Knitting on the Green

... and many happy returns.  65 today, and just getting better and better.

The secret race: inside the hidden world of the Tour de France; doping, cover-ups and winning at all costs , by Tyler Hamilton and Daniel Co...

The persuader , by Lee Child [audiobook]. Read by Dick Hill.  [S.l.]: Soundings, [n.d.] Walking through Boston in search of a bar one nigh...

Spider light , by Sarah Rayne [audiobook]. Read by Diana Bishop. [S.l].: Oakhill, 2005. Like the previous book by this author, there are l...

Written in blood: the remarkable caseboook of one of Britain's top forensic scientists, by Mike Silverman with Tony Thompson. London: Ba...

The death chamber, by Sarah Rayne [audiobook]. Read by Diana Bishop. Bath: Oakhill, 2008. Georgina Grey has inherited her great-grandfathe...

And now the shipping forecast: a tide of history around our shores, by Peter Jefferson. Cambridge: UIT Cambridge, 2011. This is a whimsica...

The teleportation accident, by Ned Beauman. London: Sceptre, 2012. Egon Loeser, an experimental set designer in early 1930s Berlin, is try...

Howard's End is on the landing: a year of reading from home, by Susan Hill. London: Profile, 2009. Susan Hill went searching for a boo...

This boy: a memoir of a childhood , by Alan Johnson. London: Bantam, 2013. This could so very easily be a misery memoir. Alan Johnson desc...

One for the books, by Joe Queenan. New York: Penguin, 2012. Joe Queenan is an inveterate reader, and has quite definite opinions on readin...

So, I went on PodRetreat in February, and I have photos; but striking while the iron is still reasonably luke-warm, this was last Friday...

Lost river, by Stephen Booth. London: Harper, 2011. On May Bank Holiday afternoon, Ben Cooper pulls a dead child from a river; the inciden...

A land more kind than home , by Wiley Cash [audiobook]. Read by Lorna Raver, Mark Bramhall and Nick Sullivan. Rearsby, Leics.: Clipper, 2012...

Sycamore Row , by John Grisham. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 2013. This is a (very belated) sequel to A time to kill , which was made int...

Dancing with the Virgins, by Stephen Booth. London: HarperCollins, 2001. The stone circle known as the Nine Virgins has stood on the Derby...

St Brigid's Day, and while I'm not sure posting a poem is still an internet Thing, I had a Collected Robert Frost for Christmas, and...

Refusal, by Felix Francis. London: Michael Joseph, 2013. Another extremely good book by Felix Francis; as Francis finds his stride, he...

Round up of the last few books of last year.  Not quite as many as last year, but I seem to have had a lot of audiobooks I rejected halfway ...

Black diamond, by Martin Walker.   London: Quercus, 2010. An Inspector Bruno novel.  In this one, Périgord's most prized product, the ...