What are you reading now?

[muzzer]

Thanks, you are right about the Booker. I have read Lucky Jim a few years ago but I found the Old Devils a lot more rewarding. Any particular one you might recommend?

Mine are packed at the moment but from memory Take A Girl Like You and Jake’s Thing are worth a go.

[Petrushka]

Berlin Diary by William Shirer, a fascinating view of the rise of the Nazis and the beginning of the world war.

I've been meaning to read this book for years and thanks to this reminder I've just bought a copy of a 1941 edition in very good condition (better than described) from an Amazon seller. I got mine from Stephen Boyden Books for £11.74 inc postage. Beware of sellers trying to palm off copies with highlighted text and scribbled notes.

[doversoul1]

Who Owns England?: How We Lost Our Green & Pleasant Land & How to Take It Back
By Guy Shrubsole

[gradus]

Who Owns England?: How We Lost Our Green & Pleasant Land & How to Take It Back
By Guy Shrubsole

Snap.

[richardfinegold]

I've been meaning to read this book for years and thanks to this reminder I've just bought a copy of a 1941 edition in very good condition (better than described) from an Amazon seller. I got mine from Stephen Boyden Books for £11.74 inc postage. Beware of sellers trying to palm off copies with highlighted text and scribbled notes.

I got it for free on Kindle with the Amazon Prime. Hitler has just marched into the Rhineland

[Pulcinella]

War-related reading here, too, as a break from the Booker shortlist.

Jonathan Vance: The true story of The Great Escape, Stalag Luft III, March 1944

My father was a POW in that camp, but he spoke very little about his experiences.

[LMcD]

War-related reading here, too, as a break from the Booker shortlist.

Jonathan Vance: The true story of The Great Escape, Stalag Luft III, March 1944

My father was a POW in that camp, but he spoke very little about his experiences.

One of the most moving moments during our visit to the National Memorial Arboretum last year was coming across a tree planted in memory of one of those shot after the escape.

[Rjw]

I've been meaning to read this book for years and thanks to this reminder I've just bought a copy of a 1941 edition in very good condition (better than described) from an Amazon seller. I got mine from Stephen Boyden Books for £11.74 inc postage. Beware of sellers trying to palm off copies with highlighted text and scribbled notes.

I hope you enjoy it, I certainly did.

[DracoM]

Agent Running on a Field / Le Carre.

[Padraig]

Of interest to readers of The Dead by James Joyce:

https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/l...dead-1.4068361.

This story is also covered more fully by The Observer and The Irish Times.

If time allows, a further 'reading':

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_biTFM83phc

[teamsaint]

The Last Cambridge Spy. Chris Smith.
A biography of John Cairncross , the fifth member of the spy “ring”, apparently.

Bit slow to get going, but at the moment we are at Bletchley during WW2, and he place Cairncross nicely both within the world of Bletchley, and the wider political and espionage worlds.
Espionage is an extraordinarily popular area of publishing, it seems.

[vinteuil]

The Last Cambridge Spy. Chris Smith.
A biography of John Cairncross, the fifth member of the spy “ring”, apparently.

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... I do like the range of his own publshed writings :

New Light on Molière: Tartuffe, Elomire Hypocondre (Librairie Droz, 1956)
Molière bourgeois et libertin (Nizet, 1963)
After Polygamy Was Made a Sin: The Social History of Christian Polygamy (Routledge, 1974)
Things to come: the world food crisis, the way out (Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations, 1974).
An Approach to Food and Population Planning (Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations, 1978)
Population and Agriculture in the Developing Countries (Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations, 1980).
La Fontaine Fables, And Other Poems (Colin Smythe, 1982)
L'Humanité de Molière (Nizet, 1988)
The Enigma Spy: An Autobiography (Century, 1997)

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[Stanfordian]

War-related reading here, too, as a break from the Booker shortlist.

Jonathan Vance: The true story of The Great Escape, Stalag Luft III, March 1944

My father was a POW in that camp, but he spoke very little about his experiences.

Jonathan F. Vance: 'The true story of The Great Escape, Stalag Luft III, March 1944' Greenhill Books (2019)

This morning I saw brand new copies of this book for £3 at the bookshop TheWorks. Pity mine cost over double that.

[Pulcinella]

Jonathan F. Vance: 'The true story of The Great Escape, Stalag Luft III, March 1944' Greenhill Books (2019)

This morning I saw brand new copies of this book for £3 at the bookshop TheWorks.

My (very good) used copy cost £0.01!
OK: I had to pay £2.80 postage.

[LMcD]

John Humphrys - A Day Like Today