Read any good books lately.

William Boyd is a great storyteller
Also Kate Atkinson

thanks isle -will have a look - appreciated

just finished reading The Fury by Alex Michaelides- pretty good with loads of twits and an unusal appoach . well worth the read.

Ive just ordered his first book The Silent Patient which has really good reviews

I've recently finished the Bernard Samson series of novels by Len Deighton. They are set in Berlin during the cold war and there are nine books in all starting with "Berlin Game". There is a tenth called "Winter" set at the beginning of the 20th Century which takes you through WW1 and the interwar years to the fall of Berlin in 1945. It is background to the later series and is arguably one of Deighton's best novels.

If you like little cameos rather than long novels try "Biggles, The Camels are coming". by Captain W.E.Johns.
They are not really kids' books and give you a flavour of the attitudes of the times (WW1 flying corps).

thanks foin

Where The Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens is the best book I have read in many years. Forget the film version it does it no justice. A must read imho.

The Dry by Jane Harper is another really good read.

Buy them both Dragon and enjoy.

I just read a brilliant book
Working over by
It’s about Donegal emigrants to Scotland
I think it’s available online but I prefer the actual book

Vine Street by Dominic Nolan - war-time, London-set crime novel

Prophet Song by Paul Lynch - gritty refugee crisis in Ireland

Set My Heart to Five - Stimon Stephenson - whimsical alt-future of an android that gains a conscience, has more humanity in it than all of Asia



And just started Everybody Loves Our Dollars by Oliver Bullough if non-fiction is your thing. A report of the global money laundering industry. Very good so far. The author has done his work on this.

Vincent Price : A Daughters Biography is an excellent read Dragon, nearly 600 pages long (including 30 pages of photos) but full of interesting stuff about a fascinating man who was much more than just a fine actor.   

If you want a light hearted autobiography then John Cooper Clarke's "i wanna be yours" is hard to beat, the Bard Of Salford is on fine form throughout.

Or you could try a number of books detailing the exploits of my famous namesake

Need to check that one out Malay. Donegal to Scotland was my nan's route over here.

I’m sure it’s online mate but I have the book no cost on my book
Donegal Heritage centre

Very best wishes to The Dragon. I recently read Neptune's Fortune by Julian Sancton. Really great read. It's about shipwreck and the Ghost of the Spanish Empire. There is a bit of everything in it most interesting read.

One of my regrets, not reading enough books, just getting round to it!! still got Keane's second bio to finish off, been sat there about 10 years

My regret is giving people a lend of books and not getting them back, 95 %are all fitba, horses and greyhounds, not saying they would be worth loads of money, but it would be good to have them, f knows we’re they are.

I read a lot ....Currently re reading (3rd time ) the Robert B Parker Spenser series and am up to book 18 . Boston Private eye with black sidekick (Hawk) and delectable jewish other half (Susan ) . Then I will do the other authors whose series I own ...Tom Wood , Michael Connoly , John Connely (last 2 crap) , Daniel Siva , Scott Turrow , Don Winslow , Grisham , Greg Hurwitz , Robert Crais , Steve Cavanagh , Stephen Hunter and Mike Lawson , there are one or two others . For my sins I only read American novels .

A non-American private eye series that might interest you is the Bernie Gunter series of novels by Scottish born author Philip Kerr. They are set in Germany in the 1930s, are well written with good plots and lots of action. The first in the series is called "March Violets".

Steppenwolf best book you could ever read.

The history of superglue

Couldn’t put it down

Library of the Dead/Book of Souls/Keepers of the Library - A Glenn Cooper trilogy (Fantasy/Fiction in order).

Not a massive reader myself, but I do occasionally indulge and found myself reading all 3 of these after receiving the first book from Sis

My first ever adult read, after finishing most of the 'Famous Five' books my schoolteacher aunt used to buy me for birthdays etc (good idea in hindsight) was 'The Devils Alternative' (Frederick Forsyth). Thoroughly enjoyed that one, as I did with his collection off short stories book 'No Comebacks' which I also read in hospital.

'No Comebacks' would probably be the better recommendation if you're looking for quick reads.

On the back of the above post I have just purchased another of his short-story books 'The Veteran' - haven't read that one yet

thanks for the suggesstions guys - plenty to be going on with there.

just finished Silent Patient - very good - plenty of twists and well written

I think I’m a bit more lowbrow than most on here but I enjoy all the Jack Reacher books and most of Harlan Coben’s. Only ever read on holiday these days but can get through three or four in a fortnight.

They old racing gambling books were good, Nick Morden Allan Potts

Nice one Crisp, have you read the book about the index finger? It's a real page turner.

I’m reading the Neverending Story. Great book but can’t seem to finish it.

I have a book on rock climbing, it's a cliff-hanger from start to finish.