Some of my favourite reads:

Just one of my book cases.

Below: The astonishing story of Wilfried Strikfeldt and Andrei Vlasov, and how Nazi Germany could so easily have won the war.

Below:   The hunt for the Nazi murderers of the Great Escape Fifty.

Germany & Japan won the Second World War. The Nazis occupy

the east of the USA and the Japanese occupy the West. How easily people adapt to such a way of life. A chilling and well written classic.

Above:  Ever felt very low? Depressed, lonely? Suicidal? You must read this. But then everyone should read it. You are not alone.

 

Below:  Probably the first novels I read as a teenager. My original copies.

The first of Bogarde's seven volumes of autobiography. The writing is superb, and includes wonderful, highly descriptive detail from his childhood.

A history book like no other. It reads like a fast-paced novel. Thrilling and detailed. It contains descriptions of the deep human suffering experienced on both sides of the tragic conflict. Superb.

Simply the greatest love story ever written.

As a diary writer myself, I found this book incredibly moving. Each night the teenage author made an entry in his diary and hid it from the Nazis in a secret hole in the wall. The last entry ended abruptly, mid-sentence. It was discovered in the wall after the war.

The London Daily Telegraph once described this book as: 'Desperately moving...'

One of very few books in existence about kibbutz life written by an ex-volunteer, and a British one at that! It provided part of my inspiration for writing my own book on the subject: 'Kibbutz Virgin'.

The anatomy of a writer. A brilliant and revealing book.

A great little book. A wonderful story, much copied.

A collection of some of Roger McGough's best poetry.

It is believed that Emily Bronte wrote this passionate book entirely from her imagination. 'Wuthering Heights' was published in 1847. She died a spinster the next year at the age of 30.

Pubished in 2012 this is a well written and deeply honest account of an Irishman's stint on a kibbutz in the dry heat of the Negev Desert in 1990. It's a great read and any ex-volunteer would love it, as would anyone else curious about kibbutz life.

Entertaining, amusing, revealing, thought-provoking. A great read. Mr Hitchens is already missed.

Dennis Potter's 1986 masterpiece. Vivid, powerful, and supremely well-written. The story of a crime writer's struggle between fact and fiction. Brilliant.

Captured by the Japanese Imperial Army in 1942 this is the harrowing true story of Alistair Urquhart's subsequent three year captivity. He describes the extreme brutality inflicted on his comrades including random beheadings and bayonetings, and his own beatings when he refused the sexual advances of his Japanese and Korean guards. A brilliant book from this unassuming octogenarian. Not for the faint hearted.

Not a book, but a weekly magazine. Some brilliant writing by some equally brilliant writers. I wait excitedly for the postman to deliver it every week like a child waiting for his favourite comic book to arrive.

 

 

 

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