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I've just started Stephen Baxter's "Massacre of Mankind". It's billed as the sequel to HG Wells' War of the Worlds (approved by the Wells estate). So I went back and read that again. I read all those HG Wells books when I was much younger but I'd forgotten just how good they were and what a vivid imagination he had writing in the latter part of the 19th century. I'm really looking forward to this follow up!

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We were in a bookshop in Bakewell recently and the owner told us that she had overheard a conversation between 2 customers. One enquired of the other if she had a recommendation for her nephew who was staying with her. The enquired of one replied that she thought "Blott on the Landscape" to be perfect for him. Are you sure, asked the aunt, as the nephew is only 8y.o.? Oh yes, said the other, he probably knows all the swear words by now and it will make him laugh!

So there you have it, Tom Sharp is recommended reading for the under 10 year olds.

I think I have read most of Tom Sharp's books and thought them really amusing. Funny thing was I loaned one to a colleague and he just didn't get them! Just shows I have a weird sense of humour!!!

Currently reading Ken Clarke's "Kind of Blue" not funny but surprisingly informative.

David

I've successfully got through my political memoir phase with no ill effects! I'm now reading Lakeland, A Personal Journey by Hunter Davies, an attractive looking book with illustrations and an entertaining read if you like the Lake District.

Just finished the latest Philip Kerr book starring his anti-Nazi German cop from the 1930's, Bernie Gunther. Another well researched book that combines historical characters from the era with a credible story line. Well let's face it, you couldn't make up what really went on in that decade! It's called Prussian Blue if anyone is interested.

Waiting on the library to contact me with the latest travelogue from Stuart Macconie. I like his dry wit and power of observation. He's completed the march that the Jarrow Boys went on as it's a big anniversary of it. If you've not read any of his books then I can recommend them, Pies and Prejudice being a particular favourite

I've just started reading Sam Bourne's latest novel "To Kill The President".

It's about a group of US government officials grappling with the problem of how to deal with the election of a maverick US president who has a track record of groping female officials and firing anyone who doesn't agree with him and seems intent on launching a nuclear attack on North Korea.

It's quite an entertaining read, but I do think the story line's a bit far fetched - I mean, it just couldn't possibly happen in real life, could it?!! 

Oh please don't martyr him! I find ridicule a more effective weapon than murder, albeit not as permanent.

Some of my favourites

C J Sansom - Shardlake series as already mentioned

Susanna Gregory -  Two series

- Matthew Bartholomew, 14th Century Cambridge teacher of medicine and detective.

- Thomas Challoner, Detective and Spy in Charles II restoration England.

Rory Clements - John Shakespeare series set in Elizabethan England, teacher and spy for Walsingham and fictional brother of William Shakespeare..

Kerry Greenwood -  Phryne Fisher series of detective novels, set in 1920's Australia, rich socialite and PI. More lighthearted than the ones above.

And I am reading at the moment George RR Martin's A Storm of Swords Vol 1 Steel and Snow, not a sequel to his A Song of Ice and Fire (Game of Thrones) but an overlap, same characters though. 

Just coming to the end of Stuart MaConie's book "Long Road from Jarrow". Very entertaining but I do wish the proof readers would do their job properly. There are 2 very glaring errors that any pr should have noticed.