I have gone very old school. Currently reading Lost Empires by J B Priestley. A novel about the demise of the old time music halls, starting in 1913. The Empires refer to the names of the music halls, i.e. Hackney Empire, Bradford Empire etc.
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[Misc] What Book are you Currently Reading?
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Berlin 1936 Sixteen days in August Oliver Hilmes Half way through Very good. Day to day account of Germany during Olympic Games. How they were putting over to overseas VIPs etc what a peacefull nation they were and also at same time what the Nazis were up to including building a concentration camp just 8k from stadium
BrightonCottager
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Just finished Archangel by Robert Harris. I raced through it, although I've had flu for most of a week so nothing better to do. A brilliant yarn about the hunt for Stalin's secret diary (or is it?) in Yeltsin-era Russia. There's a tv film starring Daniel Craig (who is nothing like the book character he plays) which I'm going to try to find. Recommended.
Trust Me I’m A Stomach
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This Strange Eventful History - Claire Messud
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I’m a huge Trollope fan. The Barchester Chronicles are wonderful. The audiobooks are brilliantly narrated by Timothy West and last time I looked on Audible, many were free to members.
On a whim I’m reading Turn of the Screw by Henry James. I like a good ghost story but somehow missed out on this classic.
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I’ve come to these quite late but have loved the first two. I have trouble concentrating on ‘serious’ audiobooks so may listen to them after I’ve read the complete chronicles. I think I will read the Palliser novels after Barchester.
Henry James is another writer I somehow haven’t read yet.
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On Some Faraway Beach - The Life and Times of Brian Eno - David Sheppard
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Trans-Siberia Inside the Grey Area - Paddy Linehan
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Just finished JG Ballard High Rise, grim but brilliant. Currently Catcher in the Rye and Stephen King , On Writing...and I'm writing
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We're reading the same books!
I've finished Children of Time and Children of Ruin (loved it), and just started Children of Memory.
Also finished recently A Closed and Common Orbit, and have Record of a Spaceborn Few on the bedside table once I finished Children of Memory.
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I absolutely loved A Closed Common Orbit. It was my favourite of the series. I'd also recommend Becky Chambers Monk and Robot series. They're just nice stories.
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Che Guevara and the Mountain of Silver - Anne Mustoe
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From Paella to Porridge - Peter Kerr
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Alan Bennett- A life like other people's
I know of no other author who can make a description of the ordinary so compelling and moreish. He's the kind of writer who could create an 100 page essay on a goalless draw at home to Brentford, with no incident whatsoever, and you wouldn't be able to put it down. Once you did you would spend ten minutes pondering whether Mrs Jacobson in the ESU did actually manage to get the first Race Hill park and ride out.
I know of no other author who can make a description of the ordinary so compelling and moreish. He's the kind of writer who could create an 100 page essay on a goalless draw at home to Brentford, with no incident whatsoever, and you wouldn't be able to put it down. Once you did you would spend ten minutes pondering whether Mrs Jacobson in the ESU did actually manage to get the first Race Hill park and ride out.
Crispy Ambulance
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Hope you enjoy it. You’ve got a few name checks in it.
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The Pickwick Papers - Charles Dickens