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Holiday Books 2019

Bernard Cornwell – Sharpe’s Waterloo It’s been a long-standing habit of mine to read at least one Bernard Cornwell book

Based on real events, Alone in Berlin by Hans Fallada is an initially slow-moving book about one German man’s resistance

If I’d watched Black Mirror: Bandersnatch before I wrote Ramble No. 68, then I would’ve put it in the list

This year I read around 65 books. In this post I pick out a few of the best ones. Every

Since my last ramble I’ve been to a work Christmas do involving a self-indulgent DJ who held a minute’s silence

This week has been full of highlights for me, starting with the marvellous Halloween special episode of Inside No. 9. We

By the time we read about Jack Reacher in Never Go Back his broken nose is pretty much mended and

I’ve been spending most of my spare time working on a talk I’m doing with the local Rotary Club on

Anyone who’s followed this blog for a while will know that I like to read at least one Bernard Cornwell

It’s been a while since my last post and that is mostly due to me spending as much of my