- Phillip Pullman; fantasy - aimed at young adults, but popular with adults too. "His Dark Materials" trilogy is a prize winning series and is being adapted into a film starring Nicole Kidman and Daniel Craig. More info here
- James Clavell; historical fiction primarily set in the Far East. Epics!
- Jeff Gulvin; little known author writing crime thrillers. Amazing detail and factual content. Complex, twisting plots.
- Ken Follet; Thriller. WWII, historical fiction.
- Bernard Cornwell; Historical Fiction.
- Daniel Silva; Spy Thriller. Primary focus on the Israeli/Palestinian issue.
- Minette Walters; Psychological Crime Detectory thingies.
- Stephen King; Horror, thrillers
- H.G. Wells; Science Fiction, Thriller, Drama.
- Jack London; London's books are extremely fascinating in my mind. In many ways his writing can be compared to Wilbur Smith in the way he describes nature and people.
- Roald Dahl; Dahl wrote a lot of children books like "Charlie and the chocolate factory" but he has written lots of books and short stories for adults too. If you want to laugh aloud then read "Uncle Oswald". Also his 2 autobiographies are highly recommended as he lived a life like one of Wilbur's typical characters.
Mr de Kok wrote:Penitent wrote:try to read 1. The Assyrian and 2. the sequence novel "the blood star" both by Nicholas Guild.
You will not regret it.
And I am not making this statement lightly !!
dtietens wrote:Hi all,
I as well felt, after reading all WS books, "what now...???".
As I am hooked on the African continent. I started to read a bit more non-fiction on the African Continent.
Good (history - but readable) books about South Africa and its people are:
Commando; Deneys Reitz - A Boer Journal of the Boer War (1903)
The Great Trek; Oliver Ransford - 1835-1854 period of the Boermove from the Cape to the inlands of RSA (1972)
J.C. Smuts, a Study in Arrogance; H.C. Armstrong - Biografie of Jan Smuts while he was still alive(1937)
The fiction crime-books of Deon Meyer are good as well.
Hope it helps
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