Lucy Mangan's top ten reads
Lucy Mangan is a columnist and features writer and the author of Hopscotch & Handbags: the truth about being a girl (2008), My Family and Other Disasters (2009) and The Reluctant Bride (2010). A self-confessed bookworm who claims to be disappointed to ‘only’ read 100 books per year, Lucy’s list captures her ten favourite works of fiction…so far.
Tenant of Wildfell Hall
By Anne Bronte
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Published 29-Feb-1996
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Gilbert Markham is deeply intrigued by Helen Graham, a beautiful and secretive young woman who has moved into nearby Wildfell Hall with her young son. He is quick to offer Helen his friendship, but when her reclusive behaviour becomes the subject of local gossip and speculation, Gilbert begins to wonder whether his trust in her has been misplaced.
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Tom's Midnight Garden
By Philipa PEARCE
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Published 03-Jan-2008
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Autumn Term
By Antonia Forest
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Published 16-Oct-2000
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Twins Nicola and Lawrie arrive at their new school determined to do even better than their distinguished elder sisters, but things don't turn out quite as planned.
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Code of the Woosters
By PG Wodehouse
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Published 01-May-2008
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When Bertie Wooster goes to Totleigh Towers to pour oil on the troubled waters of a lovers' breach between Madeline Bassett and Gussie Fink-Nottle, he isn't expecting to see Aunt Dahlia - nor to be instructed by her to steal silver. But purloining the antique cow creamer from under the nose of Sir Watkyn Bassett is the least of Bertie's tasks.
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Pride and Prejudice
By Jane Austen
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Published 30-Jan-2003
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When Elizabeth Bennet first meets eligible bachelor Fitzwilliam Darcy, she thinks him arrogant and conceited. When she later discovers that Mr Darcy has involved himself in the troubled relationship between his friend Mr Bingley and her beloved sister Jane, she is determined to dislike him more than ever.
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Village School
By Miss Read
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Published 15-May-2006
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The very first Miss Read Fairacre novel.
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Handmaid's Tale
By Margaret Atwood
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Published 03-Jan-1998
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The Republic of Gilead offers Offred only one function: to breed. If she deviates, she will, like dissenters, be hanged at the wall or sent out to die slowly of radiation sickness. But even a repressive state cannot obliterate desire - neither Offred's nor that of the two men on which her future hangs.
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