Book recommendations

Alex, Thanks for the recommendations. I have read Dead Air, and really liked it. The last 100 pages were gripping. I will investigate the Ben Richards and John Lancaster. Not heard of either before (showing my ignorance there).
Simon

If it's holiday and you don't want to think too hard, Lee Childs' Jack Reacher novels are pulp, tacky, predictable, but great fun and gripping. Love 'em & leave 'em behind.

Mr Phillips is OK, but a bit...desultory compared to Lanchester's preceding (first?) novel 'The Debt to Pleasure'. This is a Nabokovian account of a gastronome of the most baroque variety, who slides into murder and all round nuttiness. One of the best 'unreliable narrator' books I've read...

'Bodies' by Jed Mercurio is the best thing I've read in ages - about a junior doctor and his first experiences in hospital. The sex scenes get a bit dodgy, but the accounts of what happens (or, er, used to happen) to patients is really enthralling. I think he co-wrote 'Cardiac Arrest' - the BBC junior doctor drama that remains Helne Baxendale's best thing ever.

Tim

I can see why Vernon God Little (by DBC Pierre) is rated highly.

I think I understand the point that the author is making but I am finding it a struggle. I am only about ten pages from the end but cannot muster the interest to complete it. I have read another book in the meantime.

I really must complete the thing.

Regards,

Paul.

Mr Phillips has been bought. Couldn't find the Ben Richards but will look in a different shop tomorrow!
Cheers
Simon