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.
Category: Reading
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.
Bernard Cornwell – Sea Lord
Sea Lord is the second of Cornwell’s contemporary nautical thrillers, first published in the UK in 1989…
Stephen King – Later
Later is that rare thing – a short Stephen King novel. Clocking in at under 250 pages it’s all killer and no filler…
Bernard Cornwell – Wildtrack
My thoughts on Cornwell’s first nautically-themed contemporary thriller. Here there be minor spoilers!
Haruki Murakami – Killing Commendatore
Killing Commendatore by Haruki Murakami was first published in two volumes – The Idea Made Visible and The Shifting Metaphor and is something of a homage to The Great Gatsby.
3 books, 1 graphic novel
Antony Beevor – Crete: The Battle and The Resistance / Neil Gaiman – The Sandman: Overture / Charles Bukowski – Ham on Rye / Bernard Cornwell – Fools and Mortals
Death to 2020
A messy roundup for the tail-end of 2020 including some movies, comedy TV, books and a thumb-killing game.
Bernard Cornwell – Redcoat
Redcoat is set in the year 1777 in war-torn Philadelphia. It’s a bit like a Sharpe book but with less battles and more intrigue and romance. Spoilers ahoy!
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