Favourite authors

[Gemini]

I find it hard to choose one if anyone asks my favourite author as I have many!

Who are your favourites?

I like many and varied types of reading material. These are the ones I like the best and have read most of.

Charles Dickens
JK Rowling and Robert Galbraith (Her Strike novels)
Clare Chambers
Rachel Abbott
Angela Marsons
Val McDermid
Robert Bryndza
Amanda Prowse
Jo-Jo Moyes
Nick Alexander
Rosamund Lupton
Belinda Bauer
Richard Osman
Anne Tyler
Ruth Jones
Imogen Clark

[Nanto2girls]

I don't have a favourite author. Very rare i read a book.
On the odd occasion i do read a book,it has to be a true story.

[Daisy]

I love reading and will often try to read several books by the same author one after the other, but I don't have any real favourites - it's just if a particular story 'grabs' me.

[Sum1Ls]

No favourite authors but many writers whose books are treasured companions.

If I started listing them I’d be here until next year, but I’d like to mention just two. The first is C J Sansom whose death has just been announced. He wrote the series of novels set in Tudor times with his protagonist Matthew Shardlake as the crook back lawyer whose insight and lawyerly mind involves him in investigating crimes connected loosely with the court and government. The first in the series is Dissolution and I can’t recommend them enough.

The second is a beautiful book with four authors, one an ecologist, one a writer, one an academic in environmental geography and the fourth an historian and illustrator.

It’s called Noticing Nature and divides the year into 72 short seasons when some natural phenomenon emerges. In May which begins tomorrow, there is gorse crowns, followed by the return of the swifts then ferns unfolding and frothy hawthorn. Then buttercup meadows conclude the month. It’s a lovely book to have by your bedside as it’s just three or four pages to read last thing at night and send you to sleep with lovely images in your mind and a resolution to look out for what is described in the forthcoming days.

[Sum1Ls]

[Gemini]

I can imagine that being an uplifting read at bedtime Sum1.

[Oma]

I read anything and everything , I don’t have a favourite author though.

[Daisy]

Sum1, I love the sound of the 72 seasons book. It's so easy to let the changing face of the countryside slip passed. I only noticed two days ago that the horse chestnut tree outside out house is in full flower. How could that happen without me noticing!

[Plantaholic]

Busy lady that’s how Daisy.

I use Audible on my Ipad, pretty light reader really.

[Daisy]

I'm just revisiting this thread after reading that the novelist David Lodge has passed away at the age of 89. I've loved his books since I was a teenager. We were sorting out a bookcase yesterday and trying (without much success) to identify those which we could send to a charity shop. OH picked up "Therapy" by David Lodge, and I said "No, definitely not. I read and reread his books."

He wrote mainly comedies and often created the sort of situations which wouldn't disgrace a French Farce. Many are based round fictional Rummidge University - loosely based on Birmingham Uni among other places. Sadly I don't have many of his books - they were usually lucky finds in libraries before I had a Kindle. He was nominated twice for the Booker Prize, but never won.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2nzgp5yp0o

[Sum1Ls]

I'm just revisiting this thread after reading that the novelist David Lodge has passed away at the age of 89. I've loved his books since I was a teenager. We were sorting out a bookcase yesterday and trying (without much success) to identify those which we could send to a charity shop. OH picked up "Therapy" by David Lodge, and I said "No, definitely not. I read and reread his books."

He wrote mainly comedies and often created the sort of situations which wouldn't disgrace a French Farce. Many are based round fictional Rummidge University - loosely based on Birmingham Uni among other places. Sadly I don't have many of his books - they were usually lucky finds in libraries before I had a Kindle. He was nominated twice for the Booker Prize, but never won.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2nzgp5yp0o

Agree Daisy, his books a superb, funny without any sense of superficially and with underlying themes that are deeply thoughtful. I’ve just reread Deaf Sentence which had me chuckling again and again, while ruefully realising that my now poor hearing puts me in a similar situation. His books satirising academia are so true even today although I think if they had been written recently, the horrors would given rise to a much more savage text.
Incidentally, he was a local boy and went to the local school just a mile away from I live

[Daisy]

Sum1, how lovely to have another fan in our midsts. He had a unique gift for characterisation and dialogue.