What are you currently reading?
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The Mapmaker's Eye - David Thompson on the Columbia Plateau (by Jack Nisbet)
An account of David Thompson's explorations of western North America in the late 1700s / early 1800s under the umbrella of the Hudson Bay Company and the North West Company. He was mapping the Columbia Plateau and the Rockies, trying to find an East - West passage to expand the trading empires of the companies, and was also fur trading with the indigenous peoples (First Nations), many peoples of which had not met Europeans before. Members of the First Nations were often taken on as guides or employees on the various exploration trips.
Quite fascinating.
An account of David Thompson's explorations of western North America in the late 1700s / early 1800s under the umbrella of the Hudson Bay Company and the North West Company. He was mapping the Columbia Plateau and the Rockies, trying to find an East - West passage to expand the trading empires of the companies, and was also fur trading with the indigenous peoples (First Nations), many peoples of which had not met Europeans before. Members of the First Nations were often taken on as guides or employees on the various exploration trips.
Quite fascinating.
I'll have a look at this one, sounds interesting.
Fatal Passage is a good book covering the exploits of John Rae, perhaps in a similar vein to this one.
Fatal Passage looks an interesting tale, too. Ta for the heads-up.
Odette: World War Two's Darling Spy by Penny Starns.
True inspiring story about a French lady, Odette Brailly, who joined SOE and worked undercover in France with the Resistance during WW2. Amazing woman: captured, tortured, Concentration Camp; never gave anything away. Survived to testify at the War Crimes Tribunals.
True inspiring story about a French lady, Odette Brailly, who joined SOE and worked undercover in France with the Resistance during WW2. Amazing woman: captured, tortured, Concentration Camp; never gave anything away. Survived to testify at the War Crimes Tribunals.
The Secret Lives of Trebitsch Lincoln, by Bernard Wasserstein.
If it was a novel one would not believe it!
The true story of an adventurer, thief, fraudster, MP, con-man, etc., etc. from his birth in the late 19th to his death in the mid-20th century. What a dude!
If it was a novel one would not believe it!
The true story of an adventurer, thief, fraudster, MP, con-man, etc., etc. from his birth in the late 19th to his death in the mid-20th century. What a dude!
The Future, by Naomi Alderman.
Enjoying it very much. Published in 2023, it seems somewhat prescient and contemporaneous. And I get the feeling that it's set really not much more than a few weeks or months in to the future!
Enjoying it very much. Published in 2023, it seems somewhat prescient and contemporaneous. And I get the feeling that it's set really not much more than a few weeks or months in to the future!
The film of this is on netflix, very good but I haven't read the book so don't know bastardised it became.
Just finished Metro 2033 which deserves all the recognition it has received. There's great world building and a genuine sense of unknown terror while being poignant and philosophical many times too.
At the other end of the scale I've finished Garth Merenghi's Terror Tome which continues very much in the vein of Dark Place as an absurdist parody of 1980s pulp horror. It is gruesome, trashy, bonkers and I laughed a lot.
At the other end of the scale I've finished Garth Merenghi's Terror Tome which continues very much in the vein of Dark Place as an absurdist parody of 1980s pulp horror. It is gruesome, trashy, bonkers and I laughed a lot.
