Sounds interesting, Rebbonk.

I've just reviewed, Folland Gnat: Red Arrow and Cold War Fighter - Ray Deacon.

It brought back many memories and answered a few questions the ex-apprentices had been debating.

If you have even a passing interest in the Gnat, I seriously recommend it.

I've been reading a lot of folk horror recently: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folk_horror

I'm currently reading Devil's Fire by Jeffrey R Cox for review purposes.

Shame I lost a few notes when my computer crashed, but I'll get back on track

I recently bought book at a church bring and buy sale. 50p.
It is by George Orwell, I think it must be the first book he wrote when he was 'Down and out in Paris and London.' thats the title of the
book. Written in 1930's.
A great read.

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I'm currently reviewing Rearming The RAF for The Second World War by Adrian Phillips. So far it seems readable and interesting.

Incidentally, earlier this week I gave over £500 (retail) worth of books (read once for review purposes) to a charity collection. - The poor guy could hardly walk down the path with them! Unfortunately, none of my personal connections reads. On the bright side, I now have a little space for some more books.

I am presently reading Dr Kissinger's 'On China'.
It is an utterly first class book, quite un-put-downable. I shouldn't really laugh, but there are some amusing bits in it, (perhaps intentional because Kissinger has a dry, caustic wit). One of the British envoys at the time of the Opium Wars was called by a name which translates in Mandarin as 'laboriously vile." A Chinese Emperor called Britain a "a remote island, filled with red-headed barbarians" and noted that they all wear funny trousers. Palmerston said he didn't want Hong Kong because there was nothing there, "there's not a single house standing there."

Thanks Rebbonk. I'll look it up at some point.

If you have an e-reader, Lex you can get it for free. ( https://b-ok.cc/ ) - You can get rather a lot free there!

That sounds interesting, Rebbonk.

That's fair enough, Lex, we're all different. I've just written a 'stinking' review of a book and the administrator apologised for sending it to me. She was kind enough to send me another as a consolation gift!

I'm currently re-reading 13 against the Bank a true story of a group that took on the casinos and won.

I'm most of the way through the 3rd book in the series - very compulsive reading.

I had a read of 'Checking Out', Rebbonk. I enjoyed it, but wasn't quite my thing.

I'll let you know when I've read it - got a couple of others to get through 1st.

I had a very early copy of that, I really enjoyed it and laughed quite a lot. I look forward to hearing your views.

'Checking Out'. Looks like it's the 1st of his 'lad-lit' series. Thought I'd give it a go & see what it's like.