metalman Posted August 7, 2014 Share Posted August 7, 2014 I'm onto The Eyes of Max Carrados by Ernest Bramah, the second collection of stories about the blind detective. Somewhat surprisingly it's actually back in print at the moment as a Wordsworth paperback. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taxman Posted August 15, 2014 Share Posted August 15, 2014 Saints of the Shadow Bible. The latest Rebus novel from Ian Rankin. Not bad so far but not his best. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted August 16, 2014 Share Posted August 16, 2014 The Seance by John Harwood which, according to the blurb, is a Victorian mystery about apparitions, betrayal, blackmail, black-hearted villains and murder. A few pages in and I'm intrigued. Hope it lasts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bypassblade Posted August 16, 2014 Share Posted August 16, 2014 Just read Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and then Jekyll & Hyde, both very good; Frankenstein is good once used to way of speaking now reading Insomnia by Stephen King. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ponte Posted August 16, 2014 Share Posted August 16, 2014 Another one for the Rankin club: 'The Impossible Dead'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
becla85 Posted August 19, 2014 Share Posted August 19, 2014 I've just finished Ronald Kessler's Secrets of the FBI and loved it. I would recommend to anyone who loves non fiction police / security related reading. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phanerothyme Posted August 19, 2014 Share Posted August 19, 2014 Technicolor Time Machine by Harry Harrison. Climactic Pictures, on the verge of bankruptcy, end up using a time machine to film an epic about Vikings discovering America. Jack Daniels, Benzedrine, firearms and drunken Vikings ensure that things don't go according to plan in the slightest. Consquences: hilarious. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris_Sleeps Posted August 19, 2014 Share Posted August 19, 2014 The Girl who Saved the King of Sweden by Jonas Jonnason. Follow up to the one about the hundred year old bloke doing a runner from his retirement home, written in the same style with much the same dark humour. I didn't like 'The Hundred-Year-Old Man' - just found it all a bit shallow. He builds a nuclear bomb by being in the same room. He ends the cold war by accident. It all just grated on me a little bit. I'm sure there's a wider context but it felt childishly obvious. ---------- Started: * Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rachelmum Posted August 20, 2014 Share Posted August 20, 2014 Just finished reading Hector and the Search for Happiness by Francois Lelord, they have made a film of the book with one of my favourite actors Simon Pegg starring in. Not seen the film yet, but the book is a good read. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metalman Posted August 20, 2014 Share Posted August 20, 2014 Something a bit literary at the moment: Invitation to the waltz by Rosamond Lehmann. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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