Need recommendations for what to read next please?

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I am hunting for good reading material. I recently posted a long message about being distressed by a book and everyone was really sympathetic.

As an antidote, I tried a lot of light fiction. The thing is light fiction is often not very well written and I can't stand much more of it. So what I need is interseting, well written but not horrific in any way.

Any ideas?

Victoria Hislop springs to mind, her stuff is light, but quite nicely written. The Island is set in Greece. Her new one is about the Spanish civil war so may contain a certain amount of harrowing

The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield is a gripping yarn. In similar vein Shadow of the Wind by carlos something Ruiz

Mind gone blank now...

easy to read but not light is" the finest kind of english womanhood" in hardback atm but WELL worth it

adn middlesex that was reccy on here - I RACEd through ti

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I have got The Finest Kind of English Womanhood lying about somewhere. Great. Will give it a go. Thank you. Have read The Thirteenth Tale. Tried Middlesex.

More suggestsions please.

LYING ABOUT?

omg its the best one i read all eyar.
stick with Msex, it gets better.
the 16th wife - that is good

arf the 19th

Have tried MIdedlesex more tahn once. The one by Eugenides. Couldn't get on with it at all. Will google 16th wife.

and this - ignore the cover

case histories

Oooh, that Dragon Tattoo book does look good. And I happen to know that Sainsbury's are selling it half price. Good one.

Coming out of left field...
Maybe the Moon by Armistead Maupin

omg its so so so good
even dh deigned to read it, then we bought the 2nd one in hardback.
oyu might find it handy to draw a family tree of the industiralists family as you go on.

I think I've read most of Maupin. I was nuts about him at one time. Any other left fielders. Something I missed 10 years ago.

i read dale wintons biog..

English Womanhood I have.
Dragon Tattoo easy to get hold of.
Need some more.
One problem is that I read very very fast.

oh there is a tiny rape scene in it.
but it didnt bother me.

( not in dw in dragon bk)

I have just read Buddha Da by Anne Donovan. Light and very well written. Highly recommended.

Have just had a trip to local charity shop and found Salmon Fishing in the Yemen and White City Blue by Tim Lott. Good choices would you say?

I loved Salmon Fishing..

A good meaty read is Northern Clemency by Philip Hensher.

Are you signed up with your local library? It's really good for tiding you over if you are a fast reader...

Thank you, JeffVadar. I do have a library card but the choice is usually a bit poor there to be honest. I'm a great haunter of charity bookshops and am always asking friends (and MN) for recommendations and loans.

Have read these recently

I, Coriander by Sally Gardner,

Journey to the River Sea and Star of Kazan by Eva Ibbotson.

I Know that these are officially children's books but definately worth a look.

Me again.....my local library will find almost any book and have it delivered to them for collection.

Read Doris Lessing's Mara and Dann

Or any of her other books for that matter. Brilliant.