Book recommendations

Just read 'The Bee Keeper from Alleppo' written by Christy Lefteri who worked at refugee centre in Athens and is based on those she met as they passed through and their horror ridden journey to reach the UK.Quite a moving story on a family who had to give up a normal family life which is transformed into a desperate struggle after losing everything and more.
 
northernrower said:
Once you've finished would you be able to update with a recommendation or not for Freezing Order? 😁
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Really enjoyed the book in the end. Follows in same vein as Red notice.

Just bought a book about Mad Vlad recommended by Amazon following Red notice and Freezing order.

Also bought Nazi Billionaires which am about to break in to
 
Prisoners of Geography by Tim Marshall

"Ten maps that tell you everything you need to know about global politics"

£5 at The Works at present. (cheaper than Amazon)

FAO - The Big W - the first chapter is on Russia (about 25 pages) - how it developed as a country, interstingly saying why is so touchy about Crimea (its warm water ports all other Russian ports are completely frozen in the winter) and Ukraine (no geographic features across Northern European plains to stop an invader from the West, as they found out in 1941) so Ukraine is their perceived buffer, the book was written before the recent conflict.
 
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Anyone tried Fiona Erskine’s novels? I’ve been reading The Chemical Detective which is set partially on Teesside. The central character Jaq is certainly interesting. The narrative moves on at a fair lick and the novel is quite the page turner.
 
The Nanny State Made Me by Stuart Maconie. A coruscating dissection of the plague of privatisation during the 80s and 90s and its ill-effects on all of our lives today.
 
Steer said:
If WW2 and real life spy stories grab your interest then pretty much anything by Ben MacIntyre is worth checking out.

I am currently reading A Spy Amongst Friends which is about an MI6 agent who was a spy for the Russians during the whole of WW2 and the cold war era. That seems to tick a few of your boxes.

And I just finished Double Cross, which is about the double agent spies who were trying to deceive the Germans about the D-Day landings.

Both are excellent. Who needs fiction when real life stories are so fascinating?
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Great writer , agent zig zag and the one you mention are in my opinion his best work
 
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