I listen to the Orphan X books by Greg Hurwitz. Really enjoy them. He’s sort of like Jason Bourne type.
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I just finished Ten Men Dead, a book about the 1981 IRA hunger strikers, and it was an excellent read. It gives really good detail on each of the men — I only really knew about Bobby Sands and Francis Hughes before. The secret messages from Bik McFarlane in prison to Gerry Adams were very interesting reading. It’s sad in parts but very well written, and I’d definitely recommend it to anyone interested in the topic.
Ps: I absolutely despise her but Margaret Thatcher was one tough cookie - she certainly comes across it in the book anyways. Killing Thatcher is probably the best book I’ve ever read - another excellent troubles related read
Your next read is The Shankhill Butchers by Martin Dillon
Celeb spot note - I met the author of Killing Thatcher recently. I had read the book on hols from a recommendation on here and thoroughly enjoyed it
He is working on the Roger Casement story for a while now and will have it out in a year or so
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Finished it there. Parts absolutely impenetrable, parts hilarious, parts sad. Lot of resources online to guide the non university student through it. A life’s ambition fulfilled.
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Read in 20 days.
That is very impressive.
The new Phillip Pullman book is out, the last in the second trilogy following his dark materials. Massively looking forward to reading it.
Pat Nevin’s book though it is very David.Brent in places, especially the chapter on racism.
He also name checks the cunt Kate Hoey.
Lock the thread
Did it for the leaving
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Was it in the new releases then?
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Yeah. On parchment. Read it by candlelight.
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I read this last year and didn’t think it was all that great. Clearly I’m on the minority. What was it that made you think it was superb?
I maybe needed Balbec’s English teacher to explain it to me
I haven’t read a huge amount of books from that time but of what I have read, they are quite banal. Society was different back then - you mustn’t offend.
That was thrown out the window with this, it’s proper edgy - you can almost feel the tension as you read it. A lot of anger.
The plot is tight with few holes. The writing is superb in terms of imagery and symbolism.
An excellent book at any stage but in the mid 1800’s pretty revolutionary.
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Her first novel wasn’t it?
Her only novel.
She died shortly after it was published.
Thank god.
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It counts as her earlier stuff so…
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Candles is it? Posh bastard. We had to wait for a full moon.