Favourite author/s?

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• [Deleted User] Posts: 29

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  26/05/13 - 22:08 #2

  My favourite is Tim o'rourke

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• mimik1uk Posts: 46,701

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  27/05/13 - 01:03 #3

  Christopher brookmyre

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• InsideSoap Posts: 5,981

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  27/05/13 - 02:15 #4

  Jackie Collins
  

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  Martina Cole
  Kimberley Chambers
  Jessie Keane
  Mark Billingham
  Sean Black
  Simon Kernick
  J.K Rowling (HP 1-7 only)
  Annie Groves
  Sean Black
  Matt Hilton
  Peter James

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• clm2071 Posts: 6,644

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  27/05/13 - 17:26 #5

  Alexandre Dumas
  Terry Pratchett
  Ian Rankin
  Douglas Adams
  Clive Cussler
  Iain Banks
  Spike Milligan

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• [Deleted User] Posts: 168

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  27/05/13 - 20:12 #6

  How many can I have? In no particular order:
  
  J K Rowling
  Dennis Wheatley
  Dornford Yates
  Carter Dickson
  Diana Gabaldon
  Sharon Penman
  Charles Dickens
  
  Sure there's more, that's just off the top of my head

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• trinity2002 Posts: 16,059

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  27/05/13 - 21:03 #7

  Charles Dickens and Alexandre Dumas, but going on recent reading habits I'd have to add J.R. Ward, Patricia Briggs, Kresley Cole, Seanan McGuire, and Karen Marie Moning.

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• Anika Hanson Posts: 15,629

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  27/05/13 - 22:54 #8

  Amy Tan
  Karin Slaughter
  Lisa See
  Khaled Hosseni
  George RR Martin
  Peter David

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• timebug Posts: 18,320

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  27/05/13 - 23:27 #9

  Johnathan Gash
  JRR Tolkien
  Don Bannister
  Jo Nesbo
  Desmond Bagley
  Dick Francis
  Arthur Conan Doyle
  Ian Rankin
  Steig Larsson
  Henning Mankell
  Peter Lovesey
  Peter James
  and many more....

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• Dicey Riley Posts: 65

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  28/05/13 - 00:17 #10

  Susan Lewis

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• [Deleted User] Posts: 62

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  28/05/13 - 00:52 #11

  Penny Vincenzi

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• James_Barker1 Posts: 324

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  28/05/13 - 02:58 #12

  My favourite authors, which I've read a fair few books of:
  
  Daphne Du Maurier
  D.H Lawrence
  E.M Forster
  The Bronte sisters
  
  Also finished reading Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters and it was one of the most enjoyable books I've read in a while, and so I'm looking to read more, so she likely will be one of my overal favourites.

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• postit Posts: 23,839

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  28/05/13 - 15:25 #13

  C J Box
  David Baldacci
  Harlen Coben
  Lee Child
  P J Tracy
  Tess Gerritson

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• Teddybleads Posts: 6,814

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  28/05/13 - 16:21 #14

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  Joseph Conrad
  Henry James
  Albert Camus
  David Mitchell
  George Orwell
  Kazuo Ishiguro
  
  and currently V.S. Naipaul

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• meechyemoo Posts: 659

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  30/05/13 - 00:02 #15

  Peter James
  Christopher Fowler
  Mark billing ham
  Peter Robinson
  Val Mcdermid
  Ruth Rendell / Barbara Vine
  Sarah Rayne
  
  A new favourite is F.G. Cottam.

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• turquoiseblue Posts: 2,431

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  30/05/13 - 00:13 #16

  Harlen Coben
  Lee Child
  Mark Billingham

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• d0lphin Posts: 25,353

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  30/05/13 - 00:53 #17

  Robert Goddard.

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• OxfordGirl Posts: 3,122

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  30/05/13 - 01:17 #18

  d0lphin wrote: »

  Robert Goddard.

  
  second that
  
  His new book is out on 4th July - I go on holiday on the 3rd so will have to wait!

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• CLL Dodge Posts: 115,799

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  30/05/13 - 01:59 #19

  The dead:
  
  J. G Ballard
  Philip K. Dick
  Kurt Vonnegut
  Ray Bradbury
  Keith Roberts
  
  The living:
  
  Ramsey Campbell
  Graham Joyce
  Michael Moorcock
  Brian Aldiss
  Colin Wilson

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• Hogzilla Posts: 24,116

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  30/05/13 - 02:33 #20

  Tolkien
  Terry Pratchett
  George R R Martin
  Dickens
  Nikki French
  Ruth Rendell
  Jeanette Winterson
  Ellis Peters
  Margaret Attwood
  P D James

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• agrainofsand Posts: 8,693

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  30/05/13 - 02:42 #21

  Hogzilla wrote: »

  Tolkien
  Terry Pratchett
  George R R Martin
  Dickens
  Nikki French
  Ruth Rendell
  Jeanette Winterson
  Ellis Peters
  Margaret Attwood
  P D James

  
  Brilliant writer.

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• girlfrommars Posts: 2,752

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  30/05/13 - 21:47 #22

  Christopher Moore
  Tom Perrotta
  Tom holt
  Jasper Fforde
  Sue Townsend
  David Nobbs
  Jonathan Coe
  Alexander Mcall Smith

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• Sue_C Posts: 1,468

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  30/05/13 - 23:02 #23

  Too many to count over the years. So far as new books are concerned,
  
  I think that Neil Gaiman is my current favourite.
  
  I'm impressed by Margaret Atwood, David MItchell and William Nicholson and want to read more of their books.
  
  I like
  Susan Hill for her Simon Serailler series.
  Peter Lovesey for his Peter Diamond series.
  Ben Aaronovitch for his Peter Grant series.
  Phil Rickman's Merrily Watkins series is looking promising, I've only read one so far, I thought it was excellent.

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• Utopian Girl Posts: 8,275

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  03/06/13 - 21:18 #24

  Margaret Atwood
  Angela Carter
  Dostoyevsky
  Janet Frame ( the late & much underrated in the country):(
  Kurt Vonnegut
  Many more - I'll add on ( I'm cooking dinner ATM):o

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• benjamini Posts: 32,066

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  03/06/13 - 21:29 #25

  Too many to mention but
  Truman Capote
  Bill Bryson
  Stella Gibbons
  Gabriel Garcia Marquez(sp)
  Paul Theroux
  William Trevor
  Val McDermid
  To name a few.

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• mimik1uk Posts: 46,701

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  03/06/13 - 22:33 #26

  guy I really like is Michael marshall smith
  
  hes got a bit of an iain banks thing going in in that he writes two different genres one under his full name above and the other under the name Michael marshall

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