Can anyone recommend a book or writer not mentioned recenty in Adult Fiction?

56 replies

mmack · 20/06/2014 18:22

I'm an avid reader and I've read a lot of the books that have been recommended on threads here recently. I've read most of the old and modern classics too. Would anyone like to recommend something obscure or forgotten? Any genre.

OP posts:

LoveMyBoots · 20/06/2014 20:16

Anything published by Persephone Books. I've read some great books from them.

CoteDAzur · 20/06/2014 20:10

What kind of books do you like, OP?

DuchessofMalfi · 20/06/2014 19:34

Two I can think of - Still Missing by Beth Gutcheon. It's about the abduction of a child, but written before modern technology, so no mobile phones, no internet etc. Published by Persephone Books. I read it because I'd heard it mentioned on a book programme on Radio 4. Thought it very good.

Second suggestion - The Book of Ebenezer le Page by G B Edwards. It was the only book he completed and was published after his death. The narrator is an 80 year old man from Guernsey. Sounds a bit dull, but it is wonderful. Am planning a re-read of it soon. It begins just after the Boer War and covers the events in his long life, right through the German occupation of the Channel Islands up to his old age. Life, love, death, everything is covered.

doziedoozie · 20/06/2014 18:58

Brazzaville Beach by William Boyd.

This was recommended on the radio 4 media prog and sounds v good
www.amazon.co.uk/Song-Issy-Bradley-Carys-Bray-ebook/dp/B00IJZZGR0/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1403203566&sr=8-1&keywords=issy+bradley

NotAnotherPackedLunchBox · 20/06/2014 18:50

Robertson Davis is a Canadian author who is worth a look.
Have you read any of Tom Robbins' books? - Jitterbug Perfume and Another Roadside Attraction were my favourites by him.

Feenie · 20/06/2014 18:45

Bernice Rubens is brilliant, lots of gems. Five Year Sentence, I Sent a Letter to My Love, I Dreyfus, Sunday Best - all quirky but fabulous.

Unflip

1 2 3