Crepey coalition of chaos

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Roll up hags, for all things Hotter.

I don't mind not newness as it goes, so will investigate the authors you suggest. Alan Furst is one of my DDads favourites so he has a shelf of them, which I've always ignored TBH, thinking they were probably too blokey ( gadgets, hardware, sexism) However will give anything well written a good go.
Do you like 'all the light " ? MsM? I loved it.

Deborah Levy is my top recommendation Crem - Swimming Home (short listed for the Booker a few years back) and better still the more recent Hot Milk (both with holiday settings). Also Maggie Nelson The Argonauts, and the new Susan Hill (can't remember the title doh).

Also, anything by Tessa Hadley, Gerard Woodward, Barbara Pym or Elizabeth Taylor if you are lucky enough not to have read them all already...

Love Barbara Pym! Liking it not loving it I would say Crem. I can see it is beautifully written but there is something not gripping me, even though the descriptions are so delicate and rich. Furst - I don't remember much tbh, but remember enjoying as fast paced holiday reads, quite Le Carre if memory serves, not Bond/gadgets, more heartless politics.

Olivia Manning if you haven't read her?

Linda Grant is great. "When I Lived in Modern Times" is one of my favourite books ever. Also "Back When We Were Grown Ups" by Anne Tyler. Currently reading 'A Horse Walks Into a Bar" by David Grossman.

Ooooh and grossman's To The End Of The Land. Harrowing but excellent.

Anne Bronte Tenant of Wildfell Hall - rereading but couldn't remember anything from first time. Is fantastic. House of daughters by Juliet Nicholson (non-fiction).

Anything by Elizabeth Strout. Liane Moriarty as recommended by Mrs S and MI.

From a while ago Hope: a tragedy by Sholem Auslander.

I'm reading and enjoying Hot Milk at the moment - I hadn't heard of Deborah Levy before. I recently read Jigsaw - Sybille Bedford a lovely memoir that moves between Germany/UK and the South of France.

Mrs M - the Tenant of Wildfell Hall is brilliant and so revolutionary for it's time.

I think I will read Hot Milk after I have finished The Heart Goes Last (Margaret Atwood) which I can't put down. Strangely, I believe Deborah Levy lived in my area when I was going up and we were probably members of the same community but I can't place her....

Oh brilliant Crepeys, thanks so much. I sometimes get into a bit of a rut with my reading and tend to read everything an author has written in gobble mode , find they have written a new one and continue on. NC keep forgetting D. Levy, so thanks for mentioning again.
I love reading recommendations so thanks so much for reminding me of a few I'd forgotten about, and some new ones. Need to do a bit of research I think. I have some bookmarked for reading in Spain which is a series set in the Basque Country and translated from the Spanish. I need at least three between now and then. to keep me going. Cannot be without a book due to needing to escape. I am one of those readers who fall hook line and sinker into the world of a book.
First to dad's Furst collection I think. MsM stay with it. It was the colours I think, and the model of Paris. I loved the imagery. Will discuss afterwards..

Oh Rose - a Margaret Atwood that I haven't read - will order for summer reading.

Mrs S, how is the Crepey Holiday going? Hope you are both having a great time.

I love, love the model descriptions, Crem! Agree about reading everything an author has written. Cannot do the equivalent of taking one chocolate from the box.

Dammit. Ii've just bought a few new books, none of which have you mentioned. I did, however, buy some non-fiction Improving books, one by Yanis SexyGreek about European economics, and another about movers and shakers of 20th century Britain.

DS now in his musical theatre summer school. It was a fairly 'Essex' experience, with a lot of Range Rovers outside, and dodgy plastic surgery inside. We shall see.

Hi Herbs, i read that Greek book last summer and will be interested in your opinion (and that of anyone else who's read it).

Does Yannis Sexy Greek's book have pictures? Or photos of him wearing very little?

Crem, we have walked our Hotter Trotters off and now chilling with some very drinkable cheap wine.

MrsS, I'll check my copy for author photos but from memory I think you might be disappointed.

Thanks for the reminder that Margaret Atwood has written a newer day book. Lots of lovely recommendations on here.

I must stop perusing MN and FB before going to bed, and get stuck into a book.

I think my hols is going to be renamed 50 Shades of Grey. If it wasn't pitch black outside, it would be GREY. Am trying to take comfort from howling wind and driving rain against the dormer window to feel snuggly, but this is a SUMMER HOLIDAY ffs!

Some reading hits from this hols have been The Reader on the 6.27 by Jean Paul Didierlaurent, Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard by Kiran Desai and The Muse by Jessie Burton..... also loved The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid. Bit of a weird mix but good!

What great recommendations....I am going to put in the crepeweb.

Airborne, it is just rotten. We go every year to the opposite side of the country to you. In good weather, there's nowhere I'd rather be. In bad...it is just such a waste especially if you don't get away that often......

Airborne - I can only say it's a dreadful weather week here as well - only the south seems to be saved. Can't put out the washing at all.

Agree about not checking social media at bedtime - I read so much last week in the internet free world of my PiL - and the saddest thing is that DS did as well. Now he's back to his old evil ways and I find it very difficult to control it.

Airborne, I so sympathise. It's fine to try to be stoic but such an effort and awful if it's your summer holiday.

books: A Complicated Kindness by ?Miriam Toews, Amerikanah by Chimimanda Ngozi Adichie

I loved Americanah as well MsM, and although her other books can be difficult/sad , i love them too.
Other favourites include The Black Path by Åsa Larsson
The Gustav Sonata by Rose Tremain and the Jackson Lambe books by Mick Herron which are hilarious in a snurk sort of way. Its about failed

spies and what happens to them after a thry balls up an operation. Quite searingly brilliant