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6 best books like Reasons To Be Cheerful (Mark Steel): The Tower, The Zoo, and The Tortoise, Death and the Penguin, Renegade, Reelin' in the Years: The Soundtrack of a Northern Life, Reasons to Be Cheerful, The Second Worst Restaurant in France

The Tower, The Zoo, and The Tortoise
AuthorJulia Stuart
ISBN0385533284
Brimming with charm and whimsy, this exquisite novel set in the Tower of London has the transportive qualities and delightful magic of the contemporary classics Chocolat and Amélie.

Balthazar Jones has lived in the Tower of London with his loving wife, Hebe, and his 120-year-old pet tortoise...
Death and the Penguin
AuthorAndrey Kurkov
ISBN1860469450
Viktor is an aspiring writer with only Misha, his pet penguin, for company. Although he would prefer to write short stories, he earns a living composing obituaries for a newspaper. He longs to see his work published, yet the subjects of his obituaries continue to cling to life. But when he opens the newspaper...
Renegade
AuthorMark E. Smith
ISBN0670916749
Reams of stuff have been written about me in the past, but never in my own words: this is the proper one’ Mark E. Smith Still going after thirty years, The Fall are one of the most distinctive British bands, their music — odd, spare, cranky and circular — an acknowledged influence on The Smiths, The...
Reelin' in the Years: The Soundtrack of a Northern Life
AuthorMark Radcliffe
He shoots. He scores.

Mr Radcliffe was in front of an open goal with not even the keeper to beat. Needless to say he slotted the ball home with style and aplomb. Then again, how could he miss? 55 year old DJ, all round good guy, and music obsessive writes a book (when he was 52 years of age) about his...
Reasons to Be Cheerful
AuthorNina Stibbe
ISBN0241240522
'When people in the village heard I was about to start working in the city they tried to unsettle me with tales of woe. The sun, blotted out by the tall buildings, couldn't shine and the rain was poisoned by the toxic fumes that poured from the sock factories. My skin would be covered in pimples from the hell...
The Second Worst Restaurant in France
AuthorAlexander McCall Smith
ISBN1846974216
Renowned Scottish cookbook writer Paul Stuart is hard at work on his new book, The Philosophy of Food, but complicated domestic circumstances, and two clingy cats, are making that difficult.

So when Paul's eccentric cousin Chloe suggests that he join her at the house she's rented in the French...
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