Help me find books for my mum's Kindle

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There was a great thread about this a few years ago and would love to hear new suggestions. My mum is 85 and has enjoyed rose Tremain, Kate Atkinson, Philippa Gregory, the Tractors in Ukranian book, Alan Bennett and so on.
Anyone got any ideas about what they think she might like, or what their mum's or grandmother's liked recently? Thanks

Rosamunde Pilcher was one of my MiL's favourites.

Rosamund Lehmann, "Invitation To The Waltz" and sequel "The Weather In The Streets" are also non Q Tarantino-esque.

My great-aunt went for books by Elizabeth Goudge, eg "The Rosemary Tree", often a slightly spiritual slant, the ones she had were set in Devon.

My Mum loved 'Mapp & Lucia' books by E F Benson. On Kindle I see those are very cheap.

HTH.

More recently, friends' mothers have chosen

Anita Brookner,

Mary Wesley,

Brigid Keenan,

William Boyd

Cathleen Ross (! 'Forbidden Fantasy')

Alison Weir

Thank you! Will look these up.
She also liked Laurie Graham so anything humorous is good too.

Anne Tyler is often popular with older women (and it is genuinely good).

Has your mum read The Cazalet Chronicles by Elizabeth Jane Howard? A family saga (four in the series) spanning the two world wars, but literary rather than a potboiler. Very readable.

Also really recommend Sue Gee, a writer who deserves to be more widely known. Try The Mysteries of Glass to start with. Earth and Heaven is also very good.

Kate Grenville's The Secret River is also well worth a look.

I've just put a couple of the Cazalet Chronicles on there funnily enough. I really enjoyed the first one. Will try the others, though am a bit tepid about Anne Tyler myself!

My gran is 91 and is a tiny, sweet little lady.
She loves murder, gore and death. Mass murder is best.

She is the last person you'd think that these books would appeal to.
Peter somebody writing a series called The China Killings or something is a current kindle favourite of hers.

My mum adored the Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, and her Kindle has similar content to your mum's!

Hurrah for the Cazalet Chronicles too - fab books.

Thanks again. Have seen the Guernsey book recommended and looked before so will get that.
I'll check out the China killings too. I might like them. ...

Another thought - how about I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith? Lovely nostalgic book.

babybythesea my late much loved and missed Great Aunt (died aged 105) used to have talking books as she was blind. Her half sister who was her carer banned her from listening to murder mysteries etc at bedtime as she got so excited that she wouldn't go to sleep!!

Thursdays in the Park and Letters to My Wife. Lovely books.

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My mum used to like reading Anita Brookner, Margaret Drabble, and Nina Bawden's novels. You could try some of those, or Iris Murdoch perhaps?

all the suasan hill detective books the seraillier ones - my mum liked these are clever but easy to read. THEre are 7!
set in a cathedral city etc

www.susanhill.org.uk/various-haunts-men

www.susanhill.org.uk/various-haunts-men

ooh a nice margaret FOrster -
www.amazon.co.uk/Good-Wives-Jennie-1845-2001-ebook/dp/B008BSRW0E/ref=sr_1_12?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1375620233&sr=1-12&keywords=margaret+forster

not her recent stuff, thats cack

How about Penelope Lively her books are very good

If she likes non-fiction, my Mum really enjoyed this.

My Mum is 91 and has enjoyed several of the authors you mentioned, she also recently enjoyed Remarkable Creatures by Tracey Chevalier, The Behaviour of Moths by Poppy Adams and I have just given her The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield which I enjoyed and thought she might too.

Oh and she quite enjoyed The Children's Book by A S Byatt.

Another thing she enjoyed re- reading recently was The Herries Chronicles by Hugh Walpole - she'd read them years ago and I found them in a second hand book shop for her after she mentioned enjoying them. She's loved re reading them - they are sort of historical family saga book, perhaps a bit old fashioned for modern tastes, but as your Mum is the same sort of era as mine, she might like them

Thanks again everyone. These are really brilliant. My mum does like Tracy Chevalier books - I will look for some that she hasn't read.
I'll try the others too.
For those with older parents - she also enjoyed Patrick Gale, a 1950s housewife, some Simon Mawer books, "The unfixed stars"(I loved that too) the Help, Wolf Hall and anything by Stephen Fry.