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This has a song called “Jump Then Fall”. I believe she’s rather popular on the hit parade.

That Heavy Load is a good album from what I remember. I only ever had the CD but I did see New Kingdom live at Sheffield University supporting a band called Senser back in 1994. Good times.

All that baby goat back, it must be...

I tried but after being in a queue for 6 hours it then put me in a new queue. This actually went down quite quickly, maybe another hour but it was all four of us or none of us and there was only the odd scattered seat left so I passed, didn’t even get to the point of checking prices. Were I a...

August 2024 Revisited Book 52: Stieg Larsson - The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo I was convinced I wouldn't finish this before the month was out because it's quite thick but, I suppose it lives up to the cliched "unputdownable" adjective. I generally really enjoyed it and it certainly was...

I think critics would say New York Trilogy as a debut remains his masterpiece and it certainly sets out his stall as a meta novelist constantly reminding the reader of the existence of the author but, my favourites are definitely Music of Chance and Book of Illusions. I really enjoyed the more...

August 2024 A bumper month with plenty of time on European train journeys followed by a few weeks finishing up the late shift at work allowing me extra time in the mornings to read. Nine completed, I'll be onto the tenth during today's commute but I don't think I'll finish that until next...

July 2024 Book 37: Ali Smith - Summer What an absolutely perfect ending to the perfect quartet. Such good reading - I'd urge anybody who loves good, modern literature to get on board. The subject of Brexit won't be as relevant to much of the international readers but, it really does just...

Haha, just saw this from an Oxfam shop window and thought you’d all appreciate it here:

@simpleKoala this place might appeal.

No, not a speed reader, in fact I think I read quite steady really. I do read every day though and typically 2-3 hours between commuting and spare moments. It's likely to go up for a while too, I'm changing shift tomorrow so I'll have a couple of hours to myself in the morning. Some of it...

June 2024 Book 32: Hernan Diaz - Trust This was a cracker of a book to open the month with. I absolutely loved it. I'd sort of been putting it off because I thought it was going to be a bit dense and heavy going but, conversely I found it to be extremely easy reading and it had me riveted...

Agreed, I read it a few months back and thought it outstanding, creepy as hell.

RIP Donald Sutherland, one of the greats.