any recommendations of good books

[willow74]

Can anyone recommend any good books for me to read.  Over the years i have read books by martina cole and virigina andrews but i do not seem to get into any new authors as much

[5029]

Patricia Scanlan is good, as is Marian Keyes, Jane Green and Wendy Holden

[ursula62]

What sort of book are you looking for?
I just finished "The Plain Truth" by Jodi Picoult. It was brilliant - story about an Amish girl accused of murdering a baby, and the lawyer who pleads her case.

[natalie_1982]

Torey Hayden is not a new author, but has written some fab books - is a teacher of children with special needs and abused children.

I think Linda La Plante is similar to Martina Cole, altho have never read La Plante.

I have lots of Cole's books and I also enjoy books by Alice Sebold, Torey Hayden, Tony Parsons, Dave Pelzer, Cecelia Ahern and Julia Gregory.   

[kick3m0n]

Marian Keyes is similar to what you've been reading, so you'd probably like her, ditto Kathy Lette (Mad Cows etc)?

For a change, why not try Iain Banks (The Wasp Factory, Crow Road, Complicity, Espadair Street), or Christopher Brookmyre (Boiling a Frog, Quite Ugly One Morning, A Big Boy Did it and Ran Away).  They're not new authors, but consistently my favourites over the past 20 years.

[willow74]

thanks guys.. i shall check them all out. 

[iamnice50]

James Patterson's Alex Cross series is pretty cool!

[sharljay]

i have also read martina cole and virginia andrews and highly recommend lesley pearse, her books are a fantastic read.