readers on a romp through a two state marriage with a nod at Chetan Bhagat and a twist of the title. Deepika is a Tamilian married to a Punjabi Rishab and it was a love marriage. Their odd assortment of relatives from the north and south have more less accustomed themselves to the mingling of cultures, since it’s been four years anyway, but Deepika is convinced that she and Rishab have fallen out of love. Both of them are fed up with their every day lives – Deepika wants to quit advertising; Rishab wants to leave the executive perks that his IIM status entitle him to and become a writer. Sex is fleeting though passionate and Deepika thinks that’s another problem. All in all, they’re on the verge of deciding to get divorced. From www.curiousbookfans.co.uk]]></description>
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		<title>Professor Hanaa</title>
		<link>http://www.curiousbookfans.co.uk/2011/fiction-books/8707/professor-hanaa-reem-bassiouney</link>
		<comments>http://www.curiousbookfans.co.uk/2011/fiction-books/8707/professor-hanaa-reem-bassiouney#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 17:30:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ian</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Contemporary fiction]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Reem Bassiouney]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Egypt's and the Middle East are much in the news. I often think that understanding the literature of a country is helpful in understanding the state of mind of its population or at least that proportion of the population who read .  In this context, I was very interested in Professor Hanaa by Reem Bassiouney, originally published in Arabic in 2008. It won the Sawiris Foundation Literary Prize for Young Writers, Egypt's leading literary award, in 2009 and was also selected as the only novel to come out in Egypt’s "reading for all book" series in 2010. From www.curiousbookfans.co.uk]]></description>
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		<title>The Gap in the Curtain</title>
		<link>http://www.curiousbookfans.co.uk/2011/classics/8698/john-buchan-the-gap-in-the-curtain</link>
		<comments>http://www.curiousbookfans.co.uk/2011/classics/8698/john-buchan-the-gap-in-the-curtain#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 11:43:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kate</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Classics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[John Buchan]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Scottish novelist John Buchan is the writer about whom I know the most. I‘ve been reading him, and working on him, on and off, for over twenty years. But I get bored with his most famous character, Richard Hannay, and with The Thirty-Nine Steps, which is his most famous novel. So, here’s a Buchan novel that isn’t about Richard Hannay. The Gap in the Curtain (1932) is a great read, for several reasons. From www.curiousbookfans.co.uk]]></description>
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		<title>Hatred, Ridicule &amp; Contempt</title>
		<link>http://www.curiousbookfans.co.uk/2011/fiction-books/8693/hatred-ridicule-contempt-david-cooper</link>
		<comments>http://www.curiousbookfans.co.uk/2011/fiction-books/8693/hatred-ridicule-contempt-david-cooper#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 13:25:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eilidhcatriona</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fiction Books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thriller fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Cooper]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Hatred, Ridicule &#038; Contempt is the first novel by David Cooper. As a solicitor, it is perhaps unsurprising that he has written a novel about the law, sticking to what he knows. From www.curiousbookfans.co.uk]]></description>
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		<title>The Penal Colony</title>
		<link>http://www.curiousbookfans.co.uk/2011/fiction-books/8652/the-penal-colony-richard-herley</link>
		<comments>http://www.curiousbookfans.co.uk/2011/fiction-books/8652/the-penal-colony-richard-herley#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 17:12:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eilidhcatriona</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Contemporary fiction]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Richard Herley]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Penal Colony by Richard Herley has recently been available as a free download on Kindle, and from the synopsis given it sounded like it would be a reasonable read for a freebie. Although published in the late 1980s, I hadn’t heard of it before, and I assumed it was written more recently.

The Penal Colony is about a man named Tony Routledge who is convicted of a crime he did not commit.From www.curiousbookfans.co.uk]]></description>
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		<title>Water-blue Eyes</title>
		<link>http://www.curiousbookfans.co.uk/2011/fiction-books/8636/water-blue-eyes-domingo-villar</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 14:14:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Bor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Crime fiction]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Galician tourist board really ought to be paying author Domingo Villar; his Leo Caldas novels set in the coastal city of Vigo are an enticing advertisement for the region. Imagine having long leisurely seafood lunches with a glass or two of wine; follow that with a quick paddle before going back to work or even a drive to a country vineyard. It’s almost worth dealing with the occasional mutilated corpse to lead that kind of life. From www.curiousbookfans.co.uk]]></description>
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		<title>Custody</title>
		<link>http://www.curiousbookfans.co.uk/2011/fiction-books/8623/manju-kapur-custody</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 12:36:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>koshkha</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Contemporary fiction]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Manju Kapur]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In India approximately 11 marriages in every 1000 end in divorce. At a shade over 1%, this is one of the lowest rates in the world. I decided not to look up the statistics on how many wives die suddenly from unexplained accidents in the home as a result of dowry disputes as that's another issue entirely. Let's just say that when things go bad, a trip to the lawyers isn't always the outcome.

In Manju Kapur's latest novel 'Custody' she addresses the complex issues of the relatively rare business of Indian divorce. From www.curiousbookfans.co.uk]]></description>
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