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  • moulesy
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    edited October 2019 #362

    "I don't care how long your reading list is we don't need any more rain at present thank you!"

    Fair enough, but without wet weather Mrs M is going to insist on me getting some of those outside jobs done! laughing

  • Bakers2
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    edited October 2019 #363

    You know it makes sense. Out you go get them over and done with - then you can read with a clear conscience and no rain 😂😂😂😂

  • Goldie146
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    edited October 2019 #364

    When we were away last weekend I read “The Long Call” by Ann Cleeves. She’s the author of the Shetland and Vera books - now televised. This is the start of a new series, and I’m looking forward to the next one.

    I bought it as a real physical book a few weeks ago when it came out, and saved it till I had the time to read it in one go. Actually over two days. It’s set down in Devon, of which I know next to nothing!

  • nelliethehooker
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    edited October 2019 #365

    I've just finished and thoroughly enjoyed The Love Songs of Queenie Hennessey by Rachel Joyce. It is the companion book, not a sequel or prequel, to The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry and should be read as soon as possible after it. I found it quite thought provoking.

  • thebells
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    edited October 2019 #366

    I love Ann Cleeves (she lives over the road from my friend😊) so that's on my Christmas present wish list. 

    I'll also take the opportunity to recommend Ellie Griffiths' "Ruth Galloway" novels again: I think her style of writing is similar to Cleeves' and she makes me want to visit the Norfolk area!

  • Goldie146
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    edited October 2019 #367

    I’ll look out for them!

  • moulesy
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    edited October 2019 #368

    David Nicholls is another of my favourites , brue. I've just started his latest "Sweet Sorrow" and as a former teacher the first few chapters, describing a school leaving party/disco had me laughing out loud. It's going to be a good read,  I think! smile

  • nelliethehooker
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    edited October 2019 #369

    Don't know if you've got it yet, moulesy, but The Love Songs of Queenie Hennessy, Rachel Joyce,  is at 99p again today on Kindle!!

  • moulesy
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    edited October 2019 #370

    Got it for 50p at Putts Corner, Nellie. Mrs M is just about to start it! smile

  • nelliethehooker
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    edited October 2019 #371

    Now that's a bargain!! I'd be interested in what she thinks of it.

  • moulesy
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    edited November 2019 #372

    Just had an email from the library to say they've got the latest Peter James and Michael Connelly waiting for me - happy days, but got to finish John le Carre's first! smile

  • Wherenext
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    edited November 2019 #373

    What's the Le Carre called, M? I did read a good review whilst we were away recently but have forgotten the title.

    Just finished a Bruno investigates book by Martin Walker and will then start one by William Shaw called Salt Lane.

  • Wherenext
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    edited November 2019 #374

    Just had an email saying the latest Bosch is in!😁😁😁 Guess where I'm off to tomorrow?

     

  • moulesy
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    edited November 2019 #375

    It's called "Agent Running in the Field", W. Very thoughtfully written as always and very topical with lots of Br.....it and Tr...p references! smile

  • Wherenext
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    edited November 2019 #376

    Cheers M. Picked up the Bosch book. First one to use it.smile

  • nelliethehooker
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    edited November 2019 #377

    What's it's title, WM?

  • Wherenext
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    edited November 2019 #378

    The Night Fire

    Finished it today, almost a record time for me.smile Usual brilliance.

  • nelliethehooker
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    edited November 2019 #379

    Thanks WN. I'll have to phone daughter and find out if she's already purchased it, when she gets back from Madeira.

  • moulesy
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    edited November 2019 #380

    For fans of Martin Cruz Smith's  "Arkady Renko" series of books, or anyone looking to start reading an intriguing series of thrillers set in Moscow, Kindle have a number of them on offer for just 99p today. Highly recommended.

    And 6 years on from the last one, there is a new edition in the offing "The Siberian Dilemma". smile

  • Wherenext
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    edited November 2019 #381

    Finished Salt Lane by William Shaw today. You'll like it Nellie, particularly as you want to get to Dungeness at some time.

  • nelliethehooker
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    edited November 2019 #382

    It's on my list of wanted books. Waiting for it to appear at 99p on Kindle!wink Did you read The Birdwatcher by WS?

  • Wherenext
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    edited November 2019 #383

    Yes. I read that quite a while ago. What are you reading at the moment?

  • nelliethehooker
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    edited November 2019 #384

    Murderabilia by Craig Roberson, the 5th in the Winter/Narey series

  • Wherenext
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    edited November 2019 #385

    Good series that one.smile

  • nelliethehooker
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    edited November 2019 #386

    For all enthusiasts of historical biographies, especially those that have read and liked Black Diamonds by Catherine Bailey her latest book, The Secret Rooms, about Belvoir Castle, is on sale on Kindle at 99p today.laughing

  • moulesy
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    edited December 2019 #387

    I'm in the middle of Christy Lefteri's novel "The Beekeeper of Aleppo". It's a hard read in some ways but a real eye opener in drawing attention to the awful plight so many families have suffered over the past few years in Syria and the hardships that drive them to seek a new life in the west.

    Required reading for anyone who doubts the tragic lifes and real hardships many refugees have to endure.

  • brue
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    edited December 2019 #388

    "Lady in Waiting" by Anne Glenconner. Bought this for my sister who is not a fan of royalty but for some reason is addicted to "The Crown." I decided to read it first!

    Well, what a page turner, all you want to know about the goings on of those with too much money in their paws... Anne Coke of Holkham Hall, (later a lady in waiting to Princess Margaret) married Colin Tennant (Lord Glenconner) and even Princess Margaret worried that he was too decadent a person to marry, well he was! It's quite an extraordinary read but sad too, wealth doesn't spare anyone from the events of life.

  • Wherenext
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    edited December 2019 #389

    Just finished a book by Sam Eastland called The Elegant Lie. I've enjoyed this authors Inspector Pekkala series but this is a stand alone. Very well written and set in post was Cologne 1947. It was strange though as the whole book does not break down into Chapters. There aren't any even though the book moves through different time scales.

    Just picked up one from the ebook library, a Stuart MacBride Logan book, one that I've missed reading Flesh House. I suspect from the first few pages that this book will have more blood and gore in the first chapter than the other one had in the whole book. Might make me go Vegan.smile

  • Goldie146
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    edited December 2019 #390

    That was the last Stuart MacBride book I read (but didn’t finish). I’m very squeamish and just couldn’t read another in case it was the same. Though a friend has told that no other is as bad.

     

  • nelliethehooker
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    edited December 2019 #391

    I've just completed the first 3 of the "Breen& Tozer" Series by William Shaw (author of The Birdwatcher". They are detective novels based mainly in London but around historic world events in the late 1960's. Quite thought provoking.

    By coincidence the next one I've started on, A Darker Domain by Val McDermid, is based around the events in Fife in 1984, the year of the Miners Strike.

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