The 3-letter agencies of the USA engaged in regime change? Never!
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Sadly fiction, I presume.
It’s a thriller. Written for entertainment not education.
“The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle.” Just started it. I don’t know if the author can pull it off, but the premise for this whodunit is mind boggling. To borrow one of the blurbs, it’s a mash-up of Agatha Christie, “Groundhog Day,” and “Quantum Leap.”
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I read that a few years ago. Quite good iirc.
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I am half way through this classic novel. Hope to finish it before Christmas, and next will be Philip Pullman’s “Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage”.
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This 850 page tome arrived today - Xmas reading. I already had the much shorter Vol 1 and have just started on it.
Also picked up a copy of this one in Oxfam. Starts off with England’s 1970 football disaster in Mexico, brings back vivid memories of long, glum faces at school.
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I’m reading Ungovernable - The Political Diaries of a Chief Whip, Simon Hart’s account of his time after Cameron went off to his shepherd’s hut, until Rishi Sunak lost the Election.
It’s very interesting and he is extremely frank about his views on some of the people who he had dealings with. I am greatly enjoying it. I can’t say more for fear that Richard would have to edit it out because of the no politics in the forum restriction.
But if you are interested in politics and kind of a bit right of centre in your thinking, then this book is a must read.
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Been a while since I’ve contributed here. Just finished this. A book full of questionable heroes and an awful lot of heroin. Kaplan has his biases but they are transparent and he’s just so easy to read and enjoy. The narrative belts along and I really enjoyed it.
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I’ve a significant book backlog into low double figures so I’m working from the bottom of the pile up based on book size. I wouldn’t necessarily have chosen this as my book heading into Christmas but we’ll see.
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That takes me back to o’level English lit. Sooooooo long ago. 
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As we called it then The Mayor of Caster Oil.
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Southern Universities ‘O’ Level syllabus - always included a Hardy from my recollection.
For my year it was ‘Far From The Madding Crowd’.
Plus other authors - ‘Animal Farm’ and ‘Merchant of Venice’ that I can recall.
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Just trying to recall 1971. No Hardy but Animal Farm, Chips with everything very subversive, 
(Wesker), and Julius Caesars for the compulsory list.
Number 13 Tom Thorne from Mark Billingham.
Number 7 from Tim Sullivan.
Billingham catching up.
Sullivan up to date.
Thorne A London policeman with interesting friends.
George Cross A detective who struggles with and teaches us about Autism.
Easy reads. Library orders.
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That was the other I recall. Far better as I remember.
I have been looking for a new series to read.
All about the dark goings on in Aberystwyth.
First 3 on Kindle for .99p each.
Perhaps worth collecting the paperbacks for the cover art.
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Part 1 of the biography of Hitler by Ian Kershaw.
" Hitler 1889-1936 Hubris"
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One of the best singer-songwriters.
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