Am currently reading 'The CPFC hashtag on Twitter'.
It's excellent.
Andrey Kurkov - Death and the Penguin. Late '90s novel set in Kiev about an obituary writer, who is being pursued by the Ukrainian mafia, and his pet penguin. Very satirical, very funny, surreal and offbeat reminds me of Bulgakov's Master and Margarita or Murakami's Kafka on the Shore. An easy read too, I found myself getting through this very quickly.
'Madonna in a Fur Coat' by Sabahattin Ali.
Just finished Command and Control by Eric Schlosser, an American Investigative journalist. It's an in depth expose of the US nuclear weapons program from inception through to the 90s - with a particular focus on an incident with a Trident II balistic missile in 1980 - that thread reads as much like a techno thriller as a factual account.. There's also countless other accidents and incidents with hydrogen bombs and other devices that beggar belief - several of which happened in the UK..
The whole thing is just terrifying and it is quite amazing that we came through the cold war without being blown to oblivion.
A Little Life was grief-porn and an insult to the Booker Prize.
Set the boy free. The Johnny Marr autobiography