Please recommend me a few books..

[zippyswife]

I don’t even know if this a genre but I love reading a book where you are transported to the place/time and can be really immersed (actually I’m pretty sure it’s not a genre!!). I loved Memoirs of a Geisha, 10,000 splendid suns, the kite runner, where the crawdads sing… what else would I like?

Half of a yellow sun is a really absorbing book and has that wonderful feeling of transporting you to another place. It is set during the Biafran war in the 1970s.

Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell is about Shakespeare and his wife. It is really believable.

This is a children’s book but Journey to the River Sea is one of the first things I thought of it is set in the Amazon in Edwardian times.

Fantastic. Thank you!

Hamnet.
All the Light we Cannot See
Wolf Hall trilogy
The Wolf Den was FANTASTIC, totally immersed in the world of Pompeii
Ditto Silence of the Girls and the like

Slightly more chick lit but I love Debbie Rodriguez. Some are set in Kabul, Mexico, Haiti. The Kabul series my fave. Currently reading the Moroccan daughter.

The stationary shop of Tehran was good

‘As Meat loves salt’ is SO GOOD

Like Water For Hot Chocolate is wonderful

Follow the river by James Alexander Thom
white Lotus by Libbie Hawker

I’m currently reading and enjoying The Girl With No Name by Reine Andrieu, a French author but translated into English. It is set in the Bordeaux region during and after the Second World War and concerns a child with amnesia. It also gives some fascinating insight into how things were for French people as their country was occupied from the French point of view.

I recently enjoyed Meet Me Under The Ombu Tree. Very evocative of Argentinan pampa