galenkia Posted November 9, 2021 Share Posted November 9, 2021 Just started this. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemondropkid Posted November 10, 2021 Share Posted November 10, 2021 On 11/9/2021 at 3:51 AM, andycoll said: Just started this latest one from one of my favorite authors. Thanks for the recommendation. A new author for me, didn't really think fantasy was my bag but.. Picked this up in my local Oxfam shop for £3, absolutely brilliant!!! Read the first 150 pages off the bat. Not fine literature but great story telling and totally engrossing👍 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zeb Posted November 12, 2021 Share Posted November 12, 2021 This was released earlier this week I've just finished listening to it on audiobook and while I've always really liked Michael Connolly's books' particularly Bosch - this book is outstanding. Michael Connolly at the top of his game. There are reviews calling it a masterpiece and I wouldn't argue with that at all. Highly recommended for Christmas reading or listening etc 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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andycoll Posted November 14, 2021 Share Posted November 14, 2021 On 10/17/2021 at 1:13 PM, Zeb said: John Le Carre's final book - Silverview Julian Lawndsley has renounced his high-flying job in the City for a simpler life running a bookshop in a small English seaside town. But only a couple of months into his new career, Julian's evening is disrupted by a visitor. Edward, a Polish émigré living in Silverview, the big house on the edge of town, seems to know a lot about Julian's family and is rather too interested in the inner workings of his modest new enterprise. When a letter turns up at the door of a spy chief in London warning him of a dangerous leak, the investigations lead him to this quiet town by the sea . . . Silverview is the mesmerising story of an encounter between innocence and experience and between public duty and private morals. In this last complete masterwork from the greatest chronicler of our age, John le Carré asks what you owe to your country when you no longer recognise it. After seeing this I requested it from the library. Finally arrived and am finding it a very enjoyable read. Very British. A pity we will see no more from him. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andycoll Posted November 14, 2021 Share Posted November 14, 2021 13 hours ago, galenkia said: This one had a right up in the books section of one of our national rags. I will have to put a hold request from the library for it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lazarus Posted November 14, 2021 Share Posted November 14, 2021 Post Captain is the second historical novel in the Aubrey–Maturin series by Patrick O'Brian, first published in 1972. It features the characters of Captain Jack Aubrey and naval surgeon Stephen Maturin in the early 19th century and is set in the Napoleonic Wars. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post_Captain_(novel) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
galenkia Posted November 14, 2021 Share Posted November 14, 2021 5 hours ago, andycoll said: This one had a right up in the books section of one of our national rags. I will have to put a hold request from the library for it. Got it from the library as well. Read a review of it in the Sunday Times a little while ago and it sounded interesting. It's based on a true story and the author, a British /Somalian lady, her father knew the innocent man accused of murder. Decent read so far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
galenkia Posted November 17, 2021 Share Posted November 17, 2021 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coxyhog Posted November 18, 2021 Share Posted November 18, 2021 A very good read.... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemondropkid Posted November 18, 2021 Share Posted November 18, 2021 Flying through this, a brilliant read. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
galenkia Posted November 24, 2021 Share Posted November 24, 2021 Got this from the library. Trump is definitely 50% deranged and 50% retarded. 2 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andycoll Posted November 25, 2021 Share Posted November 25, 2021 Working my way through this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemondropkid Posted November 25, 2021 Share Posted November 25, 2021 Continuing my way through the Bernie Gunther novels, the third last. From the first 80 pages it's shaping up to be one of the best of the series Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andyajn Posted November 25, 2021 Share Posted November 25, 2021 3 hours ago, Lemondropkid said: Continuing my way through the Bernie Gunther novels, the third last. From the first 80 pages it's shaping up to be one of the best of the series Are they worth reading? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemondropkid Posted November 25, 2021 Share Posted November 25, 2021 1 hour ago, andyajn said: Are they worth reading? They are brilliant series if detective fiction set in a historical background is the sort of read that appeals to you. For me the first published in the series March Violets is the weakest but from thereon in, they are a fantastic read. