Looking for a new author

[ayceejay]

I have read all of these authors books although not in an particular order:
Elmore Leonard
Italo Calvino
Cormac McCarthy
After a while Elmore Leonard does seem a tad formulaic but oddly I find comfort in that and he is the one I would recommend as McCarthy can be very dark not to say bleak and Calvino very confusing.

 

[glasgowcyclist]

Try Andrea Camilleri, (author of the books behind the Ispettore Montalbano tv series on BBC4) you can get them in Fopp at the rate of 3 for £5. Excellent stories and characters.


GC

 

[Octet]

Clive Cussler

 

[Beeankey]

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Henning Mankell > Larsson/Nesbo.

Give John Niven a shot if you fancy something a bit different.

Love John Niven

 

[Beeankey]

Cheers guys. Keep them coming!

What about Dean Koontz?

 

[Globalti]

captain w e johns did rather a good series of flying related adventure stories if i remember rightly. not aure which the first one was. series runs through from the Great War to various spy stuff in the Cold War

That's Biggles! More "Boys' Own" than adult really. Biggles in the Jungle was the first proper book I read, probably at the age of about 7.

In a similar vein, an excellent series of children's adventure stories is the Swallows and Amazons books by Arthur Ransome. Fantastic stories.

 

[Tanis8472]

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Stephen-Leather/e/B000APS0ZM/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_1

Stephen Leather.

Ballantyne novels and Egypt novels by Wilbur Smith

 

[EltonFrog]

You like a thriller you say?

Try this fella http://www.stuartmacbride.com/

Bloody ACE so he is.

 

[User169]

Simon Raven. The "Alms for Oblivion" series (10 novels) and subsequent "The First Born of Egypt" series (7 novels) are all related and should keep you going for a while. Not as well known as Powell's Dance to the Music of Time, but they are extremely well-written, hugely entertaining and completely outrageous.

 

[dellzeqq]

+1 for Jo Nesbo, currently reading The Redbreast, cant' put it down

Jo Nesbo is an anagram for Nose Job. Just saying..............

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Charles Willeford's Hoke Moseley series, downbeat detective in Miami, classic pulp noir stylee. Alec Baldwin was in a film adaptation, Miami Blues...

 

[Ron-da-Valli]

Try John Buchan's Richard Hannay series?
On a nautical theme Alexander Kent's "Bolitho" series.
Bernard Knight's "Crowner John" mystery series.

 

[Beeankey]

You like a thriller you say?

Try this fella http://www.stuartmacbride.com/

Bloody ACE so he is.

Read all his stuff. He is indeed ace. Very good books