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Crash - JG Ballard

I have to agree. I love the old stuff.

Yep!

I'm also currently waiting for the postman to deliver:

Day of the Triffids - John Wyndham
When the Tripods Came - John Christopher

And in June, Arthur C Clarke's Childhood's End is being reprinted, so I'll get that one, on recommendation.

will re-read The Lotus Caves - John Christopher, when I can brave the everything that interests me always seems to be in the b****y attic-ladder

Couldn't resist it:
Dennis Lehane: Shutter Island
Andrew Laeddis ...

I remember reading that at school!

Just finished reading "BEHIND THE CURTAIN" given to me by that gentleman and scholar Mr R. Beach
An excellent read with some amazing insights and aperçus which perfectly capture the Zeitgeit and quintessence of football in what was lazily called the Soviet Bloc seperated from the rest of Europe by what famous dypsomaniac W Churchill called "The Iron Curtain . The scale of the skulduggery and shenighans which went on leaves the reader breathless
A great read indeed Many thanks Gazza

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: Guardian School of Journalism (failed)

Just started "The Day of the Triffids"

You probably failed The Granuiad School of Journalism due to a lack of Typos!

I’ve just finished Once in a Lifetime: The Incredible Story of the New York Cosmos by Gavin Newsham and now I’m on Seize The Day by Saul Bellow

I'm reading Occupied City by David Peace (Red Riding Quartet, The Damned United ) at the moment - it's the second part of his Tokyo Trilogy.

Occupied City pieces together the investigation into the 1948 Teikoku Bank massacre, in which a man posing as a doctor from the occupying forces pretended to administer a dysentery vaccine to 16 bank employees, and instead poisoned them with cyanide, killing 12 instantly. Hirasawa Sadamichi was convicted of the killings but many in Japan believe he was innocent.

All the reports on Amazon say it's an experimental text and a difficult read but I'm zipping through it and enjoying it loads. I think the Amazon reviewers have clearly only ever read The Damned United and think that's his usual style - which it is, and isn't.