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Beach Hut

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Brighton Bhuna Boy
Jul 5, 2003
72,291
Living In a Box
Smile for the Camera - Simon Danczuk & Mathew Baker
 
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Beach Hut

Beach Hut

Brighton Bhuna Boy
Jul 5, 2003
72,291
Living In a Box
Slow Boats to China - Gavin Young
 


Beach Hut

Beach Hut

Brighton Bhuna Boy
Jul 5, 2003
72,291
Living In a Box
A Million Ways to Stay on the Run - Donal Macintyre & Karl Howman
 


Barry Izbak

Barry Izbak

U.T.A.
Dec 7, 2005
7,408
Lancing By Sea
I was listening to Iain Dale's podcast last week, interviewing Robert Harris about his new book.
Then they got on to how he started as a writer and his first book Fatherland

I remember reading it years ago and how good it was. So I picked a copy up from the library. Its excellent. Highly recommended
 




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Brain dead MUG SHEEP
Jul 5, 2003
62,339
Location Location
Death Dealer - the memoirs of Rudolph Hoss, the SS Kommandant of Auschwitz, which he wrote whilst awaiting his trial at Nuremberg.

Grim but fascinating.
 


Beach Hut

Beach Hut

Brighton Bhuna Boy
Jul 5, 2003
72,291
Living In a Box
Lone Traveller - Anne Mustoe
 






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Brighton Bhuna Boy
Jul 5, 2003
72,291
Living In a Box
Short Walks from Bogotá - Tom Feiling
 




Beach Hut

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Brighton Bhuna Boy
Jul 5, 2003
72,291
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Cycling's Strangest Tales - Iain Spragg
 












Beach Hut

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Brighton Bhuna Boy
Jul 5, 2003
72,291
Living In a Box
Couldn't Be Hyypia said:
Any Human Heart, William Boyd.

Loving it so far. It was a recommendation from the author (and bookshop owner) Shaun Bythell's book, Confessions of a bookseller. Which is also excellent and diary based.
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Superb book, excellent choice
 


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Cheeky Monkey

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Jul 17, 2003
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My Sins Go With Me: A story of Heroism and betrayal in the Dutch resistance.

An amazing story of an amazing woman and her brave comrades in the Dutch resistance who the author (ex-BBC Martin Sixsmith) met by chance on a lecture cruise when Anne-Marie was already in her 90s. The level of betrayal is really scary. Sixsmith has done a remarkable amount of research and tells the story extremely well.

Anne-Marie died earlier this year at the age of 104. Despite not being a Jew herself she, and her husband Pim, have been honoured by Yad Vashem (the World Holcaust Remembrance Centre) as one of the Righteous Among the Nations.

I have read many books on WW2, the Holocaust, concentration camps but nothing like this. Sixsmith is a wonderful storyteller and what a story he has to tell.
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Got this out of the library on reading your post. Finished it in 2 days. Anna-Maria ended up in a bungalow in Worthing. The depth of research was incredibly impressive, if the presentation of the material was a bit haphazard. Incredible that 'King Kong' was the man all along. A fascinating book overall. Good recommendation.
 


Beach Hut

Beach Hut

Brighton Bhuna Boy
Jul 5, 2003
72,291
Living In a Box
A Fortune-Teller Told Me - Tiziano Terzani
 








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For any other fans of Ben McIntyre and his superb books on espionage, WW2 etc, he has a new book out called Siege, about the Iranian embassy siege in 1980. Just bought the audiobook.

Next on the list is Jane Eyre, arriving today. It cropped up in conversation the other day and I realised I’d never read it.
 


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