[Misc] What Book are you Currently Reading?

[Barry Izbak]

And he wrote it?

He did. Brutally honest.

 

[Wilko]

Just coming to the end of Hope Street by Mike Gayle. My fave author, top stuff as usual.

 

[Beach Hut]

True Tales of American Life - edited and introduced by Paul Auster

 

[Beach Hut]

No Full Stops in India - Mark Tully

 

[Swimboy64]

A prayer before dawn
Billy Moore

 

[GOM]

Currently on the Amos Decker series by David Baldacci.

 

[Beach Hut]

Cuba Diaries - Isadora Tattlin

 

[Trust Me I’m A Stomach]

War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

David J Gatward, Fair Game.
Great series (this is number 11).

 

[wunt be druv]

"The Riddles of Wipers" by John Ivelaw-Chapman, an appreciation of the WW1. trench journal, The Wipers Times, gives great insight to the life in the trenches, includes lots of quotes and clips from the journal, thoroughly recommend it, very interesting.

 

[Is it PotG?]

Ben Macintyre - The Spy and the Traitor.

A fascinating Cold War story about Oleg Gordievsky a high ranking KGB member who worked for MI6.

One of the most important spies of the Cold War, whose covert passing of secrets to Britain helped change the course of history and avert a nuclear war, has died.

Oleg Gordievsky, a former Soviet KGB officer, was 86. He died in Godalming, having lived in England since defecting in 1985.

Surrey Police said officers were called to a house in Godalming on 4 March, where an 86-year-old man was found dead.

https://news.sky.com/story/former-kgb-double-agent-oleg-gordievsky-dies-aged-86-13333773

 

[cheshunt seagull]

Passing by Nella Larsen

 

[Behind Enemy Lines]

Scattered Minds by Gabor Mate

 

[oldham gull]

Just finished ‘James’ by Percival Everett. What outstanding writing and a reimagining of the Huck Finn stories

 

[Beach Hut]

Small Wars Permitting - Christina Lamb

 

[Peteinblack]

Taking a break from the tedium of Anna Karenina (Tolstoy), and The Bible.

Having read 4 Ben Myers' books this year, plus 2 George Orwells, and 2 Peter James (Brighton-based DS Roy Grace murder mysteries), I've just started E. M. Forster's Where Angels Fear To Tread, after which, I'll read his Howards End.

 

[Shins]

Dune Messiah - Frank Herbert

Absolutely loved the first book. Lots of time jumping not shown in the films (which are also great).

 

[Garry Nelson's Left Foot]

The Cartel by Don Winslow. Like a bleaker, unromanticised Mexican version of the godfather. Based around the U.S's war on drugs, told from multiple view points.

The second of Winslow's Cartel trilogy. The first - Power of the dog - is excellent and this is shaping up to be just as good.

 

[Beach Hut]

Dervish - Tim Kelsey

 

[Blinkers]

‘Midnight in Moscow: A Memoir from the Front Lines of Russia’s War Against the West’ by John J. Sullivan, former US Ambassador to Russia.