Currently reading
The Aeneid (Penguin Classics)
A Little History of the World
The Annals of Imperial Rome
Very interesting premise and written with her normal brilliance and some amazing descriptions of life in the blitz. Still somehow less satisfying than her previous novels.
Not sure I liked the Scifi element in this book, quite apart from the fact that I have never gamed in my life, so that a lot of the book went way over my head. Hope he goes back to his normal genre for the next book.
Orders from Berlin
Ok, bit too much padding, rather too many stereotypical characters for my liking and difficult to create tension when you know the ending...
I have always hated Hardyesqe-style coincidences - letters under door mats for instance. Also I have always felt that if any of his characters made the common sense decision they wouldn't get into the scrapes they do.
