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McGoohan Feb 2020 1:41pm, 26 Feb 2020 43,534 posts	Quote Pin McGoohan Officially worried about the next Deathmatch now
GregP Feb 2020 1:45pm, 26 Feb 2020 118,144 posts	Quote Pin GregP Ulysses S. Grant would probably come third. Does that help?
McGoohan Feb 2020 1:47pm, 26 Feb 2020 43,535 posts	Quote Pin McGoohan There are going to be so many shrews and crap US towns. So very many.
LazyDaisy Feb 2020 3:17pm, 26 Feb 2020 29,342 posts	Quote Pin LazyDaisy I finally finished the R F Delderfield, To Serve Them All My Days. (Well, it is nearly 700 pages and I only read at bedtime). It's well written and insightful (his travails with an appalling Head rang many bells) and had a lot of relevance to the present day. One bit that made me give a sad smile was one of the sixth-formers saying how much better it was, in the early years of the Second World War, to be standing alone as 'Allies muddy the waters and it's best for our nation to stand alone' (I paraphrase.) Do you think Boris read this at an impressionable age when he was holed up on Exmoor? Anyway, I'd give it a good 4.5/5. He's just out of fashion, I suppose.
Diogenes Feb 2020 3:21pm, 26 Feb 2020 45,420 posts	Quote Pin Diogenes I totally agree, LD, he is a much-neglected novelist.
LindsD Feb 2020 3:27pm, 26 Feb 2020 33,558 posts	Quote Pin LindsD Maybe I'll try him again. I've just started an Anne Tyler my mother gave me. I like it, but can't remember the name. I will review SH when I'm not at work and not on my phone
Diogenes Feb 2020 3:39pm, 26 Feb 2020 45,421 posts	Quote Pin Diogenes A Spool of Blue Thread?
LindsD Feb 2020 4:30pm, 26 Feb 2020 33,563 posts	Quote Pin LindsD Nope. Hold on, I'll make more effort
LindsD Feb 2020 4:32pm, 26 Feb 2020 33,564 posts	Quote Pin LindsD Ladder of Years
Diogenes Feb 2020 4:40pm, 26 Feb 2020 45,426 posts	Quote Pin Diogenes Ah, ASOBT is one of those books that I always look at but never get.

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Unofficial books, underground discussion, MASSIVE SPOILERS.

Some of the most discussed books include:

Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
(mind-bending mystery with halls and statues)
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The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman (geriatric murder mystery from Britain's tallest comedic brainbox)
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The Salt Path by Raynor Winn
(Memoir of a homeless couple walking the SWCP)
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Milkman by Anna Burns
(Superlative prize-winning fiction)
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The Player Of Games by Iain M. Banks (Sci-Fi)
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The Watchmaker of Filigree Street by Natasha Pulley (weird steampunk)
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