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Diogenes
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I have story books coming out of my ears; this is an Audible purchase to go in my ears. :-)

Anyway, as you'll recall, I'm hoping for a serendipitous discovery in our internet-free holiday home :-)
DazTheSlug
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NE - I'll be reading Tropic Of Ruislip within the next few months! I have a lovely hardback sat patiently on my shelf...

Dio - I'm about to read something "long but not too taxing" - Harry Potter & The Goblet Of Fire
Sharkie
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My most gripping ever find (in work colleague's holiday home south of Biarritz in 2005) was Archangel by Robert Harris, a plot king I'd never read before.

I subsequently read a few others of his, though one of the most famous - Enigma - is 30 pages in, on the to be continued pile along with Milkman, Circe, Games of Thrones, Springsteen's* auto bio, The Lie (Helen Dunmore) and one or two others I can't rightly recall.

* not partic a fan but he can write.
Night-owl
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Apologies to change the subject 😘

Picked up Northanger abbey from library just now
Sharkie
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Oops The Game of Thrones is the first book, I wanted to see what all the fuss is about. Very readable ... but I got fed up with it and started skipping. This is a common theme with me and books.

Am slightly rubbish reader!
DazTheSlug
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I was also going to mention Robert Harris' "Fatherland"
Sharkie
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I duly note that Sci Fi, with a side order of magic realism and fantasy is deffo the genre of choice for the Fetch Book Club massive.
McGoohan
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A word of caution Dio: I stopped listening to an audiobook of Geoff Dyer as I hated it so much. Started again on the physical book and loved it.
Diogenes
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I'd disagree on the Sci-Fi/magic realism/fantasy genre-lisation, or is it just that I have ignored most of those?

Anyone read C J Sansom?
Badger
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Yes. Wonderful writer.

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Welcome to Season Eight

March 2025 (Night-owl)
One Grand Summer (Ewald Arenz, trans. Rachel Ward)
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