What are you reading now... II!

[Darren]

I'm reading a lot of Ian Rankin after trying a couple of my partner's Rebus novels. Currently halfway through The Complaints. It's quite good fun reading about murders in Kings Stables Road and Grassmarket amd thinking "Shit, I've walked down there!"

[SiHart]

David Fisher's Douglas Adams' (With Graham Williams') City of Death by James Goss

[Stuart Wallis]

Living proof that the BBC Shop and the Royal Mail can get it right occasionally!

And talking of Douglas, I'm reading Last Chance To See...

[Stuart Wallis]

Still talking of Douglas, City of Death.

[Rob McCow]

Finished A Song of Stone by Iain Banks - great book that, but you have to accept how utterly nihilistic and depressing it is.

Started Mad Mobs and Englishmen which investigates the London Riots of 2011.

[Stuart Wallis]

Mark Carwardine's sequel to Last Chance to See, also titled Last Chance to See.

[Alex]

The first volume of Danny Baker's autobiography, it's very very funny stuff, really looking forward to the second now.

[Stuart Wallis]

One of these centuries I'll get round to reading them myself. For now though, I'm reading The Secret History by Donna Tartt - surely the most embarrassing author's name this side of Trollope!

[SiHart]

The new Neil Gaiman collection of short stories, the name of which evades me at the moment.

[Dirk Gently]

Trigger Warning?

I'm about to start The House of Silk by Anthony Horowitz...if I can stay awake long enough.

[Stuart Wallis]

Trigger Warning?

If it's a boy, they're calling him Rodney, after Dave.

[Andrew Curnow]

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House of Silk, I really enjoyed - a very good 'fake' of Conan Doyle's style.

Anthony Horowitz' Moriarty was a good read too (got that one for Christmas).

[Stuart Wallis]

Lustrum by Robert Harris.

[Dirk Gently]

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House of Silk, I really enjoyed - a very good 'fake' of Conan Doyle's style.

Anthony Horowitz' Moriarty was a good read too (got that one for Christmas).

I too enjoyed House of Silk. It's hard to imagine Conan Doyle writing such a story about such a subject matter, it is still very reminiscent of him.

On to Moriarty.

[Rob McCow]

I, Partridge (We Need To Talk About Alan).

[Alex]

I only read that this year but absolutely loved it, one day I really must listen to the audio book version of it too.

I've just started David Mitchell's The Bone Clocks, liking it so far, but then he's one of my favourite authors so that shouldn't be too much of a surprise!

[SiHart]

The Bone Clocks is quite wonderful.

[Stuart Wallis]

The Corridor Of Certainty by Geoff Boycott.

[SiHart]

The Girls by Lisa Jewell.

[Stuart Wallis]

The Woman In White by Wilkie Collins.

[Nyder]

Ambulance! by Glen McCoy


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[Rob McCow]

The Glen McCoy book! I heard rumour of existence but never thought anyone I know would ever read it.

I'm reading 'We' by some Russian guy who has an extremely interesting name that I can't remember. It's set in a future world where mathematical rigidity has replaced human freedom. Apparently it was the inspiration for 1984.

[Stuart Wallis]

The Man Behind The Master, the new biography of Anthony Ainley, by Karen Louise Hollis.

[SiHart]

Any good Stuart?

[Stuart Wallis]

It's a relatively short book - 206 pages if you ignore the very long list of footnotes - but it does give a lot of insight into the circumstances in which he grew up. His dad, the Queen Mum's favourite actor, had him put into the Actor's Orphanage (lots of detail about life there), but never had anything to do with the most famous of his many illegitimate offspring, who until going to RADA called himself Tony Ainley Holmes (his mum's name). I shan't say too much more as I'm still reading it, and I don't want to spoil it - it might be the sort of Who-related biography I know you're into. (Try Fantom Publishing, plug-plug!)