Books - What are you reading?

Tracked it down, the book is Ulverton by Adam Thorpe. I've bought a copy today.

Signed first?

I hadn't registered the author. Interesting

http://webdoc.sub.gwdg.de/edoc/ia/eese/artic96/hagenau/3_96.html

I've bought one too - I read a bit about it and it sounds fascinating.

props to the British Council ludders. But great shout from you

if there was a line between right and wrong, I snorted it years ago

Very engaging read

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Thanks to @King_Saxlingham for recommending Ben Myers a few pages back, enjoying The Perfect Golden Circle, and on the strength of that I've just ordered The Offing and Pig Iron.

Thoroughly enjoyed The Slough House series, think I'll try one of Mick Herron's stand alone novels soon.

I’m reading Down Cemetery Road at the moment. It took me minute to get into it but it’s really good.

Just smashed Wool, Shift and Dust in under 2 weeks.

Really enjoyed that but my dystopian self needs a bit of a break.

Let me know what they're like. I've got Gallows Pole on the list, but not read it yet. I think BBC have turned it into a series too.

Just finished Great Hatred, The assassination of Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson MP.

Quite a good read on quite an overlooked bit of Uk political history.

I am really struggling with 'Hangover Square'. Not because it's not good, but because its the darkest stuff I have read for... I don't know how long. It's odd that it's affecting me so much given that not much happens, but the bleakness of the protagonist's existence feels almost visceral to me.

Just finished Show me the bodies by Peter Apps.

It's a harrowing read that had me in tears a couple of times.

It's a tough read. Have you read any of his others? I had a binge of them earlier in the year and thought 'The Slaves of Solitude' was the best.

....still reading Ulysses........

Finished The Perfect Golden Circle, definitely one I'll re-read.
I'm about 1/3 of the way through The Offing, very good so far, it's a 'just one more chapter, then I'll turn the light off' book.
I think I'm just gonna hoover up everything he's written. Yep, BBC made Gallows Pole into a mini series, and there's a film of The Offing being made, with Bonham-Carter as the female lead.

Some amazing recommendations in this thread.

Have had lots of travel time recently and been on a bit of an audible binge:
The Guest - Emma Cline. Loved this (including the ending, which not everyone did). In my head she was a younger Willa from Succession

Our wives under the sea - Julia Armfield. Also loved this, horror but not.

This is how you lose the war - El-Mohtar / Gladstone. Definitely worth the internet hype, clever and sparkling

Piranesi - loved this so much and the audible version is read by Chiwetel Ejiofor.

Currently reading Slow Days, Fast Company by Eve Babitz which is meeting my regular need for very Californian reads (See also Cassandra at the Wedding, and a Manual for Cleaning Women - which are very different and very Californian)

Piranesi is a fantastic book, the Radio 4 adaptation read by Samuel Anderson was superb.

Piranesi is superb

Just finished Aurora, by Kim Stanley Robinson.

It was not good. Kinda tropey, the plot judders and lurches, and it just feels badly written.

Finished rereading 'Feet in the Clouds', which is just fantastic.

Anyone interested, happy to pop in the post for free.

I’m 150 odd pages in to The Brothers Karamazov. Only 900 pages to go!

Bit of a weird and specific recommendation request, but I’d like to read books essentially about sugar daddy relationships! I want to read some discourse around the power dynamics, psychology and all that sort of thing.

Google scholar seems like a good place to start.

Or BBC presenter biographies