[Misc] What Book are you Currently Reading?

[Beach Hut]

Smile for the Camera - Simon Danczuk & Mathew Baker

 

[sussex_guy2k2]

Dune Messiah

 

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Slow Boats to China - Gavin Young

 

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A Million Ways to Stay on the Run - Donal Macintyre & Karl Howman

 

[Barry Izbak]

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

 

[Easy 10]

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]

Lone Traveller - Anne Mustoe

 

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Little Green Man - Simon Armitage

 

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Short Walks from Bogotá - Tom Feiling

 

[Professor Plum]

Nothing to Fear by Julie McFadden.

A book about death.

 

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Cycling's Strangest Tales - Iain Spragg

 

[Auckland seagull]

Martin Chuzzlewit - Charles Dickens

 

[Couldn't Be Hyypia]

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.

 

[Trust Me I’m A Stomach]

Annihilation - Michel Houellebecq

 

[Beach Hut]

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.

Superb book, excellent choice

 

[Cheeky Monkey]

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.

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]

A Fortune-Teller Told Me - Tiziano Terzani

 

[chip]

The Seventh Gate - Richard Zimler

 

[kevo]

Any Human Heart, William Boyd.

Thoroughly entertaining read.

 

[Professor Plum]

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.