Just finished a couple of fabulous books... next?

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Wolf Hall, then The Year of the Flood (Margaret Atwood's latest). Which prompted me to re-read Oryx & Crake.

I just lost myself in them and found myself turning them over in my mind in between reading stints.

Now reading DH Lawrence's Sons & Lovers which I'm enjoying but it's not grabbed me in the same way.

Would love some suggestions for my long-haul flight later this week....

Just read The Help by Katherine Stockett all about black domestic servants in Mississipi around the time of Martin Luther King. Absolutely fabulous book-within-a-book. Couldn't put it down.

Thank you all. Lots of great suggestions.

Have you tried Crow Lake or Other Side of the Bridge by Mary Lawson - Canadian writer, sometimes England-based.
Truly absorbing. I loved them.

ooh yes London Artemis they are truly FAB books aren't they!!

I've just finished Remarkable Creatures by Tracey Chevalier, a fictionalised account of the 2 women fossil hunters in Lyme Regis. Loved it.

Favorite authors on my shelves include Margaret Forster, John Irving, Annie Proulx

I've also just read the help

v v good

How about some Haruki Murakama? Can be a bit hit and miss but I loved The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and Hard Boiled Wonderland...

Rupert Thomson is another that DP got me into. The Insult, The Book of Revelation, Death of a Murderer - all fantastic (he has written more but I've not read them all).

Both of them have very dreamy, slightly unreal styles, might be good for a long flight I loved O+C too btw, so much so I'm writing part of my dissertation on it.

Murakami

The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell - I loved it, absolutely fascinating

Oh yes, The Wind-up Bird Chronicle is just great.

Have read and liked all the books you mentioned in the OP (esp Wolf Hall!)

have only just begun Fingersmith by Sarah Waters and hooked already

would second Music & Silence -one of my favourite reads -style a bit similar to Mantel imo

oh and Howards End was a recent find, can't believe I waited so long to read any Forster, it was V good - fascinating insight into Edwardian social mores and class divides

Fingersmith is wonderful - I really envy anyone reading it for the first time.

is wolf hall good? looks too hard

anyoen who hasnt read either 19th wife or american wife or the dragon tattoo trilogy
or thefinest kind of english woman hood needs to do so pronto

i havent read a good un for ages

yes i lovet eh crow lake books too

what is 19th wife?

ilove really liked 'Any HUman Heart'- such a realistic look at a life, made it very moving at the end

Wolf Hall quite dense but worth it imo

have to read wolf hall by sept...have yet to acquire a copy...

Mrs Danvers - I cried like a baby at the end - such a wonderful book (and so did DH )

A smilar book of Wm Boyd's is The New Confessions, which I enjoyed too.

agree r.e. weepy factor

will look out for TNC , not read any others of his!

Yes The 19th Wife is great. Its about polygamist Mormons and combines 2 stories, one in the past when the mormons were founded and one present day murder in a polygamist family.

Also second William Boyd

Wierdly am rereading the Flashman novels on the recommendation of DS2 and they are great fun.

ok I'm ordering the wife ones, the english womanhood and the boyd

they had better be good...

Any Human Heart is an amazing book.

19th wife sounds good - have never heard of it!