tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13801824856302286432024-02-19T06:04:41.478+00:00John's blogOpinions, opinions..Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger102125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1380182485630228643.post-20274627690679767242023-12-31T23:59:00.001+00:002024-01-30T11:24:23.846+00:00Books 2023<p> <span class="s1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.24px;">Frank McDonough </span><span class="s2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleItalicBody; font-size: 18.24px; font-style: italic;">The Hitler Years, Volume 2: Disaster 1940-1945. 12/1</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.24px;">Jo Nesbo </span><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleItalicBody; font-size: 18.24px; font-style: italic;">The Leopard (Harry Hole 8) 28/1</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.24px;">Norman Mailer </span><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleItalicBody; font-size: 18.24px; font-style: italic;">Harlot’s Ghost 18/3</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.24px;">Isabel Allende</span><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleItalicBody; font-size: 18.24px; font-style: italic;"> A Long Petal of the Sea 28/3</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.24px;">Rory Stewart</span><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleItalicBody; font-size: 18.24px; font-style: italic;"> The Places In Between 03/4</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 23.6px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleItalicBody; font-size: 18.24px; font-style: italic;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.24px;">Jo Nesbo</span><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleItalicBody; font-size: 18.24px; font-style: italic;"> Phantom (Harry Hole 9) 11/4</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.24px;">David Long </span><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleItalicBody; font-size: 18.24px; font-style: italic;">Lost Britain: An A-Z of forgotten landmarks and lost traditions 20/4</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.24px;">Jo Nesbo</span><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleItalicBody; font-size: 18.24px; font-style: italic;"> The Thirst (Harry Hole 11) 13/5</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.24px;">SJ Parris</span><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleItalicBody; font-size: 18.24px; font-style: italic;"> The Dead of Winter 27/5</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.24px;">Sarah Winman</span><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleItalicBody; font-size: 18.24px; font-style: italic;"> Still Life 10/6</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 23.6px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleItalicBody; font-size: 18.24px; font-style: italic;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.24px;">Niall Williams</span><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleItalicBody; font-size: 18.24px; font-style: italic;"> This is Happiness 14/7</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.24px;">Richard Flanagan </span><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleItalicBody; font-size: 18.24px; font-style: italic;">Wanting 8/8</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.24px;">Patricia Wiltshire</span><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleItalicBody; font-size: 18.24px; font-style: italic;"> Traces 23/8</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.24px;">Patricia Cornwell</span><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleItalicBody; font-size: 18.24px; font-style: italic;"> Flesh and Blood 25/8</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.24px;">Francoise Sagan </span><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleItalicBody; font-size: 18.24px; font-style: italic;">Bonjour Tristesse/A Certain Smile 28/8</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 23.6px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleItalicBody; font-size: 18.24px; font-style: italic;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.24px;">Luke Harding</span><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleItalicBody; font-size: 18.24px; font-style: italic;"> A Very Expensive Poison 29/8</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.24px;">Robert Harris </span><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleItalicBody; font-size: 18.24px; font-style: italic;">Conclave 30/8</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.24px;">Henning Mandell </span><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleItalicBody; font-size: 18.24px; font-style: italic;">Faceless Killers (Wallander 1) 10/9</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.24px;">Jasper Fforde</span><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleItalicBody; font-size: 18.24px; font-style: italic;">: The Constant Rabbit 20/9</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.24px;">Nathalie Haynes: </span><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleItalicBody; font-size: 18.24px; font-style: italic;">Pandora’s Jar - Women in Greek Myths 9/10</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 23.6px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleItalicBody; font-size: 18.24px; font-style: italic;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.24px;">John le Carré: </span><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleItalicBody; font-size: 18.24px; font-style: italic;">A Legacy of Spies 30/10</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.24px;">Robert Harris: </span><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleItalicBody; font-size: 18.24px; font-style: italic;">Enigma 9/11</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.24px;">Orlando Figes:</span><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleItalicBody; font-size: 18.24px; font-style: italic;"> A People’s Tragedy 22/12</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.24px;">Jonas Jonasson: </span><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleItalicBody; font-size: 18.24px; font-style: italic;">The Prophet and the Idiot 28/12</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 23.6px;"><span class="s3" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-size: 18.24px; font-weight: bold;"></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 23.6px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.24px;"></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1380182485630228643.post-35301475986715900212022-12-31T23:59:00.000+00:002024-01-30T11:24:37.913+00:00Books 2022<p> <span class="s1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.24px;">Max Adams </span><span class="s2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleItalicBody; font-size: 18.24px; font-style: italic;">Aelfred’s Britain: War and Peace in the Viking Age</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.24px;">Karin Slaughter </span><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleItalicBody; font-size: 18.24px; font-style: italic;">Pieces of Her</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.24px;">Jonathan Bate</span><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleItalicBody; font-size: 18.24px; font-style: italic;"> Radical Wordsworth</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.24px;">Charles Cumming</span><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleItalicBody; font-size: 18.24px; font-style: italic;"> Typhoon</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.24px;">Robert Galbraith</span><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleItalicBody; font-size: 18.24px; font-style: italic;"> Troubled Blood 15/4</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 23.6px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.24px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.24px;">Frank McDonough </span><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleItalicBody; font-size: 18.24px; font-style: italic;">The Hitler Years, Volume 1: Triumph 1931-1939. 23/4</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.24px;">Anne Holt </span><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleItalicBody; font-size: 18.24px; font-style: italic;">A Grave for Two 09/5</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.24px;">Bernard Cornwall </span><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleItalicBody; font-size: 18.24px; font-style: italic;">Azincourt 16/5 </span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.24px;">Mary Hollingsworth </span><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleItalicBody; font-size: 18.24px; font-style: italic;">Princes of the Renaissance 6/6</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.24px;">Dominique Barbéris </span><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleItalicBody; font-size: 18.24px; font-style: italic;">A Sunday in Ville d’Avray 15/6</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 23.6px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.24px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.24px;">Roy Jacobsen </span><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleItalicBody; font-size: 18.24px; font-style: italic;">The Unseen 1/7</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.24px;">Karin Slaughter</span><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleItalicBody; font-size: 18.24px; font-style: italic;"> False Witness 16/7</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.24px;">Rebecca Stott</span><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleItalicBody; font-size: 18.24px; font-style: italic;"> In The Days of Rain 18/7</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.24px;">Alex Park</span><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleItalicBody; font-size: 18.24px; font-style: italic;"> The Last Lie 18/7</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.24px;">Adele Parks</span><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleItalicBody; font-size: 18.24px; font-style: italic;"> Both of You 20/7</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 23.6px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleItalicBody; font-size: 18.24px; font-style: italic;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.24px;">Amanda Jennings </span><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleItalicBody; font-size: 18.24px; font-style: italic;">The Cliff House 24/7</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.24px;">Marcus du Sautoy</span><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleItalicBody; font-size: 18.24px; font-style: italic;"> The Number Mysteries 27/7</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.24px;">Richard Osman</span><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleItalicBody; font-size: 18.24px; font-style: italic;"> The Man Who Died Twice 29/7</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.24px;">Anne Youngson</span><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleItalicBody; font-size: 18.24px; font-style: italic;"> Meet Me At The Museum 18/8</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.24px;">Hilary Mantel</span><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleItalicBody; font-size: 18.24px; font-style: italic;"> An Experiment in Love 2/9</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 23.6px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleItalicBody; font-size: 18.24px; font-style: italic;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.24px;">Peter Geoghegan </span><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleItalicBody; font-size: 18.24px; font-style: italic;">Democracy for Sale 19/9</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.24px;">Lucy Clarke</span><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleItalicBody; font-size: 18.24px; font-style: italic;"> The Castaways 3/10</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.24px;">Andrey Kurkov</span><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleItalicBody; font-size: 18.24px; font-style: italic;"> Grey Bees 16/10</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.24px;">Cat Jarman </span><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleItalicBody; font-size: 18.24px; font-style: italic;">River Kings 30/10</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.24px;">Alice Roberts</span><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleItalicBody; font-size: 18.24px; font-style: italic;"> Ancestors 16/11</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 23.6px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleItalicBody; font-size: 18.24px; font-style: italic;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.24px;">Jo Nesbo</span><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleItalicBody; font-size: 18.24px; font-style: italic;"> Police (Harry Hole 10) 27/11</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.24px;">Charles Spencer</span><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleItalicBody; font-size: 