Really want to read the rest but they only had the first 32 pages bound so I will have to wait and see if it gets any cheaper as I can’t spend so much even on a great book like this.
Just finished an Insp Frost, never read one before but David Jason has him off to a tee. Sense of humour that would not be allowed in todays force, I suspect.
I went to the library today and got two novels, Ruby by Meg Henderson and Sunlight On the Mersey by Lyn Andrews, a favourite of mine. I used to like reading Catherine Cookson’s but there’s none remaining that I haven’t read.
I love books with stories of many years ago when life was tough for all, many going into the workhouses, others begging in the streets to help support their families, gritty stuff!
Just looked up your hubs book on Amazon and it looks very interesting:
The author is terrified of flying so for a silver wedding anniversary treat took his wife on a one- off cruise of a lifetime in the year 2000. That 17-day cruise across the Mediterranean changed their holidays for ever, and like thousands of others George and Deb became addicted to cruising and especially on the ships of the P&O fleet.
The author’s first book (‘A Cornishman goes Cruising’) tells the story of that first cruise.
After many years of happy cruise holidays, retirement beckoned and the couple needed another special treat.
So on a cold January evening in 2012 they left Southampton on the cruise ship MV Aurora on an adventure that would change their outlook on life with a circumnavigation of the world lasting over three months.
Travel with them and share their thrills, laughter, and yes a few tears, as they discover so many amazing countries, cultures, and experiences on their journey around the world.
I’m reading “On the edge” by Richard Hammond (with sections by his wife Mindy). It mainly concerns the horrific crash he had in a jet powered car and his subsequent slow recovery. It’s a fascinating insight into how brain damage affects someone and those around them.
thanks for that! he’s written three cruise books (so far: fourth one is still a work-in-progress) - ‘Around the World…’, ‘A Cornishman goes Cruising’ and ‘A Cornishman Cruises to Venice’.
At one point last month he had all three books in the top 20 Amazon travel section! I was so proud!
Mostly Kindle version sales, admittedly, but that doesn’t matter
Deb you have reason to be proud. I buy all my reading material from Amazon Kindle but I always look at the reviews and if I don’t like the sound of them I don’t get the book although I am a great on for the freebies.
I am trying to finish a novel and I know I would be so proud that so many people had read my words. Good luck with the work in progress.
I shall be looking out for that Grumblewagon, I used to work for the Brain Injury Trust and found brain injury quite amazing as gradually other parts of the brain took over different skills. The whole brain can be re-routed.
I’m just finishing my first Andy McNab book, rather gung ho for me and not a type of book that I’d normally read but it was amongst a batch that I picked up from the charity shop so thought I’d give it a go, probably won’t bother with another though…
I have just finished reading Ann Cleve’s ‘Hidden Depths’ very good if you enjoy the ‘Vera’ series - I do.
Mine was a charity shop find, can’t beat 'em for bargains.
I’m now reading the “Outlander” series of books by Diana Gabaldon, having caught the first episode of the new TV series. They concern a woman who was a nurse on the front line in WWII who goes on a second honeymoon with her husband when the war ends. When in Scotland she is somehow flung back in time to the same area of Scotland, but now the year is 1743.
Thanks, Cookiecate. I’m enjoying the first book so far, and the TV episode was very well done. The executive producer is the guy who produced the recent(ish) series of “Battlestar Galactica”, and he did a great job there. There are another 6 books in the series, so plenty to keep me going.
Just finished I Am Pilgrim which was excellent, and now halfway through The Book Thief. It’s a much-told and simple story but an interesting narrative style!
