Book Corner

Do you have a favourite author? Have you read nearly all of his or her books? Would you like to try someone different but who writes in a similar way? As a change, this summer I thought I would give some suggested alternatives to popular authors. So here they are, the main author is in upper case with the suggested alternatives in lower case: -

ALEXANDER McCALL SMITH
Veronica Heley | Tony Hillerman
Valerie Wilson Wesley

TERRY PRATCHETT (writing for adults)
Douglas Adams | Simon R Green
Jasper Fforde | Tom Holt
Rob Grant | Robert Rankin

LEE CHILD
William Diehl | Graham Hurley
Donald James | Michael Marshall

ARTHUR C CLARKE
Brian W Aldiss | Jack McDevitt
Greg Bear | Robert Silverberg

NORA ROBERTS
Virginia Andrews | Jude Deveraux
Candace Bushnell | Maggie O’Farrell
Catherine Coulter | Nicholas Sparks

BERNARD CORNWELL
Richard Howard | Allan Mallinson
C C Humphreys | Steven Pressfield
Sam Llewellyn

M C BEATON
Gerald Hammond | Claire Curzon
Margaret Duffy

CLIVE CUSSLER
Russell Andrews | Desmond Bagley
Matthew Reilly

CYNTHIA HARROD-EAGLES (Crime)
Gwendoline Butler | Graham Ison
Deborah Crombie | Barry Maitland

CYNTHIA HARROD-EAGLES (Historical)
Victoria Holt | Patricia Wendorf
Rosalind Laker | E V Thompson

Adult Fiction Authors picked out from 100 Top Authors at Fantastic Fiction.co.uk
Suggested alternatives have been taken from ‘Who Else Writes Like? A Readers’ Guide to Fiction Authors’ by Roy and Jeanne Huse.
(Loughborough University) ISBN 1901 786-897.

Happy summer reading everyone.

Lynn Winter

If you read an especially good book this summer - why not recommend it to others? Just a few lines will suffice with the title and author.