Authors that are missed

I wish Jane Austen has written more books. I remember when I first discovered here I devoured all her novels then was dispointed and felt lost when I realised she had only written 6!

Richmal Crompton and William
evadne Price and her wartime Jane books made me laugh
As many EF Benson as I could find, The biographyof his mother and siblings made very interesting reading. When all my friends were reading Enid Blyton , my mother was most disapproving and insisted I tackle 'how green was my valley 'and
' the Citadel' instead which I much enjoyed

E F Benson. I've read the follow up ones about Tilling by other authors but they're not quite the same.

Oh yes! Anita Brookner! I have all her books, one of my friends once said it was more interesting watching paint dry than reading one of her books! How I disagree, I loved them all

Anita Brookner
Angela Carter
Mary Wesley
Nadine Gordimer

l agree with you.. loved Rosamund . Pilchard.

What about Penny Vincenzi ?
All her books were great. Sadly missed.

James Herbert love all his books and reread many times.sadly he was part way through his latest when he died

www.fantasticfiction.com/b/barbara-taylor-bradford/

Barbara Taylor Bradford is not only still with us but still writing

nanaSuzy me too. But they have been taken out of the library being “too old “! When I come into money, I’ll buy the two sets...

grandMattie how brilliant to hear of someone apart from me who loved the Lymond and Niccolo sagas. I was lucky enough to pick up 'Game of Kings' early on, loved it and read the whole lot as soon as they became available. Naturally, having got to the end of 'Checkmate' nothing for it but to start again at the beginning. Wonderful books, especially the Lymond ones. Also really liked Johnson Johnson.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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"

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.

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!

Douglas Adams. Loved his intelligent humour.

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.

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.

Tom Clancy

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

Colin Dexter, happily living on through TV spinoffs