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andyajn Posted November 25, 2021 Share Posted November 25, 2021 43 minutes ago, Lemondropkid said: They are brilliant series if detective fiction set in a historical background is the sort of read that appeals to you. For me the first published in the series March Violets is the weakest but from thereon in, they are a fantastic read. I'll give them a go. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maipenrai Posted November 25, 2021 Share Posted November 25, 2021 4 hours ago, andyajn said: I'll give them a go. I'm also working my way through the whole series and recommend them totally... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zeb Posted November 25, 2021 Share Posted November 25, 2021 12 hours ago, andyajn said: Are they worth reading? I found them excellent. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zeb Posted November 25, 2021 Share Posted November 25, 2021 Interesting that the excellent Bernie Gunter Series by Philip Kerr is raised. I've just finished listening on audiobook to William L Shirer's - End of a Berlin Diary One review - William Shirer with his return to Berlin after its fall and occupation, in his absence of a mere few years, is to witness the reaping of the whirlwind. A total transformation awaited him in the total destruction of a familiar city, a society and a political system that brought exactly that to most of its neighbours. Now he will witness the survivors at the Nuremberg Trials,the ruins of a proud city and its people's attempts to survive a bitter and murderous defeat. It is an anti-climatic climax of the most sobering kind and filtered through the keen intelligence of someone who was so perceptive about the Whole Situation in 1934, an eyewitness and one whose finger was on the pulse even then, this is the sort of first-hand account that is a rarity. Written in 1947 it is still as fresh as the day it was written. The audiobook was produced in 2020. Reveals a lot of things I was never aware of https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3779837-end-of-a-berlin-diary https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/13360.William_L_Shirer 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maipenrai Posted November 26, 2021 Share Posted November 26, 2021 2 hours ago, Zeb said: Interesting that the excellent Bernie Gunter Series by Philip Kerr is raised. I've just finished listening on audiobook to William L Shirer's - End of a Berlin Diary One review - William Shirer with his return to Berlin after its fall and occupation, in his absence of a mere few years, is to witness the reaping of the whirlwind. A total transformation awaited him in the total destruction of a familiar city, a society and a political system that brought exactly that to most of its neighbours. Now he will witness the survivors at the Nuremberg Trials,the ruins of a proud city and its people's attempts to survive a bitter and murderous defeat. It is an anti-climatic climax of the most sobering kind and filtered through the keen intelligence of someone who was so perceptive about the Whole Situation in 1934, an eyewitness and one whose finger was on the pulse even then, this is the sort of first-hand account that is a rarity. Written in 1947 it is still as fresh as the day it was written. The audiobook was produced in 2020. Reveals a lot of things I was never aware of https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3779837-end-of-a-berlin-diary https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/13360.William_L_Shirer This is one I need to read - I read his "Rise and Fall of the Third Reich" many years ago and really enjoyed it, this guy was on the spot for all of this history... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
galenkia Posted November 27, 2021 Share Posted November 27, 2021 Brand new Scott Mariano.Book 25 in the series. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atticus Posted November 28, 2021 Share Posted November 28, 2021 (edited) Arctic Chill by Icelandic writer Arnaldur Indridason. Set in an Icelandic winter it is about a half Thai boy found dead. Gripping stuff set in a bleak, poorer immigrant area of Reykjavik. Edited November 28, 2021 by Atticus Spelling 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andycoll Posted November 29, 2021 Share Posted November 29, 2021 Just finished this one by a good Australian writer. Even if he was born in Sunderland in the UK. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemondropkid Posted December 1, 2021 Share Posted December 1, 2021 Most of the way through this, one. Well written historical fiction, bought it as a make weight in a buy one get one half price offer. Gets glowing reviews on the cover, that I don't think it quite justifies. Would do for light holiday reading but not sure I'd recommend it too strongly Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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