Quick quick ! Holiday reads

I enjoyed Diplomatic Baggage. Very interesting & Brigid has a down-to-earth style.. I read it just before the Syrian civil war kicked off; I remember because Syria was her favourite posing and the people were so hospitable.

My choice of "good read" authors:

Tracey Chevalier - especially Girl with a Pearl Earring
Deborah Moggach - especially Stolen
Lee Langley - especially Changes of Address
Nick Horny - especially About a Boy
David Nicholls - especially One Day
Anne Tyler - especially Saint Maybe

I know there are mixed opinions about Hilary Mantel. Historical books don't really appeal to me but I found her book Eight Months on Ghazzah Street a gripping thriller (inspired by her own experience of living in Saudi Arabia)

Not without my daughter- Betty Mamood- a good, easy read.

Thank you for the update, Maw, I'm sorry to hear that.

I fear Lucca is no longer with us
Another, sadly missed.

The spam I reported has been removed.

Reported.

Does anyone know if Lucca is OK? I know she was very ill.

FannyCornforth

Hi Lucca
Did you read The Carer?
Indeed any Deborah Moggarch.
I particularly like her Buffy (he’s a lugubrious ageing actor) books, start with The Ex-Wives.

Enjoy your break!

I thoroughly enjoyed The Carer!
Found in a charity shop, IIRC.

eazybee

NotSpaghetti.
I don't think it is that simple. She was n poor health.

I hope then she is OK.
🙏

I have stupidly made new suggestions on this old thread.

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Miss Benson's Beetle by Rachel Joyce.

Last Orders at Harrods - by Michael Holman (no, not that Harrods)

The Paper Palace by Miranda Cowley Heller

Alypoole

Thank you. I've just downloaded the app.

You can also get BorrowBox from our library- which I like better than Libby as it has a wider range of audio books - which I listen to when cooking or sewing etc.

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Have you read ‘Me Before You’ Jo Jo Moyes or the follow up’After You’? Or
‘The Moon’s a Balloon’ David Niven always makes me laugh. Or biographies of other famous people

With apologies to anyone who may have wanted to know all the latest retail prices in Pakistan.

Reported. Again.

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Reported yet again in seems.

Why are we getting these old threads, do you think?

NotSpaghetti.
I don't think it is that simple. She was n poor health.

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Oh no eezybee!


She's surely back by now !

The Maid - Nita Prose
Kate Atkinson- Life after Life
Isabelle Allende- The Japanese Lover
Ayesha Malek - This Green and Pleasant Land

Um, this is an old thread.
Is Lucca still about?

Reported (sigh)

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