Best reads - Club Together Book Club?

I like the full unabridged versions of audiobooks, and the narrator has to be good. I have all the Wolf Hall trilogy on audio. I listen to them overnight, it’s my sleep therapy. Plus I like to sit in sunshine on our garden swing and let someone read to me, very relaxing. Our library used to do audio downloads on loan. No idea why, but they never disappeared off our devices, so I have quite a few audio books for free.

I have all the Game of Thrones as well. Good on audio, but I don’t think I would enjoy reading them to be honest. The person who narrates them, Roy Dotrice, now holds the World Record for the widest voicing of characters on audio. Sadly he died last year, a good age. (Father of Michelle Dotrice) His last acting role was in GOT. He played the Pyromancer, who makes all the Wildfire bombs Tyrion uses at the Battle of Blackwater Bay! 

I've just finished the first book in the "Dark Yorkshire" series by J M Dalgleish. Another detective series, this one set in and around York. I've been trying to avoid starting yet another series, because at some point they all seem to gel into one, but since we met in York I thought I'd give it a go. And very good it is too - what's better, the box set of books 1 to 3 was on Kindle for 99p!

I am looking forward to reading Hillary Mantel's final Cromwell book, TtDA - when our library closed I was number 31 in the queue for it! 

Something a bit different next - a book called "The Cellist of Sarajevo" - picked it up for nothing in a meighbour's clear out. Looks very interesting. 

Not that I can imagine anyone else reading this but "Practical Transformer Handbook" has been a great book during lockdown. I have now rebuilt an H.T.Coil and my BSA bantam now runs, which it hasn't since December 1962. Now I need " how to make an old bike roadworthy"

That sounds like the sort of publication they'd use for the missing words round on Have I Got News For You! 

Good luck with sorting the bike out. 

I finished the very same Dark Yorkshire book last night, M. There’s a coincidence. Mine was free on Prime Reading. Now I’ll wait for the others to be on offer.

Another series I started recently is David Blake's DI Tanner stories set on the Norfolk Broads. It's great recognising the places featured.

 J M Dalgleish has also a series based in Norfolk, starting with One Lost Soul,  and I've just finished reading that one. Most enjoyable, as good as the York ones, of which I've read the first 4.

I do like a series set around an area that I'm familiar with. I've just started a set of 4 by Roy Chester which is centred somewhere in Lincolnshire I think but the locations are fictitious so it's hard picturing the places.

I noticed that, Nellie. Dalgleish is new to me and I’ll get to the other books eventually.🙂

I suspect my OH would read that from cover to cover!😁

Yesterday’s quick read was a great little Shire pamphlet, all about Britain’s Roman roads. We must have had it decades, as a leave request for SY Fire Service, dated 1990 was in it as a bookmark!😂

I turned to OH, and said Oo, let’s visit Hadrians Wall next, and then reality kicked in.....we ain’t going nowhere for a while yet☹️

I will look up those York detective novels, sound our cup of tea👍

Decided to ditch the Roy Chester series after the first one, although I will go back to it again no doubt, and instead have started on the first of a new series, based around Edinburgh, by a seasoned writer, Ed James, and you can certainly tell the difference compared to RC. The book's Missing and features PC Craig Hunter.

Just read "Happy Old Me" by Hunter Davies, another of his memoir type books now catching up with himself at 82 years of age plus, coping with life on his own. A good quick read, entertaining as usual, forgetful too, I suppose we're all allowed that as we get older.