Thanks for recommendation, I’ve added to my wishlist.

Finished GBH and, as good as it is, I was more than a little disappointed.
!!! Spoiler ahoy!!!
One of my biggest bugbears in fiction is the first person narrator who ends up dead.

Art imitating life?

Reamde is the first Stephenson book I’ve read. It sat on my kindle for at least 2 years, biding its time. Well worth the wait, and well worth ploughing though 1,000ish pages.

I have looked through his back […]

I’m just coming to the end of GBH. It’s brilliant – in a grimy, nasty way.

If you’re looking for some other brit-noir / hard boiled you could take a look at the Nick Sharman books by Mark Timlin. I’ve read a […]

Let me know how you get on! Hope you enjoy it.

I do love a big, chunky book. Nothing like living and luxuriating in another world for hours on end…

Station Eleven by Emily St John Mandel is both scary and beautiful. Scary in that the end of civilisation is caused by a pandemic, beautiful in that the book goes on to explore the solace of art and culture for […]

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Reamde by Neal Stephenson
A 1,000-page door stop of a book, featuring Chinese hackers, Russian gangsters, British spies, and terrorists. Oh, and an online video game something like Warcraft. The story […]

I too was shocked at just how terrible he was.
He is supposed to be the great communicator, the classical scholar with a whiplash wit.
Instead, he appeared ill prepared, incoherent, confused, witless, tired and […]

1 Hats – The Blue Nile
2 Sign O the times – Prince
3 Loveless – My Bloody Valentine
4 Automatic for the People – REM
5 The Queen is Dead – The Smiths
6 Brotherhood – New Order
7 Joshua Tree – U2
8 Life’s a […]

Done.
Never written to a MP before – but this act of arrogance has made my blood boil.

12 month subscription at Daunt books?

It was wonderful – been meaning to pick up one of his books since he was name checked in a George Pelecanos novel that I read last summer.

Thanks chaps.

I picked up series 1 in a chazza for a quid – will keep my eyes open for 3!

AOB

I started working from home in the last week of March but lock down came too late for me as I started displaying symptoms of C19 within days. First the senses of taste and smell went, and then the […]

Don Winslow’s ‘Power of the dog’ is selling for 99p and ‘The Border’ for 1.99 in the monthly deal.

These are parts 1 and 3 of the Cartel trilogy. ‘The Cartel’ itself can be picked up for 3.99.

The entire […]

Only added to my wish list a month or so back, so happy to see it drop to 99p.

Aldi on Friday was out of chopped tomatoes, vegetable oil, pasta, liquid soap and there wasn’t much bog roll left.

It just seemed weird, but then I think that when KFC ran out of chicken people were phoning […]

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Ma’am Darling by Craig Brown
A biography of Princess Margaret that could make a republican of the most ardent royalist. She comes across as boorish and boring, petulant and needy. Given her privilege a […]

Quite enjoyed the light sabre fight on Southend pier. And the chase through the desert was good fun.

It was a decent enough film, but I’ve always felt that the new characters have been overshadowed by the old guard.