Books (20 replies)
Boy meets girl, again and again followed by tragedy and Arthur's Seat. OK.
Case Histories. Kate Atkinson.
Detective stories x4, linked together. Very good.
Transcription. Kate Atkinson.
Like all her books, impressive. War time spooks and other issues.
Restless. William Boyd.
Spooks, betrayal and hiding. Excellent.
For Whom the Bell Tolls. Hemingway.
Really enlightening, unromantic Spanish war story.
LA Confidential. James Ellroy.
Appalling, misanthropic rubbish. The film of the same name was, though, excellent. (This book is one of a series of four, all of which are made into films. Avoid the books).
The Testament. Attwood.
Hard work but good follow up to the Handmaiden's Tale.
War and Peace. Tolstoy.
War between Russia and France interesting. Romantic tales of aristocratic life: tripe.
Hamnet. O'Farrell.
Hamnet, Anne Hathaway and Bill. Utterly brilliant.
The Unberable Lightness of Being. Milan Kundera.
Pretentious, shallow novel about the consequences of the Prague Spring.
One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest. Ken Kesey.
1960's style critique of mental health institutions in the US. OK.
The Dig. John Preston.
Novel about archaeology in 1939 UK. Surprisingly interesting.
The Parisian. Isabella Hammad.
Unusual, enlightening novel about an arab man, from Nablus in Palestine, during the 1930's as the conflict within Palestine develops.
V2. Robert Harris.
Rockets, Nazis, plucky British resistance and all that. Good read.
Birds without Wings. Bernieres.
Brilliant, I thought: a novel about a Turkish multi-ethnic town, displacement and migration during and after the 1920s Greece invasion of Turkey.