Philip K Dick – The World that Jones Made
The World that Jones Made is a short book running in at only 200 pages, but one of Philip K Dick’s most entertaining and well-plotted novels full of interesting invention and ideas.
Category: Reading
Adam Buxton – Ramble Book
This audiobook is like a 10 hour 50 minute podcast with lots of new jingles, puns, Bowie-based reminiscences and the usual mix of comedy and pathos that has come to define Dr Buckle’s podcasts.
My lockdown story continued…
So here we are a month or so later since my first post about my particular circumstances, minor #firstworldproblem gripes about working from home and the various nuances of the COVID-19 lockdown. It’s almost July! Crazy.
Bernard Cornwell – The Empty Throne
A short post about the eighth book in Bernard Cornwell’s Last Kingdom series.
Bernard Cornwell – The Pagan Lord
Ten years have passed peacefully since Death of Kings in which King Alfred died and his son Edward took up the throne of Wessex…
Mervyn Peake – Titus Alone
I planned to read Titus Alone, the third book of the Gormenghast trilogy, over Christmas 2016, having thoroughly enjoyed the second book earlier that year. Instead I read it a few weeks ago. Here’s what I thought about it…
Bernard Cornwell – Death of Kings
Seven years is long enough to have totally forgotten you’ve read a book. After reading Death of Kings I did a quick search on this blog and found that I had read the book on holiday back in 2013. Holidays – remember those?
Margaret Atwood – The Blind Assassin
The Blind Assassin is a Booker Prize-winning novel by the multi-award winning Canadian novelist Margaret Atwood perhaps best known for The Handmaid’s Tale.
Bernard Cornwell – The Burning Land
The Burning Land by Bernard Cornwell catches up with Uhtred five years after the events of Sword Song and he is now Alfred’s main man when it comes to commanding men against the Danes for the kingdom of Wessex.
Jo Nesbo – Knife
A review of Jo Nesbo’s new Harry Hole thriller Knife.
