I was just looking on Amazon at this....700 pages !!!! Blimey it's a longun....not sure if it will hold my attention that far lol

Gary Bell's 'Animal QC: My preposterous life'. It's an autobiography with a difference and has very good reviews

Minette Walters - The Cellar

I haven't been here in a while so the books I've read since my last post in this thread are:

A Study In Scarlet - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The Case for Christ - Lee Strobel

Memories, Dreams, Reflections by Carl Jung*

Steppenwolf - Hermann Hesse*

(*without realising the connection between the last two when I started Steppenwolf. Trippy! As was Steppenwolf, actually. Ha ha!)

I'm also on a re-read of Harry Potter - PoA next up.

Also reading Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

and

A Fine-Tuned Universe: The Quest for God in Science and Theology by Alister McGrath

at the moment.

"City Of Death" by James Goss. It captures the spirit of aliens and Paris very well. I love the way he writes and brings out Douglas Adams' story and manages to create a masterpiece to be proud of.

Jeffanory by Jeff Stelling

Football anecdotes collected over the years by Soccer Saturdays anchor man

I have started The Blackheath Séance Parlour by Alan Williams - it's set in the mid 1800s and about 2 sisters who are struggling financially and their solution was to set up the séance parlour - it's very different to the type of book I usually read but seems good so far.

I'm reading The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough. This is d0lphin' s fault! I bought the book a few months ago, when it was on special offer, to read again at some stage. I'd forgotten about it until I read d0lphin' s post, then found myself on YouTube watching clips of Richard Chamberlain as Father Ralph. I'm only a short way in and am finding that I remember the story really well even though it must be decades since I last read it.

My next audiobook is Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, read by Kenneth Branagh. It's set in Africa when the British Empire was in full swing and tells the story of a journey up the Congo in a steamboat. This novel was the inspiration for the film Apocalypse Now.

That's funny.
I also bought it when it was on special offer for my Kindle even though I own a paperback too. Have you seen this youtube clip - it's my favourite!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RR6OdS78KfI

The book is (obviously) a bit different from the mini series, Meggie is a redhead but I still imagine her with dark hair when reading the book. And the twins don't feature at all! It's a rare occasion that I like the book and the mini series equally although for different reasons.

Edited - originally posted wrong link

That's the clip I started with! It's rather disconcerting that Richard Chamberlain seemed quite old to me when I first watched the tv series and now watching the clips he looks so young. Time flies etc.

He was about 50 when he filmed he series, he looked pretty good for his age didn't he!

(apologies to everyone else for being Off Topic!)

Just finished reading Martina Coles 2001 novel "Faceless " my God she's a master of her craft!

Evan McHugh - Pint Sized Ireland

Have just re-read the first 'Morse' book and had planned
to read them all again;but after the first, I don't think I am
going to bother. Very stagey and pretentious to me. The
things I liked many years ago when I first read them, seem
to be the very things that irritate me now. I found it slow,
ponderous and pretentious.
I know there is a legion of fans out there, let me make it
clear, I LOVED these books at the time they came out.
Time (IMO) has not been kind to them!

12 Years A Slave • Solomon Northup

Outlaw by Angus Donald

Look forward to hearing what you think of that one, Sue.

I've tried a few 'literary classics' in the last couple of years, but I always seem to find them boring. I'm ashamed to say I've given up on such great names as Steinbeck, Bronte and Dickens!

I'm currently in the middle of 'The Carrier' by Sophie Hannah (audio version, read by Julia Barrie). It took a while to get into but it's picking up a bit now. As I've noticed with previous of her books though, I find her characters and their dialogue / interaction very strange. Even married couples seem to interact with each other and talk to each other in very odd ways that don't ring true.

Couldn't agree more, I started reading them a few years ago but found them very dated. I only got about half way through the series before giving up.

shouldnt that be called unbelievable Jeff

Lol. I'm sure it was one of the options, Kammy gets mentioned a fair but in the book so it would have made sense

A Gambling Man - Jenny Uglow
Charles ll and the Restoration
Not normally my kind of reading, but having recently read about Charles ll from Georgette Heyer I was intrigued to learn more about him and Uglow's well researched book made this a very informative and interesting read.

Emma Haughton - Now you see me

Can any Mother Help Me?

It's a fascinating read about a secret women's magazine, I think the material was passed to the Mass Obs Society.
Another of my Poundland finds; hardback, illustrated and photos, well worth the money imo.

Just finished Meg - a novel of deep terror by Steve Alten, now onto the 2nd book The Trench. So far very good books

The Martian - Andy Weir.