Just finished the excellent " The Father of Forensics" by Colin Evans,which was about one of the most famous criminal forensic pathologists of all time Sir Bernard Splisbury,who was involved in all the most famous murder cases of the first 50 years of the 20t.h century,a fascinating read!
http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&sourc...hlqVwpciMMLm_Qg
Have just started "Danger UXB" by James Owen,a history of the Bomb disposal teams during WW2,at the start of the bombing,not one of these brave men were even trained in how to dismantle a bomb! Again,like the Bomber Command,these men have not been recognised with medals or a memorial.
Owen is a brilliant writer,i have already read two of his previous books and can recommend all of them.
http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&sourc...b7HsvJV-a53nLaQ
http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&sourc...chRtq4N-EMezgww
After that i shall be reading "Outpost of occupation" by Barry Turner,which is about the German occupation.
http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&sourc...Nk-u-RzGhfroPdA

Got Stephen King Under the Dome,ready for my sunbed in Menorca

Just sarted to read 'Back from the brink' - the early life etc. of Paul McGrath. He certainly had a tough start to his life.

Just read Yellow Dog by Martin Amis. Not quite terrible, but getting there.

I've also ordered a few new agey, zen books for the summer including:
Screw Work, Let's Play: How to Do What You Love and Get Paid for it
and
59 seconds: Think a Little, Change a Lot

Ive got that on the shelf ready to read, have to be in the mood for a SK book then get hooked, its a biggy though !

Probably the best football book I have read, it's excellent.

Still churning through a selection probably mention on here before. Dissertation and social internet sites have taken precendence.

The Greatest Show on Earth by Richard Dawkins
One about the polar explorer Scott by Sir Ranulph Fiennes is pretty good.
Status Anxiety by some philospher I can't remember right now.

Quite a few others. Need to whittle it down.

Put me back on my bike by William Fotheringham- A biography of Tom Simpson one of Britains cycling greats.

Another bike book i've just read is "Too many bumps on the road" by Ivan Abollokof.

After saying I need to whittle down the reads I have on the go, I just started another one. I went into Waterstones in Bath and came out with five books on Saturday. I have begun The Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks. It is a book on neurology and psychology.

I bought William Golding's Lord of the Flies as an extra post Birthday present for my boy for coming top of his school in his SATS test. Will read that with him in a fortnight when we have a holiday together. Did it at QPH in Chester.

Also got Sylvia Plath's poetry collection called Ariel. A couple of my girl friends have been raving about her and I am beginning to take to it. Very morbid.

I wanted to buy The Kite Runner but they had sold out, so I got A Thousand Splendid Suns instead which is also by Khaled Hossain.

Also a book of short stories "Our Story Begins" by Tobias Wolff. Heard him interviewed on radio, fascinating man, happy to talk about anything openly, even his childhood sexual fantasies over his mother. His writing is well thought of.

So, as usual, more to read than I can possibly get through especially spending too much time on line.

880 pages in just under a week,couldnt put it down-bar a little lame ending perhaps his finest book yet.

Fair play mate thats some going !

The Kite Runner is brilliant. Not read his second book, but I've seen reviews which say it's supposed to be even better!

Good evening 3mm,i know you are in an excited mood at the moment waiting for "The Journey",no it's alright thank you,i don't want it after you,i'd rather read a lined blank exercise book!

... no doubt entitled "All that's good about the Conservative Party!"

...let you in nicely there didn't i?

ooo err matron.

Oh good, just got hold of a copy last night.

Two books on the go ,The White Nile, alan moorehead and Departmental Ditties,Rudyard Kipling.