MY FAVOURITE AUTHOR.

[mariana44]

Just to follow on from the previous topic of "Favourite Childhood Book", I thought this may give some interesting results--may even introduce us to some new authors.

If I like an author, I will read all the books by that author---many times over---and I have been told I should broaden my horizons--so maybe I will.

You can tell us a little about your favourite author if you so wish--and chose a favourite book by that author--if you can !!

Also the same author can be nominated by different people.

My first favourite author is MONICA DICKENS---great grand-daughter of Charles Dickens--I am finding it almost impossible to choose a favouite--the first book I read of hers was "No more Meadows" , which was enough to get me hooked--just talking about them makes me want to read them over again- -- ALL of them. I have already read them so many times, they are literally falling apart, held together with elastic bands---and I have had to replace them all. Luckily still available on Amazon etc.

But I am going to chhose Monica's autobiography ""AN OPEN BOOK" as my favourite--telling of family life in London in the 1900's , but also how all the experiences in her life, inspired the fictional books that she wrote.

[Pam]

Nancy Atherton - The entire Aunt Diminity Series

[mariana44]

Thanks Pam--that is a brand new name already to me---are these some kind of detective story?

[maureen & harry]

My favourite author has been and always will be Jane Austen. I have read her books so many times I can practically recite them word for word. I also have many of the TV productions (especially the BBC adaptations by Andrew Davies) and have put them on my iPod so that when I'm on holiday I can watch them all again!

I also enjoy historial novels by Jean Plaidy, Philippa Gregory and any authors who write about the Tudors or Stuarts as I find that the most fascinating period in history.

I also like Jeffrey Archer's books. I find him a really good storyteller.

A really good read is The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini and also A Thousand Splendind Suns by the same author. These are both very sad stories but well worth reading.

There are numerous authors whose books I have read over the years but of course far too many to mention here

Happy reading.

Maureen

[Pam]

Mariana,
The Aunt Diminity series is about a girl from the US who inherits a cottage in England. She solves crimes with the help of Aunt Diminity who is dead but communicates with her thru a journal. they are really wonderful

[mariana44]

Sounds interesting , Pam--I shall llok out for that author.

Maureen, thanks for all your suggestions--I am not into historical books as a rule, but I enjoyed your comments.

My favourite crime writer has always been AGATHA CHRISTIE---I have read and reread her books so many times--strangely enough, I do not always remember "who dun it" , but even if I do, I still enjoy reading them-and they are very easy reading.

I know that they have been made into films and tv, with various actors and actresses playing Poirot or Miss Marple--but not one of them compares to reading the book--I do not like the films at all.

[Sandra]

As Maureen says the books that we have read over the years are many.
Like Marion I enjoy a good 'who dun it'.
Good crime novelists I have read are Stephen Booth,John Harvey and am just starting reading Jeffrey Deaver,recommended to me.
What about Martina Cole rather near the knuckle!

[mariana44]

One of my favourite authors is not strictly an author-she is an actress. Her name is Molly Weir, and she died a few years back aged 94.

She had such an interesting and full life, that her autobigoraphy went into 7 books !! Each one I have read many times over--because if I read one, I have to read the whole series. She has such a readable quality to her books, and the stories of her life events are just fascinating.

I guess my 2 favourites of the series are the two that tell about "The Itma Years", which I can just barely remember--then on to the "Life with the Lyons " years, which I remember very clearly, and are always associated with the family Sunday Lunch.

The books are still available in Amazon, as I have recently had to replace them all, being worn out--they could also be on ebay. The first one is called "Shoes were for Sunday" and tells of her childhood years , living in a Glasgow tenement, before the war--with characters so real, it is like knowing them yourself.

I have not come acroos a single person who has also read these books--but i would love to, one day.

[ROBERT M.]

Was Bebe Daniels in "Life with the Lyons" ?

[Marian]

I'm pretty sure she was married to Ben Lyon and was in the series Robert.
Marian

[mariana44]

Yes, you are both toitally correct. She came over on the show as quite a ditsy character, but in fact she was just the opposite.

Of course they are both gone now, along with Molly, and many of the other regular characters-but Richard and Barbara, the son and daughter are still around I believe.

I bought a cd of 4 "Life with the Lyons " programmes, just a few years back--and they were not quite as funny as I remembered them to be, so I was somewhat disappointed.

[oxenholme]

My favourite author is Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - he who wrote the Sherlock Holmes long and short stories, and the Professor Challenger series.

[Pam]

Have I ever mentioned M. C. Beaton. I love the Hamish McBeth and the Agatha Raisin series

[mariana44]

I do not think you have mentioned that name, Pam--and it is a name that I do not recognise.

[Pam]

she lives in the Cotswolds I think. Her books on Hamish McBeth are set in Locduh in scotland, he is the policeman. Agatha Raisin is a set of detective stories set in the Cotswolds. great fun books