erm - Terry Pratchett? and John le Carre, at the moment. Edith Pargeter (and as Ellis Peters near end of term), and for fun the Mapp and Lucia books by E. Benson(?). Also a wonderful book I keep near ready to re-read. It's about Christopher Marlowe as an Elizabethan spy. It's not fiction, fairly dense in places but utterly fascinating. It's called "The Reckoning", but I can't remember the author without going downstairs and checking. Since I'm avoiding Star Trek I'm not moving!