What books are you reading and why?

I love crime fiction and I’ve been reading quite a few Australian crime novels. I have discovered some great authors so far. I’ve enjoyed books by Jane Harper, Chris Hammer & Sarah Bailey.
I assume I must be making up for not being able to visit my lovely Aussie family at this time ?

I've just finished Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier. It was on my must read list.

Just finished 'My Wounded Heart' by Martin Doerry, about his grandmother, a Jewish woman who married a non-Jew in Germany before the war. Yes, sad in many ways but so enlightening about how the outcome crept up gradually, and so touching that her young children kept in touch by writing to her in prison. Amazingly, many of the letters survived and are a fascinating description of life under Allied airraids but lots of cake.
I gave this book to my mother-in-law as a present and she said how much she had liked it. Sadly she died in January and I retrieved it from her house. I'll pass it on to my daughter now.

Cant read too much right now as need 2nd cataract done before getting new glasses, virus has got in the way of too many things. Reading Mark Leiren-Youngs The Killer Whale Who Changed The World. About Moby Doll who changed thinking about Orcas. Read a lot of my own books over again for light reading at bedtime & get annoyed when my eyes fight back as I read voraciously!

Thanks, I read the first two Rosie Project books and just ordered the Result. My upstairs book currently is Jalna, Mazo De La Roche.I'm re-reading the series after many years. I was 14 when I last did so it is new for me and also has a different effect. Downstairs is the latest biography of Georgette Heyer and re-reading DL Sayers/Jill Patton's Thrones Dominations. Audible to fall asleep to, just finished Elephants Can Remember by Agatha Christie.

Just finished The Secret history of Disinformation by Thomas Ridd (I knew it!) and now am deeply enjoying Karl Ove Knausgaard’s A death in the family

I am reading a paper back: Along Came a Spider by James Paterson. Was surprised to read the character was walking down Collins Avenue, past the Fountainblue Hotel, Miami. We stayed there 7 years ago!! Sort of came to life.

I have just finished The Seige and the Betrayal they follow on from each other. They are about the Seige of Lennigrad. I am now listening to an audio book called The Wild Swans, all about the communists in China. Both very interesting if you enjoy Social History.

I’m reading FiftyFifty by Steve cavanagh and wow it’s a great book highly recommend for those of you who like me enjoy Harlan Coben books.

Islands of Mercy by Rose Tremain. Just started and it seems ok

'enough' by john naish a brilliant look at modern life and how we have far more than enough. It really makes you stop and look how modern society is nuts!

I’m reading Before the Poison too ,Schnackie! I’m enjoying it - although I keep expecting DCI Banks to appear! Just finished The House We Grew Up In by Lisa Jewell... it’s about hoarding (partly).

I love Agatha Christie, and am reading lots of Louise Candlish at the moment. Her book Our House is going to be made into a Tv Drama which is exciting. My own book The House Party (by Mary Grand) is a whodunnit as that is what I love to read. The book I am reading at the moment is Louise Candlish's The Other Passanger. I also like Lucy Fowley books.

milliemabel I am sorry to hear about your father?.

I love Lucinda Riley’s The Seven Sisters books. Each one ( there are 7 books altogether) is set in a different country ( some which I’ve visited) and well researched. Looking forward to reading about the last sister which is due out early next year.

I have just finished reading The Ruffler’s Child - a whodunnit set in Tudor times, that promised much but rather lost its way. I am dipping in and out of The Lost Spells - not a reading book as such but full of sumptuous watercolour illustrations (I can lose myself in a watercolour) and lovely poetry. Saving Bernard Cornwell’s ‘War Lord’ for a rainy day.

Polnan, I’m so glad it’s not just me. I usually read loads and feel like I really need to be lost in a book at the moment. I’ve got a big pile of to be reads and cannot get into anything, it’s so annoying!

I also thoroughly enjoyed the Thursday Murder Club.

Am currently reading It Started with a Secret, by Jill Mansell, which I'm also enjoying.

Recently read Forgive Me, by Susan Lewis, and always have a book on the go. For me, it's about the characters. If they are relatable and a gripping story, I could read for hours.

Please can anyone recommend books specifically about Cornwall.

Hicaz I'm currently reading "Troubled Blood" and have bought "The Thursday Murder Club" for my husband for Christmas. We both read lots of thrillers. I might buy the new Ian Rankin for the current lockdown or for Christmas. I really miss Phillip Kerr, a shame he died so (relatively) young.

I'm starting the Jack Sheffield Teacher Teacher series.
I read one called Harold the Angel?? to my dad. He died yesterday afternoon but I managed to finish reading the book to him on Sunday. Its very short but funny, light hearted and allowed dad to hear my voice despite being unconscious. Jack Sheffield is a Yorkshire man as was Dad.
I've had the set, bought second hand, for a year or so, but will start to read them one by one for Dad.

I also love reading Gervase Phinn, Sophie Kinsella and Patricia Scanlan.

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I'm currently working my way through Alexander McCall Smith's Isabel Dalhousie series. They ooze all kinds of human-kindness and gentleness. Just right for me in current climate. Blissful escape.

I'm racing through The Amber Spyglass as they are serialising the next part of Phillip Pullman's Northern Lights on TV. Read them all before but enjoying them again.
I have the new Galbraith/Rowling book on my Kindle waiting for me. It is very long. I just love reading!!!

I read voraciously, sometimes I wonder how I have the time to get through so.many books as I don't daytime read except in bed before I get up. Lots are detective or thrillers and I do enjoy something different.

Recently I have read Victoria Hislop's latest, Those Who Love. Set in Greece from about late 30s to early 70s, well researched and very enlightening about 20th century Greece. Us, better than th e television version. The Missing Pieces of Nancy Moon, Where the Crawdads Sing. The Hearts Invisible Furies - a truly wonderful read. About to read The Beekeeper of Aleppo. I've enjoyed a couple of Anthony Horowitz 's books, different way of writing.