All booked up

[teddy]

An Expensive Place to Die - Len Deighton

One of his classic spy stories, set in Paris

teddy

 

[teddy]

The Grapes of Wrath. The exodus from the dustbowl leading to the dispersal of the family. I went through a phase of reading whatever Steinbeck I could get hold of. This is one of my favourites

teddy

 

[White Knight]

George R.R. Martin--
A Storm of Swords {Book # 3 in the Game of Thrones series}
Arthur C Clarke--Childhood's End

 

[teddy]

Anything by Clarke gets my vote

teddy

 

[White Knight]

Anything by Clarke gets my vote

teddy

Absolutely Teddy; for my money the man was a genius and an excellent futurist, on a par with another of my favorites, H.G. Wells.

 

[teddy]

The Beach by Alex Garland. A young man in Thailand follows the hippie trail to the ultimate destination, and finds more than he bargained for. Entertaining.

teddy

 

[White Knight]

Sean McMeekin--July 1914: Countdown to War

 

[cwarchc]

Just read The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, again.
Had to go away and find an audio version with Richard Burton narrating.
Absolutely marvelous

 

[John Watt]

"From The Ashes of Angels", by Andrew Collins.
This might be the most important publishing effort of our times.
If it was edited into verse it could be a chapter in The Testament of The Third Millenium.
Take everything you think you know, amplify that with new evidences and artifacts,
and your understandings of mankind on earth will evolve.

 

[White Knight]

Christopher Clark--​The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914

 

[cwarchc]

The poems of Wilfred Owen

 

[teddy]

How England Made the English by Harry Mount.

The effect of the land on the people and the people on the land. The interaction between the two.

teddy

 

[teddy]

Tinker, Taylor, Soldier, Spy by Le Carre

Just as good this time around

teddy

 

[White Knight]

George R.R. Martin--
A Feast For Crows {Book # 4 in the Game of Thrones Cycle}

Peter Hart--The Great War

 

[teddy]

H E Bates - The Darling Buds of May. Will probably read the four follow ups as well. Delightful simple books about life in the countryside with Pop Larkin and his family

teddy

 

[teddy]

Jack Higgins - Confessional. A throughly exciting and fast moving thriller.

teddy

 

[White Knight]

Maria Tatar {ed.}--​The Annotated Brothers Grimm

 

[cwarchc]

Grossman - Everything Flows

 

[Dorsetmike]

Cecil N Cullingford, History of Dorset.

(He was my History teacher and form master at school, one of those teachers that could make history interesting for 11-15 year olds)

 

[teddy]

Skimming through A Year In Provence by Peter Mayle. Mainly because I can't be bothered to read anything and I hoped it would cheer me up.

teddy