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WEMBLEY76 said:
Longshot by Dick Francis.
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Read loads of the Dick Francis Books from the 70’s on when an old boy in our local recommend them to me.

I’ve got a signed book in the same genre written by a friend of mine Joe McNally in collaboration with Richard Pitman, I enjoyed it, if you’d like a read PM me your address and I’ll send it to you.
 
Mark Radcliffe

Crossroads: In Search of the Moments That Changed Music

Really good read. Learned a lot about musical genres that I didn't know much about and very well written, educational laced with humour. And as a bonus, he's a Blue of course.
 
Birds of Prey of the British Isles ...by Brian P Martin.

The book Inc paintings by Alastair Proud..excellent quality, prob 2nd only to Archibald Thorburn, in my opinion the best Natural History artist ever.
 
the absolutely dazzlingly brilliant and ferociously funny*, The Thought Gang by Stockport's own Tibor Fischer

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The Heliconia Series by Brian W. Aldiss.

This is a sci-fi trilogy about life on a planet which is part of a binary sun system. The planet orbits a weakly emitting long-life sun and both of them orbit a massive short-lived sun emitting immense radiation.

The plant-sun pair were captured by the massive sun by orbital ejection - the pair orbit the massive sun in a 10,000 year or so orbit now.

When in proximity to the massive sun, temperatures rise to 120+ degrees Fahrenheit or more at the equator. When at maximal distance to the massive sun, temperatures plumet to below the freezing point point of water on average.

Heliconia might well not appeal to modern audiences... yet I find the trilogy fascinating. It's a slow world-building affair, heavy on character development and world-building.

Give it a try! I think you'll rate the trilogy on par with Dune... it's that good IMO.
 
I have just started Eruption, by Michael Crichton & James Paterson. It is so good that I almost phoned in work sick to continue it. Read far too late last night. It's on general release this Thursday. If you want a thriller, set around volcanoes, with all the depth of a well-established Crichton novel, pick it up.
 
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I have just started Eruption, by Michael Crichton & James Paterson. It is so good that I almost phoned in work sick to continue it. Read far too late last night. It's on general release this Thursday. If you want a thriller, set around volcanoes, with all the depth of a well-established Crichton novel, pick it up.
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Finished. Absolutely brilliant. Definitely a movie to follow. Incredible. Couldn't see the join between Paterson and Crichton.
 
Not updated this all year so here's a list of the books I've read so far in 2024:

Osama by Lavie Tidhar
Seven Demons by Aiden Truhen (aka Nick Harkaway)
Heaven’s River by Dennis E. Taylor
Kicking Back by Nedum Onuoha
The Gameshouse by Claire North
Memory (short story)
Captain Vorpatril’s Alliance
Cryoburn
Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen] all by [[Lois McMaster Bujold
Dead Lions
The List (short story) both by Mick Herron
The Death of the Necromancer by Martha Wells
Speaking from Among the Vaults
The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches both by Alan Bradley
Memory’s Legion by James S. A. Corey
The Game by Micah Richards
The Apocalypse Codex by Charles Stross
Real Tigers
Spook Street both by Mick Herron
 
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