The two crime by Jim Kelly I know will be good and 'The Double Turn ' by Carol Carnac, who is one of British Library Crime Classics best authors. The other BLCC, 'Sky High' is by Michael Gilbert. 'Murder at the Castle' is by an author I don't know and the same with Claire Anders. I did say I wouldn't read any more Devon crimes by Stephanie Austin as they are a bit light , but I seem to have reserved another. I know I saw 'The Eights' by Joanna Miller on a book blog. The one with a T on the spine is teenage fiction by Laura Wood that I read about somewhere and the Persephone is one of their recent re-prints "Crooked Cross" by Sally Carson. On the right are two non-fiction 'The English Path' a reprint by Little Toller books that I've had before but didn't read and 'On Gallow's Down' by Nicola Chester is a memoir of countryside life , she wrote 'Ghosts of the Farm' which I read and enjoyed earlier this year.
Below - In March there were eight brought home. I was just a few pages into The Potting Shed Murder before deciding it was rubbish!. I enjoyed Moonfleet, The Place of Tides, London Can Take it, and especially Appointment in Paris by Jane Thynne. I didn't like the book by Mick Herron and the very old crime story "The Abominable Snowman "was very dated. The small book in the centre was "The Serviceberry" a book about plants and indigenous Americans, I think. I flicked through but didn't finish it.
Details of books read are on the separate Books Read 2026 Page and I'll let you know how I get on with my early April assortment.
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Some interesting looking books, you've reminded me about Little Toller. I have enjoyed many of their books but for some reason they've dropped off my radar a bit. The Persephone book had great reviews and they're about to publish another by that author I believe. Will catch up with it sometime, so many books waiting to be read.
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I have a small collection of Little Toller Country Classics books - mostly picked up second hand over the last several years. They are lovely books
Deletei assume that you are not having to pay for reserving books but beware, here in Essex, the council are from 22nd April charging £1.15 for each reservation whether made online or via library staff. So much for encouraging people back into libraries! Later today, I will fill in a complaint from asking where the money be used. I doubt that it will be on new books.
ReplyDeleteI'm hoping that Suffolk CC, now that they have taken back control of the libraries, don't decide to re- introduce reservation charges. They dropped them many years ago to save having to do stock exchanges between the smaller libraries. With free reservations the books get moved around the county quite well. I shall be bankrupt in no time if they do start charging!
DeleteI recently read The Eights I loved it. I have just finished The Secret Sewing Society by Siobhan Curham. It is set in Ukraine in the war time and also in 2022 when they were at war with Russia once again. Such a good book. Carole R
ReplyDeleteI'm hopeful about 'The Eights' after reading about it on another blog I think
DeleteI also enjoyed The Eights. Hoping for a sequel!
DeletePlenty there to keep you busy if the expected storm comes! Catriona
ReplyDeleteThe forecast isn't too bad for Suffolk, hope there's not too much damage in the north
DeleteRight now I'm reading Slow Horses by Mick Herron and it's taken me awhile to get through it. I think there are too many people to keep track of but I'm getting closer to the end so I will finish it. Enjoy your books!
ReplyDeleteI just couldn't get into the Mick Herron book - plenty of other good books anyway
DeleteA great selection there
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Hopefully enough to keep be occupied for a few weeks
DeleteI enjoyed The Eights so you might have seen it on my blog. A bit much that every character had a dire secret but maybe I move in less drama-filled circles!
ReplyDeleteI've just started it - it's not my usual sort of reading but OK so far
DeleteA fine selection - they should keep you out of mischief for a while.
ReplyDeleteI hope so
DeleteAlways interesting to see what you're reading!
ReplyDeleteAlways good to swap book ideas
DeleteI have a couple mystery loving friends who swear by Mick Herron and I find his books unreadable, so its so hard to predict, especially as I have swapped books and titles with them and would have thought our tastes compatible. I have an embarrassing number of books out of the library at the moment and need to figure out what I am unlikely to read and return it on my next visit!
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Ceci
Thank you , that makes me feel better, I just couldn't get into it at all.
DeleteI love Carol Carnac/E.C.R. Lorac and all her books I've read have been good ones. I'm not familiar with the Gilbert. I'll be curious to hear what you have to say about it. I read that Jeanne Dams and enjoyed it. Her earlier Dorothy Martin mysteries sometimes tried my patience but the past few I've read have been quite good. Nothing deep, nothing "thriller," but fun.
ReplyDeleteI think Carnac/Lorac is their best author. She wrote dozens of books so I'm hoping for more
DeleteYou've got a good selection of books.
ReplyDeleteI've just ordered a book by Amy Tan, she writes about birds and does all her own illustrations.
Hopefully most of by haul are good, never know with new authors
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