Andrew Taylor: the feel, the strangeness of another time

[Earthymama]

Have any of you read any books by Andrew Taylor?
I love his books, particularly the Lydmouth series, www.lydmouth.co.uk/page3/page46/page44/page44.html
American Boy
Bleeding Heart Square
I would love to see them on Kindle especially as DP presented mine on condition I never took 17 books in my case again!!
Could you do me a favour if you have a minute? Please click the 'I'd like to read this on Kindle' button for me so that the publisher pulls its finger out.
And do give the books a try, very atmospheric and great stories.

I love his work too. Have just requested the first Lydmouth book on Kindle for you. Bleeding Heart Square is already on Kindle, as is his more recent novel from 2010, An Anatomy of Ghosts.

I enjoyed American Boy, - I've never heard of the Lydmouth series - that sounds right up my street, thank you

Thank you both.

I love to read a series of books, especially if the character development is good. I can't read them out of order, which can be frustrating

I do read 'real, in your hand' books as well as on Kindle. I also find that Andrew Taylor's books can be read again, so if I buy a copy I want to keep it.

The house is too small for all the books I would love to keep around me, hence my plea that there are more complete series on Kindle.

Take Laurie R King for example; the first book is on Kindle then a gap until number six in the series.

I can't read them like that, the very thought is making me twitch.

re Laurie King, that's so annoying isn't it? I have lots of series books I bought years ago, and I can't afford to just replace them all on Kindle though I've been snapping up bargain ones, but I'd love to fill in the gaps in my collection and in some they're hard to get in either print and not in Kindle. I think some of it's down to changes in publishers, and the current publishers will do Kindle but the previous ones don't seem to care. There's also series where 7 out of 9 books, for example, are available.

Yes it is frustrating!
When I asked Phil Rickman about this issue re Merrily Watkins books that's what he said about the publishers, apathy rather than malice.
So let's all get clicking!!

Have read and enjoyed all Andrew Taylor's,especially the Lydmouth ones.

i emailed him re Kindle, he's very nice (especially for someone with a dark mind

I really enjoyed The American Boy then was really disappointed by An Anatomy of Ghosts. Part of that I blame on the cover which was seriously misleading in many ways, but the story didn't grip me like An American Boy did. Haven't tried anything else by him though.

I had exactly the same problem with Anatomy of Ghosts. I thought it was going to be a really dark, spooky gothic type story but wasn't that at all. I'll click for you, there's been a few books I've wanted for kindle & it's frustrating waiting for them to appear. I remember waiting for what seemed like forever for "Woman in Black" to come on the kindle.

I loved 'The American Boy' and have hated everything else I've read by him. 'Bleeding Heart Square' was boring and never really got going anywhere and 'Anatomy Of Ghosts' promised so much but delived so little. His detective fiction ones just seemed light weight and rather 'nothingy' too. Shame - I was really excited by 'The American Boy' but think he was a bit of a one trick pony.

I quite liked Bleeding Heart Square, and liked The American Boy except for the rather horrific and violent passages towards the end. I don't mind that sort of thing in its place, but here it seemed a bit shoe-horned in and unnecessary.

I liked his Roth trilogy very much. I note it's been dramatised for TV but I never saw it so came fresh to the books.

Started one of the Lydmouth ones but abandoned it when I realised it was part of the series. I'm another who likes to read in order. Unfortunately I've sometimes found this off-putting as the early ones are sometimes quite weak. Still, Lydmouth isn't AT's first work so I might look around for the first one. For such a prolific author it's not always easy to find his books.