The Lurgy.........

Val McDermid - have recently got hooked on her excellent style.

Some of the above I have read some not. I now have enough to keep me going until the end of the year - thank you all very much?

Gentlemen and Players, by Joanne Harris.

Dragon lady or another vote for kate Morton

Lucinda Riley, especially the Seven Sisters series. Elly Griffiths series about the archaeologist Ruth Galloway. Peter May set in the Hebrides, Peter James set in Brighton , Martin Shaw Bruno chief of police set in the Dordogne and JR Ellis set in Yorkshire detective series are also a good read.

Hope you get better soon.

If you like a good crime novel then The Kind Worth Killing by Peter Swanson is good - I couldn't put it down. Each chapter is from a different point of view but to prevent confusion that person's name is at the head of each.

If you have several days, read The Goldfinch. The film can in no way do it justice.

Easy, but intelligently written reads, look for Claudia Carrol, especially ‘The Women of Primrose Square’. If you fancy a bit of a thriller ‘Sticks and Stones’ by Jo Jakeman.

Will def check out salt path.
Just finished Pillars of the Earth - great read (historical fiction).

Three Men In A Boat - Jerome K Jerome.

Hope you feel better soon !

How to be Happy by Eva Woods. Half a World Away by Mike Gayle.

I've just finished The Glassblower. I enjoy all of Maeve Binchys books also Alexander McCall Smith. Get better soon.

Before I go to Sleep by SJ Watson. It’s a psychological thriller. Not normally my kind of book but I really enjoyed it.

Elinor Olliphant in Completely Fine- Gail Honeyman.It will make you laugh & maybe cry just a little. Best book I have read for ages- DH read it too & loved it. My book club voted it best book of the decade!!
Magpie Murders - Anthony Horowitch is very good too.

"The Various Haunts Of Men", by Susan Hill. (The first in her Simon Serrailler series. Simon is a police detective.) Recommended if you like a "detective" series: currently there are ten books in this series. Hill is regarded widely as an excellent writer, both for her stories and the quality of her written English. I think she is gifted in giving "pen portraits" about families, people, and places.

Erica james

Any of Kate Morton's

Another vote for ^The Silence of the Girls., I couldn’t put it down. Actually anything by Pat Barker.

The Silence of the Girls, Pat Barker

A retelling of the Iliad from the point of view of the Trojan women captured by the Greeks. A bit of a gory start, but compulsive after that.

I agree. The Salt Path. Couldnt put it down.

Thanks for the tip Jane, I'll keep a look out.

The writer of 'Three things about Elsie' has a new book out today. I've not started it yet though. Its called 'Breaking and Mending' and is about her career as psychiatrist (I think!)

Be interested to know what you think

I have bought all 3 books recommended and I am looking forward to book fest

Thank you.