| Year | Status | Title | Author | Type | Star Rating (5 Max) | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Reading | A Fabulous Creation – How the LP Saved Our Lives | David Hepworth | Music Journalism | ||
| 2023 | Reading | Otherlands – A World in the Making | Thomas Halliday | Natural History | ||
| 2023 | Read | Cinema Speculation | Quentin Tarantino | Cinema | **** | Pity I couldn’t call up all the movies covered, but amazing how the director thinks. |
| 2023 | Read | Elon Musk – Innovator, Entrepreneur and Visionary | Chris McNab | Biographical | ***** | Fascinating from beginning to end, with some inspiration thrown in. |
| 2023 | Read | The History of the World in Bite-Sized Chunks | Emma Marriott | Historical | *** | Informative. |
| 2023 | Read | The Story of Russia | Orlando Figes | Historical | ***** | A great read, that answers many of the questions around why Russia are in Ukraine. |
| 2023 | Read | A President Like No Other – Donald J. Trump | Conrad Black | Biography/Political | **** | A lot of truthful information the left are afraid to admit. |
| 2023 | On hold | Ulysses | James Joyce | Fiction | ||
| 2022 | Read | We are Bellingcat | Eliot Higgins | War Crime/Social Science | **** | Essential reading. The USA left leaning bias was odd (multiple entries of Trump lost it 5 stars!). |
| 2022 | Read | The Shortest History of Germany | James Hawes | Historical | ***** | Fascinating. There’s a snippet to dispel climate scaremongering. |
| 2022 | Read | The Ascent of Money – A Financial History of the World. | Niall Ferguson | Business and Economic History | **** | Extremely factual – every page. |
| 2022 | Reading | Ball Of Collusion – The Plot to Rig An Election And Destroy A Presidency | Andrew C. McCarthy | Political Investigative Journalism | ||
| 2022 | On Hold | All In It Together – England in the Early 21st Century | Alywn Turner | Political Science and Ideology | ||
| 2022 | Read | Fall – The Mystery of Robert Maxwell | John Preston | Biography | ***** | A page by page eyeopener, with a bit of bias thrown in. |
| 2022 | Read | Madhouse at the End of the Earth | Julian Sanction | Historical | ***** | A captivating read. |
| 2022 | Read | A Cellarful of Noise | Brian Epstein | Autobiographical | *** | Fascinating insight to the Beatles early fame. |
| 2021 | Read | And Away … | Bob Mortimer | Autobiography | *** | We can’t not like Bob. Easy read. Some scary similarities. |
| 2021 | Read | The Power Of Geography | Tim Marshall | GeoPolitical | ***** | Easy reading, full of essential facts. |
| 2021 | Read | Outraged – Why Everyone is Shouting and No One Is Talking. | Ashley ‘Dotty’ Charles | Social Science and Communications | *** | A very topical subject interestingly covered. |
| 2021 | On Hold | Fake Law: The Truth About Justice in an Age of Lies | The Secret Barrister | Journalistic | ||
| 2021 | Read | The Mirror & the Light | Hilary Mantel | Hist. fiction | **** | 3rd part of the Trilogy is a long haul, but still amazing. |
| 2021 | Gave up | Dishonesty is the best Second-Best Policy | David Mitchell | Social Humour | ** | Not all as joyful as expected. |
| 2021 | Read | Summer Crossing | Truman Capote | Fiction | *** | His hidden early works |
| 2021 | Read | So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed | Jon Ronson | Social Science and Journalistic | **** | Great insight into hurt by social media |
| 2021 | Read | The Ratline – The Trail of a Nazi Fugitive | Philippe Sands | Journalistic | ***** | Strong journalism of terrible events |
| 2021 | Read | Has China Won | Kishore Mahbubani | GeoPolitical | * | Useful but heavily biased and repetative |
| 2021 | Read | Jeeves & the King of Clubs | Ben Schott | Fiction | **** | Great homage to PG Woodhouse |
| 2021 | Read | Flash Crash | Liam Vaughan | Journalistic | ***** | Great expose of the stock exchange |
| 2021 | Read | Tall Tales & Wee Stories | Billy Connolly | Autobiographical | *** | Amusing |
| 2021 | Read | One Two Three Four – The Beatles in Time | Craig Brown | Non-fiction | ***** | Facinating facts |
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