18.24px; font-style: italic;"> The White Ship 4/12</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.24px;">Jo Nesbo </span><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleItalicBody; font-size: 18.24px; font-style: italic;">The Redeemer (Harry Hole 6) 11/12</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.24px;">Jo Nesbo</span><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleItalicBody; font-size: 18.24px; font-style: italic;"> The Snowman (Harry Hole 7) 25/12</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.24px;">Richard Osman</span><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleItalicBody; font-size: 18.24px; font-style: italic;"> The Bullet That Missed 31/12</span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1380182485630228643.post-85710127946313779832021-12-31T23:59:00.001+00:002024-01-30T11:24:56.390+00:00Books 2021<p> <span class="s1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.24px;">Robert Galbraith </span><span class="s2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleItalicBody; font-size: 18.24px; font-style: italic;">Lethal White</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.24px;">John le Carré </span><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleItalicBody; font-size: 18.24px; font-style: italic;">Agent Running in the Field</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.24px;">Various authors</span><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleItalicBody; font-size: 18.24px; font-style: italic;"> Lockdown Number One</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.24px;">Richard Osman</span><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleItalicBody; font-size: 18.24px; font-style: italic;"> The Thursday Murder Club</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.24px;">Margaret Atwood </span><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleItalicBody; font-size: 18.24px; font-style: italic;">Hag-Seed</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 23.6px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.24px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.24px;">Bernard Cornwell</span><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleItalicBody; font-size: 18.24px; font-style: italic;"> The Flame Bearer</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.24px;">Tim Marshall</span><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleItalicBody; font-size: 18.24px; font-style: italic;"> Prisoners of Geography</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.24px;">Tracy Chevalier</span><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleItalicBody; font-size: 18.24px; font-style: italic;"> Remarkable Creatures</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.24px;">Andrew Marr</span><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleItalicBody; font-size: 18.24px; font-style: italic;"> Head of State</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.24px;">Ian Rankin </span><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleItalicBody; font-size: 18.24px; font-style: italic;">Knots & Crosses</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 23.6px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.24px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.24px;">Ian Rankin</span><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleItalicBody; font-size: 18.24px; font-style: italic;"> Hide and Seek</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.24px;">Ian Rankin</span><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleItalicBody; font-size: 18.24px; font-style: italic;"> Tooth and Nail</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.24px;">Ece Temelkuran </span><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleItalicBody; font-size: 18.24px; font-style: italic;">How to Lose a Country</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.24px;">Jonas Jonasson </span><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleItalicBody; font-size: 18.24px; font-style: italic;">Sweet Sweet Revenge Ltd. </span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.24px;">Christina Dalcher </span><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleItalicBody; font-size: 18.24px; font-style: italic;">Vox</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 23.6px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.24px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.24px;">Bridget Collins</span><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleItalicBody; font-size: 18.24px; font-style: italic;"> The Binding</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.24px;">Nancy Mitford</span><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleItalicBody; font-size: 18.24px; font-style: italic;"> The Pursuit of Love</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.24px;">Rosalind <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Stopps </span><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleItalicBody; font-size: 18.24px; font-style: italic;">The Stranger She Knew</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.24px;">Charles Spencer </span><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleItalicBody; font-size: 18.24px; font-style: italic;">To Catch a King</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.24px;">B A Paris </span><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleItalicBody; font-size: 18.24px; font-style: italic;">The Breakdown</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 23.6px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.24px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.24px;">Jeffery Deaver</span><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleItalicBody; font-size: 18.24px; font-style: italic;"> The Never Game</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.24px;">Lee Child </span><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleItalicBody; font-size: 18.24px; font-style: italic;">First Thrills</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.24px;">Kate Atkinson</span><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleItalicBody; font-size: 18.24px; font-style: italic;"> Case Histories</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.24px;">Kate Atkinson </span><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleItalicBody; font-size: 18.24px; font-style: italic;">Behind the Scenes at the Museum</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.24px;">Elizabeth Day </span><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleItalicBody; font-size: 18.24px; font-style: italic;">The Party</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 23.6px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.24px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.24px;">Charles Cumming </span><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleItalicBody; font-size: 18.24px; font-style: italic;">The Man Between </span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.24px;">SJ Parris</span><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleItalicBody; font-size: 18.24px; font-style: italic;"> Heresy</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.24px;">Joshua Levine</span><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleItalicBody; font-size: 18.24px; font-style: italic;"> Operation Fortitude </span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.24px;">Craig Brown </span><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleItalicBody; font-size: 18.24px; font-style: italic;">Ma’am Darling</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.24px;">David</span><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleItalicBody; font-size: 18.24px; font-style: italic;"> </span><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.24px;">Mitchell</span><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleItalicBody; font-size: 18.24px; font-style: italic;"> Back Story</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 23.6px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.24px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.24px;">Andreas Kollender</span><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleItalicBody; font-size: 18.24px; font-style: italic;"> The Honest Spy </span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.24px;">Neil Gaiman</span><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleItalicBody; font-size: 18.24px; font-style: italic;"> Death</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.24px;">Lucy Clarke </span><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleItalicBody; font-size: 18.24px; font-style: italic;">You Let Me In</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.24px;">Max Ayres </span><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleItalicBody; font-size: 18.24px; font-style: italic;">The First Kingdom</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.24px;">Patrick O’Brian</span><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleItalicBody; font-size: 18.24px; font-style: italic;"> Master and Commander</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 23.6px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.24px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.24px;">Rosemary Sullivan </span><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleItalicBody; font-size: 18.24px; font-style: italic;">Stalin’s Daughter</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.24px;">Val McDermid </span><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleItalicBody; font-size: 18.24px; font-style: italic;">The Mermaids’ Singing</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.24px;">Azeem Azhar </span><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleItalicBody; font-size: 18.24px; font-style: italic;">Exponential </span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.24px;">Bernard Cornwell </span><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleItalicBody; font-size: 18.24px; font-style: italic;">War Wolf</span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1380182485630228643.post-55212218005885121882020-12-31T23:59:00.004+00:002024-01-30T11:25:14.065+00:00Books 2020<p> <span class="s1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.24px;">Lee Child </span><span class="s2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleItalicBody; font-size: 18.24px; font-style: italic;">Hero</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.24px;">Adam Kay </span><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleItalicBody; font-size: 18.24px; font-style: italic;">This Is Going To Hurt</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.24px;">David Klepek </span><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleItalicBody; font-size: 18.24px; font-style: italic;">Cold Storage</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.24px;">Sarah Perry </span><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleItalicBody; font-size: 18.24px; font-style: italic;">The Essex Serpent</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.24px;">Howard of Warwick</span><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleItalicBody; font-size: 18.24px; font-style: italic;"> The Heretics of De’Ath</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.24px;">Robert Harris </span><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleItalicBody; font-size: 18.24px; font-style: italic;">Munich</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleItalicBody; font-size: 18.24px; font-style: italic;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.24px;">Robert Galbraith </span><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleItalicBody; font-size: 18.24px; font-style: italic;">The Cuckoo’s Calling</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.24px;">James Felton </span><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleItalicBody; font-size: 18.24px; font-style: italic;">52 Times Britain Was A Bell End</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.24px;">Frederick Forsyth</span><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleItalicBody; font-size: 18.24px; font-style: italic;"> The Kill List</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.24px;">Graham Greene </span><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleItalicBody; font-size: 18.24px; font-style: italic;">Brighton Rock</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.24px;">Matt Ridley </span><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleItalicBody; font-size: 18.24px; font-style: italic;">The Evolution of Everything</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleItalicBody; font-size: 18.24px; font-style: italic;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.24px;">Dava Sobel </span><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleItalicBody; font-size: 18.24px; font-style: italic;">Galileo’s Daughter</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.24px;">Robert Galbraith </span><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleItalicBody; font-size: 18.24px; font-style: italic;">The Silkworm</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.24px;">Margaret Atwood </span><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleItalicBody; font-size: 18.24px; font-style: italic;">The Handmaid’s Tale</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.24px;">Ian Mortimer </span><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleItalicBody; font-size: 18.24px; font-style: italic;">The Perfect King</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.24px;">Robert Galbraith</span><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleItalicBody; font-size: 18.24px; font-style: italic;"> Career of Evil </span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleItalicBody; font-size: 18.24px; font-style: italic;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.24px;">Bill Bryson</span><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleItalicBody; font-size: 18.24px; font-style: italic;"> At Home</span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1380182485630228643.post-59267447816112968872020-09-25T10:13:00.004+01:002020-09-25T10:13:54.198+01:00NHS Tracing app<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiU3-YBo0aj9iQ_W36b2t0cuX-0ipytJff7alRi4D75uAemDYdBkJ208mqLhQDWc5J9fFw4OjhcRfNGYymT3pdp_hh6LaBJ2XpF1l99-f9eivSbX5ivobPVN6R1xjBegjZMcVKjHcPguOkO/s300/coronavirus.