June 2021 catch up
A quick ramble concerning football, bikers and Bukowski.
Category: Reading
Bernard Cornwell – War Lord
War Lord is the thirteenth and last book of Bernard Cornwell’s The Last Kingdom series and is dedicated to Alexander Dreymon the actor who plays Uhtred in the TV show based on the books.
Jo Nesbo – The Kingdom
The Kingdom is a stand-alone thriller about two brothers, Roy and Carl Opgard, who live on a mountain farm near a sleepy Norwegian village and whose lives are tied together by secrets and deception.
Lee Child and Andrew Child – The Sentinel
The Sentinel, the 25th book in the series, is a milestone in the history of Jack Reacher novels as it marks the first full-length collaboration between the two Child brothers.
Bernard Cornwell – Harlequin
Harlequin introduces us to Thomas of Hookton a skilled archer in the employ of Edward III’s army abroad in fourteenth-century France.
Matt Haig – The Midnight Library
Nora Seed decides she no longer wants to live. In the limbo of the Midnight Library she is given the opportunity to live alternate versions of her life and learn the best way to live.
Matt Haig – The Dead Fathers Club
The Dead Fathers Club is a ghost story in which eleven-year-old Philip Noble is haunted by the ghost of his dead father who died in a car accident.
Matt Haig – How to Stop Time
Matt Haig’s How to Stop Time is the first-person account of one man’s life and recovery from lost to new love wrapped up in an historic / sci-fi novel.
Bernard Cornwell – Crackdown
Crackdown is the third of Cornwell’s contemporary nautical thrillers, set in the Bahamas and revolving around ex-Marine Nick Breakspear.
Ben Aaronovitch – Foxglove Summer
Foxglove Summer is the fifth book in the Rivers of London series and follows on from Broken Homes, Whispers Under Ground, Moon Over Soho and the original Rivers of London.
