If I love Louis de Bernieres’ books…

[Pupsandturtles]

What else will I love?

i love historical fiction, wartime history, comedy/ dark comedy, colourful characters…

also love Kurt Vonnegut and Joseph heller

any recommendations? I’m desperate for some new fiction to get into!

Louis de Bernieres is my favourite author and I also like Kate Atkinson and Joanne Harris

Thanks @MeemawTucker! I loved Behind the Scenes at the Museum but have struggled to get into Atkinson’s others. What are your favourites?

Thinking of your wartime/historical preference, I think you would enjoy Life After Life and A God in Ruins

Joanne Harris’s Five Quarters of the Orange is set in WW2 occupied France (and flashes forward, as do a few of her books) and has very good quirky characters

Also Still Life by Sarah Winman? I haven’t read any of her others though

Great recommendations thank you @MeemawTucker

Late to this thread, but LdB is my most favourite writer ever.

I also enjoy:
Elif Shafak
Orhan Pamuk
Jose Eduardo Agualusa
Amitav Ghosh
Tolstoy
Alexandre Dumas
Nino Haratishvili

Life After Life is really good. I enjoyed Transcription as well.

Obsessed with Ken Follet - both trilogies are excellent gor history, character etc

William Boyd Restless.
Elizabeth Jane Howard - Cazalets series
Sebastian Faulks - Birdsong
Sarah Waters - Night Watch, The Little Stranger, or The Paying Guests.