Comfort reads (or rather re-reads)

Oh I forgotten about Jane Duncan! Must read again thank you PensionPat for reminding me!

Another vote for The Shell Seekers, also My Cousin Rachel and Rebecca.
Anything by Kitty Neale as they are set in Battersea, where I grew up and make me feel nostalgic.

17Witzend I have read and like most of your comfort reads. I recently discovered barbara pym (I know I am late) and love her, she reminds me of of a 20th century Jane Austen. I haven't read Crampton Hodnet so that is next on my list as is Mr Goodlightlys Holiday which I haven't read either. As I like the others on your list I am guessing your taste is similar to mine.

There are some lovely reminders on this post that have made me think " must read that again ".
My favourite rereads are:
Jane Austen apart from Northanger Abbey.
Charles Dickens Tale of Two Cities
Rosemary Sutcliff's Aquila family trio plus Sword at Sunset, and also her Rider of the White Horse about Thomas and Anne Fairfax.
Georgette Heyer - Infamous Army, Friday's Child, Bath Tangle, Venetia and The Unknown Ajax.
Leslie Gervais - That Ancient River - Has anyone else come across this? Published just after WW2. Well out of print now.
M.M.Kaye - The Far Pavilions
Rumer Godden - In This House of Brede and Black Narcissus
Colleen McCullough - Masters of Rome series
Alan Bennett - The Uncommon Reader

Oh yes Elle, Diana Gabaldon. But it was called cross-stitch when I first read that first of the series. Somehow it became popular with the USA and turned into a series for TV and renamed Outlander.

Did anyone else ever read “Cutting for Stone” Abraham Verghese ?

Another Miss Read fan here. Having grown up in villages then a small town l find her observations on rural life spot on. I have always followed her advice about living in a small community; to give out nuggets of information about yourself that you don't mind people knowing in the hope that if you wish to keep something private then you will be able to. I also re-read Maeve Binchy and To Serve Them All My Days and, one of the most beautifully written children's books ever written, Tom's Midnight Garden by Philippa Pearce. You need a handkerchief at the end, though! As a child l was a vociferous reader and read many children's classics but also loved Enid Blyton's books, Just William, the Chalet School stories and the Jennings books. My favourite author was Noel Streatfeild.

I often reread The Roselynde Chronicles and Knight’s Honour by Roberta Gellis or Gladys Mitchell crime stories-I love Mrs Bradley.

Just remembered one of my all time favourite feel good books
The Good Companions-JB Priestley

Miss Reid novels about Thrush Green and Fairacre. Cosy, warm and a reminder of more simpler times.

Craftycat

Oh yes, loved those book, and Staying On, I think is my favourite.

I’m also a massive fan of Sue Gee, I think she’s hugely underrated.

Jewel in the Crown series - including Staying On. I remember the first time I read it & was desperate to know what happened to Guy & Sarah. So glad he wrote that 4th book.
Also Barchester Chronicles - Anthony Trollope. Such lovely gentle humour. I love the scenes between Obidiah Slope & Mrs Proudie.

Of course, who could forget The Famous Five Olliebeak, though I haven't reread them since reading to my children forty odd years ago.

Favourite poems are narrative poems

The Morte d'Arthur poems by Tennyson
The Highwayman makes me cry
Hiawatha, tried learning it by heart once.

Annaram1. Try Persephone Books .

All of Barbara Trapido
Frost in May Antonia White
Anything by Anita Desai
Ditto Nancy Mitford
Suite Francaise Irene Nemirovsky (not really comfort reading, but compelling)
Anita Shreve
Allan Bennett's Diaries
Vita Sackville West especially All Passion Spent

I could go on, but instead I'm taking Vita down from the shelf again ?

Anne Tyler, Doris Lessing, Pat Barker, so so many more. I remember in the seventies reading The women's Room by Marilyn French, and being being blown away by it, wonder if it would have the same affect now

I really like Anita Brookner too and have re-read several of her books (though I wasn't keen on Hotel du Lac, which was the one that won the Booker prize. I wouldn't exactly call her books "comfort reading" because there is certain an abiding sense of melancholy in many of them, and great poignancy.

I have also re-read several Anne Tyler books - particularly The Accidental Tourist and Saint Maybe. Lovely books.

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Anita Brookner. Got all her books and love them.

Any Dickens books, which I absolutely love. He is the only author whose books I have read more than once.

For the record I am writing a romance set in the years 1912-1924.
Does anyone know of any novels set in these years as I would love to read some set in the same time? I am researching the WW1 online and it was a truly awful time, not only for the soldiers but for their families back home.

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All the Penny Vincenzi books. Jeffrey Archer, Miss Read, Peter James. Agatha Christie, Oh the joy of reading!!

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Maeve Binchy. Anne Tyler. Dorothy Whipple. And sometimes .. Jilly Cooper .. Prudence, Octavia, Imogen etc.

My favourite re-reads are Georgette Heyer, Margaret Way (who writes beautiful descriptive books set Australia), and Sophie Kinsella is always amusing. Along with Alan Titchmarsh and Fern Britton.

Saggi

Yes, Susan Hill, she is so versatile