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Any recommendations for a Kindle book?
Sample of fave books:
Blood Meridian
American Gods
Good Omens
The Road
Lord of the Rings
The Hobbit
No Country for Old Men
Child of God
House of Leaves
Swan song
I guess non-gore horror, dark fantasy and apocalyptic tales, but strangely uplifting kind of sums it up 
apocalyptic tales, but strangely uplifting
Jasper Fforde. "Shade of Grey"
I guess non-gore horror, dark fantasy and apocalyptic tales
The Stone Man is quite a good read. Ticks all of these boxes.
In terms of fantasy, one that I really got into years ago was The Abarat. It's massive though, and spans several books. Bit more than holiday reading.
It's not non-gore horror, dark fantasy and has no apocalyptic tales, but Bill Bryson's new one - The Road to Little Dribbling: More Notes from a Small Island - is definitely strangely uplifting.
Try [i]The Testament of Gideon Mack[/i] by James Robertson; draws you in to a bizarre personal disintegration, but is oddly uplifting. Its about the right length for a weeks holiday.
non-gore horror, dark fantasy and apocalyptic tales
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Lunar-Park-Bret-Easton-Ellis/dp/0330536338
defo China Mieville's [i]perdido street station[/i] going by that list, if you've not read it already.
[i]As I lay dying [/i] if you fancy something more literary.
Stone Junction by Jim Dodge a rambling psychedelic gothic vision of America. The great American novel as written by Alan Warner and Hunter Thompson
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
The Stone Man sounds interesting.
+1s for Jasper Fforde and his Bill Brysoness - Fforde is fantastic, brain-rending lighthearted genius, and I don't think I've ever read a Bryson that hasn't made me laugh out loud.
I've got 'I am pilgrim' to read and quite looking forward to it. Not the genre you want I don't think, and it's not really mine.. But i thought I'd chime in anyway 🙂
Most of China Mieville's are worth reading, Unlundon and The City & The City are both very interesting.
Claire North's [i]The First Fifteen Lives Of Harry August[/i] and [i]Touch[/i] are both very good spins on older concepts, while Kate Griffin's Matthew Swift Urban Magic series starting with [i]A Madness Of Angels[/i] is very gritty, a whole new take on magic, where ASBO's are used as spells against creatures masquerading as hoodies, our 'hero', Swift, is inhabited by the Blue Electric Angels, creatures that live in the telecommunications networks, are the ghost voices in the telephone lines.
There are six books altogether in the series.
One of my all-time favourite books has recently turned up on Kindle and iBooks; Tanith Lee's [i]When The Lights Go Out[/i], read it as a library book when it came out in 1996, bought it straight away and read it countless times, managed to find a flawless hardcover copy in Canada recently, to my unbridled joy, and got the iBooks version as well!
It's about life, love hate and true sacrifice in a slightly down-at-heel seaside town at the end of the season, and when the lights go out, it's [i]dark[/i].
Joe Abercrombie , First Law Trilogy.
End of the World Running Club, Andrew J Walker
Similar to The Stone Man in tone.
Thank you all for the input. I've gone with the Stone Man but they are all good options for future reads.