Just borrowed the first DC Smith book on Libby - and it’s set in Norfolk where I live so even more interesting for me - thanks for the recommendation
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Thanks, sounds like something I should have a go at x
Hope you like it. It’s always interesting to recommend a book to someone as people’s tastes are so different. 
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Hi, love Kristin Hannah too, she’s is a really good author, have you read The Great Alone? It’s set in Alaska. If not would recommend it, it’s very good! I’ve just actually just started The Briar Club by Kate Quinn, never read her before, I’m really enjoying it.
The Briar Club was very different from others I have read by her but all have been good 
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I subscribe to Audible, but it is pricey, so last night I looked at the Libby app, seems it doesn’t reach rural Devon, our local library does not exist on their system. 
I tend to go for really long audio books, get maximum hours for my money. Ken Follet, Mervyn Peake.
I also love a physical book.
I have had a few good recommendations for books from Folksy sellers.
I’m just about to start reading Raynor Winn’s Landlines, and a friend has recommended Raising Hare by Chloe Dalton that sounds really good.
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I am trying to avoid doing my work, and have just embarked on reading Jane Eyre. I have decided that I was born in the wrong era… I could quite easily stay home and develop my needlepoint skills, wander round the house in long lacy nightgowns whilst muttering to myself and wringing my hands - perhaps I could be one of those ‘hysterical women’ from Victorian times? Luckily, my husband won’t be able to lock me up in the attic as we don’t have one…
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lt’s a cracking read. I couldn’t put it down. All his books are good.
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Oh no! No libby 
Such a shame.
Finished Lorna Doone a couple of days ago, and yesterday finished off the short stories in George Mackay Brown’s ‘A Time to Keep’. Now just reading a few little Grimm’s fairy tales while I decide what to read next.
Just started reading ‘where the cawdads sing’ wow, I’m only about 20 pages in and I can’t put it down.
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I can definitely recommend Matrix by Lauren Groff 
I picked up The Garden of Lost and Found by Harriet Evans in a charity shop and it’s a page-turner.
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I love picking up random books in charity shops, a great opportunity to try books you might not have otherwise tried or seen. I found Victoria Hislop that way and she is now a firm favourite.
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I’m severely sight impaired and can now only read books on a Kindle to increase the font and make it bold. So I’m currently going through Eve Chase’s novels. I’m reading Black Rabbit Hall at the moment.
Books set in mysterious old houses are my favourite. Any recommendations for that genre?
Finished Hugh Miller’s ‘A Noble Smuggler’ the other day, and now a few chapters into Aldous Huxley’s ‘Brave New World’ 
Not sure I’m going to enjoy it, but it’s been on the shelf waiting patiently for years!
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Just finished The Huntress by Kate Quinn - another brilliant read if a little long!!
Now about to embark on the pile of books I received for my birthday starting with The Life Impossible by Matt Haig. I really enjoyed the Midnight Library by him but not so sure about The Humans so it will be interesting to see how this one pans out.
Absolute bookworm here! 
I’m never without a book, simply can’t cope if I don’t have a book on the go!
I’m currently reading Serpico (the book that came before the film)… it’s interesting (Al Pacino was very well cast) but I’m starting to find it a bit boring… won’t give up on it though, I tend to battle through even when I’m not really enjoying books. Mad I know!
My recent reads and some classic favourites that have stuck in my head over the years:
- A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler (I’ve just bought Vinegar Girl which I’ll be reading soon)
- Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
- Absolutely anything and everything written by Joyce Carol Oates, a truly amazing writer - the first book I read was A Book of American Martyrs but I’ve read lots since then, she’s so varied - a very smart writer
- The Housemaid by Freida McFadden if you fancy something easy to read but page turning (beach reading)
- The Last Thing to Burn by Will Dean (gripping but a bit grim - another page turner)
- Down and Out in Paris and London, George Orwell
- Vox by Christina Dalcher (if you enjoy Handmaid’s Tale type writing)
- Margaret Atwood - like Joyce Carol Oates, she’s an intelligent and very varied writer
- The Lamplighters by Emma Stonex
- Starvation Heights by Gregg Olsen (non-fiction, gripping and great if you like a good courtroom drama type setting)
- Hidden Valley Road by Robert Kolker (non-fiction - riveting tale of an American family and their battle with schizophrenia… sounds awful but so absorbing and utterly fascinating)
- The Twelve/The City of Mirrors/The Passage by Justin Cronin - a trilogy about vampires, sounds completely stupid and wasn’t at all the kind of thing I normally like, but couldn’t put it down!)
- Most recent read which was brilliant: Madhouse at the End of the Earth by Julian Sancton - non-fiction book about a ship stuck in the ice in the antarctic in the late 1800s… sounds boring, but I found it utterly fascinating reading what they went through and how they kept it together (or not…)
- The Wicked Boy by Kate Summerscale (non-fiction - interesting murder case from around 100 years ago that I didn’t know about, very interesting)
- The Five by Hallie Rubenhold (non-fiction about the Jack the Ripper victims - not so much about their murders, more about their own life stories and the people behind the names we all know - really interesting)
- Hungry by Grace Dent (non-fiction - and very entertaining)
- I love a bit of Charles Dickens or Wilkie Collins - but weirdly classics are for winter reading in my mind somehow… I can’t explain!
- The Name of the Rose by Umberto Ecco (only if you’re not put off by big, fat books - full of labyrinthine twists and turns)
- English Passengers by Matthew Kneale
- Yellowface by R. F. Kuang - one of those ‘bestseller’ type books which I find often aren’t worth the hype, but I enjoyed this one: a bit different and quite fun!
Phew! Right, back to Serpico… 
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I adore Dickens Sarah @PhotoFairytales ! I finished Brave New World last night and I’m going to start on A Tale of Two Cities tonight. I love a lot of classic fiction, it’s my favourite genera. I’ve got Dracula in my to-read pile, but for some reason that one feels like it should be an autumn book, once the nights start to get nice and dark!
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Ooh Dracula is a good read, but yes definitely one for darker evenings 
I still have Henry Fielding’s ‘Tom Jones’ on my shelf - read it years ago and remember really enjoying it, I might just give that another go this autumn!
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