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If I like Nancy Mitford, Jilly Cooper, Barbara Pym...

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bigkidsdidit · 13/09/2011 21:08

who else would I like?

A few months of biographies, feminist book group books and Serious Tomes and I need some fun (but not crap) books for the tube journey to work.

Does anyone have any suggestions for me?

thanks :)

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CrackerFactory · 13/09/2011 21:22

Sophie Kinsella especially "Twenties Girl" - absolutely amazing!

DoubleDegreeStudent · 13/09/2011 21:20

Oh, oh, oh - in the summer I was introduced to Rosamond Lehmann. Dusty Answer is the one I read - I'd put it between Pursuit of Love and Brideshead Revisited (ie. you might not boast about reading it, but you get totally swept up, the prose is beautiful and you aren't embarrassed to be reading it)

stleger · 13/09/2011 21:17

Mavis Cheek. And Barbara Erskine. And Kate Atkinson who is quite gory but only in tiny bursts.

cjbartlett · 13/09/2011 21:17

have you read the Alexander Mccall Smith series?

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bigkidsdidit · 13/09/2011 21:16

ooh thanks everyone! I've never heard of any of these! Going to go mad on amazon!

I love horsey stuff and suspense. And crime fiction too but not too gory - Barbara Vine not Val McDermid

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icapturethecastle · 13/09/2011 21:14

Possibly Kate Morton -The House at Riverton, Forgotten Garden the Distant Hours. Kate Morton has said Nancy Mitford is one of her favourite authors. I love both.

MmeLindor. · 13/09/2011 21:14

Nora Roberts - her Chesapeake Bay trilogy, or any of the other trilogy.

if you like suspense, then her JD Robb series is good.

cjbartlett · 13/09/2011 21:14

Fiona Walker is very good and very horsey and sexy like Jilly Cooper

cleanandclothed · 13/09/2011 21:13

Cazalet Chronicles by Elizabeth Howard. Josephine Tey.

LoveInAColdClimate · 13/09/2011 21:11

Barbara Trapido.

meditrina · 13/09/2011 21:10

And EF Benson Mapp and Lucia series.

meditrina · 13/09/2011 21:09

Georgette Heyer - the Regency ones and the murders.