Anyone recommend good books for me please?

[HolyGuacamole]

OK I hate girly chick lit, sci fi and romance.

If I write a list of stuff I like maybe some of you can recommend something for me

love:
Robert Harris, Frederick Forsyth, Anne Rule, Chris Ryan, Jack Higgins, Clive Cussler, Bill Bryson, Michael Palin.....

Also love biographies, true stories, investigative stuff, scientific (for the layman ), crime, satire, politics, historical non fiction and travel adventure. Feel like I want to be 'better read' but at this moment don't want to venture too much into 'classics'. Am up for something new or different though.

So come on, gimme some good, chewy suggestions that I can get my teeth into?

Because of your crime, satire and politics, I'm going to recommend my absolute favourite - Christopher Brookmyre. But I wouldn't want to claim they're, like, High Literature or nuffink.

worries that she's insulted CB

Oh very interesting oldlady!! Love the site, with the Good, Awright and Shite reviews of each book. ROFL.

I shall dig deeper into Brookmyre in the morning! Very intrigued!

Thank you very much

I do hope you enjoy his work, I have all of his books and read them so fast first time round that I'm now re-reading at leisure. I love his work.

Re: science for the layman try 'Surely You're Joking Mr Feynman' by Richard Feynman. American Nobel Physicist I think, but very funny and readable.

Also I recently read and loved 'Restless' by William Boyd. A literary thriller I think best descrbes it!

Also science for the layman - anything by Jared Diamond. Very accessible.

Oh thank you ladies! More to add to the list, fantastic

As you like Michael Palin and Bill Bryson I guess travel lit is up your street? If so, William Dalrymple is fantastic. Many of his books are about India but by no means all and he mixes history, travel and humour beautifully.