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Question What are you reading?

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MK Shrimper said:
Went there in Easter and like many English seaside towns, it's hugely in decline.
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Very much like SOS, unfortunately.

Edit Kerry Hudson revisted GY earlier this year and she found the town much improved from when she was a teenager there in the 90's.Whether that will continue to be the case in a place that voted 71% for Brexit remains to be seen.
 
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Just started Michel Houellebcq's Serotonin.The "enfant terrible" of modern French literature doesn't do political correctness but he's still a great writer (even in translation).
 
Half way through Zadie Smith's Grand Union.Her first collection of short stories.Well written but not really my sort of thing, as most of the stories are set in NYC where she lives these days.
 
Currently engrossed in Dominic Sandbrook's massive Who Dares Wins: Britain,1979-1982.Arguably the beginning of the most controversial period in modern British history.Apart from the current situation ,of course. :Winking:
 
Just started Amelia Gentlemen's The Windrush Betrayal: Exposing the Hostile Enviroment.Easily,the most outrageous political scandal of my adult lifetime.
 
Currently enjoying The Man in the Red Coat:Julian Barnes.His take on the Parisan La Belle Epoque.In some ways, it's a pity that such a lifelong francophile hasn't done more to condemn the present Brexit nonsense.His Author's Note certainly makes his opinion clear,however.
 
Well Tangled, and maybe the occasional other visitor to this thread, time for a new one. Our very own Player of the Year 1980/81, Derek Spence, has just published his autobiography 'From the Troubles to the Tower'

It's a cracking read - I helped him with it!

Only out on kindle at the moment, we are just waiting for the publisher link with Amazon for the paperback to come on stream and then we'll launch it fully

And I'll get Derek down to Roots Hall in the New Year for a signing session.

Books by former Shrimpers don't come aroud too often, so I suggest you put this one on your list for Santa.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Troubles-T...e+troubles+to+the+tower&qid=1575931890&sr=8-1
 
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