Best reads - Club Together Book Club?

I too enjoy Bill Bryson's since of humour and his way of looking at us brits and our island.

Brue I'm listening to Adrian Mole on Radio 4 but just after noon. Bedtime listening is The Archers on iPlayer,  sorry Sounds.

We tend to have audio books or radio 4 programmes iPlayer things like ramblings, open country etc on  as white noise overnight, these days via Bluetooth speaker.

I'm aiming to 'find' the latest Logan McRae books cheaply 😉😉 but in the meantime am read Eric Idle always look on the bright side. Hadn't settled to much reading since OH left hospital but getting back in to it.

Millie

If you have not already read it you might like "Neither Here Nor There" which is a about a trip he did through Europe. 

David

I always enjoy Bill Bryson books. Liked the one he wrote about Australia, Down Under?, and a few set in America. Found he was a bit more downbeat about the UK in Little Dribbling but can't say I blamed him.

A fine champion of Rambling and also Keep Britain Tidy.

"I'm aiming to 'find' the latest Logan McRae books cheaply 😉😉 but in the meantime am read Eric Idle always look on the bright side."

I'll be interested to know what you think of Eric Idle's book. I enjoyed the first half with all the Python references but got a bit irritated by so much blatant name dropping in the second half.

I have a couple of Kindle books stacked up to read but on returning our OS maps from the recent holiday to the library (use them or lose them) I saw a book that took my interest.

1606 William Shakespeare and the Year of Lear by James Shapiro

An account of the Political, social and economic times that existed at the time that WS wrote King Lear, Macbeth and Anthony and Cleopatra and the influences that may have led him to write them. Interesting stuff, early days, but a good book to read in small chunks before sleep.

Got it at the right time then!!

For anyone who enjoyed the rather quirky "Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry" by Rachel Joyce, I've just started the "companion" book "The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennesy". Signs are it's going to equally quirky.

(Picked it up for 50p at Putts Corner having been kindly left by a previous reader! )

Been reading more detective novels - Sally Spencer’s DCI Monica Paniatowski books and Mick Herron’s Slough House spy novels.  Also picked up a book by Michael Jecks which I enjoyed – No Law in the Land, a medieval mystery.  May read more of his when I see them.  Saw Harlan Coben being interviewed briefly this morning on TV so may look out some of his books.  I can only remember reading 1 a long time ago.

I really like Harlan Coben's Myron & Mickey Bolitar series. As with other good series it's best to start at the beginning, in this case Deal Breaker,

For anyone who enjoyed the rather quirky "Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry" by Rachel Joyce,

I see that this book is on offer on Kindle at 99p at the moment, which I guess is a bargain, especially as it appears to be recommended by M, so I've just got it!!