Anyone read any good fiction recently?

[yeknomyeknom]

I've had a few dissapointing books recently. Keen to read a good thriller. Anyone read anything stand out recently?

[singalto]

Anne Holt's books might appeal to you.

[P.O.U.S.theWonderCat]

I've not read it, but if you like thrillers "His Bloody Project" was nominated for a Man Booker prize this year. http://themanbookerprize.com/books/his-bloody-project-by-graeme-macrae-burnet

If you get lost for inspiration, it can be fun to read your way throught the Man longlist.

[jaywalker]

Eric Ambler's pre WWII spy thrillers are exemplary and quite disturbing. Written in the 1930s.

[louisemurray]

I read His Bloody project recently too - set in the highland in a crofting community. Longl;oisted for Booker this year

Excellent

[johnie]

The Patience of the Spider (Inspector Montalbano Mysteries) by Andrea Camilleri

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Patience-Spider-Inspector-Montalbano-Mysteries/dp/0330442244

[Saffron]

Matt Haig's The Humans

[borderpaul]

The Missing by CL Taylor about a 15 year old boy going missing is a book you won't put down once you start reading it.

[Jenny1]

If you're keen on detective fiction you've probably already read them, but I think Raymond Chandler is still one of the best.

[lavender27]

I read a few chapters of a book then don't go back to it again for a long time if at all as I get distracted with other stuff. Can anyone give me any sound advice on a book that I wouldn't put down until it's read. I would really love to read a book all the way through. Another thing is I sometimes forget the plot and have to read it again and then I loose interest. Can you recommend a good book for me that is easy to read that would ease me back into reading again. Thank you x

[jacks09]

I would genuinely recommend the Harry Potter books! Obviously written for kids so easy to follow but enough i there to keep an adult page turning.

[Elphinstone's Army]

lavender, perhaps short stories would suit you better?

H.E. Bates, or Roald Dahl

a book of narrative poems, to get the rhythm going, or as jacks suggested, Harry Potter.

Do you go in the library, they are always helpful.

If you read the last

page first then you take the pressure off yourself ha ha

I can start a book and not engage with it at all, I try again weeks

later and it clicks.

See, it isn't just you, do not give up.

[sjw]

Have you read any by Mark Billingham or SJ Watson good thrillers also the early books by Mo Haydor ie Birdman and The Treatment excellent and set locally.

[uncleglen]

Michael Dibdin is a good read. He wrote the Aurelio Zen detective books- set in Italy. Good stories and atmosphere

[????]

Other than the occasional classic and Le Carre & Greene I've been struggling with non-fiction for years now - too heavy or too light!