A complete change for me now.
Last night I started Joan Collins book called ‘Star Quality’
It’s about a kitchen maid who has a beautiful singing voice.
She gets discovered and becomes a star.
I’m enjoying it so far…
I also have just read a book which I normally would not have chosen but whilst browsing in a charity book shop A cover caught my eye so I flicked through the pages and was hooked immediately…so bought it. Light reading for the beach and very enjoyable.
It is The Duchess by Danielle Steel.
Angelique Latham grew up at the magnificent Belgrave Castle with her father, the Duke of Westerfield, after the death of her mother. But when he dies, her half-brothers brutally deny her very existence and send her out into the world alone.
At eighteen, Angelique has a keen mind, remarkable beauty and an envelope of money her late father pressed upon her. Unable to secure employment, Angelique desperately makes her way to Paris. To survive, she will need all her resources - and one bold stroke of fortune.
Angelique takes an unfamiliar and unimaginable path in setting up what becomes a highly successful business. But she lives on the edge of scandal; can she ever make a life for herself?
From England to Paris and New York, Danielle Steel paints a captivating portrait of a woman of unquenchable spirit in The Duchess.
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Just picked up a copy of “Day of the Dead” by Nicci French.
And I’m excited. I’ve enjoyed this whole Frieda Klein series. 
It’s one I enjoyed … the underlying spookiness. 
I’ve just started a book called ‘Don’t wake up’ by Liz Lawler.
This woman wakes up on the operating table and hovering over her is a masked surgeon. Her arms are tied together and he has her legs up in stirrups and tells her in a menacing voice that he’s going to perform a vulvectomy on her!
She knows there’s nothing wrong with here and can’t remember going on the operating table. How did she get there?
Why was she found outside under a shrub two hours later totally unharmed?
Nobody believes her story but she knows it happened …
I’m totally riveted to this book.
I’ve recently finished Sleeping in the Ground by Peter Robinson. Was just the latest book in his Inspector Banks series.
I’ve started another one but for the life of me I can’t remember the title or the blummin author (without going upstairs to look) but it’s quite good. Old age is a terrible thing 
Just going to start “The Miniaturist” by Jessie Burton.
Hope I like it
I’ve read that and most of series. Not bad, I think they’re more exciting when an enquiry takes him out of Yorkshire … to London, across the pond, and wasn’t he in one of the Baltic counties in one of the stories?
I’ve just finished reading Bruce Dickinson’s autobiography “What does this button do?”
Bruce is the lead vocalist with heavy metal band Iron Maiden but this book also shows the man’s extremely diverse other talents as airline pilot, children’s author, champion fencer, real ale brewer and cancer survivor.
A thoroughly enjoyable read.
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I do enjoy reading autobiographies. I have placed orders for Phil Collins’ “Not dead yet” and Sex Pistols guitarist Steve Jones’ "Lonely Boy.
I’m in the middle of reading ‘How to walk away’ by Kathering Center.
This is a story of hope & inspiration. The central character is Maggie - a lovely young woman who has everything going for her. Then on the eve of her engagement to her fiancé Charlie she’s involved in an accident which leaves her paralysed…
A Thousand Years of Annoying the French by Steven Clarke.
It debunks some facts and claims made by the French since The Battle of Hastings in a humorous way.
I’m reading, Kidnapped: The tragic life of J. Paul Getty III.
… not easy doing messages on my hudl here in Lisbon. But enjoying:
Love Story, With Murders by Harry Bingham.
Good crime fiction with clever/amusing observations & descriptions.
In the first person … Young, dope smoking detective constable in Cardiff, solving big crime, in a rather unorthodox manner.
Stopped reading Lee Childs books some time ago as they became the same old theme once to often but always wanted to know Jack Reachers background.
synopsis
Jack ‘No Middle Name’ Reacher, lone wolf, knight errant, ex military cop, lover of women, scourge of the wicked and righter of wrongs, is the most iconic hero for our age.
Read together, these twelve stories shed new light on Reacher’s past, illuminating how he grew up and developed into the wandering avenger who has captured the imagination of millions around the world.
Re-reading this one as she is one of my favourite authors. It’s only in the past few weeks my concentration has returned and I can read again.
Still the same one I started in 2009…The Singing Line
I’m ploughing through the Hamish MacBeth books again, on a re-read. So much better than the TV Series.
I’ve just finished another fiction thriller titled, “Lies” by TM Logan.
Story of a husband and son who spotted the wife ahead on the highway and wanted to catch up with her. Where she went and what follows begins the lies that wreck the marriage. Nice twists to it, and never saw the ending coming.
Day of the Caesars. Simon Scarrow.
Thanks for the tip!
Only £2.60 on Kindle, cheap as chips!
Looks good