What book are you reading right now?

Fascinating:

Very interesting mix of straight biography and tales of political shenanigans:

The excellent catalogue from the Royal Academy's remarkable Manet exhibition:

An absolutely gripping account of the First Afghan War of the 1830s and 1840s -which ended in Britain's worst military defeat of the 19th Century. The army of the most powerful nation on earth was defeated by a raggle-taggle group of local tribesmen.

It's all in here: incompetence, derring-do, hubris, arrogance, unbelievable courage, violence. Great writing. Bought it after hearing extracts on Radio 4.

Bought this today

A good series of novels. 

Have you read any of Con Iggulden's work?

Graham,

My good lady brought this in from her work(she's a library assistant now), I hadn't heard of him or Con's I'll get her to investigate.

Thanks for posting it. Hopefully I can find it here.

Starting it for the second time. Highly recommended.

Keith Richard's  LIFE ,  interesting tales of learning blues guitar and then forming Rolling Stones.  He has some great observations, I am half way thru, just finished the Altamont fiasco. Got out my 4 early recordings,  they were on the radio so much I never bought their albums, wish I had way back when.

Life was a surprisingly good read for me also. A very honest account of Keith Richards life.

Neat

Great visual and written record (by a fan) of the glory days of New Order on the road in the UK from '81 to '84. Bought back many happy memories - a few familiar faces in there too.

The middle (and in my opinion the best) volume of McCarthy's border trilogy. Reading it for the third time enjoying it even more, knowing that I will get back to it again in the future.

Winky, despite not being a horse person, I think that you will appreciate the writing and its outdoors scenes.

Very highly recommended.

An early version of (ie not Restored Text)

steve

Selection of short stories about life in an imaginary Kibbutz during the 1950s. 

Ah - with details of the 'device' from which Steely Dan took their name.

John.

A murder whodunnit. David Mark in his debut novel, has a beautifully engaging style; putting real people on the page.

John.

Better than the Tate exhibition catalogue IMO.