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Purple **^*Sparkly*^** Diamond

Purple **^*Sparkly*^** Diamond Report 15 Jul 2008 03:54

Think I have read some Lillian Harry, but don't recognise Dee Williams, Jenny.

Lizx

Julia

Julia Report 14 Jul 2008 14:33

I like most of the American thriller writers, James Patterson,Kathy Reichts,Patricia Cornwall,Karin Slaughter,Sue Grafton, et al, but if Tesco do not have any of these, I will try other authors. I have read Val McDermitt, and others, but find them abit tame for my tastes, though I do like Ian Rankin
Tomorrow I am going to a nearby town that has actually got a bookshop, and aswell as selling jigsaws, which I like, sells paperbacks that are not current, and you can get many at £2.99. I can't go to that town without going to the shop and stocking up
Julia in Derbyshire

Researching:
Turner Cambs/.Northants, Singapore and Penang,Trengrove Singapore and Penang, Arnull (Champion Race Horse Breeders & Trainers 'Oleander')Germany and Denmark

Meduck

Meduck Report 14 Jul 2008 14:22

For those who like Harry Bowling and Mary Staples, have you read any of Dee Williams or Lillian Harry

AnnCardiff

AnnCardiff Report 14 Jul 2008 11:39

Hi there Jeanette - where've you been, haven't seen you lately?

I have read all the Alexander McCall Smith books on The No: 1 Ladies Detective Agency - they are set in Botswana and they are absolutely delightful - a real feelgood factor in all of them

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Breakspears of Berkshire and Cardiff, Williams and Harman of Whitchurch, Melingriffith &Tongwynlais,Glamorgan WE HAVE NO CONNECTION Do not share your tree with me

Diddydoris

Diddydoris Report 14 Jul 2008 10:55

My Favourite Authors are:

Anne McCaffrey
Roald Dahl
Enid Blyton
J K Rowling

to name but a few!

DAVE B

DAVE B Report 14 Jul 2008 10:29

I like John Grisham, also dont like Jeffrey Archer as person but like his books.
Davex

}((((*> Jeanette The Haddock <*)))){

}((((*> Jeanette The Haddock <*)))){ Report 14 Jul 2008 09:24

I would say my favourite author at the moment is Elizabeth Chadwick and my favourite books by her are the two about William Marshal, The Greatest Knight and The Scarlet Lion. You've got to admire any author that can make you fall in love with a man who died 800 years ago lol.

I've read Lady of Hay and absolutely loved the parts set in the past but found the parts set in the present a bit too far fetched for my taste. Each to their own, eh?

I haven't read the Boudica series yet, but I have read The Crystal Skull for the Greaders book club, which I thoroughly enjoyed.

At the moment I'm reading Sepulchre by Kate Mosse, again for Greaders. If you haven't read it yet I can thoroughly recommend it. In fact, I think I might have read a bit too much of it yesterday as I kept dreaming about it lol.

I'm off on holiday in a couple of weeks and so far I'll be taking The Sunne in Splendour by Sharon Penman, Watermelon by Marian Keyes and Murder Most Fab by Julian Clarey....that's if I can resist reading them beforehand!

Jeanette x

Purple **^*Sparkly*^** Diamond

Purple **^*Sparkly*^** Diamond Report 14 Jul 2008 02:15

I like Mary Jane Staples books too.
I'm really getting into the one I have now, by Santa Montefiore, The Butterfly Box.

Lizx

Muffyxx

Muffyxx Report 13 Jul 2008 20:54

Blimey you have got them stacked up !!!! No worries xx

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₪ TeresaW elite empress of deleted threads&#

₪ TeresaW elite empress of deleted threads&# Report 13 Jul 2008 20:53

Not jsut yet hun, I've still got the last two Boudica's to read, then the Crystal Skull, the a Stephen King and a Terry Pratchet....by that time it'll be out in paperback LOL

*~*~ Maisie from Wales. *~*~

*~*~ Maisie from Wales. *~*~ Report 13 Jul 2008 20:47

I love James Patterson have read nearly all his Alex Cross series and The Womens Murder club series as well, just finished 7th Heaven in the Murder club ones. They start at No 1... and so on...
What I love about Patterson is the chapters are so short and each one is different.
I also like Catrin Collier, Lynda Page is another good one like Harry Bowling, and I also read Mark Billingham books.
The Greaders club on here is very good and I have read a varied amount of books which I wouldn't have looked at before, worth joining it if you are not in it. Ann from Glos started it.
Maisie x

Muffyxx

Muffyxx Report 13 Jul 2008 20:26

I know TW. Useless aren't I? lolololol.

