Best reads - Club Together Book Club?

Having finally paid a visit to Hardwick Hall this year and being impressed by the pile of Elizabethan "bling" I got hold of a secondhand copy of "Bess of Hardwick" by Mary Lovell. This booked looked like a heavy weight tome, but Bess with her four husbands and money making exploits and friendship with QE1 was a good entertaining read. Something like Keeping Up with The Kardashians it was a page turner of ambitions, disasters and shrewd, impressive dealings. 

Must admit the embroideries and tapestries were a sight to behold Brue. We went last year.

She certainly was a "Tour de Force". 

One for the Ages, the 16th in the DCI Logan series, by J.D.Kirk, is at 99p on Kindle at the moment.

Also the audio version of the first of the series, A Litter of Bones, can be listen to using this link. At least I am listening to it using this link.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DwO5rrlkeRc

Needed a light read so enjoyed "Carry On Jeeves"  by PG Wodehouse, each chapter a separate story so easy to pick up and put down. 

A promotional post -

If you want a beautiful thought provoking book please consider our friend Helen Rebanks. You may have alreay read her husband James's books - but this is wonderful!

Published by Faber & Faber on 31st August and available from all good independant bookshops (and Amazon of course). My copy arrived on Saturday and I'm looking forward to carefully opening the pages (it looks too good to open - maybe I should have bought two, one to keep and one to read). Lots of interviews etc out there.

Faber & Faber

Amazon

Interview

The second in the series of Bunny McGarry Stateside, "I have Sinned", by Ciahm McDonnell is at 99p at the moment on Kindle. 

I have just finished reading the Cazalet Chronicles by Elizabeth Jane Howard.  It is a 5 book set about an extended family and their lives during WWII and how their lives changed. A wonderful and fascinating read.  I might try reading some of her other books now 

Two recommendations from me.

I've just finished Christy Lefteri's " The Book of Fire". Based on her experiences living with families who lost everything in forest fires in Greece it really takes you inside their lifes and the tragic effects those events have. A very thought-provoking read and very relevant given recent events. (I can also recommend her earlier book " The Beekeeper of Aleppo.)

And, on a lighter note, one of my favourite authors, Kate Atkinson's latest "Shrines of Gaiety" - an Agatha Christie type mystery based in London between the wars with a mixture of characters, some very likeable, others definitely not so!  

Michael Connelly's The 5th.Witness is on offer at £0.99 on Amazon at present. But limited time offer.

I was discussing the real meaning of the words of Rule Brittania and why it was written with my cousin and she recommened 'The Seal Woman's Gift' by Sally Magnusson. It is about the Muslim slave traders who not only traded British sailors but got as far as Iceland so I might give that a go as it is a period of history that I know little about.