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Read that last year, excellent book

I think Sanchez is actually writing a sequel with the working title "The goalkeepers fear of being paid lots to sit on a bench"

I know there's a few Ben MacIntyre fans on here, new book on Colditz is on BBC sounds https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/series/m001f4wc?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile

Just finished the second Richard Osmon book. Much like the first, good mix of puzzle/murder to solve and some great characters and laughs. Started 23 Things They don't you about capitalism by Ha Joon Chang based on the Radio 4 programmes on his new book Edible Economics

Just finished How Bad Are Bananas? The Carbon Footprint of Everything by Mike Berners-Lee Very interesting, depressing but with some good lessons and ideas

The odd bit is quite sad but the Adam Kay book, This Is Going To Hurt filled that role for me

I got the Craig Brown book based on some great reviews and Shaun Keaveny raving about it. I've almost finished it, not sure what I think. Some of it is very interesting, lots gets lost in technical stuff without really telling you anything and then other bits are things like blaming the Beatles...

I started that last night as, I'd got 70 pages into Ragged Trouser Philanthropist and fancied something a little lighter at the moment

I'm just finishing Prisoners of Geography by Tim Marshall. Very interesting but easy to read guide to Geopolitics and how despite improvements in technology, Geography still plays such a massive impact on economics, trade, politics and war

I've read a few of his and they're very good and easy to read. Bbc4 are showing a few of his docs this week at 9pm- Operation Mincemeat and the Double Agent one

I have just finished The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher by Hilary Mantell. Really don't bother, it's a short story collection seemingly written by 16 year-old GCSE English student trying to be a bit edgy. It's bloody awful

Excellent book. All of his books are fantastic but especially The Quiet American, Heart of the Matter and the Comedians

You migh find it alright. I just got the sense that all of the really interesting stuff was in the front of the book, and they seemed a bit obsessed with the education system but without finding out much of interest too me.

The first two thirds are very interesting. Then it gets very dull, very quickly

I've just finished Hatchet Job by Mark Kermode. Not as good as his previous but still very enjoyable with lots of good anecdotes, and stories about film-making and a good piece about what film criticism is nowadays

Yeah, Kitchen Confidential and A Cook's Tour are both superb. In the first he writes about what it's really like to work in a kitchen and about food generally, the other's a travelogue but obviously with focus on food. But he's one of the best non-fiction writers around, bits are like Orwell or...

Medium Raw - Anthony Bourdain One of my favourite writers, enjoyable even if you're not obsessed with food, but amazing if you are