Haven't been here since December .. so here's a quick snapshot of reads
Biography - Bobby Robson .. OK
Tales From the Dugout -Richard Gordon - Anecdotes from football managers . all of them scottish league so not as enjoyable as I had initially expected .. ok
Alan Sugar - Unscripted My Years on Telly - not as good as his biography and written in a more patronising way
Manager Mark - the nutcase from the Hotel - A different world view - always healthy and quite amsuing in parts
Babbitt - Sinclair Lewis - A tale of 1920s america and a take on the american Dream .. really enjoyed it
A life of contrasts - Diana Mosley autobiog - an insight into the colourful Mitford Sisters and her life with Sir Oswald Mosley and meeting Hitler etc. again interesting to see life from the other side of the divide.
Camilla Lackberg Hestrom/Falck series - Read 8th book in the series last year .. wasn't taken with it .. the first four came up on Amazon for 990 . took the plunge .. and have really enjoyed the settings and characters ..The ice Princess, The Preacher, The stone Cutter, The Stranger
No further action - Jim Davidson - How Jimbo got dragged into Operation Yewtree before being cleared of any wrongdoin. Its an honest account of a carrer at the edge of a precipice and a lengthy anxious wait for justice to be done.
39 Steps John Buchan- Nothing like the film and Tv adaption .. The boring bits in the film ar probably my favourite bits in the novel eg when he disguises himself as a road worker.
Parky - He's a lucky blighter! seems to have had a charmed life. wasn't familiar with his life in newspaers but always thought he was over-arted and too fawning as a chat show host
Graham Norton - The Life and Loves of a he devil - Very honest about his life .. okish
Journeyman - Ben Smith .. One of the best football memoirs for a while. Tells it as it is on the lower rungs of the pyramid via Hereford, Crawley, Shrewsbury Weymouth etc having failed to make the grade as a young arsenal apprentice. Very honest about his former managers and some of his co-players
Buried - Graham Masterton. The latest in the Katy Macguire series. The stories and characters in this series stand up by themself without, in my opinion, the gratiuitious violence. In this installment a guy gets his feet screwed to a bed - you get the picture.
Margaret Thatcher Vol 1 - Charles Moore. I wasn't a bifg fan of Charlie .. comes over a tad pompous in his Spectator columns . hunting eh what? etc. But thi sbiography is an excellent piece of work .. look forward to the second part even though I'n mot a fan of author or subject!
MIchael Palin - Diaries Vol 3 Travelling To Work - Again brilliant volume. Plain ranks along Chris Mullin and Tony Benn as the most engaging dairist of recent times.
Sorry for taking up space .. I'll try an update as and when i finish a book from now on!