I’m reading ‘The Last Tudor’ by Philippa Gregory - the fictional story of Lady Jane Grey and her two sisters, although based on fact. Reading about Bradgate Park where Jane Grey grew up brings to mind my Dad telling us about the headless ghost of Lady Jane Grey which supposedly walks there at dusk. Not sure whether it’s true or just a ruse by my Dad to encourage us to go home!
@Daffy I used to be a real hostorical novel fan … and the Tudors was, and still is, one of my favourite periods.
@AnnieS …I’ve not read the Tenant of Wildfell … I’ll give that one a go. It’s while since I read anything of that ilk but they are enjoyable.
ETA: Oh, it’s free on Amazon. I’ll get and download a copy.
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Just Finished. William Ainsworth 492 Page.
The Witches of Lancashire.
A romance of Pendle Forest. Originally Published 1884.
A remarkable accurate and historical incite to. 1660’s Trial’s and Tribulations of Witch Hunting
PS. Knowledge acquired, consistently applied. When Profiling. 
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Uh oh…are you insinuating I won’t be able to apply my spells on you?!?
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A Special Concession.
4 The St. Law Rence. Chapter.
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Just finished “The Man Who Died Twice” by Richard Osman and have started on Harlan Coben’s “Nobody’s Fool”
Still waiting delivery of the Myron Bolitar series 
The Reformatory
Horror fiction.
It’s one of those books where the real horror is the history it’s explaining.
It explores racism in 1950s Florida, a place where race relations weren’t much better than they’d been in 1860s.
This book saddened me immensely.
Young children sent to a “Reform School” for trivialities.
A sadistic warden who would lash children held down on a bench by goons.
A truly horrific “fictitious” novel based on historical realities.
Currently I’m re-reading Philip K Dicks “The Man in the High Castle”. I’d forgotten how good it is. Its probably called science fiction but has a similar premise to a few other books of imagining a world where Japan & Germany won the war. But brilliantly, in the book one main part of it is describing a subversive book that many of the characters are reading. This book within a book switches it around and imagines a world in which the allies actually won. So get the reaction of the characters to this fictional idea of a world where the US and UK defeated Germany and Japan, and what happened afterwards …
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Anne McCaffrey— All The Weyr’s Of Pern.
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Now on Maskerade by Terry Pratchett
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After reading the thread about George Orwell’s Animal Farm it reminded me of one or two other books I’d read that were rather thought provoking.
Catch 22 was another fantastic book … I’m going to get a copy for my kindle.
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I think you should read Middlemarch.
I have just bought “The Mushroom Tapes”.
It’s about the Erin Patterson murder trial by three well known women authors who attended the trial.
I am hoping it is a bit different to the regular podcasts about the trial - there are plenty of those and nothing wrong them - but I thought this might be a bit different.
that trial always reminds me of the Clint Eastwood film “the beguiled”
Wife got me Brief Answers to Big Questions by Stephen Hawking.
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I tried his Brief History of Time but couldn’t understand the first page never mind the second. Had to give up I am afraid.
Felt like a real dumbo.
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This arrived just now from Amazon, second hand…
A short compact volume but very intense I think.
Very much enjoyed her music back in the day and I’ve only just started listening to it again recently, through older ears.
For those who have watched the race on TV!
Quite an Almost. As if Competing Enjoyable Challenge.
Series.
- London > Singapore
- Mexico > Argentina.
- Canada Coast to Coast
- Japan > Indonesia .
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Just finished the recent Ian McEwan book “What We Can Know”. I thought it very good, but then I cannot recall a McEwan book I did not like.
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