Just popped on to say I just bought ‘The last thing to burn’ yesterday, I’m already 100 pages in and can absolutely confirm it’s a real page turner, grim yes but a great read so far.
Enjoy! (If that’s the right word..!) I found I couldn’t put it down - it was a ‘just one more chapter’ kind of book for me… 
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Just ordered this from the library - always looking for new authors to discover!
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Just reporting back to say I’m 3 books in to the DS Smith series recommended by @OasiscraftUK and loving them - thanks so much for telling me about them.
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I loved Tom Jones, read it last year and it really made me smile right from the preface. I then went on to read Smollett’s ‘The Expedition of Humphry Clinker’ (I think I must have been trawling through some list of the greatest classic comic novels or something) and that made me laugh so hard as well as giving a fascinating insight into the society of the time 
Woohoo, so glad you’re enjoying them. Recommend the Kings Lake series too which are a follow on 
Happy reading!
Definitely adding that one to my reading list, thank you!
Does anyone else keep Pinterest boards of ‘books to read’? It came to me in a moment of genius about 2 years ago, after years of writing them on bits of paper and losing them 
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Fantastic - that’ll keep me going for ages!
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Forever Amber by Kathleen Winsor. A belting read set in the times of Charles II. It inspired my own writing and is beautifully written.
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Hi I’ve finally started on the Joy Ellis books. Am currently listening to the first one in the Matt Ballard series (Beware the Past). Loving it so far, but it took me a while to get used to the narrator
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I often find that with the narrators too @OasiscraftUK - love that series, must check if any have been added that I haven’t ready yet.
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I’m reading The French Revolution by Christopher Hibbert. Reading A Tale of Two Cities showed me how little I actually knew about it, so I thought I’d brush up on a bit of history. Ever so slightly disturbing, to put it mildly 
Ooh added that one to my reading list - looks really interesting!
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It is, and it’s actually very readable! I was worried I’d get lost in all the names and dates and French terms etc, but I’m managing to take it all in pretty well. I decided a while back I need to brush up on my history, but looking at all the books available, and all the time periods to choose from, I had no idea where to start. I found this secondhand one on a good deal from Abebooks and thought I’d just jump in!
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Some of the best books I have read are by Anne Tyler, my favoutie was Redhead By the Side of The Road, she writes brilliantly about ordinary people. I also love David Nicholls, One Day, You Are Here and Us are very good. A surprisingly good read is Glorious Exploits by Ferddia Lennon, excellent, one I would never have chosen but recommended and so well written