Summer Suspense Books - The Best Page-Turning Reads! ☀️ 📚
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- Опубліковано 3 лип 2024
- Sharing my favourite sinister summer books, full of suspense and heatwave temperatures 📚 ☀️
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Bitter Orange by Claire Fuller: blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...
Uncle Paul by Celia Fremlin: blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...
The Clockmaker's Daughter by Kate Morton: blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...
Homecoming by Kate Morton: blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...
My Sister the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite: blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...
The Cloisters by Katy Hays: blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...
The Greengage Summer by Rumer Godden: blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...
The Feast by Margaret Kennedy: blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...
The Wheel Spins by Ethel Lina White: blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...
Frenchman's Creek by Daphne du Maurier: blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...
Airs Above the Ground by Mary Stewart: blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...
Passing by Nella Larsen: blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...
The Go-Between by L P Hartley: blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...
Vera by Elizabeth von Arnim: blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro... - Розваги
Oh my goodness I want to read all of these!! The only one I have read is “Uncle Paul” … I’ve read so many disappointing “best sellers” lately that I’m more than ready to go back to the “greats”. Thanks so much for the great recommendations ❤
Have just ordered 5 of these to start with 😊
In Japan, there is a tradition of reading or telling sinister or horror stories, in the belief that the chill that hearing them produce is refreshing 😅 I read last month The Wheel Spins, thanks to your recommendation, and it was so good! I also watched the Hitchcock movie, although I did not find it as good as the book. Now I want to watch the more recent adaptation
Just this afternoon I finished reading Kate Morton's The Secret Keeper - another incredible page-turner! What an amazing writer she is. This is my third Kate Morton novel and I'm hoping to read The Homecoming soon.
Thanks for the great summer book recommendations vlog!! I also enjoyed the Summer Tea and Book Chat recording! What a treat!! I wrote down lots of titles.😃
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Ohhhhh, sinister summer sounds so good😊. I have read, and loved, both of these Kate Morton books. She is such an amazing writer. There is a certain part of The Clockmaker’s Daughter that haunts me still. The Cloisters has been on my wants list since I first heard of it. I also love Rumer Godden so the greengage summer is a book I’m sure I will love. Last summer I read the House of Brede, and it broke my heart in the best of ways. Again, a passage that haunts me still. Passing is a wonderful choice. Thank you, Miranda for all these recommendations. I love your outfit too, refreshingly summer💙
15:45 YES! British Library Crime Classics 👏🏽
Another fabulous group of recommendations! Rising to the top, Bitter Orange, Clockmaker’s Daughter and Greengage Summer. Thanks !
I added Bitter Orange to my reading list.
At your suggestion, I read Uncle Paul last summer, and I really enjoyed it. A friend suggested Airs Above Ground to me a number of years ago, and it was lighter than I my usual fare. However, a few years ago, I read several of Mary Stewart's books, and I really enjoyed them.
If you find yourself back in NYC, a visit to The Cloisters is a must!
Thank you Miranda for another insightful video. I am presently rereading The Greengage Summer. Thanks to your recommendation I just ordered Uncle Paul and The Wheel Spins. I plan on spending this hot, hot Tennessee summer reading!!!
They all sound so captivating! I want to lock myself in a room with tea and cake with all these books and just read for hours. ☺️ I recently ordered The Feast and have My Cousin Rachel and Frenchman’s Creek on my reading list. I also just started Rose Cottage by Mary Stewart and Airs Above the Ground sounds very interesting. Looks like I’ll have a few more to add to my reading list! 📚📚📚Thank you for all the recommendations! 🩷
Suspenseful is exciting to read. I have just started Simon Brett's Mrs. Pargeter's mystery series as they are most enjoyable. Do give them a try.
Thank you Miranda for all these summer reads - I am going to see if my library has a few of these! 📚
Wow! Wonderful portrayal of these books!! Makes me want to read them all!! Love to listen to your descriptions!
What a wonderful selection of summery suspense novels! I love The wheel spins too and can’t wait to read Uncle Paul. The Greengage Summer is a favourite Summer read of mine too. Thank you as always Miranda xx📚☀️
Great recommendations Miranda, and including several of my favourites. I have read Airs Above the Ground several times and Frenchman's Creek many more. I am going to get it off my bookshelf right now to reread it yet again! I've seen The Lady Vanishes in several versions but have never read The Wheel Spins - I must put that right this summer.
I am always so relieved when you recommend a couple books I have already read and I don't need to add them to my TBR! As always thank you for the great recommendations☺
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Perfect! I love a bookish chat. Just finished Frenhman's Creek and so enjoyed it.
Thank you Miranda for the great recommendations! I just started reading Mary Stewart’s books! 😊
I agree with you about the domestic noir label to describe Fremlin's writing. I read The Hours Before Dawn awhile back on your recommendation and I'll say it creeped me out. Your description of The Wheel Spins reminds a me a little bit of the plot of the movie, Bunny Lake is Missing. Thanks Miranda!
What a great idea for a video! The Greengage Summer has been on my TBR for ages, and now I've bumped it up to the top. Thank you!