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="168" data-original-width="300" height="89" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiU3-YBo0aj9iQ_W36b2t0cuX-0ipytJff7alRi4D75uAemDYdBkJ208mqLhQDWc5J9fFw4OjhcRfNGYymT3pdp_hh6LaBJ2XpF1l99-f9eivSbX5ivobPVN6R1xjBegjZMcVKjHcPguOkO/w159-h89/coronavirus.jpg" width="159" /></a></div><br />The new NHS tracing apps, based on technology from Google and Apple, were made available to the wider public on 24th September after testing in the Isle of Wight and Newham. There’s been some criticism of the Apple version because it only works on newer iPhones. These are the ones that will run iOS 13.5 or later. The iOS extension that allows exchange of keys with other users of the app, the Exposure Notification API, was released in that version of the operating system. <p></p><p>The issue isn’t with the app creators but with the Apple approach of denying operating system upgrades to fairly recent and fully functional equipment. This affects both iOS and MacOS users, forcing upgrades of good quality devices that should otherwise have years of useful life in them. I don’t know whether this happens with Android devices too. </p><p>Surely, in the COVID epidemic, it would be possible for both Apple and Google to release versions of their older mobile phone operating systems with their respective extension added, so that as many people as possible are brought into the tracing net. </p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1380182485630228643.post-3970483910530186262020-06-02T13:48:00.001+01:002020-06-02T13:49:32.968+01:00Ending the Lockdown - Mass eventsSome more thoughts written on 2nd June, after I posted the following on Twitter on 11th May<br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">To resume social activities: family and mass gatherings, sports, the arts, public transport, foreign travel, etc., the UK daily new infections must be in the 10s or 100s, not the 1000s. This requires mass testing, good tracking and compulsory quarantine. When, Boris?</span></span></blockquote>
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We're still seeing a UK-wide rolling 7-day total of over 15000 lab-confirmed cases. Though the figure for England is now consistently under 5000, this is around the number in late March, and we went from that to 35000 - 40000 per seven days in about three weeks. That's the lab-confirmed cases. Nobody has any real idea of the number people in the community who currently have the virus but haven't taken a test. Some pundits put the multiplier at four to five times, although social distancing means that it may be smaller. That's still 20000 new cases in England each week. <br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9L429mS6P065BkEa7O5lNNTSDpFn5Ii-FKVtQ6CmfoXGGZdckPALZ0DbbVBxMuTw8rnZ7vRAAE2SRS7TNuPKH_q3xTyfmj2AOYHTeXCToej_8b6kHR-TA2ghUeHyFbHh1_AC7yH8rPhvK/s1600/coronavirus.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="168" data-original-width="300" height="112" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9L429mS6P065BkEa7O5lNNTSDpFn5Ii-FKVtQ6CmfoXGGZdckPALZ0DbbVBxMuTw8rnZ7vRAAE2SRS7TNuPKH_q3xTyfmj2AOYHTeXCToej_8b6kHR-TA2ghUeHyFbHh1_AC7yH8rPhvK/s200/coronavirus.jpg" width="200" /></a>There's no way that community team sports, concerts, large family gatherings, religious activities, Friday night at the pub, and 1001 other things that delight us will be allowed to resume until the chances of catching this deadly infection have been reduced to near zero. Social distancing is a killer for most of these activities.<br />
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We can't go on with social distancing forever. We need to eradicate the virus - who knows if an effective vaccine will ever be found?<br />
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We need to develop a process that<br />
<ol>
<li>puts a strong obligation on anyone who suspects that they have the virus, or is showing symptoms, or has been in contact with an infected person, to test </li>
<li>gives test results within 24 hours or ideally same day</li>
<li>gives support to anyone who tests positive, in line with their needs, to isolate safely - counselling, financial, communications, medical, psychological, nursing, child support</li>
<li>supplies accommodation for anyone who cannot isolate without risk to others - if one in a family has the virus, there's no need for everyone else to catch it too</li>
<li>supplies compulsory accommodation for anyone testing positive who won't isolate voluntarily </li>
</ol>
At present, testing is concentrated in single-function testing centres. That involves travel for potentially sick people, which may be a real problem for some. We need a more responsive and accessible way for anyone in need of a test to obtain it. Testers on motorbikes? District nurses?<br />
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The Government seems scared to bite the bullet of compulsory quarantine, and it's obviously a political hot potato. Sadly, it may be necessary for the few, to give freedom to the majority from the restrictions of social distancing. Maybe voluntary accommodation could be given with such good arrangements that no-one needs to be compelled.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1380182485630228643.post-38508570444403272022020-04-13T14:18:00.000+01:002020-06-02T12:32:42.328+01:00Songs for washing handsTwo times 'Happy Birthday to you' or any of these variants (work in progress)<br />
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Happy Birthday to you<br />
Squashed tomatoes and stew<br />
Bread and butter in the gutter<br />
Happy Birthday to you<br />
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Happy Birthday to you<br />
I hope that's just flu...<br />
There's corona in Verona<br />
And Basingstoke too.<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1380182485630228643.post-10542807118761221702019-12-31T23:59:00.000+00:002024-01-30T11:25:42.810+00:00Beach Books 2019<p> <span class="s1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.24px;">Thomas Pynchon </span><span class="s2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleItalicBody; font-size: 18.24px; font-style: italic;">The Crying of Lot 49</span></p><p><span class="s1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.24px;">The Secret Barrister </span><span class="s2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleItalicBody; font-size: 18.24px; font-style: italic;">Stories of the Law and How It’s Broken</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.24px;">Neil Gaiman </span><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleItalicBody; font-size: 18.24px; font-style: italic;">The Ocean at the End of the Lane</span><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.24px;"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.24px;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.24px;">Adam Rutherford </span><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleItalicBody; font-size: 18.24px; font-style: italic;">A Brief History of Everyone that Ever Lived</span><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.24px;"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.24px;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.24px;">J L Butler </span><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleItalicBody; font-size: 18.24px; font-style: italic;">Mine</span><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.24px;"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.24px;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.24px;">Guy de Maupassant </span><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleItalicBody; font-size: 18.24px; font-style: italic;">A Parisian Affair and other stories</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleItalicBody; font-size: 18.24px; font-style: italic;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.24px;">Lucy Foley </span><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleItalicBody; font-size: 18.24px; font-style: italic;">Last Letter from Istanbul</span><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.24px;"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.24px;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.24px;">Anna Funder </span><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleItalicBody; font-size: 18.24px; font-style: italic;">Stasiland</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleItalicBody; font-size: 18.24px; font-style: italic;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.24px;">S J Parris </span><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleItalicBody; font-size: 18.24px; font-style: italic;">Treachery</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleItalicBody; font-size: 18.24px; font-style: italic;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.24px;">Michael Forsyth </span><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleItalicBody; font-size: 18.24px; font-style: italic;">The Etymologicon</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 23.6px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.24px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.24px;">Finished back home: </span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.24px;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.24px;">Reece Hirsch </span><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleItalicBody; font-size: 18.24px; font-style: italic;">Black Nowhere</span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1380182485630228643.post-55239176092312398152019-06-25T19:20:00.002+01:002019-06-27T11:25:05.019+01:00The new Project Fear<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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During the EU referendum, the voices of experts and the Remain side were dismissed by the Leavers as Project Fear.<br />
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We're now being subjected to a barrage of threats from the Leave side, that if we fail to leave the EU by the arbitrary date of 31st October 2019, it will be the end of British democracy as we know it. There's a strong whiff of bullsh*t about this claim. It seems like the new Project Fear.<br />
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Parliamentarians who have painted themselves into a corner over leaving quickly may see it as a threat. Prime Ministers and cabinet members who have created and supported red lines may see it as a threat. It may ultimately be costly in an election. But I don't really think that the break-up of the United Kingdom or the smashing of the Good Friday Agreement will be any less costly.<br />
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So it's crucial for those that are invested in a Brexit at any cost. For the rest of us, not so sure. <br />
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If politicians on both sides want to preserve the Union - the United Kingdom of England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland - then the time has come to revoke Article 50 and think properly about the country's needs.<br />
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I want to keep this country in a strong position in its trading and manufacturing arrangements including Just-In-Time which is so productive for our motor industry and for our customers in the remainder of the EU. <br />
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I want this country to be able to recruit willing workers who will pay their taxes from all parts of the world. Why build new barriers against well-trained doctors, nurses, carers and technicians from the EU?<br />
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Politicians can still keep Leave as their policy - that's something to discuss at
length - but let's take away the false urgency, the Gadarene swine rush
for the cliff edge, the fear of thinking through the issues properly.
