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I'm more of a Poirot fan than Marple. Why not begin at the start with his first book he appeared in The mysterious affair at Styles.

People of the book Geraldine Brooks. I really enjoyed this book. It got me from the first paragraph.

I love Agatha Christie and to this date I have never guessed 'whodunit'. Enjoy. :)

I went to the library to pick up Perdido street station by Mieville. Oh my god, it is a doorstopper of a book. Over 700 pages! Now I just have to find the time to get through it. I read the blurb about his first novel King rat and that sounded like it was more interesting. Will let you know...

My favourite place has always been in bed. However, we are hoping to begin a major renovation/extension of our house and I'm planning on having a study, so at the moment I'm coveting a beautiful leather armchair that I'm imagining myself in reading.......

Like all of you I could usually polish off a book in about three or four days. But boy, do children change all of that!!! I'm easily looking at ten days to a fortnight now per average length book. Big change, but I know one day I'll return to gobbling them all up quickly again.

Trixie Belden, Nancy Drew and anything Enid Blyton. In fact, I've been picking up second hand copies - and sometimes new - Enid Blyton just so I can read them aloud to my children (ages three and one) when they get older just so I can revel in them all over again. I've also got Narnia and...

Giving up the book At what point do you give up on a book? It was suggested to me once, that if a book didn't grab me, read only up to your age. Yes, I was confused too. What you do is minus your age from 100 and the result are the number of pages you persevere through. For example, if you...

Murder in the Rue de Paridis Cara Black. It was ok and I would probably read another in the series.

The ghostwriter by John Harwood. Deemed as horror, but I will say it's more a haunting book than horror.

Boneshaker Priest The Windup Girl Bacigalupi The monstrumologist Yancey Flora Segunda Wilce The glass books of the dream eaters vol. 2 Dahlquist The dark volume Dahlquist The manual of detection Berry The somnambulist: a novel Barnes The court of the air Hunt The meaning of night Cox...

Hi Sparkchaser, The difference engine is on my list - which is two A4 pages long so didn't put them all down. In hindsight maybe I should post my whole list as I'm sure I'll probably get suggestions of titles I may already have in mind. :)

I was going to write this thread in Sci Fi but I've decided that this genre is too multi-faceted to be put just there. In recent weeks I've become very interested in Steampunk and I'm putting together a reading list from the genre. I've mostly got my must-reads from Amazon and had a look at...

Hello all, hoping to participate in some book chat especially as I'm at home at present with two young children. When I am working I'm a Librarian, but I plan to do some more study next year to teach English and Literature at secondary schools. Looking forward to sharing thoughts on books and...