Who do you read when you dont want HF? I tend to go for chick lit type books, or 'family' ones. Some of the authors I look out for are:
Marian Keyes
Freya North
Erica James
Cathy Kelly
Who else tickles your taste buds?
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Non HF Authors
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My favorite living authors of non-HF are Anne Tyler and P. D. James. I also read a fair amount of history and biography these days, but my reading's based more on the subject than on the author.
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I tend to bit and bob a great deal and not stick with one author. But I do enjoy
Jodi Picoult
Terry Pratchett
Janet Evanovich
Katie Fforde
Jodi Picoult
Terry Pratchett
Janet Evanovich
Katie Fforde
Les proz e les vassals
Souvent entre piez de chevals
Kar ja li coard nI chasront
'The Brave and the valiant
Are always to be found between the hooves of horses
For never will cowards fall down there.'
Histoire de Guillaume le Mareschal
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Souvent entre piez de chevals
Kar ja li coard nI chasront
'The Brave and the valiant
Are always to be found between the hooves of horses
For never will cowards fall down there.'
Histoire de Guillaume le Mareschal
www.elizabethchadwick.com
If I'm not reading historical fiction I usually read historical non-fiction or political non-fiction. If I'm not reading that I'm reading that I often read sports-based stuff, but I rarely read things that fall under general fiction with the exception of someone like Dickens. So I don't I really have a particular favourite non-historical author.
I'm rather an eclectic reader: I swing from sci fi/fantasy, general fiction,classic lit, non fiction history and psycological mysteries, depending on my mood. I am a big fan of Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman, also Kate Atkinson, Jill Paton-Walsh, Timothy Findley, Isabel Allende, Margaret Atwood, Ursula Hegi, Ruth Rendell and Iain Pears.
An occasional mystery, but mostly I am doing research either for my WIP or for other stories to be written.

Bodo the Apostate, a novel set during the reign of Louis the Pious and end of the Carolingian Empire.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXZthhY6 ... annel_page