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In non-fiction, Sue is recommending [[My Salinger Year by Joanna Rakoff]], a brilliant memoir about Rakoff's year spent at the literary agency which handled J D Salinger. The writing is wonderful and the book is compulsive reading. You have to read it. Seriously.
And John was mightily impressed by [[Tudor: The Family Story byLeanda by Leanda de Lisle]], a comprehensive account of the Tudor history, its monarchs and unsuccessful claimants to the throne, unusually taking the death and and funeral in 1437 of Catherine of Valois, mother of the dynasty, as a starting point. It is a remarkable if often chilling story of determined men and women, locked together in the most desperate of power struggles.
For the little ones, Lorraine thinks you should look at [[Greek Myths: Stories of Sun, Stone and Sea by Sally Pomme Clayton]], a
