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Read it cover to cover in two sittings last week - flight to Bucharest from Heathrow and the return. Entertaining, funny and unexpectedly moving, though fans of Big Night Out and WILTY will know quite a lot of it already. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Currently reading Up Pohnpei, A Quest to Reclaim the Soul of Football by Paul Watson (not that one). A factual book about a young Englishman who, convinced he can play international football if he just finds a team weak enough, ends up travelling to Micronesia on a whim and coaching a small...

I've read a few of his but not those two - will check them out. I'm on a bit of a non-fiction bender at the moment between stuff I've bought at airports and received for Christmas. Just finished Jon Ronson's "The Psychopath Test" which is BRILLIANT. Pacy, witty and interesting and lays bare...

A new job this year has meant lots of travel and lots of reading on trains. So far in three months I've got all the way through "The 100 Year Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared" which was very funny and highly recommended if you like shaggy dog stories with ridiculous plots...

I must get that. I've got three other Dalrymple books (The Last Mughal, Nine Lives and From the Holy Mountain) and I love his style and, as you say, the amount of research. I am a bit of a non-fiction geek though, particularly history and psychology, Talking of which..... Just finished One...

I've just finished a book with a LOT of local relevance. Breakfast in Brighton by Nigel Richardson. Without giving too much away he's from London but spends a summer down here inspired by a painting with the same name as the book title. I would guess it is set in the late 1990s from some of the...

Started on The Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet by David Mitchell (the novelist, not the smug comedian) on holiday. Left it at my mums house in France by accident. So good I'm going to buy it again so I can carry on straight away,