RESPECT!

 

What I have read recently, or am reading at the moment

• Jill,Philip Larkin. Recommended by Michael Leary of Orange Crate Art  fame. 

A most extraordinay book, not at all what I was expecting, indeed far better than what I was expecting.

• The Anti-Death League, Kingsley Amis.
• My Enemy's Enemy, Kingsley Amis, etc. etc.
• The Life of Kingsley Amis, Zachary Leader

The contrarian in me is drawn towards his books where the comic impulse is less to the fore.

• After the Fall. Being American in The World We've Made. Ben Rhodes. 

If his conversation with the team of Americast is anything to go by, I can look forward to a treat from Barrack Obama's Deputy National Security Adviser.

• The Great Mistake, Jonathan Lee. Sample
• In Memory of Memory, Maria Stepanova. Sample
• Moon Tiger, Penelope Lively. Her masterpiece.
• Perfect Happiness, Penelope Lively. Sample
• Twitter and Tear Gas, Zeynep Tufecki.
• Dutch Girl, Robert Matzen. The early life of Audrey Hepburn. Sample
• An Officer and a Spy, Robert Harris. Sample