Philip K. Dick – The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
The story of two rival drugs Can-D and Chew-Z used by settlers on Mars and the god-like figure of Palmer Eldritch who pervades their trips.
Category: Reading
Bernard Cornwell – Heretic
Heretic follows on from Vagabond and Harlequin. Here is a breakdown of the supposed final book in what was originally the Grail Quest trilogy, until 1356 was published.
Ben Aaronovitch – The Hanging Tree
The Hanging Tree is the sixth book in the Rivers of London series and follows on from Foxglove Summer.
Becky Chambers – A Closed and Common Orbit
A Closed and Common Orbit is book two of the Hugo-award winning Wayfarers series but works just as well as a standalone novel.
Bernard Cornwell – Vagabond
Vagabond follows on from Harlequin, featuring English archer Thomas of Hookton, survivor of the battle of Crecy, continuing his quest for the Holy Grail.
June 2021 catch up
A quick ramble concerning football, bikers and Bukowski.
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.
