Real book review is an honest, no nonsense, review of books that I have read and enjoyed. There is no pretentious art-speak and no three page descriptions of what the author really meant or how the book should be read on two levels etc. YOU are probably male, enjoy reading but don't enjoy reading about war, horse racing, detective who-done-its or the SAS. If you are browsing for a book for easy reading, slightly more serious, or reference then these are the pages for you. Every book here is recommended by me - if I don't like a book I will not add a review.
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| Iain Banks | The Wasp Factory | Banks' first novel but not your introduction to him, choose another and work back to this one. |
| Iain Banks | Walking On Glass | |
| Iain Banks | The Bridge | |
| Iain Banks | Espedair Street | |
| Iain Banks | A Song Of Stone | |
| Roddy Doyle | Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha | |
| Jim Crace | Quarantine. | Non religious tale in New Testament Times - what may have happened in the background to the days in the wilderness. |
| Keri Hulme | The Bone People | |
| Kazuo Ishiguro | An Artist Of The Floating World. | |
| Neil Jenkins | Life At Number 10 | |
| Garrison Keillor | Radio Romance | |
| Milan Kundera | The Unbearable Lightness Of Being. | |
| Bernard Maclaverty | Grace Notes. | |
| Sidney Sheldon | The Naked Face. | |
| Sidney Sheldon | If Tomorrow Comes | |
| Sidney Sheldon | The Sands Of Time | |