Authors that are missed

Marcia Willett and, as a child, Monica Edwards and Malcolm Saville

Elizabeth Jane Howard

Reginald Hill, who wrote the Dalziel & Pascoe series, amongst other works. Not only good stories, but the quality of his written English is/was superb.

Barbara Taylor Bradford.

Saved up my pocket money to buy all the Jean Plaidy novels, loved them! X

Dominic Dunn

How about Mary Wesley, she didn't start writing till late in life and all her books are brilliant, really miss her.

Anya Seton? Georgette Heyer?
100,000s of new books published each year. I wonder if modern writing will stand the test of time?

I could never get enough of Daphne Du Marier.My all time favourite being 'Rebecca'.
Wonder how she would have handled todays market for ' sex and slaughter'

nipsmum Barbara Taylor Bradford is very much alive!! She is 85 & living in America with her Husband, don't think she's written anything for a while though.

P D James, Ruth Rendell, Denis Wheatley, Jean Plaidy my list could go on

Lee Child is also alive & still writing

Phillip Kerr

Colin Dexter, happily living on through TV spinoffs

I didn’t know Anita Shreve had died, sad to hear that, loved her books

Tom Clancy

I discovered Persephone Books Ltd London, www.persephonebooks.co.uk. This company produce mostly female authors from the mid 20th century who have been neglected or perhaps stopped being published.
It’s definitely worth a browse.

Tinafl, I have found Monica McInerney and Emma Hannigan's books to be like Maeve Binchy's. Sadly Emma Hannigan passed away last year, so sad as she was a young woman. I will sorely miss her books.

Douglas Adams. Loved his intelligent humour.

Persephone books are beautifully produced but quite expensive. There's an online publisher, Dean Street Press, which has produced digital versions of hundreds of old books. They have many categories my favourite category of theirs is 'Furrowed Middle Brow'. I think thats spot on for me!

I’ve read all of Helen Dunmore’s books and loved them. Read many by Anita Shreve too. I remember reading books by Malcolm Saville around age 11 and thinking they were very “grown up” and sophisticated.

Terry Pratchett his new one used to be one of the book highlights of my year.
Douglas Adams ... I never will read the 3rd Dirk Gently
Diana Wynne Jones (my godchildren loved her and I loved reading them too)
And others have mentioned Elizabeth Jane Howard - in fact one of my favourite 'literary' giggles comes from her on Something in Disguise. "John knew he had to fire his manservant when the champagne and the bathwater reached the same uninviting temperature"

Maeve Binchey and Rosamunde Pilcher are my all time favorites. I've read all of their books numerous times and would never give them away.

Brilliant JustAGodmother! Sounds more like PG Wodehouse at his sparkling best!

All of the above.
The one I miss most is Dorothy Dunnett with her huge sagas of Lymond and the Niccolo series, as well as the gentle Johnson Johnson detective stories. My favourite of her books was “king hereafter” about MacBeth.

Aha Jean Plaidy ,I read them in my first year at Grammar School ,passed on from my sister's. So loved the historical themes,they made me really interested in my history lessons.

Colin Dexter, P D James, Ruth Rendell, Dorothy Dunnett, R F Delderfield, A J Cronin to name a few.x