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Room With a View, by E. M. Forster.

Just finished Peter James' Dead Man's Footsteps - No. 4 in the Roy Grace detective series set in Brighton (the TV series features the brilliant John Simm as Grace). Have now started Matthew Kneale's Sweet Thames - his English Passengers being one of my favourite books.

Somerset Maugham - The Moon and Sixpence Last week; Ben Myers - The Offing.

His book The Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet is one of my favourite novels, but this latest is disappointing, and lacks the originality and quirkiness of his earlier novels. By the way, this is not David Mitchell the comedian/TV presenter/quiz-show panelist! The premise of this books is...

Samuel Pepys' Diary

The Patrick Melrose novels (5 of them) by Edward St Aubyn - in lieu of watching the box-set starring Benedict Cumberbatch. In the previously 4 weeks, I'd read J. G. Ballard's 'Super Cannes,' Arthur Koestler's 'Darkness at Noon', and Robert James Waller's 'The Bridges of Madison County'.

Ah, I haven't read Bring Up The Bodies yet - it's on my ever-lengthening 'want to read' list. I will definitely read it fairly soon, in spite of my criticisms of The Mirror and The Light - if nothing else, it's considerably shorter! I would never say to anyone "Don't read a book because I...

Half-way through Hilary Mantel's The Mirror and the Light; nearly 900 pages, a 5½-pages list of characters before its starts, and about 15 of them are called Thomas! I feel about Mantel the same way as I do about Dickens: on the one hand, a brilliant writer with a fantastic way with words, and...

Have read the two Hookie books - very informative and entertaining. He has also been one of my favourite bass guitarists, and along with Simon Gallup, the master of the cool-looking low-slung bass! The other two are also on my 'want to read' list.

Daunting - over 800 pages, starts with a 5-page list of characters, and about 15 of them are called Thomas :mad:

Superb book punk:

'Stoner', by John Williams. Also about to re-read (for a book group) Wilkie Collins' superb 'The Woman in White'.

Glad it's not just me, then:thumbsup:

Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall. Great writing, but difficult because there are so many characters (even though she 'helpfully' lists them at the beginning!). Incidentally, whenever I see a picture of Hilary Mantel, I always think of the front of a Ford Anglia :D

Indeed. Hard to believe this is the same author who wrote one of the best novels ever - Birdsong.

Will finish William Boyd's Ordinary Thunderstorms tonight, and then start Jonathan Frantzen's The Corrections.

:bowdown: Brilliant book; sadly, much of it could have been written today, rather than 100 years ago. Apparently, it was based in Hastings.

Having just finished Keith (Keef) Richards' superb autobiography, am now reading Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary.

Who still buys porn?!! :blush::wink::blush::wink::blush::wink::blush::wink::blush::wink::blush::wink::blush::wink::blush: