’ The Guvnor’ about Lenny Mclean, ’ The secret race’, Tyler Hamilton, one of Lance Armstrongs domestiques talking about doping in pro cycling and why you had to do it.
chicane:
Baggie:
Now that I’ve totally forgotten all the storylines,I can start again.Aye, old age has its benefits
WWII world war novels, Sven Hassel was a good read as a spotty yoof
Yup,must have read his books half a dozen times…would have loved to met the guy.
Incidentally,did meet an Eastern Front veteran in Germany back in the early eighties,he was in his dotage,so we couldn’t really communicate,but he had a shedload of medals and awards and old photos,apparently had destroyed something like 60 or 70 Russian tanks and lived to tell the tale 
Lee Childs Jack Reacher books are good to read I find them easy reading
Sheila Quigley books are also a good read
Jeffery Deaver Kathryn Dance books are also a good read
Gillian Flynn Gone girl is really good
Invest in a kindle download boos from amazon much cheaper & easier to carry round
Do you know who I am, by Ronnie Pickering, not bad book.
My life so far by Carryfast, it is about 20,000 pages and take a few years to read it.
RDC tales by Dozy, a humourous book.
It covers what overnight gear to pack, how to avoid crashing in to houses.
If you like Stephen Leather, see if you can find some of his earlier works.
The Double Tap
The Long Shot
The Vets
The Chinaman.
All good reads. 
I’d recommend Vulcan 607, by Rowland White. Or First Light, by Geoffrey Wellum.
I don’t read books often, but struggled to put either down.
A little more obscure, but truly mind-boggling, are the Don Juan books by Carlos Castaneda. They chronicle his long-term association with a wizened old Yaqui indian sorcerer in the New Mexico desert. Using peyote buttons (basically mescaline) and other hallucinogenic plants, they vividly describe the opening of doors in the mind to other worlds. Sounds fanciful, but they made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up.
I also recall enjoying all of Doris Stokes` books, which very convincingly describe the spiritual side of human beings, and the after life.
Baggie:
chicane:
Baggie:
Now that I’ve totally forgotten all the storylines,I can start again.Aye, old age has its benefits
WWII world war novels, Sven Hassel was a good read as a spotty yoof
Yup,must have read his books half a dozen times…would have loved to met the guy.
Incidentally,did meet an Eastern Front veteran in Germany back in the early eighties,he was in his dotage,so we couldn’t really communicate,but he had a shedload of medals and awards and old photos,apparently had destroyed something like 60 or 70 Russian tanks and lived to tell the tale
It is considered amongst truth historians that Sven Hassel has never actually existed as a single person. Some VERY serious research has been done into discovering the true identity of the author, but all the paths followed eventually lead to the conclusion that the publishers commissioned ghost writers to continue the theme.
The only person the publishers have ever indicated “may” be the sole author suffers from one major flaw . . . . he has no £money.
The Sven Hassel books are an interesting insight into what WWII might have been like from Wehrmacht soldiers point of view, but they are far from historically accurate.
midlifetrucker:
Peter James. Roy Grace series of police thrillers. Absolutely brilliant. Should be a tv series
Pretty sure I read somewhere they were doing this
Hope so
Im reading my way through Jo Nesbo’s ‘Harry Hole’ detective books, there’s a sequence of about 9 or 10 books & they’re all nice thick books, so they last a while.
DCI Banks by Peter Robinson. Been a tv series but I reckon the books are better.
Don’t like autobiographies, it’s all me me me!
Don’t forget the likes of The Lord of the Rings. Great story very well written and above all it’s LONG.
LJ Ross - Holy Island I found this well written couldn’t put it down there were some twist in it mind
Coffee to Go by Neil Hobbs ( think he is a member on here mind 
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TheBorg:
Baggie:
chicane:
Baggie:
Now that I’ve totally forgotten all the storylines,I can start again.Aye, old age has its benefits
WWII world war novels, Sven Hassel was a good read as a spotty yoof
Yup,must have read his books half a dozen times…would have loved to met the guy.
Incidentally,did meet an Eastern Front veteran in Germany back in the early eighties,he was in his dotage,so we couldn’t really communicate,but he had a shedload of medals and awards and old photos,apparently had destroyed something like 60 or 70 Russian tanks and lived to tell the taleIt is considered amongst truth historians that Sven Hassel has never actually existed as a single person. Some VERY serious research has been done into discovering the true identity of the author, but all the paths followed eventually lead to the conclusion that the publishers commissioned ghost writers to continue the theme.
The only person the publishers have ever indicated “may” be the sole author suffers from one major flaw . . . . he has no £money.
The Sven Hassel books are an interesting insight into what WWII might have been like from Wehrmacht soldiers point of view, but they are far from historically accurate.
Disappointing if what you say is true,but I can understand where the sceptics are coming from.
Nevertheless,a rollicking good read
I purchased Jimmy whites ( snooker player) autobiography last week in home bargains…99p in hardback
Irvine welsh’s latest one, “A decent ride” is excellent.
john Grisham, any book by him will have you hooked. brill.
Warrior of Rome series is one to get your teeth sunk into.
Eric Myers “devils guard” books are also interesting about Former SS soldiers fighting for French Foreign Legion against Vietnam.
Anthony Beevor’s Stalingrad, Berlin: Downfall 1945 and Ardennes: Battle of the Bulge 1944 are all fantastic accounts of the battles.
Also give a nod to Chris Ryans anthology and the Sharpe Series as well.
Bill Bryson
An American travel writer who has a written a number of books having lived in the UK for many years. Brilliant, funny and keeps you hooked until the last page.
My step son bought me my first BB for my birthday, now I have most of his. He mentions Paul Theroux in a few of his books who has also written about travel but Bryson’s are lighter and easier to read than his and most others.
Most of Bryson’s available on Kindle. Incidentally, if you do have a Kindle most of the classic stuff like Dickens etc is free on there.
Quite a lot of authors on there have cheaper first books to tempt you in. The “Spider Shepherd” thriller books by Stephen Leather are also good, as are the “Jack Reacher” series by Lee Child.
The “Richard Bolitho” books of Alexander Kent/Douglas Reeman are also good - bit of a military/history theme going on 
My absolute all time favourite is “Spy-catcher” by Lt. Col Oreste Pinto. A wartime counter intelligence expert based in London, his job was to flush out german spies from the UK during the war, a job he excelled at. The reason I like this book is the fascinating detail he goes into. For example a suspect would claim he was based at a certain hotel in a random city in Europe, Pinto would then ask on which floor the mens smoking room for instance was on. He would then ask the same question days later, and reveal that that hotel didn’t even have one (he just knew all this stuff). He would then ask this farm labourer to turn his palms over to reveal well manicured hands - etc etc. A brilliant mind who I’m not selling properly - you really need to read the book.
George Orwell "Down and out in Paris and London " is a good one though the author doesn’t come across as particularly likeable, the stuff he writes about restaurant kitchens has to be read to be believed…