I just finished The Last Tudor by Philippa Gregory I really enjoyed it but have to admit I have read most of her novels. What a baitch Elizabeth 1st was :shock:
Also just read The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye. Continuing Stieg Larsson’s Millennium Series by David Lagercrantz, I enjoyed it but not as much as the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
A little different, but I’ve bought Bruce Dickinson’s autobiography to read over Christmas.
Dickinson is the lead vocalist with rock band Iron Maiden. He is also a qualified jumbo jet pilot, semi-professional fencer, childrens book author and has beaten cancer twice.
Should be an excellent read.
Only according to someone who didn’t know her and is constructing an entertaining novel. Let’s face it - all historical novels are imagined and embellished. We don’t even know our own Royals, so what chance have we to understand the workings of someone’s mind from centuries ago?
Having said that, monarchs couldn’t afford to be compassionate and cuddly, so I’ve no doubt none of them would win any popularity contests.
The Last Republicans a book about George H. W. Bush and his eldest son George W.
It’s sounds good usually after a Jodi Picoult one feels like ending it all 
No no no!!
Intense as always, and shocking too, but a great read, and don’t expect the ending as it’s a real surprise! 
But it does make you understand how and why youngsters become so easily radicalised.
I confess there were some chapters I skip read (can’t believe I’m admitting to such a crime!!) because I wanted to get into the courtroom drama!
I am reading “The Hundred Year Old Man who climbed out of a Window and escaped” by Jonas Jonasson. A humorous story which is just what the title says. A good bit of light reading, for a change.
If you go for thrilling page turners then this isn’t for you…
But if you love a book that is beautifully written and draws you in so that you feel you’re sinking into a warm bath…
It’s about everyday life in a village when a young girl goes missing…but as the days and seasons and years go by you’re so immersed in the lives of the villagers and almost forget the original tragedy.
A really incredible piece of writing.
Reservoir 13 by Jon McGregor, winner of the 2017 Costa Novel Award.
He flew us to Norway a few years back.
Just finished reading Behind Her Eyes by Sarah Pinborough and was completely taken by surprise by the amazing ending. It wouldn’t be for everyone as it’s a thriller that has elements of the paranormal but that ending had the best twist I’ve ever come across. If you’re a fan of Stephen King you’d probably enjoy this book.
Just finished Ike Hamill book extinction, I won’t recommend it unless you want an example of bad sci fi. post apocolyptic writers usually chose one event, a disease, a natural disaster, alien invasion, man eating plants or similar, this author is obviously a fan because I don’t think he left any possible apocolyptic event out of the book, man eating plants, disease, man melting water, severe snow, alien invasion, bad humans and zombies and possibly a religious event. All in a few hundred pages ! Instead of enjoying it as what it was intended it made me laugh that he had managed to get it all in !
Sounds like my kind of book . I’ll read anything.
Julie , If I’ve got the right one it’s free on a kindle edition right now on Amazon.
I’m currently wading through free fan fiction of old TV series.
Hours of endless fun though I’ve learnt to avoid slash … only came in what that was when Blake and Avon got their kit off in a Blake’s 7 book and got down to it.
Just started to read SIRENS by Joseph Knox. I love a good thriller. This one, according to my SIL, has it all.
If you liked The Girl On The Train you’ll probably like The Widow . I like how the author has created her particular type of woman,rather a droll soul but not so slow on observing others and very well able to tell a tale to us.
The subject matter isn’t pleasant, wife discovers what husband gets up to during the course of him being arrested and tried for a crime .
I havn’t finished it yet but there’s bound to be a twist .
I am reading The Midnight Line by Lee Childs, one of my Christmas books. I do like the Jack Reacher stories, but cant stand the films where Reacher is played by Tom Cruise, he is totally wrong for the part.
Jack Hunts 3rd in the phobia series, strain. I’m quite enjoying it a killer flu virus, a hero who is germ phobic, a world falling apart around him. An interesting twist on the post apocolyptic genre.
I’m currently reading The girl on the velvet swing by Simon Baatz. I had previously read his book on the Leopold and Loeb case and this one doesn’t disappoint.
Fascinating glimpse into high society at the turn of the twentieth century.
Currently reading Around the World in 80 days all part of my attempt to read the classics. Enjoying it so far and it is actually quite easy to read.
I also am reading a lot of the old books lately, want to do it before they become unavailable to borrow from the library.
Just finished up DuMaurier’s “Frenchman’s Creek” and “Rebecca” both kept me content for hours.
Rebecca is one of my favourite books ever, loved the old film too, Not so keen on the later versions.
