My next read.....

[Board Game Geek]

Thanks fellas !

Some truly inspiring suggestions from you all (I didn't realise you were as passionate about books as you were about IT)

[TheMonkey]

I've just finished reading "The Wasp Factory" by Iain Banks. Couldn't put it down.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wasp_Factory

[DodgyAgent]

baldrick

Here's a short novel;

"Once upon a time there was a lovely little sausage called `B--"

[DaveB]

Here's a short novel;

"Once upon a time there was a lovely little sausage called `B--"

I preferred "Edmund: A Butlers Tale".

A giant rollercoaster of a novel in 400 sizzling chapters. A searing indictment of domestic servitude in the eighteenth century with some hot gypsies thrown in.

[OwlHoot]

can anyone suggest a book based on imperial south east asia .. specifically Sinagapore and Malaysia?
Similar themes of imperial hypocrisy and decadence would be ideal...

Hmm, The Jacaranda Tree might be up your street.

I'd also recommend The Journeyer

[AlfredJPruffock]

I've just finished reading "The Wasp Factory" by Iain Banks. Couldn't put it down.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wasp_Factory

Yes ; it has a superb ending.

[Bitbucket]

I prefer Enid Blyton's "The Magic Faraway Tree".

Ive been reading Enid Blyton since I was 2

[DaveB]

I've just finished reading "The Wasp Factory" by Iain Banks. Couldn't put it down.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wasp_Factory

Very good book but to be honest I prefer his Science Fiction work as Ian M. Banks. Player of Games is a classic and Feersum Endjin is one of the most original books I've read in a long long time.