Today I went to visit daughter to "child sit" her younger son while she and M went to Knockhill racing circuit . M had been given a voucher for The Morgan Experience, and daughter wnted to go along too. Before they left they provided lunch of soup and home made bread.
When they returned daughter showed a video of M in the car (unfortunately, unlike television with multiple camera vantage points, she had only the one), but still you could see the speeds that he reached.
Wow!
However, what I want to write about now is the book I have just finished reading.
If you like books about crime that are not romans policiers, if you like dark books, if you like black humour,
May I commend to you Christopher Brookmyre.
He started with a "hero" of Jack Parlabane, then left him and has moved on to several others returning to Jack Parlabane. A recent book had a heroine of a MOP (a member of the public as described by Tom Reynolds), overcoming many odds.
This latest book is called "A Snowball in Hell"
btw, I forgot to mention the quirky titles of all his books.
In the latest book his hero (she is too strong a personality to be called a heroine) is Angelique de Xavier - a welcome return for a feisty black police woman from near Glasgow.
This author holds a very sharp pin and uses it to puncture authorities whose pomposities deserve to be punctured, such as newspaper magnates, NHS managers, big banks and so on.
This book, inter alia, applies the pin to reality television from Big Brother to all its illegitimate spawn.
Do read it, unless you are a relation of Mrs Mary Whitehouse.
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Christopher Brookmyre's books are fabulous. I've not read the new one yet, but I look forward to it!
Please pass the book on to me soonest!
Come and get it!!!!!
There's a queue.....
I don't know his books at all. Must try!
Ooooh, I love black humour. Will jot down the author's name and seek him out (well, perhaps his books at least!)
I don't mind waiting till tbsitw has read it as I have a fair way to go in my current book. Think elder son will want to borrow too - if that's ok? He has read all the other Brookmyres.
Just been for my swim - managed 80 lengths again! Now needing to organise MOT for M's car. A job I hate particularly when I haven't tracked down a trustworthy garage yet :-(
I was just going to say can Douglas have it after you.. but I see there is a queue to join :-)
I gave him a book voucher for his birthday.. mabye he should buy a copy and help you with your queue :-)
Of course elder son may borrow it, my only stipulation is that I MUST have it back!!!!
I haven't heard of this author so will keep an eye out for one of his books - do you have recommendations for a first one to read?
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