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Just need some opinions on new (or old!) authors. I'm very much into conspiracy, symbolism, thriller, x files type books. Loved all Dan Brown and Stephen Kings books but need something new. Looking on Amazon or in smiths I don't know where to start.

Any advice gratefully received,

kind regards

sarah

P.s I'm not into the luvvy duvvy stuff, nor the who dunnit? type books.
 
John Twelve Hawks.
Lee Child
Terry Pratchett
Twilight series
 
Patrick O Brian books :p

Think Jane Austin (which I've never read but was told about by a gf once) but with sails, and guns, and a lot of dead french people
 
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Since you like conspiracy / thriller type books, Steig Larsson's Millenium trilogy, if you haven't already read them. The English is a little clunky at times, which I take to be a fault of the translation rather than the source, but they are excellent and among my all time favourites (and I'm not generally a fan of the genre). Be warned they are quite brutal in places.

I can make other suggestions, but they would be sci-fi and so not of univeral appeal (as some discount sci-fi out of hand).
 
John Grisham?
Michael Palmer?
 
photon said:
Dennis Wheatley :shrug:
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Excellent choice :thumbs: His Roger Brook series is both entertaining and educational. Brook was a spy during the Napoleonic age and Wheatley charts his life and adventures from the first novel 'The Launching of Roger Brook' to 'Desperate Measures', the downfall of Napoleon. Well worth reading.

He also wrote about the occult. The Devil Rides Out, and To the Devil - a Daughter are my favourites.

Yep I can honestly say Wheatley is my favourite author by a mile.

If you are interested in SF then I recommend Jeffrey A. Carver.
 
I have just read the Steig Larsson's - Girl with Dragon Tattoo, etc. Really enjoyed them. Did find the first one difficult to get into but, once started bought all three :)
 
Jeffrey Deaver - a bit whodunnit type, but you usually get a bit from the badguys point of view, so you kinda know whodunnit, but is still worth finding out.
 
If you like Crime Thrillers, I really got into Lisa Gardner books, http://lisagardner.com/

One of the few authors who's books I struggle to put down. :thumbs:
 
david1701 said:
Patrick O Brian books :p

Think Jane Austin (which I've never read but was told about by a gf once) but with sails, and guns, and a lot of dead french people
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:thumbs: By far my favourite!

If you like Dan Brown then the old Tom Clancy's are excellent. John Connelly for gory, slightly mystic thrillers.
 
Wow, thank you so much everyone. A lot for me to look into but I look forward to reading some of your suggestions.

Ta again :)

Sarah
 
Simon Kernick books are definetely worth a read and can be had for very few £'s in asda
 
Daniel Easterman is also worth a look if you like Dan Brown, etc. :thumbs:
 
Gareth S said:
Simon Kernick books are definetely worth a read and can be had for very few £'s in asda
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I'll second this. Also Mark Billingham, Mo Hayder (Tokyo is brilliant), Karin Slaughter.
The most original book I've read this year is 'Room' by Emma Donoghue (I think).

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Also, if you like Stephen King, I'd recommend 'Let the right one in' (can't remember who wrote it)

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Headless Lois said:
Also, if you like Stephen King, I'd recommend 'Let the right one in' (can't remember who wrote it)

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Film is good too, for those that don't mind subtitles. As a vampire film it knocks spots off Twilight.
 
If you like history and detective novels, then I can't recommend C J Sansom's Shardlake series highly enough:

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/s/c-j-sansom/

It centres around a lawyer during the reign of Henry VIII from the dissolution of the monasteries onward, and as well as a thrilling read (loads of well placed gore/murder), the history of the period, the insight into ordinary people's lives, and the language are fascinating. It really is a very easy to read history of a fascinating and very important period.

He basically does for the mid Tudor period what Bernard Cornwell did for the Peninsular campaign with the Sharp novels.

Try to read them in order if possible!
 
david1701 said:
Patrick O Brian books :p

Think Jane Austin (which I've never read but was told about by a gf once) but with sails, and guns, and a lot of dead french people
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Patrick O'Brian is excellent. Well researched, good characterisation and captures the period and language vary well. The best of this genre since CS Forrester. Just about anything by Bernard Cornwell. The original Sharp series is easy to read, but lacks the depth of the later books.
 
david1701 said:
Patrick O Brian books :p

Think Jane Austin (which I've never read but was told about by a gf once) but with sails, and guns, and a lot of dead french people
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Jane Austen wrote some great novels!

ITV did some rubbish TV adaptations though.
 
I'd recommend Phil Rickman's novels.

His earliest ones were a sort of folklore based horror.

His later stuff is a series of about a dozen novels featuring Merrily Watkins who is a widowed female priest with a teenager daughter. She becomes the diocesan exorcist for the Hereford diocese, and the novels draw on folklore, the supernatural, local legends, modern paganism and other weird stuff. A sort of illegitimate cousin of The Wicker Man.

http://www.philrickman.co.uk/

Also, give James McGee's Matthew Hawkwood novels, set during the later years of the Napoleonic period, a try. Hawkwood is an ex-soldier and a crack shot, now a Bow Street Runner usually operating undercover on counter-intelligence and espionage in and around London.

McGee's website seems to be offline at present so this will give you some information:

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/m/james-mcgee/
 
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