What I’ve been reading lately, part 42
Career of Evil — Robert Galbraith A re-read of the first Galbraith that I read. Rowling (for it is she) remains as compellingly readable as always. Definitely worth reading. My original comments...
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The Constant Rabbit — Jasper Fforde This is a novel that tries to get to grips with how things would actually work if there were anthropomorphic rabbits of the kind that turn up in fiction from Alice...
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Made in America — Bill Bryson The USA-specific counterpart to Bryson’s celebration of the English language, Mother Tongue, it’s about twice as long as the original volume because it also contains an...
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Lead — John Greenway, Andy Blacknell and Andy Coombe This the densest and most economical business leadership I have come across. It’s a genre I am not particularly drawn to, and which is ripe for...
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Blackout (Sam Archer book 3) — Tom Barber Mastodon A workaday action novel about a counter-terrorism agent and his colleagues surviving a revenge attempt from a group of Albanian terrorists, number 3...
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Fake Law: the Truth about Justice in an Age of Lies — the Secret Barrister A serious and depressing book about how the criminal justice system works — or, more often, does not work — in the UK. The...
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Here is a YouTube playlist of my now-traditional top-ten list of the albums I’ve listened to the most in the previous calendar year. (See this list of previous entries.) I listen much more to whole...
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The Liar’s Dictionary — Eley Williams A book published prematurely, I think. There is an intriguing double premise, with a modern-day story of a young woman working for a traditional dictionary...
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My wife’s been away for the last week, on holiday with my mum in Spain. That’s left me alone in the house, since all three boys have left home in various directions over the last few years. (The eldest...
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By the Pricking of my Thumbs — Agatha Christie I’ve always had a strange affection for Tommy and Tuppence, Christie’s couple of amateur detective who appear in five books spanning 55 years from 1922 to...
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