Books

[bakerwales]

Has anyone read a really good book lately that they can recommend. I like most types of novels except for the really lovey dovey slushy type.

[emmie]

brilliant read is Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier - very classy, about a man who owns a large estate and his wife dies in mysterious circumstances, he marries again and it goes into lots of plot twists and turns.

[naomi24]

Have you read the popular classics, eg Jane Eyre, Pride & Prejudice, etc?

A superb book is A Thousand Splendid Suns by the man who wrote The Kite Runner, but since it tells the story of two Afghani women whose lives are intertwined it is in parts quite brutal so perhaps not to everyone’s taste.

[lady-janine]

The Bee Keeper of Aleppo by Christy Lefteri

[lady-janine]

I'll have to look for that one Naomi as I thoroughly enjoyed the Kite Runner.

[Ken4155]

Didn't enjoy the film but i found 12 Years A Slave to be an enjoyable read. Another was The Railway Man. Both based on true stories.

[elliemay1]

The Light Between Oceans
Novel by M.L. Stedman

[naomi24]

LJ, I enjoyed The Kite Runner but ‘A Thousand Splendid Suns’ I thought better.

[lady-janine]

Thank you Naomi. Although it is not a long book and leaves many unanswered questions I found Bee Keeper worthwhile.

[Mozz71]

Milvus- love Iain Banks. The Crow Road and The Wasp Factory are personal favourites. Died far too young.

[naomi24]

LJ. Thanks, I'll have a look at that.

[lady-janine]

Also recommend :
The Hare with Amber Eyes and The White Road both by Edmund de Waal.

[chelle7272]

Also an Iain Banks fan, Complicity and Wasp Factory are favourites. His science fiction books are outstanding also.
I actually cried when he died, so many excellent books never to be written!

[zebo]

I don't know what genre you like but I like crime and there are a few series I enjoy.
Craig Russell, the Jan Fabel series, set in Hamburg, one of my favourite cities, pretty bloodthirsty though.
Helen Fields, the Callanach series, set in Edinburgh, another of my favourite cities.
L J Ross, DCI Ryan books set in the North East

[zebo]

//brilliant read is Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier - very classy, about a man who owns a large estate and his wife dies in mysterious circumstances, he marries again and it goes into lots of plot twists and turns.//

For those who have read Rebecca there is also a very good prequel written by Sally Beauman, Rebecca's Tale. I'm not usually a fan of authors who ride on the coat-tails of others with prequels, sequels and so on but I did enjoy this.

[Spicerack]

Hangover Square- Patrick Hamilton.
Nothing like the film that's supposed to be based on it.

[rowanwitch]

I am Pilgrim by Terry Hayes
circe by Madeleine Miller
Midnight's Children Salman Rushdie
The Left Hand of Darkness Ursula K le Guin
The Ship who Sang Anne McCaffreyand
Messiah Boris Starling
Bit of a mixed bag there

[bakerwales]

Thank you all - enough to keep me going for a while.

[sandyRoe]

All the light we can not see by Anthony Doerr.