Best book you've read recently

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Sorry...lame I know!

I'm trying to get back into reading in the evenings after I get the little ones to bed...

Something I can lost in...i don't mind a creepy tale but nothing too scary !!

Hear no Evil by Sarah Smith

I'm reading the new Stephen King called Fairy Tale. It's started out well... will see how it goes.

Chouette - so bizarre but it gripped me!

Whalebone Theatre by Jo quinn

the last three books I’ve read are,

The Ghost woods by CJ Cooke
The Last Party by Clare Mackintosh
The Family remains by Lisa Jewell, this one is a sequel to The Family Upstairs which was also good.

How to kill your family

Hostage by Clare Macintosh.
Great thriller with 2 twists I didn't see.

Sorry...forgot to add....nothing that involves children 😆
I'm not sure I'd like Ghost Woods for example,

Scrap my suggestion then!

I enjoyed Bournville by Jonathan Coe - his books are always very readable.

The Night she disappeared- Lisa Jewell. Easy reading but a page turner.

Also “Everyone is still alive” Cathy Rentzenbrink.

Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus. Best book I've read in years.

The Family Upstairs though it doesn't bear much scrutiny and ended oddly I'd still read the sequel mentioned above!

Pick of the very recent bunch is probably All the Light We Cannot See, but although I did love it, I didn't LOVE it wholeheartedly in the way I've loved, say, Bel Canto or Alias Grace (two all-time faves).
A bit longer ago, Apeirogon by Colum McCann blew me away. I slightly hesitate to press it on people though as it's such difficult subject matter and it is undoubtedly harrowing. But it's a masterpiece, IMO, and devastating, albeit with hope and humanity visible too. If that's what you're after in a book
I also very much liked Dancer and Let the Great World Spin by the same author. I just love his writing.
And Under a Pole Star by Stef Penney, while not quite deserving words like 'brilliant' or 'masterpiece', is satisfying and sweeping and very moving in parts.

@DameHelena I second All The Light - it's a proper novel and I felt sad that it ended!

The Covered Wife by Lisa Emanuel.

Awesome fiction about a woman who marries a Jewish man who then joins a strict offshoot/sect and gets more devout by the chapter. Very believable account of how women get sucked into these situations, with fabulous pace and some jaw-dropping detail. Pretty dark towards the end. Loved it!

I finished The collective. Not a storyline that any book I have ever read has touched on. Very good.

The Couple at Number 9 which was a book club read followed by The Girls Who Disappeared. Both by Claire Douglas and enjoyed both so much I've asked my mum for another of hers for Christmas

Did you enjoy it? It was a book club read and I think only 2 or 3 people out of about 30 enjoyed it! I didn't!

I loved How to kill your family!
Absolutely brilliant.
Im waiting for my sister to finish Lucy Foley The Paris Apartment, I really liked The Hunting Party.

I hated How to Kill Your Family and didn't finish it. The only pleasure it gave me was DS1's face when he saw me reading it

I love these threads! Gathering ideas for my next library visit.

I’m currently reading House Of Silk, enjoying it so far.

I also really liked How to kill your family but it was a bit daft at the end (honestly would you really write a diary in prison).

The last thing he told me by Laura Dave
Call me Evie by JP Pomare
The wife and the widow by Christian White