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'You Can Drum But You Can't Hide' is a great title and a great read for anybody with more than a passing interest in the Manchester music scene. To quote from the book's cover blurb: 'Of all the iconic musicians and scenes that emanate from Manchester, Simon Wolstencroft is the one who joins up...

My Shit Life So Far - Frankie Boyle

Good man :thumbsup:

@Beach Hut - do you really have enough spare time to read a book a day? Impressive if you do. Or do you just read the blurb on the cover? 😀

Who isn't a sucker for books based in Brighton town? Mr Amazon just brought me this 400 pager written by Martin Webb, co-founder of the C-Side Leisure Group of local pubs, clubs and restaurants. Did I mention that his co-co-founder sits in my row in the NS, along with his son? Nice lads...

'Scotland - The Story Of A Nation' by Magnus Magnusson. 700 pages. It's slow going. I've only got as far as page 63 and 1047 A.D. At this rate, I suspect I'll probably be reading it for the rest of my life. So... for some light relief I'm revisiting 'Alan Rough - My Story: The Rough And The...

All The Light We Cannot See - Anthony Doerr

Freezing Order by Bill Browder. The true and terrifying story of how the Magnitsky Act came about, and how the author enraged Putin and his criminal cronies by following the money

As promised, just reporting back on GULLHANGER. Sad to say it's aged about as well as 20 year old milk. It's still as trite and shite, annoying and cloying as it was in 2002. All the Falmer For All players of the time get a name-check and it is a sort of half-arsed semi-record of the Double...

Just finished 'The Ruins' that I picked up at BHF shop in London Road for £1.50. Heart sort of sank when I realised it was by Haywards Heath guy Mat Osman, bass player with Suede. To be fair, there's some small patches of decent writing in there. But mostly not. Just about to embark on...

Thought I might try this one next :moo:

Reheated Cabbage by Irvine Welsh

'Ten Thousand Apologies: Fat White Family And The Miracle Of Failure'. Horrible terrible beautiful biography of the deeply dysfunctional 'drug band with a rock problem'. It's engagingly co-written by FWF frontman Lias Saoudi and writer Adelle Stripe. The real miracle is that Lias, Nathan and...

Iceland's Secret - The Untold Story Of The World's Biggest Con by Jared Bibler At the height of the global financial crisis of 2008, Iceland's 3 biggest banks went bust in the space of a week, blowing up the economy of a tiny country with roughly the same population as Brighton and Hove. This...

Just finished re-reading The Great Railway Bazaar: By Train Through Asia by the same author. The past was a different planet in 1975. The Shah of Iran was still sat on his Peacock Throne. The Americans were still in Vietnam. The USSR was still the USSR. Beautifully written and a terrific read

Finally got round to reading White Teeth by Zadie Smith. Mildly entertaining in a two-dimensional kind of way, but in no way worth the hyper-hyped review quotes on the sleeve

Just finished Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart. Harrowing but rewarding. A modern classic

In honour of Le Tour, have decided to revisit this little beauty

Currently revisiting the 700 page monster that is Tom Wolfe's Bonfire Of The Vanities. Was so disgusted by the shallow as f*ck casting of the movie of the same name that I've swerved a re-read for decades. Tho bollox to that shitty movie. The book is an expertly-crafted joy to read

Just finished 'The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall Of Enron' Turns out they were a bit too smart for their own good :lol: