Best reads - Club Together Book Club?

The Constant Soldier by William Ryan was 1 of the books chosen for me by our library when it re-opened.  I found it well written though not an era I usually read about.  It featured a German soldier towards the end of the second world war.  The author's note at the end about the photographs in the US Holocaust Memorial Museum was not something I knew about.

Decided it was time for a holiday read and chose Finding Freedom by C Durand & O Scobie. Probably not for the discerning or faint hearted, but a long whinging story about the demands put upon the wealthy and privileged and the use of private jets and lots of "close" friends. Oh and a bit of a hoo ha over a tiara...well I've never worn one so it's not something I can sympathise with a lot. (Not totally recommended but thought I'd confess about my low reading standards. ) LOL 🍸🍹

If there is anyone out there besides me and Mrs M who hasn't yet read it "The Tattooist of Auscwitz" is on Kindle Daily Deal at 99p for today only. 

And in a completely different genre, for fans of John Connolly's "Charlie Parker" series there is a new addition "The Dirty South" just out. 👍

Thanks, M, just downloaded it.👍

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I have just finished reading the first two Yorkshire Shepherdess books by Amanda Owen. I watched some if the series on channel 5 and a neighbour lent me the books. I have enjoyed them, their lifestyle is very different,  and she has had some very funny experiences.

Half way through a book about globalisation but this one shows how it isn't a new fangled idea or ethos but was around in the year 1000 AD. Quite a lot of information to take in in one sitting so I tend to read 30 or so pages at a time. Worth a look if anyone interested in history. I'll probably forget 90% of the facts but hopefully the other 10% will be gold nuggets.

The Year 1000 by Valerie Hansen

Have now read The Tattooist but couldn't understand the hype about it, and thought that The Librarian of Auscwitz a much better read.

I’ve just finished “The Darkest Evening “ by Ann Cleeves (a Vera book). A bought it a few weeks ago, and have been holding of starting, as I know there won’t be another for some time. In the end it was staring at from the kitchen bookcase, and I picked it up. Wonderful! I had two goes at guessing the main culprit - both totally wrong.

Highly recommended. 

But what next?

Latest Ian Rankin, or An English Pastoral by our friend James Rebanks?