Why? Rereading to cheer myself up after having lost our cat to cancer this morning…
steve
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Have to say the Karl Bartos book was a real grower. Need some cheering fiction now though 
Sorry to hear that, pal. It’s never easy.
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Thanks. That’s appreciated.
steve
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Losing a pet is difficult, take care.
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Thank you.
steve
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You can’t beat a bit of Reacher for pool side holiday reading on a very lovely day in Costa Teguise Lanzarote
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I’m a sucker for a spy thriller. Allbeury is new to me, but I heard a dramatisation of one his books on the BBC last which led me to this. I like his style.
I really enjoyed that and might follow a similar path.
He was an interesting guy - Special Ops in the war, Cold War spy captured in East Germany then ran pirate radio station Radio 390.
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I thoroughly enjoyed this, after hearing its author on the excellent ‘Cautionary Tales’ podcast from Tim Harford.
I do play poker, and an interest is certainly needed to enjoy the book, but no more than than that.
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His Elvis books were definitive. His Sweet Soul Music remains one of the great books on any genre of music.
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They were.
Brilliantly written, immaculately-researched account of the horrors of Mao’s Cultural Revolution. Has one man ever inflicted so much suffering, misery and cruelty upon so many people as the despotic Mao?
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Is it any good?
It’s a good book. It has high density of information though, so the book reads slow. I can read max 20 pages a day.