Best escapism reads please x

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I'm going on holiday end of July. I do a job which makes it really hard to switch off. I can't hear anything violent. I took the call the midwife books on hold at once. Error!!!

I quite like biogs as well as fiction. I ok e kate Atkinson but most recent books didn't get me.

I quite enjoyed the dawn o porter noveks but I've read them all now.

I must order some books in time this year!!

I enjoyed All My Mothers by Joanna Glen

Also several by Jenny Eclair, Jane Fallon, Clare Mackintosh

Lessons in Chemistry!

I needed a light read this weekend and have just finished Someone Else's Shoes by Jojo Moyes.
It's good read, and centred around female friendships being formed in an unlikely scenario.

Well, for pure escapism, you can’t beat Lord of the Rings. I’m snowed under with work atm so am reading LORs to switch off. Tolkien was so determined to create a believable ‘secondary world’ that he would re-write passages that had the wind blowing in the wrong direction, or the moon in the wrong phase!

I also find P G Wodehouse a comfort. Like Tolkien, he created a separate world you can escape into. Same goes for the Sherlock Holmes books.

As for biographies, obviously it depends who you like. I loved Brian Blessed’s autobiography. It’s hilarious, and full of fascinating annecdotes about people like Peter o’ Toole. Robert Graves’ autobiography Goodbye to All That is also a favourite. And Stephen Fry’s autobiography is superb.

How about Claire Tomalin’s biographies of Dickens or Thomas Hardy? Or Peter Ackroyd’s biography of Blake? If they’re a bit heavy, I’d recommend a biography of Errol Flynn - such a mad character. Oh, and there is a good biography of Patrick Leigh Fermor. I believe Peter Ackroyd also wrote a biography of Charlie Chaplin, which would an interesting read. Cary Grant’s autobiography is good as well.

Thank you so much great suggestions the only one I'd read was goodbye to all that

A Town called Solace by Mary Lawson. and My Sister the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite. They are both shortish.

My holiday escapism is usually a Veronica Henry.

I'd start with A Sea Change. It's a novella and if you like how she writes, the Beach Hut follows on.

Mhairi McFarlane is good.