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Authors who you are embarrassed to admit you like

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bettybattenburg · 22/01/2020 17:54

Jeffrey Archer..odious man but he can write Blush

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MiniCooperLover · 18/02/2020 20:12

Stephanie Laurens! All based in royalty/ton times from 1800s onwards. A bit formulaic but often have a good mystery in the middle of the story and unsurprisingly they all have outstanding sex 😂

rc22 · 18/02/2020 20:02

Kinsella that should have said

rc22 · 18/02/2020 20:01

I like Marian Keyes and Sophie Kinnell. Also partial to Jane Green, Jane Fallon and Adele Parks.

peanutbuttermarmite · 18/02/2020 14:44

Yes love Deborah Harkess too - I’m too old for vampires too I expect!

ElizabethinherGermanGarden · 18/02/2020 14:41

Deborah Harkness - love the Discovery of Witches trilogy. Am definitely too old for witch/vampire sex drama but I love it. Thank goodness for kindles!

squashyhat · 18/02/2020 14:38

Rosamund Pilcher. She's dead now - apparently her son kept writing in the same style which seems a bit odd. But the originals are lovely and undemanding.

labazsisgoingmad · 18/02/2020 14:25

Catherine Cookson was the first grown up books i read i also used to like the Jilly Cooper books not rivals etc but the ones she wrote before ie Imogen i know was one they were all girls names
those aside maybe Maeve Binchy and mills and boon

Sunshinelollipops1 · 17/02/2020 19:26

@BeardedMum reading Grown Ups at the moment. It’s really good - highly recommend.

DisgraceToTheYChromosome · 17/02/2020 19:23

Laurell K. Hamilton. Vampire/werebeast/necromancy, with eyewatering hyperviolence and teethgrinding sex scenes. Also I flatly refuse to believe a woman that short could conceal a two foot blade down her back.

Giggorata · 17/02/2020 07:37

Dean Koontz. Good reads, a bit different, but not that well regarded, apparently.
Jodi Taylor's St Mary's series. Just discovered these, a bit formulaic, not deep, but great fun.

Redshoeblueshoe · 17/02/2020 00:31

Mandasue Heller, I read them in one sitting. Blush
Thank goodness that we have machines in the library, so I can't be judged.
although I suspect the machine might judge me

Stravapalava · 17/02/2020 00:20

Jodi Picoult
Dan Brown

BilboBercow · 16/02/2020 20:01

Lee Child 😳

EllenRoss · 16/02/2020 19:56

I’ve just tried a new author called Ellie Simms. Her book is Phoenix and it’s just come out. Its smutty and I must admit I blushed at a few of the scenes.

BeardedMum · 16/02/2020 10:56

Is the latest Marian Keyes - Grown ups - worth trying? It’s a long time since I have enjoyed her books, but this one looks good “on paper”.

MmeD · 15/02/2020 15:01

It’s only this year that I’ve realised how comforting I find embarrassing authors when I’m really really stressed and have gone through the entire works of EL James, Stephanie Meyer and am currently working my way through the Trebizon school series.

I seem to be regressing.

My kindle recommendations are an embarrassment, the house is a tip, and I caught a woman sitting next to me reading the smut on my kindle the other day on the tube. She had a judgey look on her face but her eyes were still moving rapidly over the page.

babasaclover · 15/02/2020 14:57

Jackie Collins!!! Great for firing myself up when libido is low.

InTheCludgie · 15/02/2020 14:49

True Llot5 but my colleagues view it as 'granny' fiction Confused

tenlittlecygnets · 15/02/2020 08:10

Maeve Binchy, ffs

Also love Nora roberts

tenlittlecygnets · 15/02/2020 08:09

Marian Keyes
Patricia Scanlan
Marve Bunche
Lee Child

Nothing wrong with any of these authors. They may not write literary fiction but they write bloody good page turners and make you care about their characters. Not all authors can do that...

Fullforcegale · 15/02/2020 05:46

Maeve Binchy. I love my kindle. My consumption of chick lit has increased exponentially since I can read it in public without judgement Grin

BlackCatSleeping · 15/02/2020 05:36

Me, too! Phillipa Gregory.

It’s just embarrassing because I know a lot of people criticize her novels and their accuracy, but I love them. It’s like if someone I knew said they thought the 50 Shades of Grey novels were well written, I’d be like 🤭

My current obsession in the world of historical fiction is Bernard Cromwell. I’m really enjoying his Viking novels.

AngusDuck · 15/02/2020 05:25

Donna Douglas, the Nightingale series. I keep those hidden away on my bedside bookcase so visitors won’t see! Blush

Frenchw1fe · 15/02/2020 05:17

Ooh. Haven't read Miss Read for years.
Used to really enjoy them.
Still like Enid Blyton Secret seven and Famous Five.
Also Conan Doyle.

toria658 · 15/02/2020 05:07

Miss Read, the Fairacre books. Would never ever ever admit in public...

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