[Misc] What Book are you Currently Reading?

[Beach Hut]

Stars and Bars - William Boyd

 

[Marshy]

The Light Fantastic - Terry Pratchett

 

[BN9 BHA]

Death in Grimsby
50 years following Brighton & Hove Albion
By Nick Outterside.

I started reading this yesterday, very good read.

 

[Gwylan]

Berlin 1936: Sixteen days in August

It's about the Olympic Games but it's scattered with little vignettes of Berlin life during that month. It's a fascinating read

 

[Boys 9d]

The Fall Of The Ottomans by Eugene Rogan. About the Great War in the Middle East and its immediate aftermath.

 

[Palacefinder General]

Stars and Bars - William Boyd

Beachy!!!

 

[mune ni kamome]

Stars and Bars - William Boyd

Just finished Brian Horton’s 2000 games which was a pleasant trip down memory lane.

Next up though: An Ice Cream War-William Boyd

 

[Beach Hut]

Beachy!!!

Last Boyd book to read until a new one comes out, I see there is a new one due out shortly called Trio

 

[Beach Hut]

Next up though: An Ice Cream War-William Boyd

Magnificent book, you will enjoy it

 

[dejavuatbtn]

Tim Carder’s Brighton & Hove Albion and the First World War. I’ve had an interest in WW1 since researching my Great grandfather who died in it. It’s an interesting read, full of Albion stuff not covered by his other remarkable books on the Albion.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Just about finished White, the first non-fiction book by Bret Easton Ellis, author of Less Than Zero and American Psycho (Patrick Bateman dotes on Donald J Trump, who gets no less than FORTY name checks in American Psycho, a book published in 1991...)

White is a series of essays and remembrances, where the author was at the time, both geographically and head-mentally. Plenty of interesting insights into the creation and reception of his novels that catapulted him into litetary stardom earlydoors, while he was still at college. A child of Generation X, he's gloriously scathing and entertaining about Generation Z's Cancel Culture. He wonders 'when liberal progressives became such society matrons, clutching their pearls in horror every time anyone had an opinion that wasn't the mirror image of their own'. He'd hate the concept of The Bear Pit.

 

[seagull_special]

The Gates Of Athens by Conn Iggulden. I am a sucker for his historical books, my favourite of the genre along with CJ Sansom

CJ Sansom Is a brilliant writer.

 

[Palacefinder General]

Last Boyd book to read until a new one comes out, I see there is a new one due out shortly called Trio

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[Ghost of Killer Reeves]

Long Road from Jarrow by Stuart Maconie.

 

[Beach Hut]

A Season With Verona - Tim Parks

 

[Beach Hut]

The Prodigal Spy - Joseph Kanon

 

[Don Quixote]

Pyramids - Terry Pratchett

 

[seagull_special]

The Night Fire by Michael Connelly , up there with Joseph Wambaugh, Henning Manoel and James Ellroy when it comes to crime writing. Would be interested in other posters favourite crime writers.

 

[Barry Izbak]

The Lie She Told by Catherine Yaffe

Recommended by someone on here. Someone's friend?

Anyway, the power of NSC as I bought it and am enjoying it.

 

[mothy]

Barbarian days - william Finnegan