In dire need of a good read.....HELP!

[Rantmum]

Recently read and liked, The Tenderness of Wolves, The Dante Club, The Kite Runner.

I really need a good summer read (I don't get alot of time right now and it can be months between books.) TV is rubbish and I miss reading! Any suggestions?

[BandofMothers]

The new Harry Potter book

[Rantmum]

True - but need something now though! When is it released?

[BandofMothers]

21st July.

Have a look on my profile for my faves.

[Notquitegrownup]

After You'd Gone - Maggie O'Farrell (Kite Runner is one of her favourite books)

[themoon66]

The Book Seller of Kabul is good.

[Rantmum]

themoon66 - agree with you, but i read it a while back unfortuntaly

[Rantmum]

Unfortunately

[NoodleStroodle]

Sorry - hated that Maggie O'F book.

What about new William Boyd Restless?
On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

[toomanydaves]

try some of these?


www.orangeprize.co.uk/opf/news.php4?newsid=26

[Rantmum]

i have read "the inheritance of loss" and i thoroughly recommend it - a brilliant story. i haven't read any others on the list, though - maybe i could work my way through - thanks toom

[MorningtonCrescent]

pantmum - what was the dante club like? is gathering dust on my shelves.

[ProfessorGrammaticus]

Time Traveller's Wife?

[MorningtonCrescent]

lol

'rantmum'

NOT

'pantmum'

[Rantmum]

The dante club was good as a yarn and the writer is clearly knowledgeable about 19th century boston and about dante's writing. It is a bit slow paced (especially the beginning) because it is a bit heavy on the narrative for my liking - still it was a compelling mystery (if a bit gruesome in parts) to read once the initial plodding pace picked up a bit.

[DoubleBluff]

Just read ' Interpretation of Murder' by JEd Rubenfield - enjoyed it.
Now re reading tlaes of the city by Armistead Maupin in anticipation of his latest offering.

[AnneJones]

Sovereign by CJ Sansom - it's the third in a series, but I read the series in reverse and it didn't matter! A whodunnit set in Tudor England - political and dramatic and highly readable. It's a great romp and a good story backed up with thorough research (Sansom is a historian, I believe). The other two are Dissolution and Dark Fire - Dark Fire was particularly superb.

[Ettenna]

The Poisonwood Bible - an absolute corker of a read. Or what about Kate Atkinson? Human Croquet is fab. Or Music and Silence by Rose Tremain. All recently re-read by me and loved.