Right to the Edge: Sydney to Tokyo By Any Means
By Charley Boorman
Picking up where By Any Means left off in Australia, this is the second stage of Charley’s epic journey. The original idea was to travel from Charley’s home in County Wicklow, Ireland, to Wollongong in Australia using any means of local transport available except commercial airlines. The first leg encompassed 25 countries and covered 20,000 miles. Not content to leave it there, however, Charley returns to take care of unfinished business.
Killing Floor
By Lee Child
Introducing Jack Reacher, the tough, nomadic former military cop who combines the grit of John Rambo with the deductive reasoning of the blunt-talking Andy Dalziel.
Reacher is “just passing through” the insignificant town of Margrave, Georgia, intending to pay tribute to a guitar-playing legend who died decades before. No sooner has he arrived when, as the only stranger in town, he is arrested for murder. Read more
The Lost Symbol
by Dan Brown
Oh, dear. As a big fan of the Da Vinci Code and Angels and Demons, I naturally had high hopes for the third Robert Langdon novel. But in this case I felt myself shaking my head right from the start and it did indeed prove to be a total disappointment. Read more
The Associate
by John Grisham
Having been disappointed by the last couple of Grisham books, I found this one to be much more in the traditional Grisham style and reminiscent of The Firm. Read more
Cell
by Stephen King
An original and clever idea from a writer who I only recently “discovered”, I was hooked from the start. A signal, or virus, known as The Pulse is sent through mobile phones, infecting the majority of the population, scrambling their brains and sending civilization into chaos. Clayton Riddell has to find his son before he, too, becomes infected. Read more