Lit Fic for ME please

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Any recommendations? Need lots of books for hols. I want lit fiction eg I do not want Khaled Hossein, Harold Fry, JoJo Moyes etc etc (nothing wrong with them, but I don't want them).

I want Mantel/Mitchell/Houllebecq type stuff please and thank you.

Nipping back to throw out Marie Darieusseq and Patricia Highsmith. I liked Pig Tales by the former and all the Ripley novels by the latter.

I already do try new things pretty often - I've had a phase of reading old stuff (on the 'it's free on the kindle' principle) of late, and found things I liked. I always have a good go at the Booker longlist, I can only think of one book on it, in the last few years, that I didn't finish. (The Finkler Question).

I also read things recommended by my oldest son, and by my husband.

'A Trick I Learned From Dead Men' by Kitty Aldridge is wonderful. I bought it in hardback and it's just out in PB.

Bab Yes, Charlotte Roche sounded like a young kid who has just learned about sex and is trying to shock you.

Helloooooooooooo

Read loads over the summer.

Loved the Glass Castle and Half Broke Horses as did dd.

(tries to remember the others)

Oh yes, The Glass Castle is great, one of my favorite memoirs ever. I reread it this summer when this thread mentioned it. I also liked Half-Broke Horses. I have a sample of Jeannette Wall's latest book The Silver Star on my kindle but have not started it yet. It has had mixed reviews.

I kindled the silver star but not read it yet as dd has commandeered the kindle, am going to get her one of her own and put budget controls on it.

I thought the most striking part was the mum hiding the choc in the bed.

Mig - I like Bailey but have only read the vignettes so far.