Without Fail by Lee Child

Word of Honor by Nelson Demille

Let Me Tell You About Alex - John Virgo

Winnie The Pooh -A.A Milne - a re-read but love Winnie.

Got any travel sickness tablets?? Just been on "A Journey" with Tony Blair. Unless your stomach is the size of John Prescott's .. this is one volume to skip. To get a better handle on New Labour I refer to you to Andrew Rawnsley's 2 magesterial volumes .. Servants of the People and The End of The Party + Chris Mullin's diaries.

Finished Moshin Hamid's "the Relucctant Fundamentalist". Beautifully written novel about a young Pakistani's experiences of America before and after 9/11. Thought provoking and a great insight into the anger that is felt amongst muslims towards the US.

Anabella by Aileen Armitage

Finished reading Lord of the Flies by William Golding. Brilliant!

Now I will start Stephen King's Bag of Bones.

Never Let Go - Kazuo Ishiguro. Heard there is a movie out soon and really looking forward to it.

Also working my way through the Sue Grafton Alphabet
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Whit by Iain Banks, I am finding it quite amusing

'Book of Souls' by Glenn Cooper and very good it is too.

Industrial Magic - Kelley Armstrong.

Worth Dying For - Lee Child

Shades of Grey by Jasper Fforde

A book about colours, lots of them, as if one were on some LSD trip or something. Actually, it's quite an interesting, absurd and funny read... and colourful, too.

Room-Emma Donoghue. On to part 2 and had some really weird dreams last night.

Isaac Asimov's The Naked Sun. I remember reading one book of his when I was a child and wanted to find out which one it was. But all I remember is 3 laws of robotics mentioned. Which, I am told, is not enough to locate Asimov's book Anyway, I like it.

I thought that this was a fantastic novel. I wrote an essay on it for my last OU English Language course - what fascinated me was the ambiguity that pervaded the novel all the way through to the end (and beyond)

Emily Barr - Plan B

I just read the Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins - fantastic, despite the blurb from Stephenie Meyer

Also Rivers of London by Ben Aaronovitch, it's very good too.

The Black Book ~ Ian Rankin

Rebus #5

The Long Song by Andrea Levy . Decided to read this after it was recommended by The TV Book Club.

How are you finding it, Sid? I'm very tempted now it's out in paperback. I loved Small Island and Every Light in the House Burnin', but I really struggled with Never Far From Nowhere.

Room, by Emma Donoghue. Didn't like the first half at all - too unsettling and uncomfortable, and it made me feel bad. Second half less so. I expect this to go the way of The Lovely Bones and be a huge long-term seller.

Almost finished The Blindfold, by Siri Hustvedt. Intriguing.

One of my very favourite reads of last year, and, indeed, beautifully written.

I'm only about 60 pages in but Levy's writing is almost hypnotic. I've never read anything of hers before so I have no idea whether this is her typical style, but it's beautiful.

I've read a lot of thrillers and romances lately so it's nice to read something completely different (it's all about the last years of slavery in Jamaica and the early years of freedom that followed).