Red lines were drawn without any idea of the impact, and the deadline
was set before the requirements were known. Anyone in business
management with half an ounce of sense knows that a change programme or
project started under those conditions will miss. <br />
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I want to keep the Union and the Good Friday Agreement intact. And so, I think, do the majority in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Let's not forget them while the way forward is being mapped out. But let's take some time to think about what the country needs. Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1380182485630228643.post-18347960479539402602019-03-18T16:43:00.000+00:002019-03-27T10:28:55.074+00:00Time to Revoke Article 50<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJFoYRY7Cq00K4iGyRY7nhMr72CP5iMfPtp7pwe24dgvU5yXDDOmKj01mE61buNMxwHZttMvH3dxWilFzmoScqyQrT41oX7M96QfzRdn-JfKXI16h8mwX57pQfDUS-kQbFlrd0uqgNpwsF/s1600/Silly_eyes_large2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="308" data-original-width="500" height="123" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJFoYRY7Cq00K4iGyRY7nhMr72CP5iMfPtp7pwe24dgvU5yXDDOmKj01mE61buNMxwHZttMvH3dxWilFzmoScqyQrT41oX7M96QfzRdn-JfKXI16h8mwX57pQfDUS-kQbFlrd0uqgNpwsF/s200/Silly_eyes_large2.jpg" width="200" /></a>The EU Referendum in 2016 was called without any proper thought about the impact of a Leave vote. Right through the campaign, promises and predictions were made by both sides about the way it could work out. Many statements were based on little knowledge and analysis, and some were just downright lies and exaggeration.<br />
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The Remain campaign was lukewarm, and made many dire predictions about the immediate aftermath of the vote. They weren't intelligent enough to make some justifiable long term forecasts, so it was easy for their comments to be dismissed as 'Project Fear'. Labour, led by the arch eurosceptic Jeremy Corbyn, failed to engage properly and mobilise its support. And it seems there may have been some very clever targeted manipulation of voters using data which hadn't been acquired entirely legally. <br />
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In the heated atmosphere, good information was dismissed along with the bad, and we heard idiotic comments like "we've had enough of experts". There was a great deal of hate speech aimed at an unelected elite in Brussels which apparently controls our laws. <br />
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All kinds of future relationship with the EU and other trading
partners were offered, including a customs union and free trade area. No-one considered the issues around the Northern Irish border and the potential impact on the Good Friday Agreement. <br />
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The new Prime Minister, Theresa May, defined her own red lines for the negotiation without consulting other parties. These were in line with her prejudices and the wishes of the extreme Brexiteers within her party, but detached from reality. Her approach to immigration is nuts, based on an adherence to David Cameron's soundbite commitment to the "tens of thousands". This ignores the needs of industry, the university sector, and the National Health Service.<br />
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She opposes freedom of movement, despite the fact that other European countries have managed to restrict this to the treaty conditions of freedom of movement to work. It's probable that her opposition is based on advice from the Home Office, which would be incapable of enforcing in the way that, for example, Belgium can. Luddites and technophobes in her own party led her as Home Secretary to scrub the national identity card project when the Coalition came to power. If she'd had the guts to resist them, there might have been a chance.<br />
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She destroyed her Commons majority with an ill-judged General Election in 2017. We're now in a complete mess where her negotiated Withdrawal Agreement isn't supported by the Commons and there is talk in the air of further bribes to the DUP to pass a vote.<br />
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But even if this vote is passed, there's then the need for a permanent trading relationship and we can be sure that the unholy alliance of the European Research Group, DUP and Labour will mess up whatever treaties can be proposed.<br />
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It's clear that whatever we do now, we'll be worse off after leaving than before. Our terms of trade, travel, access to intelligence and police co-operation, scientific data and medicines, radio isotopes for cancer treatment, GPS data, and countless other benefits that we take for granted will be affected. We'll have to employ thousands of civil servants in the UK to cover the jobs that were done on a shared basis for 28 countries. We'll have to pay for the lot. By the way, unelected, with great pension arrangements, experts in the jobs they'll do. Feels like an elite to me. <br />
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We didn't vote on the red lines that have become apparent, and we have a last chance now to stop this runaway train and think about what we really want. We should revoke Article 50 now, and have a national debate about what is really required. The debate should take into account the realistic immigration needs of the NHS and the care sector, industry and education, and a realistic solution to the NI border issue if any such thing exists. Then the proposal to leave (if any) could be voted on in a properly constituted referendum, say in a couple of years' time, if we think that change is needed.<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1380182485630228643.post-74503693650490410492018-12-31T11:38:00.001+00:002024-01-30T11:40:11.053+00:00Beach Books 2018<p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.24px;">1. A Time Travellers Guide to Elizabethan England, Ian Mortimer</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.24px;">2. The 101 Year Old Man, Jonas Jonasson </span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.24px;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.24px;">3. The Surgeon of Crowthorne, Simon Winchester </span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.24px;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.24px;">4. A Foreign Country, Charles Cumming</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.24px;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.24px;">5. The Simpsons and their Mathematical Secrets, Simon Singh</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.24px;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.24px;">6. The Missing and the Dead, Stuart Macbride</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.24px;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.24px;">8. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Homo Deus, Yuval Noah Harari </span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1380182485630228643.post-65068127717899376362018-11-02T23:23:00.000+00:002018-11-04T00:09:49.301+00:00David Cameron ‘coming back into politics’David Cameron, our previous Prime Minister, managed to bring together a coalition government that achieved some good things, but his legacy will be one of disaster. In my view this is due to his lack of analytical thought. Maybe he just didn’t have the mental toolkit and training to analyse complex policy situations. He shot from the hip time after time, with precious little sign that he thought before opening his mouth. Now we hear that he’s considering ‘coming back into politics’. Please, no. His failures are too obvious.<br />
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A typical example is the commitment to ‘immigration in the tens of thousands’. A cheap sound bite, which an hour’s consideration with knowledgeable people would have consigned to the rubbish bin of political history. Instead, this nonsense has poisoned our politics for a decade. <br />
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He has a politician’s talent for finding a tactically attractive posture. But he failed. He refused to think and analyse the possible outcomes of his promises. He has a track record of rash and thoughtless commitments, and then sticking to them regardless of evidence and impact.<br />
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His ultimate crime against the United Kingdom was to offer a referendum without thinking about the conditions first. And then to be bounced from an ‘advisory’ vote to one where the vote would count and the result be respected. Resigning as Prime Minister was obvious, and necessary - he had already done as much damage as could be allowed.<br />
