Need suggestions, favourite authors are Maggie O'Farrell, Barbara Trapido, Anita Shreve (not all books), Rose Tremain - any advice?

A Cheerful Depression: An Autobiography An excellent read from a new author. Compelling, moving and an interesting insight into depression

How about Acid Row by Minette Walters. Full of action and intrigue.

Hi try a nice book called Precious Moments ISBN 9781847486011

I'm getting rave reviews for A Life Less Lost by KB Walker. New book, new author. I'm told readers can't put it down and it makes them laugh and cry, exactly what I'm always looking for in a book.A Life Less Lost: My Son's Decision, But Will He Choose Life?

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Slimmer Charlie

Have a look at Maya Angelou "I know why the caged bird sings" and the books that follow it. What a fascinating life she has lead.

john adams by david macculogh . was published a few years ago but still great

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This is my current favourite -
Prisoners, Property and Prostitutes: And Other Things Beginning with P

Terence Frisby's 'Kisses on a Postcard', a touching, and at times very funny account of him and his older brother Jack, aged seven and eleven, as WWII evacuees to the Cornish hamlet of Doublebois. There they lived for three years with `Uncle Jack', a former Welsh miner with good old-Labour views, and his warm-hearted wife `Auntie Rose'. A charming, uplifting book. Kisses on a Postcard: A Tale of Wartime Childhood

The Road Home - Rose Tremain - good read but you prob have already had this one.

Try 'The Little House' phillipa Gregory (its non historical)
The Little House

Or
The Tea Rose

How to be Adoredhow to be adored by caroline cox - v.funny, loads of good stories about stars, their lives and their style, great cover too!

I'm reading Olympic Gangster: The Legend of Jose Beyaert - Cycling Champion, Fortune Hunter and Outlaw by Matt Rendell, and I'd recommend it.

(Yes, I am related to him, but nevertheless it's a fascinating read).

I like those authors too, have you tried Helen Dunmore or Alice Sebold?

The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold, which is being made into a movie (something which always frightens me, in regard to books I really like!). This is fiction, btw.


The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein, yes, I keep going around recommending it and neither wrote it, know the author or get a kick-back from raving over it!!! ;--) Also fiction, but perfect in tone/ feelings.

All over but the Shoutin' and it's sequel "Ava's Man" by Rick Bragg. Non-fiction. Wonderfully written, intense, bio of himself and his sibilings growing up raised by a his poor but hard working mother, in the Deep South in the ?1930's or '40's. Their family were "poor white trash" in the terms of that time...and also a term unfortunately still heard today. His story is somewhat an "Angela's Ashes" for the poor whites of the South, but not as beautfully written (what is?). Still, two great books with a picture of a way of life most of us can't imagine.

Try "Three Cups of Tea" by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin. Here's the description from Amazon: "'Here we drink three cups of tea to do business; the first you are a stranger, the second you become a friend, and the third, you join our family, and for our family we are prepared to do anything - even die' - Haji Ali, Korphe Village Chief, Karakoram mountains, Pakistan. In 1993, after a terrifying and disastrous attempt to climb K2, a mountaineer called Greg Mortenson drifted, cold and dehydrated, into an impoverished Pakistan village in the Karakoram Mountains. Moved by the inhabitants' kindness, he promised to return and build a school. "Three Cups of Tea" is the story of that promise and its extraordinary outcome. Over the next decade Mortenson built not just one but fifty-five schools - especially for girls - in remote villages across the forbidding and breathtaking landscape of Pakistan and Afghanistan, just as the Taliban rose to power. His story is at once a riveting adventure and a testament to the power of the humanitarian spirit."
It's a great book - and should be essential reading for schoolchildren and politicians.

Birmingham Girls is an interesting read.
It follows the lives of two sisters in Post War Birmingham.
It's for sale on Amazon and also at www.carolarnall.com

My advice to you is to read 'Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret,' by Judy Blume. You are bound to enjoy it - if not for the fact that it is good, then because it was written by a non-male.

read your suggestion and would you mind if I recomended "disruptive" by Angela Bayley with Eric Swanepoel. Its a gripping read and gives an in depth insite to all mental health issues as well as depression. The book is available for pre order and is due to be released at the end of the month. Strongly advise anyone to read it Disruptive: How I Triumphed Over Years of Abuse from Those Who Were Supposed to Protect Me

The Toucan lodge by Carlos Mundy

Trust No One by Teresa Cooper :-)Trust No One