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Thanks Julia, glad we can give others inspiration. Both my suggestions are paper back.
thanks Helen.
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Although I am not a contributing member of Greaders, my reading is abit spasmodic, and I would miss the dead lines, I do look in every month for book suggestions and to see if anything appeals.
Whilst having read Crime thrillers for years, they are now beginning to touch on the cyber world, and away from real sluething. So perhaps it is time to move onto something anew.
So I have looked at the titles that you mention Ann, and think that, although these are not my usual genre of reading, I would like to try both. Thanks for your suggestion,and I will look out for them. Hopefully they are paper back, and available from the supermarket, my only source of new reading material.
As a sort of PS, I am awaiting for the time, soon hopefully, that the OH has to go to insure his car. This he does in a town a few miles from where we live, and I go with him and make a half-day out of it, having abit of lunch, even if it is a ' posh ' filled roll, eaten on a sheltered seat, as a bit of a treat. I go round the charity shops in this town, looking for things that take my fancy, eg. mens shirts for me (lovely to work in as the sleeves are cut deeper than a ladies blouse), plant pots for the conservatory, pictures for anywhere, 3rd world jewelery, and books. And, as I am about to change my reading genre, I am sure I will find books that I would in the past, have turned my nose up at. I also like to visit the W.H. Smith for new books, and jigsaws, particularly leading up to Christmas. This shop is the only one outside of Derby, which is 12 miles from here. I usually have a very satisfiying day.
Have a lovely day all, and keep posting your book suggestions
Julia in Derbyshire
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Hi Ann. My two suggestions are:
The Marriage Bureau for Rich People by Farahad Zama
Set in modern India, Mr Ali sets up a marriage bureau. 'A writer of charming and breezy prose, Zama pays homage to Jane Austen in a contemporary love story firmly grounded in classic wrangles over family, property and class' --Emma Hagestadt, Independent
The Old Romantic by Louise Dean
Obsessed with death and planning his own funeral, Ken is determined to die in the bosom of his family. But it isn't that easy; his family doesn’t want to know him. His oldest son Nick left home over twenty years ago and reinvented himself. At forty, he has returned home to Kent, and found happiness with his girlfriend Astrid and her twelve-year-old daughter Laura, and he doesn’t want the old man to spoil things. He’s come a long way; he’s a professional, a country gent, a family man. But the past is coming back for Nick and it won’t let him be. A bit of a dark comedy.
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Intimate Strangers by Susan Lewis
Investigative journalist, Lauri Forbes, is planning her wedding to Elliot Russell, when she receives a tip off that a group of illegally smuggled women is being held somewhere in the East End of London. During her search unexpected and devastating events begin throwing her own life into chaos, so fellow journalist, Sherry MacElvoy steps in to help. Taking on undercover roles to get to the heart of the ruthless gang of human traffickers, neither reporter can even begin to imagine what dangers they are about to face.
Neela is one of the helpless Indian girls being held in captivity. Her fear is not only for herself. But her six year old niece, Shaila. A disfiguring birth mark has so far saved Neela from the abuse, but she knows it is only a matter of time before she is sent for – and worse, before Sheela is taken. Her desperate bids to seek outside help are constantly thwarted, until finally she, and the women with her, agree there is only one way out......
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Greaders suggestion Aug-Sep 10 Turning for home Sarah Challis
A cantankerous, elegant old woman sits in her beautiful somerset house while her family secretly plots to evict her. In the garden is her last loyal retainer, out at grass her one remaining racehorse, prematurely retired, and in London the man she probably should have married – still her dearest friend.
Into this scene comes Maeve Delaney. Sole applicant for the job of companion to Lady Pamela, streetwise and outrageous. Maeve busts into the old house like a firework. As open warfare settles into a wary truce between the two women, Maeve sets her heart on bringing the great racehorse Irish Dancer out of retirement and everything changes.
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Two books as usual vote will be Tuesday PM if possible, other than that Wednesday.
Review date for this lot will be Tuesday 5 Oct
(Review thread for July/Aug is Thurs 19th Aug).
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