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We were talking in the pub tonight, and the view was that he should never be forgiven. Certainly, he should keep his head. It would only be fair if he wakes up every morning in the early hours screaming in agony as his conscience, if he has one, tells him what irreparable damage he has done to our nation.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1380182485630228643.post-49221528501870902972018-07-04T12:56:00.000+01:002018-07-04T15:02:26.950+01:00Magna Carta and assisted dying<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In 2015, I took an online course on <i>The Magna Carta and its Legacy</i>. This was presented by my alma mater, Royal Holloway University of London, using the Coursera online platform, to coincide with the 800th anniversary of the original charter. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The concluding assignment on the course was to write a clause for a modern Magna Carta that addresses the pressing issues and defends the rights that matter to me, and a written motion to persuade others that my clause should be adopted. The total length was required to be 240 - 270 words - challenging for the topic that I chose, assisted dying. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This subject continues in public debate, including a fine article by Alice Thomson, <i>We need to talk about assisted dying</i>, in <a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/we-should-all-think-more-about-how-life-ends" target="_blank">The Times</a> of 4th July 2018. Some things have progressed - Canada, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Belgium, India, </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">six US states </span> and from next year Victoria in Australia have now allowed doctors to prescribe a barbiturate drug to bring a life to a peaceful end. Sadly, our own House of Commons rejected such legislation three years ago. It's time that they re-examined the question. Here are my proposed clause and motion:<br /></span><br />
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<span style="color: #073763;"><i><b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Medical practitioners shall be empowered to prescribe life-ending drugs to mentally competent adults who wish to end unbearable suffering, loss of dignity or of autonomy caused by terminal illness. </span></b></i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #073763;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 'a Magna Carta for our age', bans torture, cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment. Since its adoption in 1948, medical science has advanced so that it can treat many common diseases. However, we all die eventually. End-of-life palliative care is often appropriate and effective, but for some, physical and mental suffering, and loss of enjoyment of life, cannot be prevented. Patients may endure years while 'nature takes its course'. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #073763;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This proposal gives the sick the confidence and the freedom that they need not face endless suffering. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #073763;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This is a difficult, emotive argument. Some religious groups hold that all life is sacred; only natural processes or divine intervention should determine the time of death. Others hold that members of religions may make a conscientious decision not to utilise a legal freedom, but should not stop others making their own choice. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #073763;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Opponents also fear a 'slippery slope' that could extend beyond the tight scope of consenting, mentally competent, terminally-ill adults. Several states have enacted assisted-dying laws, including Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Washington, Oregon and Vermont. All have monitored the effects carefully; public opinion remains largely in favour. None of the states has chosen to extend its legislative scope. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #073763;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In Britain, the public is heavily pro (82% according to the 2010 British Social Attitudes survey) but lawmakers are cautious. Australia has no current proposals; Canada's Parliament will consider legislation during its current session. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">That was 2015, and now is 2018. Of course Brexit is top of most politicians' agendas, but surely Parliament should look again before long. </span><br />
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1380182485630228643.post-49421189678244388382017-12-31T11:40:00.001+00:002024-01-30T11:42:10.194+00:00Beach Books 2017<p> <span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.24px;">Human Universe - Brian Cox</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.24px;">The Unexpected Inheritance of Inspector Chopra - Vaseem Khan</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.24px;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.24px;">Sapiens - Yuval Noah Harari </span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.24px;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.24px;">Last Rituals - Yrsa Sigurdardóttir</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.24px;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.24px;">Chasing the Monsoon - Alex Frater</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.24px;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.24px;">His Bloody Project</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.24px;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.24px;">I Am Pilgrim - Terry Hayes</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.24px;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.24px;">The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.24px;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.24px;">The Lost Army - Valerie Massimiliano Manfredi </span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.24px;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.24px;">H is for Hawk - Helen Macdonald </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 23.6px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.24px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.24px;">Finished at home</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.24px;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.24px;">Warriors of the a Storm - Bernard Cornwell</span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1380182485630228643.post-76677666978843944542016-10-24T14:05:00.003+01:002016-10-24T14:05:57.798+01:00Economist inflation<br />
I love the analysis, clarity and comment given by The Economist newspaper. It's not the only newspaper that is jacking up its prices, but even so, I was fairly gutted to see that my annual renewal will rise from £155 in January 2016 to £179 in January 2017. Yes, there's a paltry £10 discount for one year only, for taking the Direct Debit option, and there are multi-year options but these demand a big up-front payment. It's a hell of a jump.<br />
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I decided to look at prices paid over the last 10 years and compare them against UK Consumer Price Inflation. This year the difference between the inflation-adjusted price, £134, and the inflated price, is £45. That's not a happy sight for anyone on a fixed income. <br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Method used: the <a href="http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/education/Pages/resources/inflationtools/calculator/index1.aspx" target="_blank">Bank of England inflation calculator</a>, which currently covers Consumer Price Inflation for years up to 2015, to work out inflation-adjusted prices based on £99 in 2006, and then use current number for UK 2016 CPI Average inflation given by <a href="http://www.inflation.eu/inflation-rates/great-britain/historic-inflation/cpi-inflation-great-britain.aspx">inflation.eu</a> to for the last point on the chart. Prices paid taken from my records. </span><br />
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1380182485630228643.post-80100182896278448122016-07-30T11:29:00.001+01:002024-01-30T11:36:21.144+00:00Beach Books 2016<br />The Narrow Road to the Deep North, Richard Flanagan <div><br />Snuff, Terry Pratchett </div><div><br />Generals, Mark Urban (excellent!) </div><div><br />The Girl in the Spider's Web, David Lagercrantz <div><br />Hitman Anders and the Meaning of it all, Jonas Jonasson </div><div><br />Lingo, Gaston Dorren </div><div><br />Meet Me in Malmo, Torquil MacLeod </div><div><br />The Age of Wonder, Richard Holmes </div><div><br />SPQR, Mary Beard </div><div><br />Raising Steam, Terry Pratchett </div><div><br />The Violins of Saint-Jacques, Patrick Leigh Fermor <br /></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1380182485630228643.post-211813941922000402016-07-29T17:15:00.000+01:002016-07-29T17:16:48.853+01:00White elephant in Somerset<div>
Hinkley Point in Somerset is planned to become the site of a massive new nuclear reactor project, currently budgeted at £18 billion. The project will be executed and funded by EDF and China, with the return guaranteed by a deal to buy the electricity produced at a 'strike price' almost three times the current market rate (£92.50 per MWh compared with £33). This difference is estimated by the National Audit Office to be a £29.7 billion subsidy by consumers. Last night (28th July) we heard that the board of EDF had approved the deal and then shortly after, the welcome news that the UK Government had called a pause before contracts were signed. </div>
