We need a game of survivor, where's Sean17 (?) when we need him?
Roopy.....
Which reminds me. I'll never forgive you, (MR) for disqualifying me!

Conn Iggulden's novels about both Julius Caesar and Genghis Khan,
All 8 Jason Bourne books (The films are a pale comparison).
All the Jeffery Deaver books about a quadriplegic detective called Lincoln Rhyme (Before the bone collector became a film).
Tolkien end of and again long before it became fasionable to like them.
Dan Brown.

All very easy and such but still good reading none the less.

Well I'm finally back in employment.
Only at Asda Bilton but still I get to work around my kids so jobs a good un.

I've just finished reading all 186 pages of a really really old Agatha Christie novel, "Ten Little Niggers". It's a fantastic read.

That's great news, Just in time for Christmas, again!

Perm this time though
TBH I have been working there covering the extra hours due to the olympics later opening, I didn't mention it as it was only temp work and I kinda got burned mentioning that last christmas.

So books, this is off the top of my head and subject to change.

First up, no surprise, the entire "Martin Beck" series by Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö, crime and a commentary on changing society in Sweden also arguably the birth place of modern European crime writing.

"Shantaram" by Gregory David Roberts gangsters, slums and a love story in Mubai.

"Carter Beats The Devil" by Glen David Gold. Magic, science and romance (stole that bit from Amazon but it's on the money) twists and turns with little cameos from all sorts of characters.

Cheating again here. The entire "Red Riding" quartet by David Peace, sex, death, mass corruption and sizzling writing set agains the back drop of The Yorkshire Ripper.

Bets shoe horn a classic in here, just for show. "The Brothers Karamazov" by Fyodor Dostoevsky arguably one of the greatest books ever written, and attempt to understand everything about life. I was a bit obsessed with Russian literature when I read this and it just blew me away. That must have been over twenty years ago. Time to dust of it's jacket.

I really liked Stig Larssons Millenium Trilogy, only read it recently.

Labrynth - Kate Mosse
Chocolat & Five Quarters of the Orange - Joanne Harris
Anything & everything by Phillipa Gregory
The Lovely Bones - Alice Seabold
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden

I've enjoyed a couple of Dan Browns but I find them quite samey.

50 shades of Gray. There - I said it.

Ha.
I've not read it, one of my friends offered me her copy but I declined for obvious reasons.

Carter beats the Devil is pretty good. Of Dostoevsky's I really liked Crime and Punishment and The Devils, but only got about a quarter of the way into The Idiot. Never read The Brothers Karamazov - one day. I can't wait to retire.

Good to see LRR making sure female authors get a shout. I hardly ever read novels by women - histories and biographies, but not novels. Not proud of it - lack of emotional intelligence most likely. And tbf, I do get to hear the (or rather 'a') feminine viewpoint in exhaustive detail on any number of issues each day. She didn't see the fuss with Fifty Shades - Jilly Cooper/Jackie Collins for the 21st century, she reckoned.