UK Amazon Kindle Forum discussion

My Mother, Valerie, has just been bought a baby Kindle by Father (Ned, if you're wondering...). She doesn't actually know but she was on the fence about buying one anyway.

(I made sure to go through the store too :D)

She doesn't really actively buy books but she does read certain authors and she does enjoy it so I hope she likes her Kindle.

She reads;


Lesley Pearse
Catherine Cookson
Mary Larkin
Maeve Binchy

Her range is limited. I'm looking for more books along those lines. Quite frankly this is a genre I never touch and have no interest in so I'm relying quite heavily on you guys for points on what to get for her.

As long as it's well written I don't care what type of book it is. If any of you freebie hunters see anything that she may like in the future, please poke me!

I think she and my muminlaw have the same taste in novels...

I'll ring her tomorrow and ask for some titles she's enjoyed.

Thanks Patti! I've truly no idea what to get for her! I'd like a few books ready for when she gets it so she can dig in!

Oh, you could amazon search those authors and look at the 'people who bought also bought' thingy.

Oh yeah, must do that tomorrow! thanks! now is time to go read my own!

She might like Mary Stuart? Victoria Holt?

I think that she'll love Mary Jane Staples; she is similar to Catherine Cookson, she has a series of books based on one family (the Adams) and some other books that are loosely inter linked.

Hope it helps :-D

Elle I think your Mum would like Shayne ParkinsonThe Promises to Keep series has 4 books,an excellent epic read.
Mary Fitzgeraldis also very good.
If she likes memoirs the Philip Whiteland and Harry Leslie Smith May be to her liking.
Another I would recommend is Tainted Tree
Have a look and see what you think.

Elle just popped back to say today's Daily Deal looks like one your Mum may enjoy and the title would make it more than appropriate as first book on a Kindle gifted from you!

Oh yes, brilliant guys


Mother now has her own wishlist - and just bought that book Sarah. Thanks so much! :D

She may like Debbie Macomber or Lilian Harry.

Debbie Macomber is american and I'm not quite sure how to describe her books - women's fiction, bit soap opera..

Lilian Harry writes historical novels set around the war years. I've only read one of hers but enjoyed it, and want to read more as some of her books are set in my home city of Portsmouth. The one that I have read and so can recommend is Tuppence to Spend.

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Thanks Karen!

And my Mother does love that kind of thing. Me on the other hand couldn't be more different haha!

I was a bit underwhelmed by Debbie Macomber, but have two or three more of hers on my kindle that I bought in sales. The Lilian Harry's will have to wait until I have some more gift vouchers as her books are around the £5 mark - not a fortune, I know, but I'm broke!

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DD!!!!!!!!!!!


searching Mary Stuart on Amazon Kindle books = LOL!

Maybe DD meant Mary Stewart..?

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I think maybe, I don't think my Mother would enjoy "Indiscreet Babysitter"

LMAO!!

Is your Mum going to join us here in the forum Elle?

I am going to make her a GR account but I severely doubt she'll participate much. She only goes on once a day after dinner to do her surveys so you might see her around then, it depends!

It's Mary A. Larkin btw.


She's got two profiles on here, one without the A! Fixing it now though

Louise-Lesley (Elle) wrote: "DD!!!!!!!!!!!


searching Mary Stuart on Amazon Kindle books = LOL!"

OH. MY. GIDDY. AUNT!!!

I am sooooooo embarrassed right now!!!

Yes I did mean Mary STEWART!!!

LOL! :D!

maybe Joanna Trollope?

seeing the name Larkin made me wonder if she'd like The Darling Buds Of May n series. I like those myself :)

Hi Elle, my friend writes as Erin Kaye and her novels are set in NI. They're not really my sort of book but the couple I did read were well written and good stories I thought. I see they might "appeal to Maeve Binchy fans" according to the blurb, so maybe your Mother might like them. (There was a bit of S.E.X. in the ones I read fyi, don't know if that's an issue or no!) Hope she enjoys her new kindle

Thanks Rosemary. I wouldn't know if there was sex in any of my Mothers other books but heh, I'm sure she's grown enough to tell me if she doesn't like.

:)

My mum read this Elle and really enjoyed it, http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_s....
At the moment it's free as well.

I'm reading it now Lorraine. It's very Gone With the Wind-ish.