Could anyone recommend books to read during November and December lay off?

[VoxPop]

Just finished Bob Mortimer’s Autobiography. Most amusing.

Especially the session he went to on heart rehabilitation !

 

[Liveanddangerous]

Anything by Steve Wraith?

 

[Unlucky Black Cat]

Agent Zigzag by Ben Macintyre. An incredible true WWII story, in which the protagonist is actually from the Northeast of England.

I was going to recommend that. It's one of the best books I've ever read - and, as 87 said, he was from up here.

 

[Snaggles01]

Football is apparently disappearing down a non-celestial black hole the last 2 months of the year.
A good opportunity to catch up on reading. Any suggestions of book titles to fill the void?

1984 Orwell

 

[CEF]

.. Stephen King 'Dark Tower' Series. The first one 'The Gun Slinger" is the only book that has ever had me gripped by the second page .. Also 'The Black Company' series by Glen Cook ..

.. You'd have to be some boy to finish them before the footy starts again mind ..

You read the full series?
Love how loads of his other books link in with it.

 

[Wayne The Punk]

You read the full series?
Love how loads of his other books link in with it.

A lot of his characters crop up in his other books

 

[eddtheduck]

“Swimming the English Channel”

by Francis Near

 

[Onslow]

Mentioned it a couple of times on here, if it’s a subject which remotely interests you, give Bore Hole by Joey Mellen a try.

The bloke trepanned himself in an attempt to replicate the high of LSD on a permanent basis. Excellent read.

 

[joebolton]

The Far Corner by Harry Pearson I really enjoyed . So I would recommend it.
Plus a Stephen King book years ago, had loads of short stories. The Shawshank Redemption was one of them.

 

[CEF]

A lot of his characters crop up in his other books

Clever stuff

 

[faith brothers]

Books on Boxing by Donald Mcrae especially the one on Emille Griffiths.

 

[Wayne The Punk]

Clever stuff

Very clever bloke, I did a presentation on him after a media course Highlighting how his earlier novels were based on Classic stories, Salems Lot Dracula, Silver Bullet Werewolves, , and a tenuous link into Pet Semetary and Frankenstein, life from death. Nowt special, about 100 years ago learning how to do presentations

 

[Bristol City]

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[Dundas street kid]

“Swimming the English Channel”

by Francis Near

Surely that's by Francis Afar

 

[andyj73]

You read the full series?
Love how loads of his other books link in with it.

.. Yes. Was the first time I had read anything like that. Might get back round to reading it again one day..

 

[CEF]

.. Yes. Was the first time I had read anything like that. Might get back round to reading it again one day..

I've read the first 3, but at the same time trying to read some of the other books with strong links to the story (found a list online which gave a recommended order to read them in).

 

[WillInSpain]

Just finished Bob Mortimer’s Autobiography. Most amusing.

I thought it was more of a self help book for him.
A good read, funny at times and definitely relatable coming from the North East and a similar age.
The game of shit on a stick made me laugh out loud.
I still think Ozzy is the best biography Ive ever read.

 

[jarramackem]

I thought it was more of a self help book for him.
A good read, funny at times and definitely relatable coming from the North East and a similar age.
The game of shit on a stick made me laugh out loud.
I still think Ozzy is the best biography Ive ever read.

I’m using the term “better an empty house than an unruly tenant “ already

 

[andyj73]

I've read the first 3, but at the same time trying to read some of the other books with strong links to the story (found a list online which gave a recommended order to read them in).

.. I get them second hand off my brother in law these days. Last one I read was Billy Summers .. Quite a few I am yet to read ..

 

[ShieldsBlackCat2015]

Is there any books on how to fill up one’s glass to half way? Any books on how to put a positive spin in every situation so that one can see the good in a particular situation rather than the bad? I’d love to know if theirs a book available that teaches you how to fall in shit and come up acting like you have fallen in a bed of roses.

It exists. It seems everyone has read it cover to cover hundred’s of times.