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Just finished a couple of fabulous books... next?

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wonderingwondering · 08/06/2010 20:01

Wolf Hall, then The Year of the Flood (Margaret Atwood's latest). Which prompted me to re-read Oryx & Crake.

I just lost myself in them and found myself turning them over in my mind in between reading stints.

Now reading DH Lawrence's Sons & Lovers which I'm enjoying but it's not grabbed me in the same way.

Would love some suggestions for my long-haul flight later this week....

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DastardlyandSmugly · 09/06/2010 20:26

Any Human Heart is an amazing book.

Ronaldinhio · 09/06/2010 20:24

ok I'm ordering the wife ones, the english womanhood and the boyd

they had better be good...

Batteryhuman · 09/06/2010 20:21

Yes The 19th Wife is great. Its about polygamist Mormons and combines 2 stories, one in the past when the mormons were founded and one present day murder in a polygamist family.

Also second William Boyd

Wierdly am rereading the Flashman novels on the recommendation of DS2 and they are great fun.

MrsDanversBites · 09/06/2010 20:18

agree r.e. weepy factor

will look out for TNC , not read any others of his!

iloveasylumseekers · 09/06/2010 20:15

Mrs Danvers - I cried like a baby at the end - such a wonderful book (and so did DH )

A smilar book of Wm Boyd's is The New Confessions, which I enjoyed too.

MayorNaze · 09/06/2010 20:13

have to read wolf hall by sept...have yet to acquire a copy...

MrsDanversBites · 09/06/2010 20:13

ilove really liked 'Any HUman Heart'- such a realistic look at a life, made it very moving at the end

Wolf Hall quite dense but worth it imo

MayorNaze · 09/06/2010 20:10

what is 19th wife?

AlaskaNebraska · 09/06/2010 20:10

yes i lovet eh crow lake books too

AlaskaNebraska · 09/06/2010 20:10

anyoen who hasnt read either 19th wife or american wife or the dragon tattoo trilogy
or thefinest kind of english woman hood needs to do so pronto

i havent read a good un for ages

AlaskaNebraska · 09/06/2010 20:09

is wolf hall good? looks too hard

MrsDanversBites · 09/06/2010 20:09
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iloveasylumseekers · 09/06/2010 20:07

Fingersmith is wonderful - I really envy anyone reading it for the first time.

MrsDanversBites · 09/06/2010 20:05

Have read and liked all the books you mentioned in the OP (esp Wolf Hall!)

have only just begun Fingersmith by Sarah Waters and hooked already

would second Music & Silence -one of my favourite reads -style a bit similar to Mantel imo

oh and Howards End was a recent find, can't believe I waited so long to read any Forster, it was V good - fascinating insight into Edwardian social mores and class divides

iloveasylumseekers · 09/06/2010 20:05

Oh yes, The Wind-up Bird Chronicle is just great.

basildonbond · 09/06/2010 20:00

The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell - I loved it, absolutely fascinating

cyteen · 09/06/2010 19:59

Murakami

cyteen · 09/06/2010 19:59

How about some Haruki Murakama? Can be a bit hit and miss but I loved The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and Hard Boiled Wonderland...

Rupert Thomson is another that DP got me into. The Insult, The Book of Revelation, Death of a Murderer - all fantastic (he has written more but I've not read them all).

Both of them have very dreamy, slightly unreal styles, might be good for a long flight I loved O+C too btw, so much so I'm writing part of my dissertation on it.

Ronaldinhio · 09/06/2010 19:50

I've also just read the help

v v good

Batteryhuman · 09/06/2010 19:48

I've just finished Remarkable Creatures by Tracey Chevalier, a fictionalised account of the 2 women fossil hunters in Lyme Regis. Loved it.

Favorite authors on my shelves include Margaret Forster, John Irving, Annie Proulx

thirtysomething · 09/06/2010 19:42

ooh yes London Artemis they are truly FAB books aren't they!!

londonartemis · 09/06/2010 14:48

Have you tried Crow Lake or Other Side of the Bridge by Mary Lawson - Canadian writer, sometimes England-based.
Truly absorbing. I loved them.

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wonderingwondering · 08/06/2010 22:24

Thank you all. Lots of great suggestions.

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thirtysomething · 08/06/2010 21:58

Just read The Help by Katherine Stockett all about black domestic servants in Mississipi around the time of Martin Luther King. Absolutely fabulous book-within-a-book. Couldn't put it down.

jkklpu · 08/06/2010 21:51

I read Rose Tremain's Music and Silence almost straight after Wolf Hall (which I'd LOVED). Really liked it, too, and it was v interesting reading another book about a renaissance court (Danish, in this case) which was so incredibly different (the novel). The only other thing I'd read by Rose Tremain was about a Polish immigrant to London a coupe of years ago - The Road Home? It was great, too, very moving.

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