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The deal shows the cynicism of the Department of Energy and of politicians, both Labour and Conservative/LibDem coalition, who were quite happy to commit future generations to pay a huge amount for electricity to solve their planning problems. There is no way that Parliament would support a grant of £30 billion to EDF to build this plant; it may anyway have been an illegal state subsidy. Instead it was proposed to take the money through households' electricity bills over a 35 year period, a stealth tax on every user. <br />
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The Hinkley Point C plant is due to produce 3200 MW using the new and unproven European Pressurised Reactor technology. The first project for this reactor, in Finland, is currently 9 years late and £4 billion over budget. Every other project is late and over budget. No power is being produced commercially anywhere in the world with this design. <br />
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What would be a better solution? Submarines have been driven by small nuclear power plants for many years, and a similar Small Modular Reactor technology is now under development for civilian use. These can be produced more or less on a production line, and sited closer to the end users, with benefits of the reuse of excess heat for municipal heating. At say 160 MW each, only 20 would be needed to supply the same amount of power as Hinkley Point C. Rolls Royce is a leader in this field. Let's hope that the new UK Government stops the white elephant project in Somerset before too much more money has been sunk into it. Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1380182485630228643.post-87322131313537093452015-12-31T11:27:00.001+00:002024-01-30T11:36:52.812+00:00Beach books 2015<div> <meta content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"></meta> <meta content="text/css" http-equiv="Content-Style-Type"></meta> <title></title> <meta content="Cocoa HTML Writer" name="Generator"></meta> <style type="text/css"> p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 17.0px '.SF UI Text'; color: #000000} p.p2 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 17.0px '.SF UI Text'; color: #000000; min-height: 20.3px} span.s1 {font-family: '.SFUIText-Regular'; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 17.00pt} </style> <p class="p1"><span class="s1">Beach Books 2015</span></p> <p class="p1"><span class="s1">1. Stardust, Neil Gaiman</span></p> <p class="p1"><span class="s1">2. Intimate Adventures of a London Call Girl, Belle de Jour</span></p> <p class="p1"><span class="s1">3. Thinking about it only makes it worse, David Mitchell</span></p> <p class="p1"><span class="s1">4. The Floating Brothel, Sián Rees</span></p> <p class="p1"><span class="s1">5. Happiness by Design, Paul Dolan</span></p> <p class="p1"><span class="s1">6. Fate is the Hunter, Ernest K Gann</span></p> <p class="p1"><span class="s1">7. Blood Sisters: The Women behind the Wars of the Roses, Sarah Gristwood</span></p> <p class="p1"><span class="s1">8. The Rise of Political Lying, Peter Oborne</span></p> <p class="p1"><span class="s1">9. The Signal and the noise, Nate Silver</span></p> <p class="p1"><span class="s1">10. The Redbreast (Oslo Trilogy 1), Jo Nesbo</span></p> <p class="p1"><span class="s1">11. Nemesis (Oslo Trilogy 2), Jo Nesbo</span></p> <p class="p1"><span class="s1">12. The Devil's Star (Oslo Trilogy 3), Jo Nesbo</span></p> <p class="p1"><span class="s1">13. Alan Turing: the Enigma, Andrew Hodges</span></p></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1380182485630228643.post-48661881776533462962015-09-22T10:48:00.004+01:002015-09-22T10:50:42.714+01:00RWC 2015 - Day 3<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Another exciting day of Rugby, and although the results were much more predictable than Saturday's, there are still some big implications for the rest of the tournament.<br />
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<b>Match 6: Samoa v USA (25-16)</b><br />
Samoa showed that they're going to be a competitor in this group. Their direct and effective play will challenge both Japan and Scotland. One highlight was a great right-to-left move at an attacking scrum that put Tim Nanai-Williams over in the corner, on the end of a grubber kick by Tusi Pisi. <br />
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<b>Match 7: Wales v Uruguay (54-9)</b><br />
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Wales won easily but at a big cost in terms of apparent injuries: Corey Allen is out of the squad with a torn hamstring, after scoring a hat-trick of tries. Liam Williams, Samson Lee, Dan Lydiate, Aaron Jarvis and Paul James all had to leave the field. <br />
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Well-managed match, which didn't become a penalty-fest in spite of the differences in skill levels between the sides. Uruguay kept going until the end, great courage and spirit. <br />
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<b>Match 8: New Zealand v Argentina (26-16)</b><br />
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The crowd's booing of Richie McCaw aside, there was little to disappoint in this great clash between Southern Hemisphere sides. Off the field - well, the service at the bars could have been a little better organised; how long can it take to take the tops off four plastic bottles of Heineken and exchange the result for a £20 note? Someone told me afterwards that Murphy's stout was also available, but no other beers. <br />
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Argentina played themselves to a standstill after leading for much of the game. All Blacks' attack was very organised and patient. They won't care that they didn't score a bonus point - all they need to do is win their matches, and no-one else in the group is likely to threaten that aim.<br />
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Wembley was brilliant, and the crowd was a record for a RWC pool match, almost 90,000. England2015 and Transport for London were very well organised to help us get away in good time. My own experience was this: we reached the back of the queue, 250 metres from the station at 18:55, and were on the (right) train at 19:17, at Waterloo and enjoying a beer (not Heineken) at 19:45. <br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1380182485630228643.post-36998883437526590972015-05-12T12:27:00.001+01:002015-05-12T12:27:02.576+01:00Let's stop the Hooker's ShuffleAs a grass-roots referee, I want to see a safe and fair contest at the set piece. The scrum gets lots of attention, but the line-out is also a place of skullduggery.<br />
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Some teams consistently win their own lines through good throws, great timing and well executed drills. Others feel the need to add some insurance that takes away all possibility of a contest. It's sometimes said that the side that can't win its own line-outs can't
win the match, so this can affect the outcome of important games. <br />
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Here’s how it can happen:<br />
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<li>a line-out is awarded to Red, at the mark made by the Assistant Referee</li>
<li>the referee marks the 5m line: either the line of touch, or where the players should stand, or both</li>
<li>the line-out players arrive and take up their positions; the Red hooker arrives, is handed the ball and a towel, dries the ball, listens to the call, confirms the call, discards the towel, and prepares to throw</li>
<li>often the AR moves to a different viewpoint, and the referee moves to the back of the line-out</li>
<li>Red hooker throws, ball won by Red</li>
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What's wrong with that? Blue didn't bother to compete, so why worry?<br />
Simply, the hooker has been allowed to throw along a line (even if straight - who's checking?) that made it impossible for Blue to compete.
Watch the hooker's feet after he receives the ball and first stands in the middle - each action includes a subtle shuffle, a boot-width, towards his own side. When he throws, it’s straight along his own players. There’s no contest: if Blue close the gap, that's a FK; if they cross the line of touch, offside (PK)<br />
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Sanctions<br />
Normally line-out or scrum to Blue; however, if the referee judges the Red team to be standing on the line of touch (after all, their hooker is throwing along it!), FK for closing the gap. <br />
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There’s no fairness here: potential PK to Red versus Blue scrum (if offence is detected). <br />
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Solution - fix the line<br />
Law 19.8(n) is specific – “<b>Metre Gap:</b> Each line of players must be half a metre on their side of the line of touch”. Nowhere does the Law allow the referee to say "Black, the line is yours" but this often happens. Assistant Referees seem to have difficulty communicating the right place for the hooker to stand - often because the mark is ignored or conceded to one side or the other<br />
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This ploy spoils the game. 16 of every 30 players are forwards, and they should be allowed to compete as the Laws intend.
