Great books you have read this year for my 81 year old Mum?

[AfterEightMintyy]

She is extremely well read but gets most of her books from charity shops or as gifts so I think if I find her something published this year she won't have read it yet.

She is not into chick lit or the Catherine Cookson genre. She likes an intelligent thriller (not too gory) or detailed historical novels. She's read all the Kate Atkinsons and Barbara Vines but I'd like to get her something like that. But no sex or violence or anything too dark please!

Thank you.

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What about Kate Morton or Kate Mosse? They might appeal. The Little Book by Selden Edwards is very good too, ooh and Rosamund Lupton

100 year old man who climbed out of the window?

There is some violence but not in a lurid/gory way, it's quite funny/ridiculous, someone gets squashed by an elephant by example. Read the amazon page to get an idea. It also cross references lots of big events in the 20th century so she might like that?

The Blackhouse by Peter May (there is a book 2 - and book 3 due soon) detective but set on Lewis. Just finished Dominion which is fantastic.

Death Comes to Pemberley by PD James

The School for Manners series by MC Beaton (the Agatha Raisin author)

The Book of Summers by Emilia Hall.

Sebastian Barry?

Susan Hill- has she read any of hers? The Simon Serrailler crime series is great. Intelligent readable sensitive writing - and not horribly gory.

Kate Morton's The Secret Keeper is excellent.

The book that has gone down a storm, published 3 January is After the Fall by Charity Norman, set in New Zealand, and totally gripping. It has cross generational appeal

The 100 year old man who climbed out of the window. It's such a good book. I saw someone else mentioned it earlier.
Best book I've read in a long time.

Ooh, well I loved the strangers child - Alan Hollingsworth - begins just before ww1 and the moves to modern day, I think.
Ans waiting for sunrise William Boyd was great - psychoanalysis, spies, theatre, London and Vienna in ww1...

The daziel and pascoe books? Agatha raisin ones? (My granny was a similar age)

Was going to suggest Kate Morton as well, i have really enjoyed reading her novels.

Wolf Hall - Hilary Mantel (historical fiction set in tudor times)

CJ Sansom has written a series of historical thrillers

A couple of our book club reads which might be suitable:

www.amazon.co.uk/Vanishing-Act-Esme-Lennox/dp/0755308441

or

www.amazon.co.uk/The-Greatcoat-Hammer-Helen-Dunmore/dp/0099564947