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Beach Hut

Brighton Bhuna Boy
Jul 5, 2003
72,291
Living In a Box
To the Baltic with Bob - Griff Rhys Jones
 




Beach Hut

Brighton Bhuna Boy
Jul 5, 2003
72,291
Living In a Box
Itchy Feet - Gary Mobsby
 


chickens

Have you considered masterly inactivity?
NSC Patron
Oct 12, 2022
2,634
English Pastoral - James Rebanks

Our terrible choice between treating our land responsibly and respectfully and worsening our food security by a significant factor, or carrying on down a road that destroys biodiversity, and leaves us entirely reliant on US agri-chemical suppliers to keep pumping more into the soil to keep it fertile, with the predictable effect on our rivers and wildlife. The lad’s a farmer, so this isn’t a hippy take on the issue, it is however a human heart and mind compressed into a couple of hundred pages.

I recommend wholeheartedly and without reservation.
 




Surf's Up

Well-known member
Jul 17, 2011
10,416
Here
Lessons by Ian McEwan - only 20 or so pages in but it's already shaping up as my Book of the Year
 






Beach Hut

Brighton Bhuna Boy
Jul 5, 2003
72,291
Living In a Box
Walking the Himalayas - Levison Wood
 






The Clamp

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NSC Patron
Jan 11, 2016
26,005
West is BEST
About to tuck into Heat 2

Sequel to Heat. Well, prequel and sequel. Spans before and after the events of the 90’s film, Heat.

Having just finished Driven. The sequel to Drive. I’m into extended stories at the moment.
 


Harry Wilson's tackle

Harry Wilson's Tackle
NSC Patron
Oct 8, 2003
55,710
Faversham
Just finished House of Silk (Anthony Horowitz). This is an attempt to add to Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes canon.

I enjoyed it greatly. The rhythm of the originals is there. The language is slightly less prissy/pedantic than ACD's style, and I'm not sure if this is a good thing or not. Holmes seems a bit less enigmatic and more kindly, which is also something I'm not quite sure about. I'm sufficiently naive to not realize what the Great Theme was till it was revealed; or maybe I did but was happy to suspend my disbelief.

I have his 'Moriarty'up next. Will enjoy the sun on my patio and make a start, I think.

I also bought his three James Bond books. I have read a couple of 'other author' Bond books, including one in which he'd given up the fags and the womanizing (License renewed, 1981 - just looked it up - don't bother!). I hope Horowitz has had the good sense to stick with the facts. Based on 'House of Silk' I suspect he has. In which case I may be in for a treat.....
 






Slum_Wolf

Well-known member
May 3, 2021
753
The Truce - Primo Levi
 




Beach Hut

Brighton Bhuna Boy
Jul 5, 2003
72,291
Living In a Box
Through the Embers of Chaos (Balkan Journeys) - Dervla Murphy
 






Slum_Wolf

Well-known member
May 3, 2021
753
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Beach Hut

Brighton Bhuna Boy
Jul 5, 2003
72,291
Living In a Box
Two Degrees West - Nicolas Crane
 


Slum_Wolf

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May 3, 2021
753
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Barry Izbak

U.T.A.
Dec 7, 2005
7,408
Lancing By Sea
The Matarese Countdown by Robert Ludlum.

This sequel to the brilliant Matarese Circle is, I accept, rather dated, but Ludlum was a brilliant writer of this sort of book
 


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