Books - what are you reading just now?

Caught up with Ben Elton's Chart Throb, a satire of X Factor.
At the same time it was pretty funny and despairingly sad about how low the UK's TV viewing public will stoop for entertainment.
A touch of Blackadder's last series.
 
I havent read a book for years, i must get back into a good book.
 
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if you like this i can thoroughly recommend the next 6 books in the series too.great read, one of those that you find yourself grabbing a couple of pages every spare minute you have.inspector pekkala was the last tzars personal detective sent to the gulags after the revolution and now works for stalin...give it a whirl:)
 
If you’ve not heard of David Grann (writes for The New Yorker) both his Lost City of Z (recently made in to a film) and Killers of the Flower Moon are enthralling reads. He’s just released an extended copy of an article he wrote in The New Yorker as a hard back - The White Darkness - which I am currently reading.
 
Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome - because I've never read it or any of his books and sometimes I just need a little bit of very gentle, easy and innocent escapism. And I'm also learning about the bits of a little sailing dinghy.
 
Looking forward to finding How to be Right by James O'Brien in my Christmas stocking.

I might suggest it looks to be a useful (and for some eye-opening) read for others wondering what the hell is going on with the UK at the moment :)
 
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