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[littleangel_103]

21 - Zadie Smith - On Beauty - much better than either White Teeth or Autograph Man, this book manages to explore some serious issues in an interesting way. Good read with believable characters and plot which surprises at many turns.
22 - Gok Wan - Through thick and thin - Recommended by lostock who, indeed lent me the book, interesting read but at times

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[d_floorlandmine]

The Blessings of a Good Thick Skirt
I think I heard something about that on Radio 4. It sounded pretty interesting, although possibly not especially investigative. Although it may have been an article about another thoroughly tweeded woman traipsing across the subcontinent.

The insufficiently investigative book that's getting on my wick at the moment is City of Sin by Catharine Arnold.

[littleangel_103]

What's that one about then? Your welcome to borrow Good Thick Skirt if you want, I like Mads gave it to me.

[d_floorlandmine]

It's the third in her series of pop-history books about London - the first was about London and its dead, the second London and its mad, and this is London and its vice - working from Roman times to ... I've not got that far yet. I borrowed it off K - I've not read the other two yet, but they're apparently a bit better, as there's less opportunity for sensationalism.

The main thing that was making me rant was taking the word of Roman satirists as truth - much like trying to use Viz as a document of historical record - along with a slight tendency to base each chapter (especially the earlier ones) on one particular scholar's work.

[littleangel_103]

Sounds like she wouldn't pass the Dissertation on my MA then!