Book – Have I Got News For You Guide to Modern Britain Author – Nick MartinYear – 2009Genre – Humour Can you belive that the show Have I Got News For You has now been running for forty series? The fact that it still remains funny and relevent is a huge testament to everyone that … Read moreBook 86 – Have I Got News For You Guide to Modern Britain
Book – The Maltese FalconAuthor – Dashiell HammettYear – 1930Genre – Crime Whilst it is quite genuinely just a strange coincidence that the past two books that I have read have featured the tail end of a bird on the front cover, in terms of content, I assure you that not only are both of them … Read moreBook 85 – The Maltese Falcon
Book – Automated AliceAuthor – Jeff NoonYear – 1996Genre – Steampunk Sci-Fi The reason that I picked up this book is the blurb which is a wonderfully interesting concept. It introduces the idea that Lewis Carroll wrote a third book about his famed creation, Alice, called Automated Alice. It then implies that this is not … Read moreBook 84 – Automated Alice
Book – Why Does E=mc2? (and Why Should We Care)Authors – Brian Cox and Jeff ForshawYear – 2009Genre – PhysicsBought for me by Mark Holdaway By this stage in the challenge, getting through a book in under a week and a half should not exactly be quantum physics. However, this quite literally was quantum physics. … Read moreBook 83 – Why Does E=mc2? (and Why Should We Care)
Book – Double IndemnityAuthor – James M CainYear – 1943Genre – Crime There has been a little over a week since my last book review, and this is quite simply because I am reading a book on theoretical physics which is quite frankly not particularly easy reading. I shall have it finished soon, and of … Read moreBook 82 – Double Indemnity
As I come onto the home straight, there a couple of things that are getting in the way of me optimising my reading time, and the biggest of them is the weather. If I was to be forced into starting a superhero league tomorrow – admitted, a fairly unlikely situation, but stranger things have happened. … Read moreWhy Does It Always Rain On Me
Book – The World According to the Man in the Pub 2Author – Robert AnwoodYear – 2007Genre – Facts As this was a Marks and Spencer rerelease of a previous Robert Anwood book, it was an absolute nightmare to find a cover pic for this book – hence the very dark shot that I finally … Read moreBook 81 – The World According to the Man in the Pub 2
Book – The GriftersAuthor – Jim ThompsonYear – 1963Genre – Pulp Fiction/Crime As the New Year deadline rapidly approaches, I am really having to put in the hours, and have managed to whip through this latest book, Jim Thompson’s The Grifters. Knowing that it was, in part, an inspiration behind Hustle – one of the best programmes … Read moreBook 80 – The Grifters
Book – The Slightly True Story of Cedar B. Hartley (Who Planned to Live an Unusual Life)Author – Martine MurrayYear – 2002Genre – Young Adult The first thing worth mentioning, is that this book is currently leading the longest title of the year award by a considerable length. Should I have cause to write it … Read moreBook 79 – The Slightly True Story of Cedar B. Hartley (Who Planned to Live an Unusual Life)
Book – The Catcher in the RyeAuthor – JD SalingerYear – 1951Genre – ClassicRecommended to me by Emma Head and Alex Campbell The only thing I really knew about The Catcher in the Rye is that it was famously often found to be a major part of the lives of many murderers. The man who … Read moreBook 78 – The Catcher in the Rye