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Some of the books my daughter read at that age - she was told more than once by her teachers not to read such grown up books! Anne of Green Gables The Little Princess - Frances Hodgeson Burnett If she likes fantasy start her on the Crestomanci series by Diana Wynne Jones Books by KM Peyton...

I can't stand A Time to Kill because of the detailed descriptions o the child's rape. There isn't any need for it - child rape is horrifying enough without going into details, any detail, the fact is quite enough, and the reader does not need to know that the child had her legs tied apart etc...

Stewart, you would have been about 5 when the rumours about why Mary Wesley was never included on the Booker longlist were circulating so it isn't surprising that you've never heard of them, but they appeared in several places including the Sunday Times book supplement (a quite different animal...

Sure, there are some very good Booker winners etc but readability doesn't appear to be one of the criteria that the Booker selectors consider when making up the long list which is why I rarely get around to looking at what is on the Booker list whereas I actively search out books on the...

This looks like a really intersting group... I live in La Belle F, naturally, up a track in the forest of Les Landes to be exact. I'm a writer, suffering from pretty terminal writer's block at the moment, and read most things apart from horror and sure-fire nominees for the Booker prize.

Oh, I wouldn't agree. Granted there are similarities but then lots of thriller writers, consciously or unconsciously, seem to repeat elements in their books, these two read quite differently anyway, A & D is taut and fast paced and really makes you see Rome, DVC has huge lacunae in it and the...