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Razzle Dazzle Dean Gordon said:

You might want to have a look at Travellers in the Third Reich and Hitler's People also. The former i have read and thought excellent, the latter is in the current 'to be read' pile.

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Added to my shopping cart. The descriptions do take my interest. Much appreciated.

Razzle Dazzle Dean Gordon said:

Ever read the Friends of Eddie Coyle? That's a good crime based book set back in the 70s.

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Not heard of it before but a brief glimpse suggests it's right up my street so I'll have a look for that one, cheers

A gentleman in Moscow

I'm making a conscious effort to read more this year and so far so good (although maybe not in terms of variety, another crime book finished and I've started another since)

King of Ashes by SA Cosby, a successful finance wiz returns to his home town when his father has a car accident only to find that it was no accident and is linked to his brother getting involved with some wrong'uns, delves into their family history and his plan to get them all out of trouble. Absolutely unhinged villains, main character wrestling with their morals, little twists without being overly twisty. Listened to this one and the narrator is fantastic too, he's also narrated Cosby's previous books so there's more added to my list.

Finished The Getaway by Jim Thompson, fucking hell. It's 90% an exciting crime caper with two people on the run after a bank robbery and then becomes a surreal horror, had to read the final chapter twice to take it in properly. They've made two film versions of it with neither even trying to tackle the 'proper' ending, probably for the best.

Next up is James, I loved both Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn and this is a telling of the matter from the viewpoint of Jim, can't wait.

All The Birds Singing - Evie Wyld.

Her writing style reminds me very much of early Iain Banks and in particular his outstanding debut with The Wasp Factory.

A young woman, has ended up as a sheep farmer on an un named Scottish Island, having escaped a life as a teenage prostitute in the Australian Outback, having gone on the run from an abusive sheep farmer she had shacked up with and robbed of all of his money.

Something is killing all her sheep on the farm in Scotland.

The way the story is told is really odd and quite difficult to get your head around to start with :

Her life on the Scottish Island is told in the present tense and her life in Australia is told in the past tense, each chapter alternates between her past life in Australia and her present life in Scotland.

It`s a very well written book, if a little strange ( similar to The Wasp Factory ), but once I got my head around the backwards and forwards of Australia and Scotland time lines.

I`d say it`s one that fans of Iain Banks would enjoy.

Read a 'A Short Stay in Hell' recently.
Saw it had been recommended quite often in Horror literature threads on Reddit, and I really liked it.
Feels like a book you spend more time thinking about afterwards compared to how long it takes to read.
The ideas really stick with you and it's a pretty horrifying concept of the real nature of eternity.

Finished The Day of the Triffids.

Enjoyed it.

My daughter bought me Chris Macasusland's book for my Birthday starting that tonight