What are you reading now?

Having just finished 'Our Best Attention' by Jane Tulloch, which I couldn't put down - a lovely, entertaining book - I have now started a novel, 'Oswald, Return of the King' by Edoardo Albert. About King Oswald (later St Oswald) of Northumbria, it has a lot of characters (the names of whom are all but unpronounceable!), so it is already confusing. Onward and upward!
Thank you, jane10, for your book. I'll pass it on to my friend who is laid up, at the moment. It's sure to cheer her up!

Just finished Paul o' Grady, Open the cage Murphy, not as good as his first two books... but still funny and enjoyable.

The Buffer Girls was very good. I`ve just started The Soul of Discretion, by Susan Hill, the latest Simon Serailler book.

Life & Loves of a She Devil, saw the TV mini series years ago, it was recently done on Radio 4, but I had never read the book.
Enjoying it.

Amazon gave me a free book choice for my kindle and I picked Payback by Kimberly Chambers.

This is fantastic although unbeknown to me at the time, it is the second book in a series of 4 so would have been better to read the original one first.

I have now read it and have bought book 2 The Wanted which I am three quarters way through and I will go back and read the first one The Trap although the wrong way round.

I am a Londoner born and bred and she so captures life in London in the 70s and beyond, albeit the criminal fraternity.

Excellent!!

I just finished Crooked Heart by Lissa Evans about a war evacuee boy, I highly recommend it.

I'm reading Villette by Charlotte Bronte. It's the 200 years anniversary of her birth this year.
Will read your book next jane10, looking forward to it. Lovely thread about memories of department stores.

I'm reading Disclaimer, another very good debut thriller picked up at Sainsburys when buying a few essentials, it's becoming a habit, their books are competitively priced at £3.9

I am struggling to get through An Evil Love by Geoffrey Wansell. It is the full story of the life of Fred and Rose West, and is very grim and so shocking that I can only manage a few pages at times. I don't know if I will be able to finish reading it.

Nana 3 - I assumed that Villette was a person until I read it!
A friend pressed on me Mermaids Singing by Dilly Court, much more absorbing than I anticipated.
I'm also reading an illustrated biography of Arthur Ransome.

Eirel I came across Arthur Ransome's grave in a remote church in the Rusland Valley in the Lakes many years ago. It's so off the beaten track and the place gave me odd feelings.

On an adventure holiday by Lake Windermere we kayaked to one of the islands AR described in his books.
BookClub this morning, good company and a good chat!

Am currently reading Anne Cleeve's 'Raven Black', which I think is the first of the Shetland novels. I didn't see the first series of Shetland and had never read the books so when I saw them on offer on kindle I downloaded a couple. She has a wonderful writing style, and this book fills in a lot of gaps for me in respect of the major characters. Can't put it down.

The Soul of Discretion was good, but not as good as previous Serailler books. I`ve just finished The Throwaway Children, by Diney Costeloe, a good book, but with a lot of sadness in it. It was about the horrible practise of childrens` homes sending children to Australia without the knowledge of their parents or families. A good read though. I`m now reading Angels at War, by Freda Lightfoot, not my usual genre, but alright so far.

At the Existentialist Cafe by Sarah Bakewell.

Angels at War turned out to be not too bad. I`ve just begun reading The Chocolate Girls, by Annie Murray. It`s started in 1939, in Birmingham, around the Cadbury factory.

I am now reading, Emma's Duty by Rosie Clarke. There are three books, I bought the first at an secondhand book shop and loved the story, so got the second and now on the third.

I have finished Gone with the Wind which I had on Kindle because of the larger print. Its the fourth time I've read it and it even made me cry and now its finished, I miss it. Exactly as I felt when younger.
Its good to take part in really long conversations and descriptions, and throughout the book Scarlett O'Hara remains true to her character -over 1000 pages.
Now I'm looking for another Classic. perhaps I'll read Vilette again. For bed time reading I'm reading Joanna Trollope Balancing Act which is ok to fall asleep to.

Reading " our endless numbered days " by Claire Fuller, slow starter...but worth persevering.

Just started the Shetland books bt Anne Clever mostly to stop me reading Agatha Raisin.

I have just started The Moth Catcher also by Anne Cleves>

Cath9, I`ve read the middle one of the trilogy, liked it, didn`t reqlise immediately that it was part of a trilogy.

Sorry, realise!

Just finished Anne Cleeve's 'Raven Black'. A very good, 'unputdownable' book, but with a rather unsatisfactory ending which let it down. A gallop to the finish line with questions unanswered.

Thank you TerriBull for your recommendations. I read The Widow and really enjoyed it and have just finished Disclaimer.

Wondering what to read next. In between I read Behind Closed Doors a first novel by B A Paris, which was also a gripping read. I've read all the Vera and Shetland books by Anne Cleeves already, unless the Moth Catcher is a new one.

(I'm hopeless about books I read a while ago and can get two or three chapters in before the penny drops that I've read something already!)