metalman Posted March 14, 2014 Share Posted March 14, 2014 Hamlet had an uncle by James Branch Cabell. I don't know why, but I find that Cabell has a dry, droll style with a mischievous sense of humour that just appeals to me. If you've never read his most well known book, Jurgen, it's well worth tracking down a cheap second hand copy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foxydebs Posted March 15, 2014 Share Posted March 15, 2014 Dead Right by Peter Robinson. A fairly early DCI Banks detective story. So far so good. Will have to look for that, enjoy watching DCI banks on TV. Currently reading first wives club by Olivia goldsmith. Before that I had been reading sail by james Patterson. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeG Posted March 17, 2014 Share Posted March 17, 2014 Ask Me if I'm Happy. Autobiography of Peter Bowles. Couldn't take to this and gave up after 50 pages, but I'm sure it will appeal to loads of others. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taxman Posted March 17, 2014 Share Posted March 17, 2014 Will have to look for that, enjoy watching DCI banks on TV. Currently reading first wives club by Olivia goldsmith. Before that I had been reading sail by james Patterson. The books are quite different. I saw the adaptation of Wednesday's Child a few weeks ago and the story was different and considerably darker in the book, far more gruesome and far more distressing. Currently on another early DCI Banks story, In a Dry Season. Fairly predictable so far but it does introduce Annie Cabott who becomes one of the major characters through the series. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metalman Posted March 21, 2014 Share Posted March 21, 2014 Finished James Branch Cabell's Hamlet had an Uncle, which kept up its level of urbane wittiness right to the end. Now about half way through Parody Party, a collection of parodies of writers of the inter-war years published in 1936. So far, Rose Macaulay's parody of Hemingway has been very good, and so has the one of Hugh Walpole by Francis Iles (aka Anthony Berkeley, aka A.B. Cox). But then I expected nothing less because Berkeley/Iles/Cox has always been one of my favourite authors (see here for Martin Edwards article about him). Still to come later in the book are pieces by several other well known personages of the time including John Betjeman. So far certainly, very amusing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeG Posted March 25, 2014 Share Posted March 25, 2014 The Last Weekend by Blake Morrison. I enjoyed it. ITV3 are showing it as a 3 parter, part 2 tonight 10pm and part 3 tomorrow I think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taxman Posted March 25, 2014 Share Posted March 25, 2014 The Complaints by Ian Rankin. Post(ish) Rebus Edinburgh but still with same anti-authoritarian figures, dodgy dealing coppers and crooked politicians. Enjoying it so far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maz3 Posted March 27, 2014 Share Posted March 27, 2014 Rogue Male by Geoffrey Household, cult survivalist ripping yarn from the 1930s. Absolutely gripping, only 200 pages, read it in one go last night. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hesketh74 Posted March 31, 2014 Share Posted March 31, 2014 'Gone Girl' by Gillian Flynn - a really intriguing thriller..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foxydebs Posted March 31, 2014 Share Posted March 31, 2014 cat and mouse by james Patterson and before that kiss the girls. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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