If I like Kate Atkinson, Rose Tremain and Robert Galbraith.....

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.....which authors might I like too?

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Maggie O'Farrell?

Maggie O’Farrell, Gabriela Garcia, Lisa Taddeo, Tayari Jones :)

Come to my house as I like them too!

Mary Paulson Ellis - she's written 3 books set in Edinburgh. Sort of mysteries but lots about the characters and their relationships if that makes sense. They're not exactly a series but have some characters in common.

www.literature-map.com/ this can be a good starting point

I take it you have read the Rebus books?

i recently read Whirligig by Andrew Greig and loved it

i muddled him with the Scottish author Andrew Greig (That Summer) etc and also recommend highly

Mick Herron
Richard Osman

Also Susie Steiner

Donna Tartt

@Hilarymantelspencilsharpener that literature map is amazing 🤩

Tana French for detective novels

DorotheaFrazil, it's a great way of finding new authors to try.

Patrick Gayle, sometimes amusing, sometimes bittersweet. A Place Called Winter was amazing ❤

BeethovenNinth you have excellent taste. And thank you for the invite!

Some of Chris Brookmyre's books are a little like Kate Atkinson, with the Scottish/sardonic sort of throwaway black humour, or at least I suppose it's Scottish, as I notice it's common to a lot of Scottish writers.

I find I need to pick and choose, and, for example, love his Jasmine Sharp, Angelique de Xavier and Jack Parlabane books. His science fiction not so much, but I think that's probably because as a teen I read too much science fiction .

Sounds like you like good characterisation and a great plot.

Sarah Winman, Still Life
Clare Chambers, Small Pleasures
Clare Fuller, Unsettled Ground
Ronan Hession, Leonard and Hungry Paul (one of my favourite books of all time)

I loved Hamnett so will try and read some more Maggie O’Farrell, although I gather her latest hasn’t had fantastic reviews?

Love Sarah Winman and Donna Tartt. Found Richard Osman ok.

Will have a gander at the other authors mentioned here.

Amanda Craig, Mary Lawton. Agree Patrick Gale is wondrous.

Peter Carey

Susan Hill

Love Amanda Craig and Mary Lawson!
Did Patrick Gale write the Heart’s Invisible Furies? If so, I think he’s a superb writer.

Jonathan Coe - read most of his. Mostly v funny.
The Rotters Club and Middle England are v good indeed.
Patrick Gale.
He didn't write The Hearts invisible Furies, though that was John Boyne.

Jonathan Coe! Yes I’ve read and loved the Rotter’s Club and another one I think but not Middle England.

Ive just ordered Hanya Yanigahara’s new book (she wrote a Little Life) and Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr. I loved All the Light We Cannot See.

Almost finished KateAtkinson’s Shrines of Gaiety. LOVING it.

Helen Dunmore

Ooh I love the first two. You'd love Helen Dunmore for sure ...