Booknutt Posted September 24, 2017 Share Posted September 24, 2017 I am completely unashamed in starting this topic! If it's sex you're looking for (quite nice in it's place) then this is a non starter, fellow reader. I'm in the mood for a romantic read, and apart from Gone with the Wind, a darn good historical novel and romance, I'm struggling. So - suggestions please. Plenty of smoulder, and a bit of sizzle is fine, but I'm looking for something about a relationship growing to special level as a main theme, historical or modern Ye Gods I've just thought of Barbara Cartland ... somebody help! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poppy Posted September 25, 2017 Share Posted September 25, 2017 Have you read anything by R.F Delderfield? You might enjoy A Horseman Riding By and Diana. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Booknutt Posted September 25, 2017 Author Share Posted September 25, 2017 Thanks, Poppy. I've never actually explored R.F.D. before. Jane Austen and Wuthering Heights have a!so come to mind, but they're o!d pals already. Anyone got anymore? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Booknutt Posted September 29, 2017 Author Share Posted September 29, 2017 Trying "Zemindar" by Valerie Fitzgerald. Slow to start, as there's a bit of explanation about India pre-mutiny by one character to another, but looking promising. Have noticed that there's quite a choice of stories about this time and place to choose from. A pity in a way that authors tend to "jump on the bandwagon" - all it takes is one success, and all follow suit. After this, I'll sniff about for other locations. Happy reading, All. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Booknutt Posted October 11, 2017 Author Share Posted October 11, 2017 Zeminder wasn't a great success 😯 Our hero doesn't even appear till 20% into the book, but the heroine obsessed about him for most of the previous pages, which I actually got bored with! Might give it another try sometime else? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Booknutt Posted October 11, 2017 Author Share Posted October 11, 2017 To add to the suggestions ... How could I forget Mary Stewart?! Her "Nine Coaches Waiting" is a big favourite, but I've read quite a few of her thriller\romances. Perhaps under the heading of "historicals" now, as they're set around the 1940's-ish but interesting adventures, too. Give her a spin you may enjoy her. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Madeleine Posted October 11, 2017 Share Posted October 11, 2017 Love Mary Stewart - Wildfire at Midnight is my fave so far, with This Rough Magic a close second. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Booknutt Posted April 18, 2018 Author Share Posted April 18, 2018 Currently enjoying "Beneath a Burning Sky" by Jenny Ashcroft. Yes, it's got slow burning romance of Olivia, (unfortunately married to utter bleeper Alistair) who bonds with Captain Edward Bertram a lodger in their Alexandrian home. It's the early 1890s so the pair are awfully British and decent about it. Halfway through the book and nothing more than a few conversations and horse riding lessons have taken place. Which is fine, real!y, because there is also a mystery and a kidnapping to be solved, and it's an interesting read, altogether. Yet this kind of book is referred to as "chick lit" in a derogatory fashion. Also in the charity shop where I get a lot of my books not rated highly, as the "men's type" books are on the shelves, while such authors as this are in revolving stands placed at a distance from them, but priced at a pound less for faster sales to the gals!! At least in that we win! Anyway, I've got a few more gathered in - Dinah Jefferies and Julia Grayson to name two, so here's hoping there's a bit of smoulder in them among a good story! Still hoping for suggestions though folks - whack 'em on here, please. A bit of romance helps the world go round. Happy reading to All! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Booknutt Posted May 11, 2018 Author Share Posted May 11, 2018 Anyone tried "The Sapphire Widow" by Dinah Jefferies? Basically speaking, the story of a bereaved wife who finds out her late hubbie had so much more in his life than she thought! All the right ingredients - shock, anger, pathos, surprises, dogs, threats, interfering mother in law(!), increasing relationship with attractive chap, all wrapped up in exotic location. What more does a reader need? (Apart from a comfy chair and a cuppa of course!) I enjoyed it - you might too. Got any suggestions for us other Romantics to try? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Madeleine Posted May 11, 2018 Share Posted May 11, 2018 I've got this one, I also have one of her other books, The Tea Planter's Wife. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Booknutt Posted June 22, 2018 Author Share Posted June 22, 2018 What did you think of the Tea Planters Wife, Madeline? It's escaped my clutches! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Madeleine Posted July 3, 2018 Share Posted July 3, 2018 Umm haven't read it yet! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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