Find me a new author please!

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I am in a book doldrum at the moment. Most of the authors I have been in the mood for recently don't have any new stuff coming out soon and I am in need of new material.

Authors I have been in the mood for recently include:

Neil Gaiman
Nick Harkaway
Daniel O'Malley (Rook)
Ernest Cline
Tom Robbins
Rivers of London series
Douglas Coupland

I also enjoy some Pratchett, Larsson, China Mieville, some crime writers. Help!

Rupert Thomson might be worth a look. He's just got a new book out, but I would start with 'Dreams of Leaving' or 'The Insult'.

Donna Tartt? The Secret History and The Little Friend, and a new one due out in the autumn.

Belinda Bauer. The Exmoor trilogy - Blacklands, Dark Side and Finders Keepers. All very good thrillers.

Thanks - Rupert Thomson looks interesting, have added a couple of his books to my wish list.

I've read The Secret History but not Little Friend - will give that a go too.

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If you're in the mood for nice easy to read crime novels, I can recommend:

Lee Child - although Reacher is not Tom Cruise...
JD Robb especially for the sex
Robert B Parker
Robert Crais - my current favourite

I recently discovered the Kate Shugak series by Dana Stabenow - really brilliant crime novels set in Alaska with a fantastic female protagonist. I'm completely addicted!

You might also like Kage Baker - try her Company novels (starting with In the Garden of Iden). And have you read any Scarlett Thomas? The End of Mr Y might be worth a look.

I like John Connolly's Charlie Parker series, set in the north eastern US. Start with Every Dead Thing and go from there. The mixture of grim humour and gore is quite addictive.

Ooh thank you, I shall look them up. I have read some Lee Child but not the others, have read the End of Mr Y - might re-read if I can find it in my house...

Jasper Fforde's Thursday next series it starts with the Eyre Affair and is fab.

Haven't read Jasper Fforde for a while - will give that a go too!

You seem to have similar taste to me and I loved Mr Penumbra's 24 hour bookstore recently.

I've just discovered S.J Bolton. She's gooood

Thanks both - kindle wish list growing nicely now!

The "Banned Underground" I forget who wrote them are amusing, or maybe Malcolm Pryce's "Aberystwyth" series, I love those and I like most of the authors in your OP.
PS Power's "Very Good Man" series is brilliant - it is an "end of the world" thing, but has some brilliant twists and turns, and the characterisation is just fabulous. Her (his?) "Shortcuts" is good too. Don't be put off by the other books she's (he's?) written being teen/YA ones either.
I second John Connolly, and if you don't quite fancy his "adult" supernatural/horror "Charlie Parker" ones, "The Book of Lost Things" is fab, especially if you like the film "Labyrinth"
Simon R Green's "Nightside" series is good too, it's reminsicent of Neil Gaiman.

pombear thanks - have added quite a few to my list!

cherry just finished 24 hour bookstore and really enjoyed it.

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01r522y/episodes/guide

Hi OP
Neil Gaiman made me think of this in case you missed it - you have til Friday on catch up to listen to it - great cast

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It's great isn't it. Bit bereft since I finished it.

sargeant I spent last week listening to that and may have downloaded it a bit - absolutely loved it!

cherry it was a really good book - got it on Sunday and finished it this morning. Now working down the rest of the list on this thread. Am refusing to think about my kindle bill...

Ha ha. It mounts up doesn't it? I bought the rook and I'm currently enjoying it.

I really liked the rook, am hoping there will be a second one out at some point.

Carol Birch has written some good stuff,from contemporary fiction to her more recent historical fiction.

Sandman Slim?' or perhaps Iron Druid?

Just finished The Night Circus, very Tom Robins-y.