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1380182485630228643.post-76665926427753482332014-12-31T13:10:00.002+00:002024-01-30T11:34:26.436+00:00Beach Books 2014<br />1. The Bat, Jo Nesbo <div><br />2. Cockroaches, Jo Nesbo </div><div><br />3. The Girl Who Saved The Life of The King of Sweden, jonas Jonasson </div><div><br />4. Blink, Malcolm Gladwell </div><div><br />5. The German Genius, Peter Watson </div><div><br />6. Josiah the Great, Ben Macintyre </div><div><br />7. French Revolutions - Cycling the Tour de France, Tim Moore <br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1380182485630228643.post-16707574760077145522014-08-26T13:47:00.001+01:002014-12-01T10:11:10.699+00:00Cliff's questionLast Saturday, we were standing on the balcony in pleasant August sunshine with a beer in hand, watching Petersfield's pre-season warm-up match against a Chichester XV, refereed by the excellent Mike Gill. In the third quarter, Petersfield scored a try close to the near touchline. The kicker brought the ball back to the 10 metre line to gain the extra two points for the conversion. Cliff asked why they brought the kick so far back, and I agreed - it looked too far. Indeed the kick missed. <br />
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Obviously, the reason that the kicker brings the ball back from the try line is to make the apparent target as big as possible. The parallax effect means that the goal posts look wider apart as you move back, but at the same time the distance for the kick grows, making the kicker's task more difficult. What's the ideal distance to bring the ball back? Is there a simple way to work this out in the heat of the match? Probably every professional kicking coach knows this, and maybe there are doctoral theses on the subject, but here's my take on the question. </div>
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The geometry is simple - the width of the target depends on the distance back from the try line and the distance of the mark made by the referee from the mid-point of the goal posts. The width of the target can be shown as the angle viewed by the kicker from the point where the ball is placed. So assuming that the pitch has been marked up properly and is rectangular in shape, the following table shows this angle for various positions (distances in metres, angles in degrees):<br />
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<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width: 480px;"><colgroup><col span="10" style="mso-width-alt: 1755; mso-width-source: userset; width: 36pt;" width="48"></col>
</colgroup><tbody>
<tr height="39" style="height: 29.25pt; mso-height-source: userset;">
<td class="xl69" colspan="2" height="39" style="height: 29.25pt; text-align: right; width: 72pt;" width="96">Offset
from<br />
centre line</td>
<td class="xl70" style="text-align: center; width: 36pt;" width="48">0</td>
<td class="xl70" style="text-align: center; width: 36pt;" width="48">5</td>
<td class="xl70" style="text-align: center; width: 36pt;" width="48">10</td>
<td class="xl70" style="text-align: center; width: 36pt;" width="48">15</td>
<td class="xl70" style="text-align: center; width: 36pt;" width="48">20</td>
<td class="xl70" style="text-align: center; width: 36pt;" width="48">25</td>
<td class="xl70" style="text-align: center; width: 36pt;" width="48">30</td>
<td class="xl70" style="text-align: center; width: 36pt;" width="48">35</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td class="xl71" height="180" rowspan="9" style="height: 135pt; text-align: center;">Distance from try
line</td>
<td class="xl72" style="text-align: center;">10</td>
<td class="xl67" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(198, 239, 206); color: #006100; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 400; text-align: center; text-decoration: none;">31.3</td>
<td class="xl67" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(198, 239, 206); color: #006100; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 400; text-align: center; text-decoration: none;">25.5</td>
<td class="xl67" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(198, 239, 206); color: #006100; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 400; text-align: center; text-decoration: none;">16.2</td>
<td class="xl67" style="text-align: center;">10.0</td>
<td class="xl67" style="text-align: center;">6.5</td>
<td class="xl67" style="text-align: center;">4.5</td>
<td class="xl67" style="text-align: center;">3.2</td>
<td class="xl67" style="text-align: center;">2.4</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td class="xl72" height="20" style="height: 15pt; text-align: center;">15</td>
<td class="xl67" style="text-align: center;">21.1</td>
<td class="xl67" style="text-align: center;">19.1</td>
<td class="xl67" style="text-align: center;">14.8</td>
<td class="xl67" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(198, 239, 206); color: #006100; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 400; text-align: center; text-decoration: none;">10.8</td>
<td class="xl67" style="text-align: center;">7.8</td>
<td class="xl67" style="text-align: center;">5.7</td>
<td class="xl67" style="text-align: center;">4.3</td>
<td class="xl67" style="text-align: center;">3.3</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td class="xl72" height="20" style="height: 15pt; text-align: center;">20</td>
<td class="xl67" style="text-align: center;">15.9</td>
<td class="xl67" style="text-align: center;">15.0</td>
<td class="xl67" style="text-align: center;">12.8</td>
<td class="xl67" style="text-align: center;">10.3</td>
<td class="xl67" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(198, 239, 206); color: #006100; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 400; text-align: center; text-decoration: none;">8.0</td>
<td class="xl67" style="text-align: center;">6.3</td>
<td class="xl67" style="text-align: center;">5.0</td>
<td class="xl67" style="text-align: center;">4.0</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td class="xl72" height="20" style="height: 15pt; text-align: center;">25</td>
<td class="xl67" style="text-align: center;">12.8</td>
<td class="xl67" style="text-align: center;">12.3</td>
<td class="xl67" style="text-align: center;">11.0</td>
<td class="xl67" style="text-align: center;">9.4</td>
<td class="xl67" style="text-align: center;">7.8</td>
<td class="xl67" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(198, 239, 206); color: #006100; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 400; text-align: center; text-decoration: none;">6.4</td>
<td class="xl67" style="text-align: center;">5.3</td>
<td class="xl67" style="text-align: center;">4.3</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td class="xl72" height="20" style="height: 15pt; text-align: center;">30</td>
<td class="xl67" style="text-align: center;">10.7</td>
<td class="xl67" style="text-align: center;">10.4</td>
<td class="xl67" style="text-align: center;">9.6</td>
<td class="xl67" style="text-align: center;">8.6</td>
<td class="xl67" style="text-align: center;">7.4</td>
<td class="xl67" style="text-align: center;">6.3</td>
<td class="xl67" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(198, 239, 206); color: #006100; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 400; text-align: center; text-decoration: none;">5.4</td>
<td class="xl67" style="text-align: center;">4.5</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td class="xl72" height="20" style="height: 15pt; text-align: center;">35</td>
<td class="xl67" style="text-align: center;">9.1</td>
<td class="xl67" style="text-align: center;">9.0</td>
<td class="xl67" style="text-align: center;">8.5</td>
<td class="xl67" style="text-align: center;">7.7</td>
<td class="xl67" style="text-align: center;">6.9</td>
<td class="xl67" style="text-align: center;">6.1</td>
<td class="xl67" style="text-align: center;">5.3</td>
<td class="xl67" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(198, 239, 206); color: #006100; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 400; text-align: center; text-decoration: none;">4.6</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td class="xl72" height="20" style="height: 15pt; text-align: center;">40</td>
<td class="xl67" style="text-align: center;">8.0</td>
<td class="xl67" style="text-align: center;">7.9</td>
<td class="xl67" style="text-align: center;">7.5</td>
<td class="xl67" style="text-align: center;">7.0</td>
<td class="xl67" style="text-align: center;">6.4</td>
<td class="xl67" style="text-align: center;">5.8</td>
<td class="xl67" style="text-align: center;">5.1</td>
<td class="xl67" style="text-align: center;">4.5</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td class="xl72" height="20" style="height: 15pt; text-align: center;">45</td>
<td class="xl67" style="text-align: center;">7.1</td>
<td class="xl67" style="text-align: center;">7.0</td>
<td class="xl67" style="text-align: center;">6.8</td>
<td class="xl67" style="text-align: center;">6.4</td>
<td class="xl67" style="text-align: center;">6.0</td>
<td class="xl67" style="text-align: center;">5.4</td>
<td class="xl67" style="text-align: center;">4.9</td>
<td class="xl67" style="text-align: center;">4.4</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td class="xl72" height="20" style="height: 15pt; text-align: center;">50</td>
<td class="xl67" style="text-align: center;">6.4</td>
<td class="xl67" style="text-align: center;">6.3</td>
<td class="xl67" style="text-align: center;">6.2</td>
<td class="xl67" style="text-align: center;">5.9</td>
<td class="xl67" style="text-align: center;">5.5</td>
<td class="xl67" style="text-align: center;">5.1</td>
<td class="xl67" style="text-align: center;">4.7</td>
<td class="xl67" style="text-align: center;">4.3</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<br />
The widest angle for each 5 metre distance (wide and back) is highlighted in the table. With the crossbar at a height of 3 metres, I don't think many people will choose to kick from closer than 10.<br />
<br />
