What are you reading now?

Tony Blair - Broken Vows by Tom Bower. Shocking and depressing. It would seem that Tony Blair just threw money at problems without thinking about them properly and then checked his image was ok.

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Yes, it's the first

Jalima, Jingl is right, Dissolution is the first one. The next one is Dark Fire.

Thanks jingls I will take a look.

I'm pretty sure that is the first one j.

Good luck with sorting out the order of the rest of them. It can be done. (Amazon)

numberplease and jingls
Dissolution was amongst a pile of books given to me ( and I didn't realise it was part of a series).

Well, I have to finish it now! then will have to go back to the first novel.

Have just finished the third Game of Thrones book, and am about to start Kate Atkinson's "Life After Life". (Could not be two more contrasting books!) DD read it and said it was good. I got "A God in Ruins" from the library recently but I could only have it for a week so I decided not to read it because I knew I wouldn't have time to finish it.

I thoroughly enjoyed a book (cop fiction) called "Missing, Presumed" by Susie Steiner. The main characters are all wholly believable (very important to me) and so too are the settings. The story is plausible and there are just enough "red herrings" to keep the reader interested.

Jalima, I hope you enjoy the book enough to make you embark on the whole Matthew Shardlake series. If you do, they really need to be read in order.
I finished Blood Loss, it was ok, but didn`t grab me as much as I like to be grabbed by a book. Since then I`ve read Ridge Hill, by Anna Jacobs, it`s the next after High Street that I read a few weeks ago. I loved it, and am now reading the next in the series, Hallam Square.

I love those books. Was totally in love with Matthew Shardlake.

I have started reading a C J Sansom (OP) book - Dissolution. I thought it would be boring but it is engrossing.

Back to good old John Grisham. The Racketeer. Page turner.

I Have just finished " Finding Tipperary Mary " by Phyllis Whitsell . It is the true story of her being put in ahome them adopted and afterwards searching for her mother. What she found would have put most people off any contact. It is a compelling stopry and very moving .

Just finished Between you and Me "a psychological thriller with a twist that you won't see coming so says Amazon and I didn't! although there were a couple of clues. Have now started crime writer Tim Weaver's latest "Broken Heart" which has an Amazon rating of nearly 5*. I don't buy books on Amazon, but check the review rating, on the basis that I'll probably like it if the majority of other readers do. It has to have a clear 4* rating, life's too short to embark on disappointing books. Too many books piling up and not enough time I have developed a bad habit of pick up books at Sainsburys these days.

morethan2 you are in for a treat if you have just discovered Diand Chamberlain - I have yet to find one I did not like. The most recent that I read was The Midwife's Tale.

I am just finishing The Mandlebaum Gate by Muriel Spark. It's been quite good in a plodding sort of way.

Does anyone else find that when reading a book on kindle, you have no idea of the title, or who wrote it? Simply because you don't see a book cover when you pick it up.

This is a very useful thread.

I've just finished reading The Silent Sister by Diane Chamberlain I really enjoyed it. I've never read anything by her before. It must have been good because it's been months since I've read anything.

I loved As Time Goes By, my next book, to be started later, is Blood Loss, by Alex Barclay.

Halfway through Coffin Road by Peter May, man crawls out of the sea with no memory of who he is and now it looks like he may have murdered someone (but I suspect didn't) - very good, can hardly put it down (so haven't been on gransnet for days).

I have just finished a marathon read of 700 pages of A Fine Balance by Rohindra Mistry. One of the finest novels I have ever read about the way people in India survive and their day to day lives. It is more enthralling than any blockbuster.

I'm reading the autobiography of Oliver Sacks: "On the Move". I can't put it down.

Before that I read fiction - "Missing, Presumed" by Susie Steiner. It was pretty good and I'll look for more by the author.

I finished Speaking in Bones, really liked it. Am now reading As Time Goes By, by Annie Groves, set in Liverpool in 1942. OK so far.