What Are You Currently Reading

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Re: What Are You Currently Reading

Postby The Creeping Spleen » Mon Sep 14, 2020 3:58 pm

"Lancaster: The Forging of a Very British Legend" by John Nichol.

From former RAF Tornado pilot turned bestselling author, comes this definitive history of the Avro Lancaster bomber, backbone of WWII RAF Bomber Command.
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Re: What Are You Currently Reading

Postby Henrysix » Tue Sep 15, 2020 5:31 pm

Too highbrow for the likes of me, but I can narrow it down to three publications, the Beano, The Bunty and the Bare Arsed Monthly
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Re: What Are You Currently Reading

Postby banjo » Wed Sep 16, 2020 6:11 pm

the beano is a bit highbrow for me ,the bunty has a darkness to it and the bare arsed monthly is not all its cracked up to be imho. :roll: :roll:
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Re: What Are You Currently Reading

Postby Henrysix » Thu Sep 17, 2020 2:23 pm

Ooh err missus, I don’t know what to say, to be honest gone right off books, never had a Kindle and only listen to Audible that is the way to do it for me, I don’t need glasses to do that............yet!
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Re: What Are You Currently Reading

Postby The Creeping Spleen » Sat Oct 10, 2020 6:59 am

"The Complete Para Handy" by Neil Munro.

I found my late dad's very battered and dogeared old paperback copy while I was looking for something else, haven't read them in years, so that'll keep me in reading matter for a wee while yet. :)

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Re: What Are You Currently Reading

Postby Henrysix » Sat Oct 10, 2020 10:13 am

I’m reading Ginger Geezer by Chris Welch - all about Vivian Stanshall he was the lead singer with the Bonzo Dog Band and best friends with Keith Moon, definitely laugh out loud, amazing, incredible and a totally flawed genius, his music was pretty good too and his voice just wonderful!

And it’s a hard book copy!
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Re: What Are You Currently Reading

Postby Dot » Sun Oct 11, 2020 8:49 am

Kevin Doyle 'To keep a bird singing'.

It's about a missing man who is murdered to protect a high-ranking informer and it is set in Cork.
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Re: What Are You Currently Reading

Postby The Creeping Spleen » Fri Oct 30, 2020 9:09 am

"Sherlock Holmes 1942: A Study in Crimson" by Robert J. Harris.

A literary continuation of the Basil Rathbone/Nigel Bruce movies from the 1940s.

LONDON, 1942: Someone going by the name of "Crimson Jack" is stalking the streets of London, slaughtering women on the exact dates of the infamous Ripper murders of 1888. Has the Ripper somehow returned from the grave? Is Crimson Jack a descendant of the original Jack or merely a madman obsessed with those notorious killings?

In desperation Scotland Yard turn to Sherlock Holmes. Surely he is the one man who can sift fact from legend and track down this ruthless killer before he completes his tally of death. As Holmes and the faithful Watson tread the blacked-out streets of wartime London, death waits just around the corner...
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Re: What Are You Currently Reading

Postby Henrysix » Fri Oct 30, 2020 1:13 pm

Nice one Spleen - Sherlock Holmes, classic stuff but who is YOUR favourite Holmes people, I will limit you to two, I will start with

Basil Rathbone

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Peter Cushing
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Re: What Are You Currently Reading

Postby The Creeping Spleen » Fri Oct 30, 2020 1:37 pm

I grew up watching the Basil Rathbone films - or "Rasil Bathbone" as my dad would refer to him. :)

I absolutely loved the Jeremy Brett TV series.

So I'd say it's a straight tie between those two.
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Re: What Are You Currently Reading

Postby The Creeping Spleen » Tue Nov 10, 2020 4:38 pm

Kindle on my phone - the "Fifth Ward" series by Dale Lucas.

A series of dark fantasy buddy buddy cop stories set in your typical pseudo Medieval world.

Three books so far "First Watch", "Friendly Fire", and "Good Company".
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Re: What Are You Currently Reading

Postby Henrysix » Wed Nov 11, 2020 6:09 am

A Little Knowledge is a Dangerous Thing by John Sutton, a warts and all bio on prof footballer manager from the 80s
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Re: What Are You Currently Reading

Postby The Creeping Spleen » Wed Nov 25, 2020 6:43 pm

Kindle on the phone, the "Chronicles of an Imperial Legionary Officer" series by Marc Alan Edelhelt.

A fantasy mashup of Bernard Cornwell's "Richard Sharpe" novels, and Anthony Riches "Empire" series.

Comprising of "Stiger's Tigers", "The Tiger", "The Tiger's Fate", "The Tiger's Time", and "The Tiger's Wrath".

Centring on a Roman Legion type army, but with European military ranks - Sergeant and Corporal rather than Decanus, Captain instead of Centurion - in a secondary world setting with elves and dwarves etc.

Rather than being individual stories, these novels tell one continuous story - like a five part TV mini series.
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Re: What Are You Currently Reading

Postby Henrysix » Wed Nov 25, 2020 8:02 pm

Wired to the moon and back it’s a biography of Frank Randle a very risqué vaudevillian, it’s helter skelter paced
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Re: What Are You Currently Reading

Postby The Creeping Spleen » Sat Dec 19, 2020 6:36 pm

Print and paper - "The Baby Thief" by Barbara Raymond.

The incredible and shocking true story of Georgia Tann, a child trafficker who operated the Tennessee Children's Home Society, an adoption agency in Memphis, Tennessee. Tann used the unlicensed home as a front for her black market baby adoption scheme from the 1920s until a state investigation into numerous instances of adoption fraud being perpetrated by her closed the institution in 1950.


Kindle - "The Copper Heart" by Sarah Painter.

Fifth in the "Crow Investigations" series of Urban Fantasy/detective stories.


Comics - "Resident Alien" written by by Peter Hogan, art by Steve Parkhouse.

A shapeshifting alien crash lands on Earth, then poses as a doctor while he awaits a rescue. He is pursued by a government agency and passes his time solving murders and other mysteries.
Think of it as "Twin Peaks" meets "Men in Black".
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