Buccaneers?
WOW! One of the best I’ve ever read.Not in this genre, but any sort of book.
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That cover illustration is of an English Electric Canberra. That one shows an unusual variant/conversion - the rear boom I think was used to spray water at high altitude for icing trials.
OOps! Didn’t look closely at the line drawing, the white nose maybe distracted . . or is even that an incorrect inference?
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Highly non-standard nose on that one for a Canberra. They usually have a perspex dome at the front. Maybe they had a spare from a Buccaneer at Boscombe? 
There’s some photos of that aircraft in trials action at the Boscombe Museum as I recall - will have to check.
Just read The Hallmarked Man. Won’t give anything away 
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No. 27 on the Waiting List for an E-Book at the NY Public Library. Not sure how many copies they licensed.
Would have been for radar trials.
Just started reading David Hepworth’s fantastic “A fabulous creation”. If you love vinyl, you will love this!
Probably the best book on vinyl I have read yet (so far) and a wonderful exercise in nostalgia for a bygone age…
JonathanG
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Vanished Beyond The Map by Adam Shoalts.
About an explorer called Hubert Darrell who wandered around the North Yukon, NWT and up and around what is now Nunavut in 1900-1910. He disappeared in 1910. The first part of the book is a sort of bio of his life history and the second part is the author travelling the north to try and find his last know location to work out what happened to him.
Darrell was a well respected “adventurer” who travelled usually alone, by foot without using dog sleds in the frozen north and impressed Roald Amundsen so much that Roald wanted to take him on his antarctic expedition, however Darrell disappeared before that could happen.
A fascinating book that was such a. page turner I pretty much read it in one day.
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I have just finished this. A remarkable novel. Painful and uplifting.
and I found this tucked in a pile and as I have read several other Lawrence Osbourne and enjoyed them, I am reading this. I also discovered yesterday that it has just been made into a film that is about to be released. It is an about a gambler and while the prose is very fine, I’m not really sure that I have much empathy or sympathy for the character or the setting. I will see.
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I really liked the Kushner. I also liked “The Flamethrowers,” but was less satisfied with her most recent novel, “Creation Lake.”
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the world champions. farina to Fittipaldi. if you like F1.
Good recommendation. Duly ordered.
Not a book but an article. Not reading but deciding to skip the absurdity. From the recent Car & Driver issue, about Cadillac’s new $360,890 flagship name Celestic, a name more befitting a women’s bras manufacturer than a ridiculous car.
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A history of the Los Angeles music scene, focussing on its darker side. Just arrived, looking forward to reading it.
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For me, easily the best thriller of the year. For once the accolades are deserved. Damascus Station was good but this lad conjures up some fine stories even if they are a little politically biased.
Some secret part of the CIA finds a means to infiltrate the cabals surrounding Putin and setting them against each other hope for a top tier collapse.
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