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Agreed - I enjoyed it.

How did you get on with it - I loved it but it didn't have the ending I particularly wanted?




Can I interest you in a couple of copies of the Moultoneer together with, hot off the presses,...

I can only ever see asparagus spanking working with the green variety...

Thanks, Bob.

I'd love to see a scan of the Fangio Mercedes 600 review.

Oooh, that looks good.

Edit: I've just ordered it.

I've recently finished this:

http://www.jpc.de/image/w600/front/0/9780141039930.jpg

I was making heavy weather of it but made a late...

I've just finished two excellent books about Afghanistan and my only regret is that I possibly should have read them the other way around. First off was Cables from Kabul: The Inside Story of the...

I've just finished a quick read of Instructions for British Servicemen in Germany; a guide for soldiers written in 1944 to prepare them for the forthcoming occupation. In many ways surprisingly...

I've just finished an excellent pair of books and, more by luck than judgement, managed to read them in the right sequence. Two biographies of diplomats; the Irish minister in Berlin in the thirties...

Yes, I have but some time ago. I have no idea why it took me so long to get the next one, and get round to reading it - I picked it up in Dublin over Christmas and it's been on the bedside table...

I've just re-read Heart of Darkness. I suppose it will only be a matter of time before Apocalypse Now features on the movie thread...

Currently enjoying the 2nd volume of Clive James'...

I'm currently stuck in the Humphrey Carpenter Benjamin Britten biography which seems to contain far more extensive coverage of uphill gardening than is strictly necessary. Possibly no surprise...

I've just finished the autobiography of the TV producer who "discovered" Keith Floyd and Rick Stein; Shooting the Cook by David Pritchard. Very enjoyable and also quite amusing to watch some of the...

I've just finished a book written by a friend of mine; The Greasy Spoon by Stephen Braiden. A quite amusing read which whilst fictional seems to be quite heavily based on real life in London in the...

I've just finished Capital by John Lanchester and really enjoyed it. It captures London really well and touches on terrorism, the economics crisis, immigration and even premiership football without...

I have managed to get through and come out the other end of More Pricks Than Kicks by Samuel Beckett; a novel I think that the average reader might struggle to complete without a passing knowledge of...

I've just finished Tom Sharpe's The Gropes. Not quite up to the riotous standards of the earlier novels but nevertheless an enjoyable, light read. Will need to find the Wilt Inheritance next methinks.

I have just finished Moss Keane's autobography Rucks, Mauls & Gaelic Football. Quite a few funny anecdotes and a very readable account of his life on the pitch - warmly recommended.

If there are any Orhan Pamuk fans on the forum you can download and read a charming short story of his from this months Hamish Hamilton magazine

http://fivedials.com/files/fivedials_no14.pdf

It...

I've just finished Hand in the Fire by Hugo Hamilton. Hamilton, being half-Irish/half-German, writes quite a lot about identity and this one is no exception. It's written through the hand of a...

Have just taken delivery of Alan Clark - the Biography by Ion Trewin and Military Timepieces 1880-1990 by Weslowski. Looking forward to starting the former on the train home tonight and dipping into...