You Got Nothing Coming, Notes from a prison fish Jimmy Lerner played down in one short paragraph within "You Got Nothing Coming - Notes From a Prison Fish" a reference that he use to work in the opposite cube to the…
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- You Got Nothing Coming, Notes from a prison fish
ShantaramShantaram by, by Gregory David Roberts Finished reading this fantastic book last night. It’s a truly epic saga, a doorstop of a book that I've been draggin round with me for the last month or so – nearly a thousand…
- The Death of Vishnu by Manil Suri
** ** Every now and then you find yourself reading a book which you just don't want to end. This was one of those books. I'd never heard of it or it's author before when I picked it up from a charity shop on a 'ooh,…
- We R tourists in Northumberland
The highlight of yesterday on our away mission to Northumberland was Barter Books in Alnwick. A great rainy afternoon was spent browsing the myriad of books - the place is HUGE! cashed in a bunch of read books for…
- Blind Faith
Blind Faith by Ben Elton I picked up this book from the exotic shores of the ASDA book isle. I was in a book doldrum after finishing a run of cracking titles, everything I picked up seemed to fall short. I decided to…
CalistoCallisto by Torsten Krol So I got this book whilst racing though an airport. It was 6am, pre Portugal stag do, the lads were already at the bar getting combat beers. I gave myself 5 minutes to find a new book. I've…
- Absurdistan
Absurdistan by Gary Shteyngart The premise for this book is along the lines of an overweight Jewish Russian wanabe American called Misha Vainberg who happens to be the son of one of the richest men in Russia. The…
- The Lost City
The Lost City by Henry Shukman Racing through Liverpool airport recently (on route to Barcelona) with not much time to spare and a notion to score me a new book I spotted this gem (I say gem, because it had a very…
- Mister Pip
Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones. I'm very fond of a book that takes you to a different place. The book itself is set in Bougainville ( map ) in the North Solomons ( pics ) a lush tropical island on the other side of the world…
The Welsh GirlThe Welsh Girl by Peter Ho Davies So I was in ASDA last week on Tuesday evening, needing a new book. A few things struck me about this book, firstly, it's written by a chap who's middle name is Ho . A letter combination…
Catcher in the RyeJust finished reading The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger. A random purchase, purely on the back of needing a new book, and it was the only one that ASDA had that appealed at the time. I quite like the idea of…
- Half of a Yellow Sun
Just finished reading Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. A superb novel. This won the 2007 Orange prize for fiction. It's the second book I've read that holds this titled (the other being Small Island )…
- Back
Well - back from Ireland now. Fantastic time was had by all. Spent 6 days on a boat called Bernadette 4 cruising up the Shannon. Started out in Athlone, on the first day we pootled up through Lough Ree and stayed near…
- Weekend on't tod
Eirene was away in London for the weekend so I was Han Solo Dad. Got into a superb graphic novel called " Y the Last Man " I finished the first book on Friday and has to go back to the comic shop to get the next couple…
Water For ElephantsI've just finished a truly memorable, superb, could not put down page turner of a book. One of those few and far between books that you really don't want to end. Water For Elephants by Sara Gruen beautifully unfolds a…