I was in Paris in1968 and right up to his death, my old man always reckoned I kicked it all off

Anybody like to throw in their comments on my latest novel "Two Seasons". It certainly qualifies as a Northern novel being set in a fictional industrial town 'close' to Leigh, St Helens, Warrington, Widnes and Wigan and unlike all the other books mentioned in this topic, it also has a strong Rugby League background.

Currently reading a REAL BOOK instead of a virtual eBook for a change, bit of a pain in the bum to have to hold the thing open isn't it, it'll never catch on.



ANYWAY - bought it from Oxfam Books in Headingley, possibly the best second hand bookshop I have ever been in and an excellent way to spend a Saturday morning just grazing the bookshelves, I find if I go into somewhere like Waterstones where books are sorted by author then I tend to target certain authors and ignore the rest - browse in a second hand bookshop and you pick up all sorts of stuff.



ANYWAY AGAIN - current book is Bruce Reynolds autobiography, you know, Bruce Reynolds of Great Train Robbery fame, its well written (or well dictated) and as more than two thirds of the book is dedicated to his years before the train robbery its full of detail of London and a petty criminals life in the 1940s through to the early 1960s, a love of classic sports cars, fine tailoring and dining, and driving down to the South of France to throw away ill-gotten gains and plan their next heist - it reads like a novel but its his life story, very good book.

Currently reading Mike Tyson's autobiography





insane

Current 'heavy' reading is [iA Life of Picasso, Vol I[/i by John Richardson, which isn't actually anywhere near as heavy as it sounds – fascinating stuff.



For something lighter, [iRed Square[/i, the third Arkady Renko novel by Martin Cruz Smith, which is enormously entertaining and, as always with Smith, very well written.

Sprawled in bed with a cuppa some milk chocolate digestives and, Manstein : Hitler's Greatest GeneralCould stay here all day but gotta go and sugn on this aftie. Tut!