Sunday

Conversatons on Books...

History's Worst Decisions: An Encyclopedia Idiotica - Stephen Weir
From Adam & Eve to Y2K.

A Treasury of Royal Scandals: The Shocking True Stories History's Wickedest, Weirdest, Most Wanton Kings, Queens, Tsars, Popes, and Emperors - Michael Farquhar
From Nero's nagging mother to Catherine's stable of studs.

The Book of Heroic Failures - Stephen Pile

Harry Potter series

Alexander McCall Smith's No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency Series
Light and cheerful reading about a lady detective in Botswana.

This Can't Be Happening at Mcdonald Hall! - Gordon Korman
Written when the author was 12 years old.

Beware The Fish - Gordon Korman

The Railway Children - Edith Nesbit
Published in 1906. Full transcript on link.


Shopaholic Ties the Knot - Sophie Kinsella

The Earth, My Butt and Other Big Round Things - Carolyn Mackler

The Tesla Legacy - Robert G Barrett
Who was Nikola Tesla?

One Corpse Too Many - Ellis Peters (audio book)
Murder mystery set in 12 Century with monks

Gorky Park - Martin Cruz Smith
From Gorky Park to Chernobyl

Regina's Song - David and Leigh Edwards
Murder Mystery about identical twins

The Language Instinct - Stephen Pinker
On linguistics

The Sacred Balance:
Rediscovering Our Place In Nature - David Suzuki
About the Web of Life

Waxwings - Jonathan Raban
A novel which "
tries to capture something of the increasingly impermanent, interconnected and rootless societies we inhabit".

Snow - Orhan Pamuk
‘who in the quest for the melancholic soul of his native city has dicovered new symbols for the clash and interlacing of cultures’.


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