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Bob Mortimer's biography. Good read, quite downbeat in places.

Death in Grimsby

Just about to start reading the Eddie Izzard bio. "Believe me".

"Train kept a rollin' " by Spencer Vignes. Holiday reading finished in two sessions yesterday. The author tracks the link between trains/railways and music using well known and some (to me) unknown songs and artists. As a music fan and unashamed "anorak" I thoroughly enjoyed it and the...

Felix The Station Cat

Just finished reading Wilko Johnson's recent book "My Life". Not your average R'n'R bio, but a good if not necessarily comfortable read covering loss, sadness and the story of his going from a terminal cancer diagnosis to being cured. I notice that the man himself is doing a signing session in...

One recommended on a recent thread - "Up Pompey!" - most amusing despite the team focussed on therein.

Just about to start "Up Pompey" as recommended on this estimable board in the thread about recommended football books.

"Wings on my sleeve" - Autobiography of Eric "Winkle" Brown. The greatest pilot ever (don't think he even needs an "arguably") having flown more different types of plane than anyone. Survived numerous close calls (including being one of only two survivors from a torpedoed ship). I conclude...

Just finished and enjoyed the A303 book, similar in style I felt to A272 ode to a road but without The lavish pictorial/map format. Anyone inspired to do a volume on the A26 & A 27 - Lord B or Rex Cathedra would be my nominees for this task as I am sure they have a book or 2 in them!

Good book the A272 one, written by an Anglophile Dutch Couple!

Thanks - on the strength of this have just ordered it off Amazon (via the link at the top of the page naturally) and, due to a mention in one of the Amazon reviews also "A303 - Highway to the Sun". NSC - it's not just for football.

Just finished the first volume of Danny Baker's bio "Going to sea in a sieve" which I found as funny as everyone else who read seems to think. Many lol moments.

Watching War Films With My Dad - Al Murray (aka the Pub Landlord). A book that is not quite sure what it wants to be - part bio, part musings on war both real and as depicted in the movies. Not the best book I have ever read but I enjoyed it. As one who does get a bit anally retentive about...

Agent Zig zag - Ben MacIntyre One from the D Day book recommendations list. Just started it and already agree with the reviews that state that, if it were fiction, you would dismiss it as being too far fetched.

Coinicidentally I have just started to read his "The People's Songs - The Story Of Modern Britain in 50 songs". which is excellent, as are his other books. Also worth a read are the books from Mark Radcliffe, his D.J. 'ing partner in crime, which include a half decent novel set in the folk...

Great approaching brilliant, imagine today's Premier stars cycling home after training to get their tool bag and returning to fix some broken seats in the stand - he played in the equivalent division but in a very different time! Currently reading "Four Men" by Hillaire Belloc.

"A Man Of No Consequence" by Sussex writer, singer and legend Bob Copper. Final part of his live story which fills in details of his (brief) military service, time with the West Sussex Police and his emergence as a chronicler of a bygone Sussex era that lasted for centuries but is now gone for...

"Misfortune" by Wesley Stace, aka "John Wesley Harding" talented songwriter born in Hastings. Have only just started it. Bizzare plot premise, but then his most recent novel -"By George" has a ventriloquists dummy as one of the key characters who occasionally chips in to the narrative!

Bruce - Peter Ames Carlin. No, not about Britain's most beloved light entertainer (possibly) but about the one from New Jersey that you may have heard of. Long book (p336 and I have just got to the "Tunnel of Love" era), very detailed about his early live and the genesis of the E-Street Band...