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Hi all,

I love books and just got my first Kindle!
I have read C.J Sansom highly recommend Shardlake series of books. Murder mystery set in Tudor times very descriptive and I couldn’t put them down. Its nice to find some readers recommendations as I am running out of books I'm a terry Practchett fan and have most of his books.
Hope someone reads Sansom would love to know what they though about the books

Jacqui

We love the Shardlake series and would recommend them to anyone who enjoys a historical whodunnit. Favourite is 'Sovereign' - quite put me off the Tower of London!

If you liked Shardlake and the Tudor setting, did you try 'Wolf Hall' and 'Bring up the Bodies' (Hilary Mantel)? More intense than Shardlake, and a bit disorientating at times, the thing to remember is that as the reader you see everything from Thomas Cromwell's point of view quite literally - you see with his eyes. You are inevitably on his side because that is the only side you see. (I think her other books are great too, though completely different - especially 'A Change of Climate'.)

Hi Dominic,

That books on my wish list “Bringing up the bodies”.
Will have a look at Wolf hall book. I like who dunnit type books and SyFi. Will download sample on kindle as see what the book is like.
Thanks for the tip

Read all Shardake series as I'm a bit of a history buff. All very good and what I think is his other name of S. J Parris.

hi jacquiann, hope you enjoy Wolf Hall - it won the Booker Prize so it's not just me! It's not a whodunnit though, it's about Thomas Cromwell's rise and fall from power (well it hasn't got to the fall yet, that's to follow in book 3 I understand).

The bit that throws many people is that it is written in the third person personal. So it always says 'he' for Cromwell even though it is from Cromwell's point of view. You never get to step inside anyone else's head; that's like real life - but we are most of us used to novels where the author often takes us inside multiple characters. Keep that in mind and it should all be clear.

I have read lots of SciFi in my time, but lost touch with that genre! I thought it had all gone to fantasy these days?

Wolf Hall sounds interesting, have put it on my Kindle wish list but already have many bought to read.

I bought 100 year old man..... the other day, looking forward to it! I'm in a book club, we're currently reading A Street Cat Named Bob, which is a nice easy read. I'll finish that in a couple of days then I plan to read The Kite Runner, followed by 100 Year Old Man, and I'll need to squeeze in whatever our next book club choice is!

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So many good recommendations here! Got to finish my Inspector Montalbanos before I download any new books though!

I've got my eye on Tell The Wolves I'm Home right now, but I'm not going to buy it until it comes down in price.

Jodie - Street Cat named Bob wonderful. Kite Runner film is on BBC 4 tonight and am recording it. ( Husband/football) Read it some time ago and is good.

Just been on kindle site to peruse Hairy bikers diet book as many people have mentioned it. When I looked at the ' what did people buy after looking at this' bit it was 'The 100 year old man who........' and 'Life of Pi'. it's us lot isn't it!. We've taken over amazon!

Crikey, Thanks all of you...I've just popped onto Amazon and seen that the Kindle version of 'The 100 Year Old Man' is being sold at the knock-down price of 20p! Irresistible and duly downloaded onto my Kindle. Bargain. My current read (Susan Hill's most recent Serrailler novel) may temporarily be shelved.....

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Ooh...nips off to Amazon...

Me too, got it now, thanks guys!

The Hundred Year Old Man. I thought it was very predictable, in that you know something completely ridiculous is going to make everything more ridiculous. I preferred Tom Sharpe's books in the 1970s.