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This wasn't by any chance the Ingo trilogy by Helen Dunmore?

What kind of book would you want? Adventure/social problems/ family story/ animal story/fantasy? Presumably you have to think about both boys and girls here - so the book musn't be too much a male read or a female read. However, to start with ideas C.S. Lewis ) The Lion, the Witch and...

For a rip-roaring story of piracy - Captain Blood by Rafael Sabatini. You could also look into Conrad Richter's books, particularly "The Light in the Forest" and the Awakening Land trilogy.

How about books by Val McDermid - superior psychological thrillers; Dennis Lehane; Jeffrey Deaver; and John Connolly. All are great story-tellers as welll as good writers.

Someone's recommendation can be a boring book, too. I was merely making a suggestion about a way of finding out what was available. It may be that Supermanincarn would find some interesting non-fiction as well.

For The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night [1001 Arabian Nights] you are probably best just to go to one of the many online sites that have the full text. Otherwise look on abebooks.com. If you search on the same site with keywords Spanish Conquistadors, you'll find a number of novels as...

My Friend Flicka - I loved it at ten years old The Tale of Despereaux Books of fables and legend E. Nesbit's books What Katy Did A Country Child by Alison Uttley

Georgette Heyer is good value - most are lightweight but she knew her period intimately and she also wrote more serious historical fiction. Philippa Carr is another whose history is always good and whose books are usually romantic. Anya Seton is worth looking at.

Here's a selection: Mister Christian by William Kinsolving Captain Bligh and Mister Christian by Richard Hough That Bounty Bastard by Kenneth S.Allen The Bounty by Caroline Alexander

The Diamond as Big as the Ritz and other stories The Pat Hobby Stories Jazz Age Stories The Collected Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald All off the Amazon site

Seriously good stuff!

I suppose many would say "The Great Gatsby". I would suggest you start with his short stories. Once you are hooked by his writing, you will not be able to stop reading.

There is a mass of material out there - these sites all have information http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAslavery.htm http://xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper/wpa/index.html http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/modules/slavery/primary_sources.html

Ah how nice! The voice of reason and sanity at last.

Maybe "Suspicious" by Heather Graham

If you're into mountaineering books, then Joe Simpson's "Touching the Void" is a must.

Or try abebooks.com

http://historymedren.about.com/od/crusades/tp/crusadebooks.htm gives an excellent list of books for all standards/.

Try Kurt Vonnegut, Richard Condon, Gore Vidal, Jay McInerny

There is a new Iain Banks due out: "The Steep Approach to Garbadale" I presume you also know his sf novels?