Robster59
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On the second of Winston Churchill's History of the Second World War. It's all really to close to what is happening now.
SwingsitlikeHogan
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Finished reading Daphne Du Maurier's The Flight of the Falcon. A good and interesting mystery set in 1965 Italy with reflections back to Italy of WW2. Thought provoking comment in the Introduction to the edition that had me thinking..indeed...
'(the conflict between the brothers)...may not seem too extreme to those who remember how nations have been swayed to commit and justify acts of atrocity under the influence of a charismatic leader.'
Anyway - for something completely different. A book that I have known all of my life as it was my mum's and it sat in our family home bookcase for as as long as I can remember...she'd have got it in her early 20s. I never read it...but I know my dad has and now I will. P.C.Wren's Beau Geste
'(the conflict between the brothers)...may not seem too extreme to those who remember how nations have been swayed to commit and justify acts of atrocity under the influence of a charismatic leader.'
Anyway - for something completely different. A book that I have known all of my life as it was my mum's and it sat in our family home bookcase for as as long as I can remember...she'd have got it in her early 20s. I never read it...but I know my dad has and now I will. P.C.Wren's Beau Geste
backwoodsman
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A good read - recently finished it and now on another Tom Burgis book - The Looting Machine - Warlords, Tycoons, Smugglers and the Systematic Theft of Africa's Wealth.
Both books are fairly damning in their revelations - and even though one was already aware of some of shenanigans, I doubt one will ever look at big 'resource' businesses and politicians without suspicion again.
full_throttle
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Richard Osman - The Thursday Murder Club
Carlwm
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Beau Geste is a fine novel. If you enjoy it, its loose sequels are worth looking up too.
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Just finished Mick Herron's Slow Horses, on which the recent TV series is based.
Not bad, so may read some more from the series.
Not bad, so may read some more from the series.
dewsweeper
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'As I walked out one Midsummer morning.'
Laurie Lee 's account of his travels in Spain.
Laurie Lee 's account of his travels in Spain.
stefanovic
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Have you read his other books in the trilogy? Cider with Rosie and A Moment of War?
louise_a
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I have just read How not to run a football club by Nathan Fogg about Blackpool FC and the Oyston family, and also Fledging by Hannah Bourne-Taylor a nature memoir
Italian outcast
Hacker
Read them in order - the characters don't always last - they are great though - the last two in particular
Will watch the show later in the year
stefanovic
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I love this one and it only takes 10 minutes to read this story.
https://theshortstory.co.uk/devsite...ries-D-H-Lawrence-Odour-of-Chrysanthemums.pdf
https://theshortstory.co.uk/devsite...ries-D-H-Lawrence-Odour-of-Chrysanthemums.pdf
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Baldy Bouncer
Blackballed
Re-reading The Rats trilogy by James Herbert.
Superb.
Superb.
spongebob59
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Just got books 4-6 in the John Milton series ?
SwingsitlikeHogan
Major Champion
Beau Geste done and dusted. It may be from 1924 but what a cracking adventure and read. Much recommended. I can now watch the 1939 film adaptation starring Gary Cooper, Ray Millard and Robert Preston. Always an issue that for me. Watch film or read book first.
Next up...The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton.
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rudebhoy
Q-School Graduate
Just finished Bobby Gillespie's Tenement Kid. For the uninitiated, he is the lead singer with Primal Scream.
It's surprisingly well written, and his formative years were very much like mine - born a year after me, grew up in a Glasgow slum, mad about Celtic and punk rock as a teenager.
Keeping on with the music theme, I'm about to start Lonely Boy by Steve Jones. It's the basis for Danny Boyle's Pistol series.
After that, it's The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles. I loved A Gentleman in Moscow, The Rules of Civility less so. Hopefully this is up to the standard of the former.
It's surprisingly well written, and his formative years were very much like mine - born a year after me, grew up in a Glasgow slum, mad about Celtic and punk rock as a teenager.
Keeping on with the music theme, I'm about to start Lonely Boy by Steve Jones. It's the basis for Danny Boyle's Pistol series.
After that, it's The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles. I loved A Gentleman in Moscow, The Rules of Civility less so. Hopefully this is up to the standard of the former.
SwingsitlikeHogan
Major Champion
Will check out Tenement Kid as I also was a Glasgow tenement kid. Ours wasn't a slum but it was slipping down the Mount Florida hill and our close is no longer there. We moved from MF 6 yrs before Gillespie moved there but I remember growing up there quite clearly.
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AddisonRoad
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Just finished The Hunt for the Silver Killer by David Collins (after seeing it mentioned in The Times). Quite alarming but very much a non-fiction page-turner.
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Reading Dead Lions now, as enjoyable as the first (if not better)
full_throttle
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Just finished the debut novel by 'Richard Osman,