Soul of Descretion by Susan Hill

I read this book October 2016 I saw it in a charity shop and as it was a Susan Hill I couldn't resist buying it .
Another of the Simon Serrailler detective novels (the latest I think) Usual mixture of beautiful prose and strong plot line.
Simon goes undercover, a nasty child abuse case.  In the meantime the family is falling apart, his father rapes a woman, she is not believed. Simons girlfriend starts a business venture with one of the peple Simon is investigating...
A true Susan Hill book
10/10

Mary Poppins by P.L.Travers

I read this October 2016
I saw this in a charty shop, had never read it and had only a few weeks before been talking to my Brother in law about the story as he had been to see the stage musical 3 times...
What can I say - a lovely, sweely written book, showing what life was like and what a fantasy life could be like in Englad at the turn of teh last century for children.
Delightful!
9/10

Slaughterhouse 5

I read this October 2016, it was the November 2016 book for the Regency book Club. 
Another good choice!
 This is a strange book, written non linear - it (and the hero Billy Pilgrim) travels back and forth in time.  Billy had been a prisoner of war in Dresden at the time of the bombings... The book goies back and forth and comes back to the dreadful blitzing of Dresden several times.
Billy sees his own life lived over and over, is abducted by aliems, lands back in Dresden, nothing is as it seems and he knows what's going to happen in the future and that the past cannot be changed as it exists at all times and recurrs in all eternitity
My type of book!

9/10

The Taxidermist's Daughter by Kate Mosse

I read this October 2016

I had this on my guilty shelf since the summer...
Strange goings on in the marshes.  A taxidermist who turns to drink, a huge conspiracy, a raped girl sent to an asylum who exacts revenge. What's not to like?

Death in Devon by Ian Sansom

I read this October 2016, a Kindle recommendation.
Another in the County series. 
The People's Professor visits a boys school, and uncovers occult goings on!
an enjoyable read

Mary Poppins by P.L. Travers

I read this in October 2016
another charity shop find!
A lighthearted read when I was off work sick.
Simliar to the film, bt has much more in it...

Recommended convalescence read

The Soul of Discretion by Susan Hill

I read this in Otcober 2016.  A charity shop find!
another in the Simon Serrailler crime series. 
Another really good book form Susan Hill, beautifully written and building up slowly but surely to an intense cliffhanger ending.
Simon is undercover trying to smash a pedophile ring.  Meanwhile, his father rapes a fellow freemasons wife, and pisses off to France...
His brother in law has died and his sister is having to cope with 3 children , the closure of the Hospice she works for and loss of income
His girlfriend's husband has died and things are chaging between them...
My goodness, evrything is in this novel!
Throughly enjoyed it!
10./10