Right, off for a week’s riding in Majorca on Tuesday and I’m looking for some decent new fiction from the Google play store to put on my Hudl. Failing that, some classics that have passed me by.

I’m fairly well read (!) but always open to suggestions.

The Spellscribed books by Kristopher Cruz are worth a read.
Finished both of them on holiday last week and they were good. Just waiting for more of the series to come out

Just finished Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds if you like Iain Banks scifi you’ll like that.

Haven’t read a book since the iphone came out!! 😯

3 Men In A Boat. Won’t last you long but it is brilliant, and thematically appropriate 😉

Again, won’t last you long, but Heart of Darkness is a must read classic.

Tinker, tailor, soldier spy by John Le Carre is great, as are the other two George Smiley novels, the Honourable Schoolboy and Smiley’s People.

For non-fiction try Michaela Wrong’s “I didn’t do it for you”.

An absolutely fascinating read about the birth of a nation and a damning indictment of the so-called developed world’s attitude to Africa. Probably the best book I have ever read.

The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon. One of the best novels I’ve read in some time.

They’re meant to be teenage fiction, but a fantastic read.. The Chaos series by Patrick Ness, starting with the Knife of Never Letting go. I’m on The Ask and the Answer, the second book in the trilogy at the moment and can’t put it down. I heard Simon Mayo on Radio 2 say it was the best book he’d ever read and decided to check it out.

Currently enjoying:

* Guns of August about the start of WWI
* Fear and Loathing in La Liga about the rivalry between the football clubs Real Madrid and Barcelona
* 1215 – The Year of Magna Carta (self-explanatory!)

A song of Fire and Ice series by George RR Martin

aka Game of Thrones

rattled through A game of thrones in 36 hrs never seen the Tv shows so I’ll wait until I’ve read the lot then dive in.

If you are into fantasy then I can also reccomend the Belgeriad and the Mallorean by David Eddings or the Pliocene Earth series by Julian May

Currently enjoying:

* Guns of August about the start of WWI
* Fear and Loathing in La Liga about the rivalry between the football clubs Real Madrid and Barcelona
* 1215 – The Year of Magna Carta (self-explanatory!)

You three armed six eyed freak

They’re meant to be teenage fiction, but a fantastic read.. The Chaos series by Patrick Ness, starting with the Knife of Never Letting go. I’m on The Ask and the Answer, the second book in the trilogy at the moment and can’t put it down. I heard Simon Mayo on Radio 2 say it was the best book he’d ever read and decided to check it out.

Jill Homers book about the Tour Divide is good.

Thanks guys. Lots of good suggestions there.

Just finished Apple Tree Yard (bit girly) but it is written with a women’s view
had to finish as I bought it : (

The Quarry by Iain Banks written much like the above
and you read to much info IE you know exactly every item that made up the room the character’s where in
rather than the story.

Undercover by Rob Evans/Paul Lewis was a good read

Hide and Seek by Ian Rankin liked that a lot

Just started Contact_Zero by David Wolstencroft
But not for holiday reading, but for the commuting blues