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I should NEVER be let loose in Waterstones with a Credit card that has a zero balance on it !!!

£28 later...I'm going to be very busy with my reading

OOOPS !!!! xx

Oooo, *waits for postman when books are read*

What you bought then Muffy. Tell us all. LOLOL
Julia in Derbyshire

my sister is a member of the library she gets all me books for me...I have been reading one BC gave me but cant get in to it at all.

WELL I've found two new to me authors ...and I'm terrible once I find one i like i have to read EVERYTHING by them.

Alison Weir and Philippa Gregory...so I've about 5 books to get my nose into...cos i couldn't wait for them to turn up at the market or charity shops which is where I generally buy my books from lol.

Stopped short of buying their new ones in hardback...but only just !!! xx

Muffy always fatal,

The last time I let OH into Waterstones WE came out £130 worse off. Mind it was in Jersey and we had been living in Spain for 8mths by then ......


So what have you bought ?

Don't know either names but will check them out.

Historical fiction they are Uzzi...really enjoyed them.

Hayley I end up paying out just as much in fines as it would cost me to buy the book in the first place ...so I've given up with the library.

TW I'll send you the White Queen ASAP hon. xx

Not sure if I have heard of Alison Weir, though the name is somewhat familiar. Philippa Gregory writes mainly about Anne Bolyeyn (sp) and her family.
Good choices there our Muffy.
Julia in Derbyshire

I haven't read the Tudor series yet Julia and Uzzi...though that's some of the ones I bought today.

I've read the second in the Wideacre trilogy (didn't realise it was the second until I was halfway through DOH..) and bought the first and third today too. They're from about mid 1700s onwards....

Her new trilogy is during the time of Henry V ish and Edward 1V ish...princes in the tower and all that Jazz...only read the first one though cos the second in the series is only available in hard back at the mo xx

I can do historical fiction (better than I ever did history at school) .

I've just recently finished Victoria Holt's ' The Queens Confession' , a fictional autobiography, now I own up to only picking it up because I had nothing else to read but read it in 2 days and loved it.

By the way Muffy you should be proud of yourself not ashamed after all you did resist the hardbacks !

My OH shoved em in the basket and said to treat myself..but I just couldn't bring myself to Uzzi..desperate though I am to read them I know they've both written shedloads so there's plenty to keep me occupied til they're out in softback !! plus hardbacks make me arms ache if I'm reading in bed lol xx

pmsl Muffy I can't read large hardbacks in bed we call them clunk books cos ya fall asleep reading and 'clunk' they hit you on the head !

I subscribe to Waterstones on line (big mistake) and also The Book People (who sell books very cheaply). I have got so many books that I haven't read yet. One book that I would definitely recommend is The Suspicions of Mr Whicher, by Kate Summerscale. It is about a real murder around 1860(ish), which I found fascinating. Mr Whicher was the detective who solved it.

Muffy, I too find it hard to resist the hardbacks. But I think it is unfair of the authors to bring them out as such, when they have built up a devoted fan base, and become well known, from being in paper back. The 'Scarpetta' novels, by Patricia Cornwall, come to mind for this. Naturally, if you are an avid reader of a particular author, you want all the books in the series, in order of events.. Also, as you say, the hardbacks are difficult to prop up in bed.LOLOL
Julia in Derbyshire

Both great authors Muffy but Philippa Gregory is a favourite The Wideacre series is good as are the Tudor series. We shant see much of you on here once you start reading that lot!

Trouble is Ann I'm such a fast reader I can do a book in a day..

Had a lovely afternoon reading The White Queen in the conservatory yesterday though am going to attempt to slow down with this lot lol.

Thanks for the suggestions. I'm making note of them.

I'd recommend and I know TW would too...the Boudica series of books by Manda Scott...absolutely superb they are xx

Valerie read that one....

Julia don't think there are many of the Scarpetta novels I haven't read ( in paperback)
Mind there was the 'Wheel of time' by Robert Jordan (fantasy Scifi) we had up to book 10 in hardback ...got given book 11 (yikes how many more) then he died .....but the whole lot is going to be finished and luckily for us someone we know is also reading so she has lent us 12. and will hand the last 3 books over to us also .......