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Tusitala's Book Reviews

I love finding out about readers' favourite books! In just 150 words please tell Tusitala and the 'World' about one of your favourite books and share your enthusiasm with others. Just send Tusitala around 150 words as to why you love a particular book. It doesn't matter whether it is fiction or non-fiction. Once the review has been accepted it will be posted on the Friends of Tusitala Review Section and readers can get the chance to enjoy your recommendation. Many Thanks!

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Essential Desert Island Reads

Books do change your life and have certainly transformed my existence! So, if I were contemplating a few months on an island (not unlike the original ‘Tusitala’ Robert Louis Stevenson) then these books would have to come with me. They are very powerful friends of mine.

Jed Rubenfeld - The Interpretation of Murder

Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice

Jeanette Winterson - The Passion

Charles Dickens - Our Mutual Friend

Charles Dickens - Oliver Twist

DHLawrence - The Virgin and the Gypsy

Carol Ann Duffy - Mean Time

Katherine Mansfield - Collected Stories

Charles Dickens - Bleak House

Amy Bloom - A Blind Man call tell how much I love you

Robert Louis Stevenson - Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

Virginia Woolf - To the Lighthouse

Charlotte Bronte - Jane Eyre

James Ellroy - The Black Dahlia

Sarah Waters - Fingersmith

Toni Morrison - Beloved

Charles Dickens - Great Expectations

Isabel Allende - The House of the Spirits

Friends of Tusitala

These book reviews have been submitted by our enthusiastic visitors. A big thank you to all who have written reviews for Tusitala!

Gregory Maguire - Wicked
Reviewed By: Karen Bromelow

Gabriel Garcia Marquez - Chronicle of a Death Foretold
Reviewed By: Jeanette Rycroft

Charles Dickens - The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Reviewed By: Janet Lewison

William Shakespeare - As You Like It
Reviewed By: Mark Wrigley

Daphne Du Maurier - Rebecca
Reviewed By: Kim Edwards

Klaus-Dieter Hartwig - Halo 2: The official guide
Reviewed By: Edward

Jane Austen - Mansfield Park
Reviewed By: Viv Scott

Bernard Cornwell - Sharpe's Regiment
Reviewed By: Richard Hawksworth

Carol Ann Duffy - The World's Wife
Reviewed By: Barry Wood

James Lee Burke - A Stained White Radiance
Reviewed By: Chris Dawson

Robert M Pirsig - Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Reviewed By: Richard Hawksworth

Pierre Clostermann - The Big Show
Reviewed By: Richard Hawksworth

Truman Capote - In Cold Blood
Reviewed By: Jeanette Rycroft

Flann O'Brien - At Swim Two Birds
Reviewed By: Brian Frew