Posted by Fi on February 13, 2002, at 15:20:47
In reply to Entertaining Fiction » fi, posted by jane d on February 8, 2002, at 12:56:47
More books I have enjoyed (the ones I didn't give away, so rather an odd bunch!). Again,not necessarily suggestions for book club, and I haven't checked them on Amazon for availability- a lot are UK authors and some quite old.
* means recently published and in paperback (in UK anyway)Humour
Love's Labours, Sue Limb
Pomp & Circumstance, Noel CowardOther- not necessarily fun but absorbing
*Girl with a Pearl Earring, Tracy Chevalier (very absorbing- based on a fictional servant in Vermeer's house)
*The Eyre Affair, Jaspar Fforde (bizarre but entertaining)
To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
The Balkan Trilogy, Olivia Manning (if you feel like a saga)
2 tense dramas by Robert Harris: Fatherland, (what might have happened if the Nazis won), Enigma (fiction around the breaking of this code).I had a stage of enjoying Mary Wesley (particularly The Camomile Lawn) and Joanna Trollope, but got tired of them.
Crime
I'm not usually particularly interested in crime novels, and certainly wouldn't read them when feeling rough.*Ian Rankin is my current favourite, but that may be because his gritty stories are set in my home city.Fi
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