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If I like Kate Atkinson, Rose Tremain and Robert Galbraith.....

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BaconAndAvocado · 12/10/2022 19:56

.....which authors might I like too?

tia

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SheWoreYellow · 09/11/2022 19:33

Hilarymantelspencilsharpener · 12/10/2022 20:03

www.literature-map.com/ this can be a good starting point

This is amazing! I use the music version.

PrincessofWellies · 09/11/2022 19:31

rosegoldwatcher · 09/11/2022 01:05

My favourite of his books is A Perfectly Good Man.

PG's new one, Mother's Boy is 99p (Kindle version) from Amazon at the moment.

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Thanks, I'll download it.

A Perfectly Good Man is my 2nd favourite :)

rosegoldwatcher · 09/11/2022 01:05

akabluebell · 12/10/2022 20:14

Patrick Gayle, sometimes amusing, sometimes bittersweet. A Place Called Winter was amazing ❤

My favourite of his books is A Perfectly Good Man.

PG's new one, Mother's Boy is 99p (Kindle version) from Amazon at the moment.

Whiskeypowers · 08/11/2022 18:43

Anita Brookner

Snozzlemaid · 04/11/2022 18:59

Lucinda Riley?

DisplayPurposesOnly · 03/11/2022 12:46

Barbara Kingsolver

BobDear · 03/11/2022 12:40

Hilarymantelspencilsharpener · 12/10/2022 20:03

www.literature-map.com/ this can be a good starting point

This is amazing. I just put Donna Tartt in the middle and literally love everyone in here immediate vicinity.

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BaconAndAvocado · 19/10/2022 14:35

Wow, loads to explore! Thanks all 🙂

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bigbadbarry · 19/10/2022 07:39

We have the same taste in books. ‘The hand that first held mine’ is my favourite Maggie O’Farrell and I strongly second the recommendation for Sarah Moss but start with her earlier ones

ilovesushi · 18/10/2022 21:19

Agree with loads of these. I'd like to add Wally Lamb. I don't usually read books by male writers, but he is one of my favourite authors.

carkerpatridge · 18/10/2022 19:07

Tracy Chevalier, Victoria Hislop, Jojo Moyes, Georgina Harding

heldinadream · 18/10/2022 16:38

Kazuo Ishiguro. David Mitchell (not the comedian). Richard Powers. Ian McEwan. Anne Enright. Anne Tyler. Elizabeth Strout.
I can never stop... each one suggest another two or three or more...😃

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BaconAndAvocado · 18/10/2022 16:28

Thank you. Yes, I’ve read and enjoyed Sarah Waters.

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StrychnineInTheSandwiches · 18/10/2022 16:18

Oh, and Andrew Taylor too.

StrychnineInTheSandwiches · 18/10/2022 16:14

Helen Dunmore, Sarah Dunant and Sarah Waters were the writers that popped into my head.

DameHelena · 18/10/2022 16:08

Yes to Sarah Moss and Maggie O'Farrell.
Maybe also, although it's more genre crime, John Banville writing as Benjamin Black: the Quirke series. Crime in 50s Dublin. Great period settings/food/clothes etc, sharp plotting, good characters.

Stef Penney, maybe?
William Boyd
Hannah Kent

Howeverdoyouneedme · 16/10/2022 21:38

Maggie O’Farrell
Sarah Winman
Julien Barnes
Emma O’Donoghue
Patrick Gale
David Nichols
Sarah Moss

WindyHedges · 16/10/2022 21:30

Sara Sheridan's Mirabel books, set just after WWII in Brighton. Mirabel is a wee bit like Robin Ellacott.

heartchakra · 16/10/2022 21:07

carkerpatridge · 16/10/2022 20:52

Helen Dunmore

We literally said the same author within ten mins of each other! You and I clearly share novel taste 😜

heartchakra · 16/10/2022 21:06

Ooh I love the first two. You'd love Helen Dunmore for sure ...

carkerpatridge · 16/10/2022 20:52

Helen Dunmore

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BaconAndAvocado · 16/10/2022 15:58

Almost finished KateAtkinson’s Shrines of Gaiety. LOVING it.

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BaconAndAvocado · 16/10/2022 15:57

Jonathan Coe! Yes I’ve read and loved the Rotter’s Club and another one I think but not Middle England.

Ive just ordered Hanya Yanigahara’s new book (she wrote a Little Life) and Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr. I loved All the Light We Cannot See.

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Mogginsthemog · 16/10/2022 13:10

Jonathan Coe - read most of his. Mostly v funny.
The Rotters Club and Middle England are v good indeed.
Patrick Gale.
He didn't write The Hearts invisible Furies, though that was John Boyne.

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BaconAndAvocado · 12/10/2022 20:45

Love Amanda Craig and Mary Lawson!
Did Patrick Gale write the Heart’s Invisible Furies? If so, I think he’s a superb writer.

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