Autonomy

Haruki Murakami
Jo Nesbo
John Niven
Will Self
Douglas Coupland

Sandboy

Roddy Doyle
Harry Pearson
Mark Billingham
Peter Robinson
Simon Armitage

Actually just realised, hardly any novels on my shelves, all books about music and football

scot47

Long time ago friends suggested Patrick O'Brien. I did not take their advice. Now loss of central vision means that I cannot read books but I am getting them as audiobooks (CDs) from my local library. Great stuff !

Bob

Bernard Cornwall
John Grisham
Scott Mariani
Conn Iggulden
Ken Follett
Stephen Hunter
Thomas Harris
Jack Higgins
Tom Clancy
W.E.B Griffin - lately has been shit, as the above two.

silversilver

Rusty Young - Marching Powder - Brilliant book - it set me off on a jail story reading frenzy! If you enjoyed this get Hotel K by Kathryn Bonella and No More Tomorrows again by Kathryn Bonella and Schapelle Corby

silversilver

Favourite authors - Ian Rankin - Rebus books outstanding
Iain Banks - Still love love love Espedair Street
Nick Hornby - books far superior than the films

the_red_sheep

I'm a big Ian Rankin fan as well, and Stuart Macbride who writes in a similar vein has become a favourite more recently.

Other favourites include Stephen Fry, Douglas Coupland, Stephen E Ambrose, David Simon, Hunter S Thompson and Robert Harris.

Greenways

For me the litmus test is 'would I pay full price for the new book', so on that basis my favourite authors are:
Lee Child ( just re read the killing floor)
Ian Rankin (Rebus and his Jack Harvey novels)
Marian Keyes
Robert Crais
Michael Connelly
David baldacci
Kate Atkinson - like the Jackson Brodie novels, but life after life was good too
Jojo moyes
Dorothy koomson

I'll also read these too
Robert Craig
Stewart mac bride (although the cannibalism one was too gory for me, I like the aberdeen setting -home city)
Peter May
Lisa gardener
Jane Austen
Georgette Heyer
George rr Martin game of thrones series
Victoria hislop

I love reading and used to take ten books on holiday for a week -e books are a godsend, when they work!!

The Dean

I find many authors very inconsistent........... I loved Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks (in some ways, I can honestly say it changed my life, or my perspective of it) but I couldn't get into most of his other stuff.

Ditto: Ray Bradbury and many sci-fi authors (a genre I tend to enjoy, however). Isaac Asimov's work is brilliantly constructed (I think that is the right word for the Foundation series) but it takes a bit of effort............

Brains1983

Forgot about him and I agree. Anyone that likes Rankin should look him up.

jam25mack

Have a look on audiable.co.uk / com depending where you are.

You can download 2 audiobooks a month for £7.

Saves a lot of messing about downloading them off torrent site as they have all the chapter breaks etc.

jam25mack

Will do, thanks.

I take it you have read Mr Nice by Howard Marks?

jam25mack

Agreed squared. Halfhead is very weird but enjoyable. His others are pretty good too.

I also forgot about Lee Child, I've read all of the Reacher ones although his last two have been average at best.

Meow

Quite agree. Birdsong is a good example too. Incredible book, but the others haven't grabbed me in the same way.

OleJanx

Yep, read that and enjoyed it. Another book on the same lines is Smokescreen, by Robert Sebag.