22 The Maid - Nita Prose A number 1 New York Times best seller soon to be made by Netflix, in spite of all that, didn't like it that much. The Maid of the tile clearly on the spectrum, she is very literal, working in a large swish Canadian hotel, stumbles across dead body whilst cleaning room and gets drawn into some very shady goings on. Could see it might make quite a good drama though.
23 Saturday Requiem Nicci French, I think I thought it was quite good, but can't remember anything about it now. One of the Freda Klein's I haven't read any others in the series.
24 The Heatwave Kate Riordan divorced French woman living in England, returns to family home in Provence with young daughter. Recollections of life there with husband and older disappeared/presumed dead psychologically damaged daughter. Described as a slow burner, it was ok.
25 No I Don't Want To Join A Book Club (audio) Virginia Ironside. Not so much a story rather than a series of musings from the main character who reaching 60 is reflecting on the aches and pains and irritations of old age, although having passed that age eight years ago, she sounded as if she were approaching 80 from some gripes. Becoming a grandparent for the first time and losing a close friend to cancer some of the themes covered. Flashes of humour at times not bad.
26 Under Your Skin - Sabine Durrant ever since I read a blinder of a thriller "Lie With Me" by this author I'm always hoping I'll pick up another by her that is anything like half as good as that one. Alas! have never found it yet. This is one of her earlier ones. Woman out for early morning run discovers dead body young woman in the undergrowth, further down the line she is arrested on suspicion of her murder. A big twist at the end which I didn't see coming.
27 Forever Young - Hayley Mills (autobiography) Saving the best till last, loved Hayley's account of her growing up years and how she became a child actress quite by chance. Her father John Mills had a director visiting family home to discuss the prospective film Tiger Bay they were planning to make, a pivotal role in the film was that to be played by a male child actor, JM pointing out that much would rest on said child's performance and to the director "have you anyone in mind?" Looking over at Hayley playing noisily in the garden he said "yes I've found that person" the rest is history. Soon after that Hayley was auditioned by the Disney Corporation to make half a dozen films. for them. I remember enjoying some of those when I was growing up. She did of course make some grittier films back in England, notably "Whistle Down The Wind" which was written by her mother. The Disney Corporation had complete control over what else she appeared in whilst she was under contract and could veto anything they thought would sully her squeaky clean image. One such role she was offered in her early teens was "Lolita" 
needless to say........Walt didn't approve!. Hayley however never had a bad word to say about him or pretty much all of the famous names she had worked with during her long career. She really only focuses on the early part of her life. Her earnings as a child star which were I believe considerable, were placed in a Trust Fund which she was able to access at 21, only to find out that the Revenue had taken pretty much all of that at a time when tax was .91p in the pound, shocking! She did win some of it back on appeal, but the Revenue appealed the appeal and took the lot. In retrospect she felt that instead of having financial security at a time when she found herself divorced and a single mother, she had to spend time working apart from her children when she wanted to be around them more in their growing up years. I really enjoyed her memoirs and as much of it was centred around her life in the 1960s , a date with George Harrison for example, an era I love to look back on.
28 River Kings - Cat Jarman non fiction Historical detective work on the part of the author bioarchaeologist following the link between an English Viking settlement and their trading routes and interaction with other cultures most notably those in the Middle East through to the Silk Roads. Although the Roman Empire regarded them as part of the Barbarian hordes it wasn't all slash and raid. Vestiges of a very interesting culture highlighted in this book.
