I've just finished and enjoyed "Depth Charge" by Jason Heaton. If some of you recognise the name, he's a watch journalist and has written about diving.
The book is an exciting adventure and...
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I've just finished and enjoyed "Depth Charge" by Jason Heaton. If some of you recognise the name, he's a watch journalist and has written about diving.
The book is an exciting adventure and...
I've been reading Ian Fleming's James Bond books this long weekend. I've managed Casino Royale and most of Live and Let Die so far.
I love a Kindle but not the prices on Amazon, which are at £4+ per...
Just finished The Road by Cormac McCarthy. Poetically black and bleak – yet compelling.
I've just started a newly published book, About Time by Adam Frank, which sets out to show how stone age man developed the concept of time, how it's been measured and applied since then and how our...
Having finished and thoroughly enjoyed Oliver's Sunliner - I'm now reading South - the story of Ernest Shackleton's 1914-1917 Expedition. It's enthralling and the descriptions of the icy world in...
Superb Book, read this while I was at school, it inspired me to go and see some of Tim Pages photos in a collective show in Sheffield, and also went to hear him give a lecture. In his lecture someone...
I'd also suggest Page after Page by Tim Page and a Bright Shining Lie for some more excellent Vietnam war insights from the personal perspective.
Just finished Tom Clancy's Clear and Present Danger which I enjoyed as a fast paced, tightly plotted read. It's better than the excellent film, even though the film script was re-written to promote...
Powering through Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's "Lost World" - a rollicking, roller-coaster of a right ripping yarn!