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|  | | | | Defying any attempt to pigeonhole her skills and talents Mariella combines her television and radio career with that of a prolific journalist.
Over a fifteen-year TV career she has continued to impress both audiences and critics with her friendly, accessible and intelligent screen presence. Her projects run the gamut from current affairs to movies and the arts.
As a journalist she is currently the film critic for Harpers And Queen and has a weekly dilemma column in The Observer Magazine, while her book reviews and travel pieces appear regularly in the press. She has also been a member of the Booker-Mann Prize panel.
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|  | | Cover of The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho (HarperCollins).
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The Life-Changing Books you nominated were:
1 George Orwell, 1984 (Signet Classics), Burmese Days, Coming Up For Air, The Road to Wigan Pier (Penguin).
2 Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist and Veronika Decides to Die (HarperCollins)
3 Primo Levi, If This Is A Man (trans. Stuart Woolf, Abacus) and The Drowned and Saved (trans. R Rosenthal, Abacus)
4= Robert Tressell, The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists (Flamingo)
4= Robert Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintainance (Vintage)
4= Harper Lee, To Kill A Mockingbird (Arrow)
4= Joseph Heller, Catch 22 (Vintage)
5= John Steinbeck, Grapes of Wrath and Journal of a Novel: The “East of Eden” Letters (Penguin)
5= Douglas Adams, The Hitch-Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Del Rey)
5= The Bible (various)
5= Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov (Everyman), Crime and Punishment (Wordsworth Editions), Notes From the Underground (Penguin)
5= Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre (Penguin)
Other top nominations:
Marilyn French, The Women’s Room (Virago)
Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time (Penguin)
J. R. R. Tolkein, The Lord of the Rings (HarperCollins)
Franz Kafka, The Trial (Penguin)
Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea (Penguin)
Sue Townsend, The Diaries of Adrian Mole (Methuen)
Mikhail Bulgakov, Master and the Margarita (Penguin)
Richard Bach, Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah (Arrow) and Jonathan Livingston Seagull (HarperCollins)
Arthur Ransome, Swallows and Amazons (JonathanCape), Great Northern? (Red Fox), Coot Club (Red Fox)
Jean-Dominique Bauby, The Diving Bell and The Butterfly: A Memoir of Life and Death (Fourth Estate)
Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged (Signet)
Toni Morrison, Beloved: A Novel and The Bluest Eye (Vintage)
Carl Sagan, Cosmos: The Story of Comic Evolution, Science and Civilisation (Abacus)
C. S. Lewis, Chronicles of Narnia (Collins) and A Grief Observed (Faber & Faber)
Chuck Palahniak, Survivor and Fight Club (Vintage)
Jostein Gaardner, Sophie’s World (trans. Paulette Moller, Orion)
Philip Pullman, His Dark Materials (Scholastic Point)
Ian Rankin, A Question of Blood (Orion)
Sebastian Faulks, Birdsong (Vintage)
John Meade Falkner, Moonfleet (Penguin)
Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island (Penguin)
Virgina Woolf, The Waves (Wordsworth Classics)
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gale) and Love in the Time of Cholera (Penguin)
Jack Kerouac, On The Road (Penguin)
Douglas Coupland, Generation X (Abacus) and Girlfriend in a Coma (Flamingo)
Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle (Vintage)
Albert Camus, The Outsider (Penguin)
Paulo Coelho nominated Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller (Flamingo), the writing of Jorges Luis Borges and the poetry of William Blake.
Philip Pullman also nominated William Blake.
Sue Townsend nominated Just William by Richmal Crompton (Macmillan Children’s Books), A Hundred Days That Shook The World (C. Marlowe) and the books of George Orwell.
Ian Rankin nominated A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess (Penguin)
Jane Rogers nominated The Outsider by Albert Camus (Penguin) and Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë (Penguin). Jane Rogers’ latest book is The Voyage Home (Little Brown).
Maggie Gee nominated the autobiography of jazz musician Sidney Bechet, Treat it Gentle (Da Capo). Maggie Gee’s latest novel is The Flood (Saqi).
Paul Bailey nominated Great Expectations by Charles Dickens (Penguin). His novel Uncle Rudolph is out now in paperback.
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