Authors that are missed

Phillip Kerr

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

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'

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

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

Dominic Dunn

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

Barbara Taylor Bradford.

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.

Elizabeth Jane Howard

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

Jean Plaidy anyone?

Mary Stewart
Ellis Peters/Edith Mary Pargeter (Brother Cadfael series and more)
P D James
Michael Dibdin

Some of my favourites sadly no longer with us are the great Rosamunde Pilcher, who died recently, R.D.Wingfield, for his Frost stories, Elvi Rhodes for her historical novels and Jane Bolitho, whose Cornwall mysteries I've only just discovered.

Margaret Forster - loved her books.

Terry Pratchett & James Herbert!

Oh yes, mustn’t forget Iris Murdoch!

Titles of some books that are unforgettable for me:
"The Book thief"
"The Reader"
"The Kite-runner"
"The girl on the train" is entertaining, and of course Lee Childs 'Jack Reacher' series (one or two are really gruesome though)
I loved Susan Howatch's 'Church of England' series: they must be read in order , starting with "Glittering Images", Glamorous powers" (not sure which come first) but there are hours of absorbing reading, look at "Scandalous Risks" if you think they sound dull!

neville shute, dennis wheatley, jane duncan, alistair mclean, robert ludlum, douglas reeman - i used to read so many different genres

Iris Murdoch

Iris Murdoch.

Paul Torbay

You are all so young!

I miss Violet M. Methley and John Buchan.

Margaret Forster, Doris Lessing, the brilliant John Updike, and so many others as the years pass

Nevil Shute, Jon Cleary, Penny Vincenci, RF Delderfield. Also several already mentioned.