Do you want me to send it on to you???
xx

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₪ TeresaW elite empress of deleted threads&#

₪ TeresaW elite empress of deleted threads&# Report 13 Jul 2008 20:21

No will power, that's your problem lol

Muffyxx

Muffyxx Report 13 Jul 2008 20:17

Well I did what I swore I wouldn't do...........I finished the book too early :0( i was hoping to eeke it out til at least Tuesday !!! Feel lost now.

I can highly recommend it ........it's classic Barbara Erskine a real page turner.

Ok.........back to Amazon now to find something new lol xx

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Deanna

Deanna Report 13 Jul 2008 19:51

They are Jean, but have you ever read any of Mary Jane Staples?
Very much like Harry's, but of one family.

Like Harry's books they are easy to pick up and read from where you left off.
Which is what you want after the *H* word, isn't it?

Deanna X

Jean (Monmouth)

Jean (Monmouth) Report 13 Jul 2008 19:47

Harry Bowling writes so true to life in the East End before and just after the war. All his books are so readable.

Deanna

Deanna Report 13 Jul 2008 19:11

I just love anyone who can write and take me into the time and the place they are writing about..

Harry Bowling does that for me, as many others do.

Have any of you read any of the books by
MARY JANE STAPLES?

She writes about London too, but starts a bit further back than Harry does.
We had people visit our library once to tell us about how they found her.
I missed the evening, but one of the librarians told me all about it.
It seems that Mary Jane Staples had been writing for some time, and like most of us who try writing, thought they were not good enough to be seen.
she had them (so I believe) under her bed... and they are just lovely lovely books.
the story of one London family, and their widowed mother.... from their young years, after their father was killed in WW11, right through to their own children and grand children.
If you like Harry Bowling and family sagas, you will love these.

Deanna X

Purple **^*Sparkly*^** Diamond

Purple **^*Sparkly*^** Diamond Report 13 Jul 2008 02:58

Deanna, I have just finished a Harry Bowling one!
x

Muffyxx

Muffyxx Report 12 Jul 2008 20:35

Not at all bored Deanna. I love hearing about all kinds of books and what people think of them......I'm always on the prowl for new authors too.

I also love Rebecca and I've avoided the sequel as I read the one for Pride and Prejudice and found it lacking........so I've given up on those and write my own mental sequels now.......or is it prequels I can never remember lol.........I find it's less disappointing that way !! xx

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All comments made by me are all mine unless otherwise stated. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, or real life events unless otherwise stated is purely coincidental.

Deanna

Deanna Report 12 Jul 2008 20:09

My son bought me... Barbara Erskine's House of Echoes, but I have not started it yet.
I am half way through another book he bought me.
*Birds Without Wings*,
by Louis de Bernieres... enjoying it too.

I love many authors.
Daphne de Maurier's ...*Rebecca* my all time favourite, and could read the opening chapter over and over.... and have done.
I was given the book written by (can't remember) which is supposed to be the sequel to it. I think it is called *Rebecca's Tale* and I find it hard to read, as it is totally destroying the character of the second Mrs De Winter....
I must finish it and I will, but I don't like the easy way she has been 'put down' by the people she trusted.
I'm an idiot I know but it upsets me.. ;-0(

Maeve Binchy
Cathy Reichs
Alex Kava
Jeffrey Archer
Emma Blair..... who is a lovely big man....
Harry Bowling
Elvi Plain (sp)
I love a good mystery, murder, family sagas... but they must have an honest historical background.

All in all.... I'll read anything except for Celebrities life stories.... all of 25 years of them.
I did enjoy Claire Rayner's book though.
Have read many of her novels too... very good writer.

Have I bored you yet???? ;-0)
SORRY...
Deanna X

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