who fancies giving me some book ideas please

[FolornHope]

have just this min finished tremain sacred country( think reccyed on here after reading Middlesex)
also like the stieg Larssens
american wife ( loved)
19th wife loved

PLEASE - i had nothing catch my eye at book shop

have EMpire falls to be going on with after someone reccyed it btu will need more as i reead FAST

[Flame]

For Christmas I ended up with 3 Christopher Brookmyre (scottish, funny crime)

and Kate Atkinson - Case Histories which I know nothing about but the cover made me a bit

[FolornHope]

oh i liked the KA nes

have read all of em - iirc number two was ropey.
will look at chrisyy boy
thanks

[Flame]

Ooh that gives me more confidence, you generally tell me books I like.

[MaggieAnFiaRua]

jonathan tropper - how to talk to a widower/everything changes. both excellent.

i loved david ebershoff's 19th wife too. i wanted to buy the other one he wrote but despite 19th wife's popularity, i haven't seen it in shops.

i am going to sound like a book critic now, but kate atkinson's early work very good, but funnily enough she has changed into another author. all very chrysalis like, but backwards. the last one was full of russian gangsters. hated it. her early stuff was lovely.

oh oh oh !!!!! Steve Tolz 'fraction of the whole'. VERY humorously written, about some really quirky eccentric philosophical characters, but the style of writing is always easy to read.

i got nothing to read for christmas, but my family would give me crap like cecilia ahern, so i'm relieved.

[TheArmadillo]

Herning Mankel (or summat similar) - Swedish dectective series. Really good.

[MaggieAnFiaRua]

Haven't seen those. robert goddard is a bit crustier than steig larsson, but if you love sl and have read them all, then robert goddard might bridge a gap.

[LaSoiDisantDame]

Have not read 'sacred country' but have liked other stuff of Tremain's

Really enjoiyng The Elegance of the Hedgehog that I got as a pressie yesterday - nearly halfway through- was a reccy on here I'm sure...Thankyou! to whoever that was

Also going through a histotical fiction stage, reading lots of Sharon penman, but that won't help you if you want somethimng new?

If you like Tremian and sittenfiled you might like Anne Tyler?

[CaptainNancy]

Last days of dogtown- Anita Diamant
Have you read Lost art of keeping secrets by Eva Rice?
or thirteenth tale by setterfield?

[FolornHope]

god that IS a compliment flame
you ahev mad my morning!

[FolornHope]

i generealyl DONT like historical stuff, being hisory teacher at heart and all. DO liek autobiogs and factual a lot. Loved this in hardback last year - woudl REALLY reccy preordering that flamey

ooh hedgehog looks ace - ho obvious a translation is it?
havent read ann tyler for years - did li8ke e annie for a while too, is hte moths book good? am embarrasssed to say i LIKED the guernsey potato book altho was prob shit.
Tropper looks promising but am a bit of a wuss with peopel dying and all. Once went to Waterstones and said "help me find a book with no dead babies in it" TOO sad.

[FolornHope]

ooh NANCY
more to look at now
brb

[FolornHope]

VERY promising first line of the top review!!!
was initially my thought when i saw the cover!

[CaptainNancy]

I don't read chick-lit... and yes 'charming' describes it perfectly.

[LaSoiDisantDame]

yy Eoh is translation but doesn't suffer for that i don't think...

comp;letely agree about 'no dead babies', MisLit and i do not mix

[FolornHope]

woman in shop said
er... ok then

[LaSoiDisantDame]

[brimfull]

I am reading SNobs which is quite good

[FolornHope]

hated.

[brimfull]

I loved this book

[CaptainNancy]

book you say?

[brimfull]

hahaha wrong link

[brimfull]

the way the crow flies

[LaSoiDisantDame]

that picture was odd

[FolornHope]

ooh bought for £2.43 on ebay
thanking you!

[brimfull]

my reccy?