Best Top Fiction Books

I see on Facebook that Sharon Kay Penman is getting closer to completing “Lionheart” – well, Richard is in the Holy Land – so I suppose there is still a fair way to go
I also see that she mentions that “Devil’s Brood” is now available as an e-book (from Penguin) – which is great.
E-Books are [...]

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Recently did a search to check on rankings etc for Top Fiction Books and this blog.  Some interesting results.
PR of 3 for Top Fiction Books – better than a slap in the face with a wet fish!
While I have started to add links to booksellers for my visitors convenience, I am still adding features.
Book of [...]

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I have just started to re-vamp my book site www.readingbooks-4fun.com- I have deleted some sections and will be adding, over the next couple of weeks, sections on:
Books to movies,
featured author of the month,
and possibly book of the month – which won’t necessarily be the latest on the Times Best Seller list, but books I think [...]

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I am enjoying s different perspective on India of the Moguls. “Tiger Claws” by John Speed is a novel set during the last years of Shah Jahan – the builder of the Taj Mahal – that magnificent monument to love.  It is not so much about Shah Jahan as it is about about the struggle [...]

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Neglect is the story of my life with my blogs – too busy writing for my websites.
I have just started on my gardening site – and, as gardening is a passion, it is proving fun to write the content.  I have quite a few pages up and more to come over the next few days.  [...]

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My Current Reading And A Bit More: I have just finished David Hosp’s  “The Betrayed” – not a bad thriller yarn – good for a realx read, though he is not in the class of Michael Connelly, John Lescroart or Robert Crais.
Have started the read “The King of Ithaca”  (Glyn Iliffe) – of course it’s [...]

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Usually, my historical fiction reading has been limited to the distant past – medieval world back to the ancient world of Rome, Greece and Egypt.
The exceptions being naval novels set around the time of the Napoleonic Wars – Patrick O’Brien’s books, Hornblower and so on.
Recently though, I have been getting back into the novels of [...]

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Just received a neat email from Sharon Kay Penman about her current activities and writing status.
She is well into research and writing “Lionheart” which is due mid next year. She puts an enormous amount of work into her research, which is, no doubt, one of the reasons her novels are  so well liked and respected.
She is [...]

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