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Then you read very, very fast!

Just out of interest - how many books do you have on the go at any one time? Thats about the 8th or 9th you've listed in the last 10 days or so !!

Theres definitely a theme developing in my reading lately, but I love picking up old baseball books cheap on eBay. This is a fascinating look into all the subtle (and not so subtle) marginal gain methods...OK, cheating...that baseball players have used since the late 1800's to get an advantage...

Fun read. I followed Matt's journey on social media, and it was a pretty epic trip when you consider the size of America....and the fact that major league baseball is played pretty much every day throughout the summer. To do all 30 stadiums in 35 days is a huge achievement. Lots of late nights...

Would love to do something like the author did, and just do a massive road trip, taking in MiLB along the way. Bucket list stuff.

This excellent book is not as much about baseball as about 1980s small town America and the people who, year in and year out, inhabit the little band box stadiums that host the minor leagues. The author decided to live out a fantasy by dumping his day job, outfitting a second hand camper van...

Acclaimed baseball writer Roger Kahn gives us a memoir of his Brooklyn childhood, a recollection of a life in journalism, and a record of personal acquaintance with the greatest ballplayers of several eras - in a career that encompassed writing about sports for the New York Herald Tribune...

Storyteller - Dave Grohl

Great book!

The Satsuma Complex - Bob Mortimer

The Boys of Summer - Roger Kahn. A nostalgic read about Kahns' childhood growing up as a baseball fan in Brooklyn, then a more "interesting" time when he covered them as a journo during the Jackie Robinson years - when racism and segregation was still in full effect in the US. Still quite early...

I love Damien Lewis' books. This is another good 'un to add to the list. A truly remarkable generation that lived and fought through WW2.

My current read - another extraordinary true life story from the the 2nd World War era. The incredible story of the greatest female spy in history, from one of Britain's most acclaimed historians In a quiet English village in 1942, an elegant housewife emerged from her cottage to go on her...

I've enjoyed a few of Moores books...will have to try this one too!

Finished this one a few weeks ago.... And currently reading this one.... Damien Lewis tells of some extraordinary true life stories from the archives of the SAS & SOE in his books, and pulls them all together into a quite remarkable (and sometimes uncomfortable) read. Some of the best...

Riding in the Zone Rouge by Tom Isitt...."Circuit des Champs de Bataille". A remarkable true story of a cycling race that was held (just the once as it was so tough) around the battlefields of WWI just 6 months after the guns ceased firing....organised by a French newspaper which needed...

Brilliant book about the story of how the SAS was formed, with tales from its early days raiding in the deserts of North Africa, & beyond. Thoroughly recommend for those into military history.

In the case of Fignon, he vehemently opposed drug use of any sort all the way through his book, but does admit to one incident during a period of injury and low morale in which he was tempted, had a bad experience with it, and then never did it again. Certainly alluded to others doing it though...