I need GRIPPING page- turners...

[tethersend]

Am off work with a broken shoulder, in pain and so, so bored...

Please recommend me some absorbing books!

I love books about WW2, but am up for reading anything set at any time, ever.

Please help. I need books to blow me away and take my mind off things.

I second the book of lost things. Brilliant book. Going to download The Gargoyle as that sounds good too.

I loved "the Night watch", but the tv series missed out loads and was actually pretty rubbish, do read the book, it is really good.

Gargoyle is brilliant as well, (I'd forgotten about that one).

Oh and "little boy lost" by Marghanita Laski (persephone books). Brilliant.

tethersend you sound like me. On the recommendation of MN I have read and loathed;
Gone Girl
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
The hundred year old man
Jodi Picoult
Wolf Hall
and many others. Actually I lie. I didn't read them all to the end.

I am now going to try The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson.
Do you like Linwood Barclay? Easy airport reads but unfailingly gripping. I read Trust your Eyes in a day on holiday.
Anything by Lee Child.

The Kommandant's girl by pam jenoff
The girl who fell from the sky by Simon Mawer

I've just read Sanctus which I quite enjoyed. A bit popcorn and in the vein of Dan Brown - although I think it is better written than the Davinci Code.

I also love C J Sansom's Shardlake series. Start with Dissolution, then Dark Fire, Sovereign, Revelation and Heartstone.

I second A Song of Fire and Ice, I've read them all now, it took 6 weeks and I couldn't pit them down.

Currently reading Jack Reacher series which I'm liking a lot.

The vintner's luck - weird - about an angel and a vintner

I enjoyed angel maker but didn't love

Have you read gone with the wind? Epitome of a gripping page turner

What about revisiting good old Jilly Cooper - riders/rivals/polo?

I have also enjoyed John Le carre recently. Specifically the spy who came in for the cold

The passage and the twelve by Justin Cronin

What about Nancy Mitford - enjoyable rompy page turners - if you like then read the Mitford family blogs as well as the Bolter.

Not WW2, but Into the Darkest Corner by Elizabeth Haynes. A real page turner.
Can't remember if it's WW1 or 2 but I also lived Random Acts of Heroic Love by Danny Scheinmann.

Already mentioned but the Woman in White is a proper page turner.

wilkie, wilkie, wilkie!

Best page turners ever-he wrote them as weekly serials so they move like the clappers, and were known as 'sensation novels' due to the fact that they contained shocking, vibrant themes in domestic settings.

No Name (my fave), Armadale , The moonstone, and the Woman in White are all a rollicking good read and are all free on amazon kindle at the moment.

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You lot are great, am frantically googling

I love how picky you are OP

Bright Young Things by Scarlett Thomas and I wholeheartedly second the Lee Child suggestions, in order if you can but it doesn't matter too much. They are completely unputdownable.

Oh yes A song of ice and fire series. I read them, then started again.

I too love ww2 books , trouble is i have such abad memory i cant recommend any except Charlotte Grey by Sebastion Faulks (And i hated Birdsong)
Have you read Crosstitch by Diana Gabaldon thats a good read

IThere is also a biography of Nancy Wake -incredible true story

Restless by William Boyd (was adapted for tv, ignore if you have seen that).

The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters: apparently marmitey but I couldn't put it down.

My best and favourite unputdownable holiday read: The Quincunx, Charles Palliser. Was recommended on here. My god it was an absorbing read and gave me a run for my money. Highly recommended.

CJ Samson's Dominion - thriller about England post-WWWII, the England where the Germans won the war.

Up till 4am inhaling it, I was.

Sorry to hear about your shoulder.

If you like WW2 you MUST, MUST, MUST read Codename Verity by Elizabeth Wein. It's Young Adult but don't let that put you off.
You'll need a big box of tissues but you'll never forget it.

Thanks all, and thanks for concern, Tunip

I've read Dominion and Into the darkest corner and enjoyed both, but they weren't the best things I've ever read IYSWIM. I thought Dominion was really badly written. Everyone smiled sadly ALL THE TIME

Am going to download:

Apple tree yard
Code name verity
The glass room
The shadow of the wind

I'm reading Perfect and finding it a real page turner - in a gentle way though!

Hope you feel better soon OP!

Oh what about agent zigzag. a true story but totally amazing. Amusing and shocking equally.

If you like Linwood Barclay try Harlen Coben. Second Peter May.