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Recently read "A Family Affair (Truth in Lies)" by Mary Campisi, a kindle freebie. A wealthy businessman, who lives with his wife and has an adult daughter Christine, spends 4 days a month at his cabin, a rural retreat. When he is killed in a road accident there more emerges about his life. It turns out his 4 days each month are spent with his lover and their daughter.

It's an OK read but very predictable.

Also read "The Limpopo Detective Agency" - at least I think that's what it was called. It's one of Alexander McCall Smith's books about Precious Ramotswe and the Number 1 Ladies Detective Agency. Like his other books in this series it's a very gentle read - just the thing when you want to relax and not think too hard.

Am just starting "Moon Over Soho" , a sequel to "Rivers of London" which I read two or three years ago and have downloaded "Just One Damned Thing After Another" on det's recommendation. Sounds as though I might enjoy that one.

Anyone read Owen Sheers books??

Look him up.....he looks good ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-).... not sure about his book as not read them, but Vic did a ramble to day and it was a Themed walk based on the places in Owen Sheers book "Resistance". Its based on what would happen if Germany had invaded GB!!....something like that!

jude:) x

Good book Hayley according to my OH.

Have read At My Mother's Knee and The
Devil Rides Out, still to read The Savage Years :-D

Emma :-)

Ive waited and waited for Paul O'Grady's the savage years to be reduced and finally it has so I got it and now cant put it down :-D

Have just bought The White Princess by Philippa Gregory
for my kindle, have been waiting for this one.

Emma :-)

That sounds quite a cocktail Mersey Lol!!!

Vera I quite like Marian Keyes, not sure if I have read that one.

I am reading Zara's Cut by Philippa Gregory. quite different to her historical novels and I am not sure if I like it or not yet.
A serious literary authoress is needing to make more money to support her seriously ill husband. Her worthy books don't make much money so she adopts a new and secret persona, in collusion with her agent Troy, to write a salatious novel. But life starts to imitate art.......

Hi ickle book worms..... :-D :-D <3

I am reading Tigers in Red Weather by Liz Klaussmann

Nick and her cousin Helena have grown up together, sharing long hot summers at Tiger House. Now with husbands and children of their own , they keep returning. But against a backdrop of parties , moonlight and jazz, how long can perfection really last? Tensions simmer over one summer that changes everything and, as the story is told each characters point of view in turn, they combine in a cocktail of money, sex, beauty and murder.......

Im not sure how it is going to go, so will let you know when ive finished it

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Just read "The Brightest Star in the Sky" by Marian Keyes. I've never read any of hers before but grabbed it from the Quick Choice shelf at the library when I was in a hurry.

It's basically the story of the various people living at one house in Dublin and the chapters move backwards and forwards with their stories and how they relate with each other. Each chapter deals with a different person to the chapter before and I found it very jerky as all the chapters were short - some only half a page.

I found I didn't really care what happened to any of them. Having said that, I did plough on to the end of the book, over 600 pages.

I believe Marian Keyes is quite a popular author but I don't think I will be rushing to read any more of her work. Not to my taste.

Downloaded to take on holiday, got loads of free books on my kindle now to read while away.

Hope you enjoy it - it's quite a 'light' read but a page turner none-the-less.

Thanks det just downloaded it.

My latest, the kindle edition currently free, is “Just One Damned Thing After Another” (The Chronicles of St Mary's) by Jody Foster.

Product Description
A story of History, time-travel, love, friendship and tea.
Meet the disaster-magnets at the St Mary's Institute of Historical Research as they ricochet around History, observing, documenting, drinking tea and, if possible, not dying.
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People with the same technology are going back in time and trying to change or exploit history. It’s up to the St Mary’s Team and the heroine ‘Max’ Maxwell to discover who it is.

I loved the little humorous snippets – the H&S officers who despairs that the R&D team keep removing the batteries from the fire detectors; All Historians have long wild hair (+ beards for the males) and consider a mug and tea an essential travel item.

A mystery with a touch of romance, but not the ‘stare into her limpid eyes’ type.

Hope she releases the next instalment soon!

Just finished The Lonely Desert which is the sequel to Footsteps in the Sand by Sarah Challis. Enjoyed both books very much.

A book some of you may find interesting called
Winter King by Thomas Penn.
It's about Henry VII and according to Tony Robinson
a good read.

Emma :-)

Just read Someday I'll find you by Richard Madeley. surprisingly good, part romance, part thriller.

Yes GiN it would make a good holiday book or book to read on the plane.

AnninGlos - I enjoyed The Beach Café, it was a nice, lighthearted read. I also enjoyed The Beach Hut by Veronica Henry - reads a bit like short stories that are linked, but come together as a satisfying whole. :-)

Finished Roy Chubby Brown ....not all that good imo.

Now reading The Last Godfather.

Emma :-)

Still ploughing my way through Citadel by Kate Mosse. Don't think I'm enjoying it as much as the other two in the trilogy, maybe because it's set around the French Resistance during World War 2 - but it's growing on me, just another 600 pages to go! :-D

Just finished The Beach Cafe by Lucy diamond. enjoyed it, good relaxing reading. :-)