Book Recommendations/Authors

[poohtiggy]

Lots of readers here always looking for good interesting books and new Authors to try but sometimes they are listed and then get lost in the threads so please feel free to list your suggestions they will be much easier for everyone to find

 

[Shar67]

I've just read two books by Michael Marshall
The Bourne Identity series by Robert Ludlum are good (he ages and knows his body cannot keep up to fitter younger men).
I love anything by Wilbur Smith especially the older stuff
There is a good British author James Twinning who has done 4 books
I also like Scott Mariani he has done a series with main character Ben Hope

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[Lamont D]

New young brilliant female author called Jodi Taylor.
All her books are five starred on Amazon.
I think the first in the St Mary's series is 99p on kindle.

 

[poohtiggy]

I have just read
The Winter Children byLulu Taylor
Somewhere A Bird Is Singing by E. V. Thompson
The Kelly Sisters by Maureen Lee
Hold Onto your Dreams by Beryl Matthews
Tangled Threads by Margaret Dickinsono
Currently reading Whispers by Rosie Goodwin.....spooky

I Enjoyed all of them

 

[November1115]

Currently reading " Growing Old Outrageously" by Hillary Linseed and Elisabeth Davies.... hilariously written for pp like me

 

[Robinredbreast]

I loved and would highly recommend :-
Kathy Reichs
Andrew Gross
The Moon's a balloon - David Niven
Bereft - Chris Womersley
Gypsy Boy - Mickey Walsh, a true heart rendering book, which was difficult to read at times.
Kathy Letts - Feotal Attraction - for any ladies who have had a baby, it's a funny read
and my all time favourite, couldn't put it down book is, Sanctus - Simon Toyne

 

[November1115]

Jz read a couple of Susan Hill s books.... chillingly eerie... !

 

[jay hay-char]

Jz read a couple of Susan Hill s books.... chillingly eerie... !

She wrote The Woman in Black - she has a very vivid imagination . She has also written a series of books featuring a detective called Simon Serallier, which are well worth looking out for.

I've just finished reading Number Eleven, by Jonathan Coe, who is one of my favourite authors. For anybody who grew up in the 70s, his novel The Rotter's Club is well worth a read.

Not to everyone's taste but I'm a big fan of Iain Banks: The Crow Road is a good place to start with him. His science fiction, written under the "pseudonym" of Iain M Banks is also interesting. Some of his books (both genres) are very disturbing, so not always for someone looking for a light relaxing read .

I've always enjoyed William Boyd. I was given his latest, Sweet Caress, for Christmas and will be starting it soon. Any Human Heart, which was made into an excellent TV adaptation as well, is a great read.

I could go on all day.....

 

[NicolaB70]

I have just finished a very good book called Sleep Tight by Rachel Abbott. It's a psychological crime story and a very good read.
I also like all Cathy Glass books and the Robert J Crane series The Girl in the Box and Out of the Box series. There's too many authors I like to list

 

[wolfie11969]

I read a lot

Just finished Child of the Phoenix by Barbara Erskine
Also recommend Wilbur Smith if u like adventure books or African books
I've read all the Raymond Feist books, very good if u like fantasy
Reading at the moment The Sunne In Splendour by Sharon Penman about Richard III

 

[Lamont D]

One of our members writes under the pseudonym of Lesley Hale,
She has had more than a couple of books published, pretty good!

The present series of books written by Jeffrey Archer is pretty decent.
(Clifton chronicles)

The Rose Gardener series by Denise Grover Swank. Is good choc lit!

Clive Cussler series of Isaac Bell mysteries.

And more!

Harry Turtledove, what if books are brilliant!

Murdoch mysteries, which were made into the tv series by Maureen Jennings.

And of course star trek books, some are really good some not!

 

[julie56]

I have just finished Dissolution by C J Sansom - a perfect winter read for those interested in historical crime. The main character is Matthew Shardlake, lawyer and supporter of Thomas Cromwell who is sent to investigate the murder of one of Cromwell's aides in a monastery in Scarnsea. Wonderful descriptive writing and a growing tension builds as Shardlake closes in on the perpertrator(s) of a number of suspicious deaths. Looking forward to reading the rest of the series....

 

[Kat100]

Just finished lucinda riley .. The Angel,tree

Her book the seven sisters was also very good
I now have to read the storm sister ..

Love reading

 

[RosieLKH]

If you like the Shardlake books you might enjoy a series set in Elizabeth's reign by Rory Clements. I read books 1 to 5, but then he goes back in time for 6 to when his main character was younger, which is confusing. Not as good a writer as Sansom, but enjoyable. Lesley Hale's book are also set in the same era. I love historical fiction, but adventures rather than slushy romanc stuff! S. J. Parris also writes similar Tudor books, as do Peter Tonkin and Jonathan Digby.

I'm currently reading something light and amusing - The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion.

 

[julie56]

If you like the Shardlake books you might enjoy a series set in Elizabeth's reign by Rory Clements.

Shall have to look those up, sound very good. I have also read the Rosie Project, laugh out loud funny as is The Man who Forgot his Wife by John O'Farrell.

 

[wolfie11969]

ooh Harry Turtledove, forgot about those. Cracking books

 

[Lamont D]

ooh Harry Turtledove, forgot about those. Cracking books

I am trying to reread all his tomes from Guns of the South thorough American Empire through Settling Accounts. Gonna be awhile!

 

[November1115]

HI I read whenever I can... love crime and thrillers..... Jz discovered Tim Weaver s books - great reads!

 

[AnnInDenmark]

Today I finished "The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared" by Jonas Jonasson, and I want to read it again.
World history 1905-2005 with a twist.
I haven't laughed so much in years.

 

[RosieLKH]

Today I finished "The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared" by Jonas Jonasson, and I want to read it again.
World history 1905-2005 with a twist.
I haven't laughed so much in years.

I really enjoyed this book too.