It’s such a good read!! Perfect for summer 🌞
Thank you so much. Love your recommendations! Cheers
Vera is one of my all time faves! Love that book so much! I also really enjoyed The Go-Between, Passing, Uncle Paul & The Wheel Spins - some great recommendations! I had The Feast on my tbr for this summer so I’m so glad you enjoyed it and I think I’ll have to pick up Frenchman’s Creek and a Mary Stewart too! Great video! ✨
I love the idea of sinister summer reads! Am taking Uncle Paul and The Greengage Summer on holiday this year 📚🏖️
Hi Miranda - I didn’t love The Cloisters, either. Like you, I didn’t love the setting nor the characters. I read it very quickly. The Cloisters are beautiful- you definitely have to go and visit! Passing is one of my favorite books! I taught it for many years. Another great book that, I believe, if I remember correctly, begins at Christmas in Australia is The Transit of Venus by Shirley Hazzard. What an amazing book!
Psychotic domestic noir - love it ! Can recommend " Greengage Summer " & " The Go-Between " .
I have read three Celia Fremlin books and loved everyone. My favourite is The Hours Before Dawn
Hello Miranda everyone in my house agree…we could listen to you read all day… it’s a Holiday over here ( The 4th of July aka Independence Day) so I’m not watching your video alone (in peace 😂😂🥰) Thank You for all these Great Recommendations 🥰
Wonderful selection of books. Your recommendations just come to life with you describing them. Thank you very much Miranda 💕
Ive read several von Arnim books. I loved Vera. I think that husband was modeled after her horrid marriage to Russell . Also, some humour ...that scene when he calls maid to drill her about the piano leg is Hysterical!! 🤣
Also, in vein of the garden journals, i love In the Mountains...i suggest it if you havent read it yet!!
Oh yes,2 have caught my eye the clock makers daughter looks good. I am sure, years ago I have read Frenchmans creek. Rebecca so atmospheric and tense. But I want to read again cornwall and romance ,perfect. Thank you for this video😊
O Wow ,Miranda... Many caught my attention. Summer -Suspense sounded a very nice phrase. Thank you for all the suggestions. Hope you are enjoying your summer read. Have a fun weekend. ❤
Thank you, Miranda!🌷Totally agree on The Cloisters. I remember buying it because of the setting (I’ve been there and it’s very atmospheric), the dark academia vibe and also the… stunning cover😅However, I found neither the plot nor the characterization very convincing. I read The Wheel Spins and The Feast on your recommendation and loved them. Now I’m going to explore Claire Fuller, Kate Morton and Mary Stewart.
Im so glad I bought The Fradt last summer, though havent finished. I must use it as my commute train book! So pleased to hear you suggest it again.
Miranda, thank you for ALL the work you put into this GREAT list of recommendations for summer! WOW! Each one sounds so good! Makes me want to dump my Summer TBR and just read these!! (except for my Mary Stewart Rose Cottage; presently reading). Your reviews are ALWAYS very well presented. Just got home from hosp./ rehab last night (still long recovery); so this was a REAL "Cheer up Eileen and get reading!!" 😋😄 Thanks so much🤗
These are excellent reviews and I can’t wait to add them to my summer tbr!
Thank you Miranda. I’ve read Homecoming and Uncle Paul and a very long time ago Airs Above the Ground but I shall reread that one again and now I’m very keen to read The Greengage Summer and passing. I’m very much enjoying watching your videos.
I really enjoyed the Cloisters. I personally think it’s worth reading.
I love watching your videos. You inspire me to read so much more and read out of my comfort zone as well. Great choices for summer reads x
Lovely recommendations yet again miranda I've had pen and paper noting some down and I have Kate morton already on my shelf ❤
Miranda,
Thank you for this list. I can hardly wait to get to the bookstore. ❤️
Thankyou Amanda for sharing. I’ve been writing down all the books so I can get. Enjoy your reading ❤❤
I have not read any of these books and now I want to read Frenchman's Creek to begin with.
Some more great reads to add to my TBR list, thank you. I can see my library reservations racking up 📚 😊
I recently read My sister the serial killer, a dark humourous read, I loved it too! 🌞
Thank you for all the great suggestions. I loved Bitter Orange and Frenchman’s Creek so now I think I will look for Vera. I have so many good reads for summer many of which were your suggestions. I did decide to start the summer with The Shell Seekers and I’m loving it. 🌸
Brilliant recommendations Miranda! All So appreciate for summer reading which will keep me so busy 😄😄😄
Thank you for such a varied listing of summer reads. I'll be sure to look them out when I make my visit to my favourite bookshop. I'm taking part in my local library's summer reading challenge. It's only 5 books and I've got to August to finish. Alongside my AM Smiths Isabel Dalhousie, ECR Lorac Mysteries I've a couple on Charles Dickens too. Thanks again for another lovely episode Miranda x
I immediately added. “The Wheel Spins” to my kindle after your description
I put in hold requests at my library for Bitter Orange, The Clockmaker’s Daughter, and My Sister the Serial Killer. Loved this theme! I’m currently listening to They Came to Baghdad by Agatha Christie (read by Emilia Fox) and enjoying that. Another suspense novel I often recommend is Who Is Maud Dixon by Alexandra Andrews.
