Lyn Shea - Recommended Reading   Here are some of the most interesting and maybe unusual reads for bookworms everywhere. A lot of the books we choose may never make the best seller list - or not in the author’s lifetime - and some are already on there! But a good book is a diamond of immense proportion. For anyone who enjoys reading there are no boundaries to what might be enjoyable. So go ahead and enjoy. ‘The American Boy’ Andrew Taylor published by Harper Perennial (ISBN - 0-00-710960-1) If you like 19th century literature this is for you. Written by a contemporary author it reproduces the mood and approach of Regency England in faultless presentation and style. The scope within this genre of writing is justified by the author’s sheer grasp of those times. A mystery and a crime drama with captivating characterisation centred around the legendary American writer Edgar Allen Poe during his younger days in London. It is lean and poignant and page-turningly satisfying. ‘Just a Little Disco on an Open-Top Bus’ Candy Guard Published by Penguin Books (ISBN - 0-141-02323-6) Depending on your sense of humour, you may like this book or detest it. It’s one of those! Written by a U.K. t.v. script writer and newspaper cartoonist, it’s pithy and deceptively simplistic at first glance. Almost a post modern parody of London in the 80’s it moves steadily into the sharpest social observations and we are left with not just a comedy, more a cameo of inner city life as a lot of people will remember it . This book is cleverly paced and pitched, a bit slow at first to engage, but gradually very absorbing to anyone who has been young and overwhelmed by their potential future. ‘A Girl Could Stand Up’ Leslie Marshall Published by Black Swan (ISBN - 0-552-77190-2) If you like chatty autobiographical novels written in the first person then you may like this. A story of young love in an American city and quirky but warm family life. It is a very heartening book in many ways, its charm being the uniqueness of the main characters. A six year old girl looses her parents in a freakish fairground tragedy and it all begins from there. Nothing stereotypical in this novel. Whatever these loveable folk do, after the first three or four chapters, the reader can empathise with them because it’s more their take on life that enthrals. Definitely a book for readers who have an alternative philosophy. ‘The Hungry Tide’ Amitav Ghosh Published by Harper Collins An evocative novel with beautifully crafted language, building gradually into a powerful narrative of passion and sacrifice. Set among the surviving myths and legends of the Indian jungle, the research of rare dolphins, and the natural elements of weather and nature at it’s rawest, the novel moves unassumingly into levels of human emotion that build a story without effort into a gripping tale of courage and hope. ‘Angels and Demons’ Dan Brown Published by Corgi Books (ISBN 0-552-15073 - 8) This novel is arguably better than The Da Vinci Code in some opinions. Dan Brown is an author who doesn’t waste time and his background research is faultless. It is dramatic, bloodthirsty and probably more suited to film than DVC ever was. For sensible mystery and suspense this is the book. Unusual, unpretentious and deserving of a read. Find out more about the author at www.danbrown.com ‘Primitive Secrets’ Deborah Turrell Atkinson Published by Poisoned Pen Press (ISBN 1-59058-046-X) This is one of the fashionable genre of ladies detective novels. In that the hero and main detective is a woman. Set in an Hawaiian law firm it swings between the sophisticated modern life of young professionals and the corporate wrangles to the more primitive rural settings of that part of the world,with it’s folk lore, legends and customs. It’s warm and pacey and human, and if you like murder mysteries it’s well worth a read. With some gritty and graphic scenes and climaxes. www.debbyatkinson.com Non-fiction ‘Care Of The Soul’ Thomas Moore Published by Piatkus Publishers Ltd, London. (ISBN 0-7499-1168-9) This is not the historical Thomas Moore, but a contemporary Jungian Therapist. Written several years ago now, this is a book about the approach we have, or maybe should have, to our soul in everyday life. Don’t be fooled by the title - it is not a religious treatise, but a warm and realistic view of the modern battle to retain depth and meaning in everyday life. It is beautifully conversational and at the same time cleverly informative. It is sensible spirituality at it’s best. ** If you arrived at this page via a search engine and would like a sample online tarot reading from lyn, click the link below. www.Tarot-Online.net or vist Lyn Shea's Astrology siter www.perceptivity.co.uk