FabSwingers.com forum: Holiday read recommendations

By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

I am off to France for 2 weeks and need to load up the Kindle. I like sword and sandles, crime thrillers, biographies.

Any recommendations???

Cheers

Ben

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Robert j Crane sanctuary series. they are pretty long and I think the first is free. that's your swords.

Thrillers you can beat Peter James for me x

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By *empting Devil.Woman
over a year ago

Sheffield

If you like golden age crime try some of the detection club stuff - contributors include Agatha Christie and Dorothy L Sayers.

Alan Bradley's Flavia de Luce novels are fun crime stories.

For something a bit grittier try Ann Cleeves and her Vera Stanhope books.

If you like American ones then PJ Tracey, Faye Kellerman and also Jonathan Kellerman.

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By *igeiaWoman
over a year ago

Bristol

Modern British crime with a humorous twist I would go for Christopher Brookmyre. His early ones are more fun; he has become more serious recently. Sandals and sorcery - you couldn't go wrong with reading or re-reading David Eddings's Belgariad books. There are loads more but those popped into my head first.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Sword and sorcery, you could try some of Terry Pratchett discworld series.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

John Connelly, Charlie Parker novels, very dark with great characters

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By *nFairnessMan
over a year ago

The Four Corners

The kingkiller chronicles...

You won't regret it.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy the chap who wrote No Country For Old Men.

Like no western you will ever read.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Try anything by Jasper Fforde.

I'm just reading the Nursery Crime Division novels, where Berkshire is home to anthropomorphic characters.

In the first Humpty Dumpty is killed; and the second links in Goldilocks and the three bears;

Investigated by DI Jack Spratt and DS Mary Mary

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By *rightonsteveMan
over a year ago

Brighton - even Hove!

"I am off to France for 2 weeks and need to load up the Kindle. I like sword and sandles, crime thrillers, biographies.

Any recommendations???

Cheers

Ben

The Joys of Caravanning by P. Ikey

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Jaguar by Alan Rabinowitz

Walking the Amazon by Ed Stafford

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By *irtyGirlWoman
over a year ago

Edinburgh

I actually really enjoyed the Robert Galbraith book... The Cuckoo's Calling.

I also love Karen Rose... she's twisted.

I'm in the middle of Gone Girl.

Have a look at the line up for the Edinburgh Book Festival, you can usually pick up some recommendations from the reviews there.

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Thanks folks

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The girl on the train

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Anything by Elmore Leonard , the absolute genius of American crime fiction. Anything by James Lee Burke, also American CF. Also a genius. Both are extremely talented writers. Not always the case with crime fiction.

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