Have you read the Mick Herron Jackson Lamb/Slough House series? Halfway through the first - Slow Horses - and I'm quite keen. They're about a bunch of MI5 spooks who've all fúcked up and been exiled to a dingy office where they aren't allowed to run cases.
Sounds riveting, BOriginally Posted by Burney
I listened to the first one and... quite enjoyed it, but haven't yet tried any more. ty for the recommendation.
I'm told the second, Dead Lions, is the best.
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No, you’d like them, too, h. Indeed the hero is a grotesque, fat, uncouth man who belches and farts all the time. Just your sort of thing.
Just tried my first ever Thomas Hardy, The Woodlanders, Lord spare me I had to quit after chapter 6 - just couldn't care about any of the characters and the tendency to spend three paragraphs describing a farkin gatepost or summat!
I am currently three quarters the way through A Gentleman in Moscow.Literally **** all has happened so far but I must say it is beautifully written. I can thoroughly recommend it.
It’s a lovely, lovely book.
I was going to bin it after a chapter or two due to the slow pace but then quickly realised that is the genius of it.The demise of manners Sir C
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