Thank you for all the great book reviews. The Go Between, Airs Above the Ground and Frenchmans Creek are all favourites. For me, the beginning of Frenchmans Creek is one the best of any book I've read, it's so atmospheric. A lovely summer suspense is Afternoon Walk by Dorothy Eden. She really brings an oppressive English heat wave into the story as one of the main characters! Her writing is brilliant, evoking countryside and an abandoned Victorian house, both as beautiful and sinister at the same time. I will look for Kate Mortons book, The Clockmakers Daughter, thanks very much Miranda.
Great recommendations - I loved The Feast - so much more than just a thriller. I add my all time favourite Summer book, set in searing heat on a Greek Island - The Magus by John Fowles.
💕😀xx Thanks Miranda. Brilliant list as always. Luckily I’ve read most of the titles, probably due to your recommendations, so not too much to add to my much too long tbr. Lots of love 🥰📚
I just finished (about an hour ago) Kate Morton's "The Forgotten Garden." I highly recommend it.
Enchanting video, thank you Miranda! 🩷 I loved Rebecca and My Cousin, Rachel. This month I will read, of course, The Frenchman's Creek. Can't wait!😊 I also love Kate Morton, I've read the ones you recommended. I wish you happy summer reading! 📖🌼🤗
Thankyou for bringing these books to our attention Miranda ,I have read a number of them,I remember going on a Daphne Dumaurier binge reading fest when I was in my teens!I have just bought Passing and The Wheel Spins for my kindle they are both under 50p so a complete bargain .I have just finished listening to Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout ,fantastically read and brilliantly written.
I read Vera and Uncle Paul last summer because of your recommendation and loved them both! I can't wait to read some of the others you recommended in your blog!
Thank you, dear Miranda.
I love the recommendations and also I really love the editions. I’m in the U.S. but often shop amazon UK because your editions are just better lol.
Hi, Miranda I've just read The Diary of a Young Girl and during the summer days and months Anne writes about how hot and humid and sweltering the heat was,in the Secret Annexe She and the others could not open the windows and have to stay as quiet as possible and having been burgled some weeks before and nearly found out and also just ended her little love affair with Peter and all she wanted was freedom and to become a writer, and to think she just turned 15 it's so heartbreaking and full of tension between all of them, and to know how it ends it's beyond words, Thanks for your recommendations I'll check them out see you soon bye ❤
Thank you so much, Miranda. I want to read all of your recommendations, but I think I'll start with "The Feast."
I also love a sinister read during the summer! My favorites have been O Caledonia by Elspeth Barker and Lolly Willowes by Sylvia Townsend Warner (an author you introduced me to!)
I always feel the novel Vera was way ahead of its time. It starts with a courtship, but very soon it becomes something one was definitely not expecting.
I love the go between, it’s so beautiful and so sad. The film is also, to my mind a masterpiece. I have rend the novel several times and seen the film which I have bought in dvd. And you are quite rightvin some novels a season becomes another character, in ethan frome, the cold and the snow did become another character. I will probably read one of your suggestions ! Thank you 😊
Wow I want to read all of these! Most are new to me; that's great! I'd recommend Surfacing by Margaret Atwood. It's a novel about a woman and 3 friends going to the Quebec wilderness to look for her father, but it's a literary powerhouse packed with a tonne of commentary in under 250 pages. I absolutely love it!
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As soon as you mentioned “follies,” I added “Bitter Orange” by Claire Fuller to my TBR. I’m a fan of follies, and even if it turns out that they play only a minor role in the book, I’ll still be happy.😀
They don’t play much of a role, but the setting is generally very atmospheric!
@@MirandaMills That's good enough for me.😀
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Hi Miranda, yay i recently bought The Clockmaker's daughter & was thrilled to see you recommend it! 😊 A little support from me to you thanks x ps i got my delivery of Emma Bridgewater mugs & small rose bowl, i love the rose and bee mug that looks like Kath Kidson, i like the inner turquoise colour in the mug like your dear mum mentioned ♥
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Thank you for a wonderful video and great book recommendations! Once I finish "A Month In The Country," I'm starting on "The Clockmaker's Daughter." The book, "Vera," sounds like a fascinating read, but it does remind me a bit of "Danger Point," what do you think?
Miranda, thank you for this video. Suspense novels are great for vacation vibes. I have to tell you, I was just thinking of you because I finally ordered The Thirteen Days of Christmas, which has been on my wish list since you recommended it a few years ago. I think the heat got to me, and I wanted a cooling read. :-)
Super! Hope you enjoy it!
10:20 GREAT CHOICE! Do check out the adaptation too
Suspense Books are awesome. I need more pacy books in life. Also, my vocal cords won’t be able to take it if you pick something from British Library Crime Classics
I’m reading at the moment a novel called The forgotten letters of Esther durrant ❤
Houses in the English Countryside? We don’t know her 😂
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