So on this basis, it looks as though the widest angle is always given by taking the ball back as far out as the mark is from the centre of the posts. On a full-sized pitch, this means that a line through the crossing point of the 15 metre dashed lines (20 metres from the centre of the pitch) and the 22 metre line is very close to the best apparent target. And conversions from the touchline should never be further back than about 5 metres short of the 10 metre line.<br />
<br />
The other important factor in deciding whether to kick, and where from, is the distance. A kick taken too far back will need a huge knock. Here's the distance table with the same squares highlighted as in the table above:<br />
<br />
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width: 480px;"><colgroup><col span="10" style="mso-width-alt: 1755; mso-width-source: userset; width: 36pt;" width="48"></col>
</colgroup><tbody>
<tr height="42" style="height: 31.5pt; mso-height-source: userset;">
<td class="xl66" colspan="2" height="42" style="height: 31.5pt; text-align: right; width: 72pt;" width="96">Offset
from<br />
centre line</td>
<td class="xl67" style="text-align: center; width: 36pt;" width="48">0</td>
<td class="xl67" style="text-align: center; width: 36pt;" width="48">5</td>
<td class="xl67" style="text-align: center; width: 36pt;" width="48">10</td>
<td class="xl67" style="text-align: center; width: 36pt;" width="48">15</td>
<td class="xl67" style="text-align: center; width: 36pt;" width="48">20</td>
<td class="xl67" style="text-align: center; width: 36pt;" width="48">25</td>
<td class="xl67" style="text-align: center; width: 36pt;" width="48">30</td>
<td class="xl67" style="text-align: center; width: 36pt;" width="48">35</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="180" rowspan="9" style="height: 135pt; text-align: center;">Distance from try
line</td>
<td class="xl69" style="text-align: center;">10</td>
<td class="xl67" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(198, 239, 206); color: #006100; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 400; text-align: center; text-decoration: none;">10.0</td>
<td class="xl67" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(198, 239, 206); color: #006100; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 400; text-align: center; text-decoration: none;">11.2</td>
<td class="xl67" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(198, 239, 206); color: #006100; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 400; text-align: center; text-decoration: none;">14.1</td>
<td class="xl65" style="text-align: center;">18.0</td>
<td class="xl65" style="text-align: center;">22.4</td>
<td class="xl65" style="text-align: center;">26.9</td>
<td class="xl65" style="text-align: center;">31.6</td>
<td class="xl65" style="text-align: center;">36.4</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="20" style="height: 15pt; text-align: center;">15</td>
<td class="xl65" style="text-align: center;">15.0</td>
<td class="xl65" style="text-align: center;">15.8</td>
<td class="xl65" style="text-align: center;">18.0</td>
<td class="xl67" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(198, 239, 206); color: #006100; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 400; text-align: center; text-decoration: none;">21.2</td>
<td class="xl65" style="text-align: center;">25.0</td>
<td class="xl65" style="text-align: center;">29.2</td>
<td class="xl65" style="text-align: center;">33.5</td>
<td class="xl65" style="text-align: center;">38.1</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="20" style="height: 15pt; text-align: center;">20</td>
<td class="xl65" style="text-align: center;">20.0</td>
<td class="xl65" style="text-align: center;">20.6</td>
<td class="xl65" style="text-align: center;">22.4</td>
<td class="xl65" style="text-align: center;">25.0</td>
<td class="xl67" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(198, 239, 206); color: #006100; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 400; text-align: center; text-decoration: none;">28.3</td>
<td class="xl65" style="text-align: center;">32.0</td>
<td class="xl65" style="text-align: center;">36.1</td>
<td class="xl65" style="text-align: center;">40.3</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="20" style="height: 15pt; text-align: center;">25</td>
<td class="xl65" style="text-align: center;">25.0</td>
<td class="xl65" style="text-align: center;">25.5</td>
<td class="xl65" style="text-align: center;">26.9</td>
<td class="xl65" style="text-align: center;">29.2</td>
<td class="xl65" style="text-align: center;">32.0</td>
<td class="xl67" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(198, 239, 206); color: #006100; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 400; text-align: center; text-decoration: none;">35.4</td>
<td class="xl65" style="text-align: center;">39.1</td>
<td class="xl65" style="text-align: center;">43.0</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="20" style="height: 15pt; text-align: center;">30</td>
<td class="xl65" style="text-align: center;">30.0</td>
<td class="xl65" style="text-align: center;">30.4</td>
<td class="xl65" style="text-align: center;">31.6</td>
<td class="xl65" style="text-align: center;">33.5</td>
<td class="xl65" style="text-align: center;">36.1</td>
<td class="xl65" style="text-align: center;">39.1</td>
<td class="xl67" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(198, 239, 206); color: #006100; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 400; text-align: center; text-decoration: none;">42.4</td>
<td class="xl65" style="text-align: center;">46.1</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="20" style="height: 15pt; text-align: center;">35</td>
<td class="xl65" style="text-align: center;">35.0</td>
<td class="xl65" style="text-align: center;">35.4</td>
<td class="xl65" style="text-align: center;">36.4</td>
<td class="xl65" style="text-align: center;">38.1</td>
<td class="xl65" style="text-align: center;">40.3</td>
<td class="xl65" style="text-align: center;">43.0</td>
<td class="xl65" style="text-align: center;">46.1</td>
<td class="xl67" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(198, 239, 206); color: #006100; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 400; text-align: center; text-decoration: none;">49.5</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="20" style="height: 15pt; text-align: center;">40</td>
<td class="xl65" style="text-align: center;">40.0</td>
<td class="xl65" style="text-align: center;">40.3</td>
<td class="xl65" style="text-align: center;">41.2</td>
<td class="xl65" style="text-align: center;">42.7</td>
<td class="xl65" style="text-align: center;">44.7</td>
<td class="xl65" style="text-align: center;">47.2</td>
<td class="xl65" style="text-align: center;">50.0</td>
<td class="xl65" style="text-align: center;">53.2</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="20" style="height: 15pt; text-align: center;">45</td>
<td class="xl65" style="text-align: center;">45.0</td>
<td class="xl65" style="text-align: center;">45.3</td>
<td class="xl65" style="text-align: center;">46.1</td>
<td class="xl65" style="text-align: center;">47.4</td>
<td class="xl65" style="text-align: center;">49.2</td>
<td class="xl65" style="text-align: center;">51.5</td>
<td class="xl65" style="text-align: center;">54.1</td>
<td class="xl65" style="text-align: center;">57.0</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="20" style="height: 15pt; text-align: center;">50</td>
<td class="xl65" style="text-align: center;">50.0</td>
<td class="xl65" style="text-align: center;">50.2</td>
<td class="xl65" style="text-align: center;">51.0</td>
<td class="xl65" style="text-align: center;">52.2</td>
<td class="xl65" style="text-align: center;">53.9</td>
<td class="xl65" style="text-align: center;">55.9</td>
<td class="xl65" style="text-align: center;">58.3</td>
<td class="xl65" style="text-align: center;">61.0</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<br />
So you can see that a 10 metre error in the positioning of a touchline conversion will change a 49.5 metre kick to 57 metres, as well as making the angle worse. On the other hand, taking the same kick from just outside the 22 metre line will worsen the angle by only 0.3 degrees (next to nothing) and make the kick 6.5 metres shorter - could be important for some kickers. <br />
<br />
All of these calculations assume that a kicker can hoof the ball 50-60 metres - easier at altitude - and they ignore weather conditions and pitch slopes that will lead to a more complex decision-making process. But it does look as though many kickers are making their task more difficult.<br />
<br />
Feedback welcome. </div>
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At last I've done the deed. I thought about it and <a href="http://blog.johnlholden.com/2013/07/sky-tv-customer-survey-4th-july.htm" target="_blank">blogged about it</a> last year. The final straw was another price rise and reduction in useful service, which has at last pushed me over the brink to cancel Sky Sports. <br />
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Sky used to be the place to watch Aviva Premiership matches, and cycling through Eurosport. The rot started when they started failing to provide proper coverage (semi finals on ESPN, for example). Then they moved Eurosport out of the Sports packages into an Entertainment package, best described as a pile of infantile rubbish costing extra £5 a month. Eurosport is sport, isn't it? And then they lost the rights to show Aviva Premiership Rugby to BT, and put the price up at the same time, presumably to provide even more funding for football players to keep their WAGs in the accustomed style. <br />
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In the 2013-14 season, the BT coverage started a little shakily but has gone from strength to strength. They have a great team of presenters, a fun format, and can bring a smile to your face in the midweek programme, unlike the tired old Sky show that we used to endure. Sky Sports is characterised by people sitting around in suits, BT by people enjoying themselves.<br />
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Any Sky Rugby coverage that I need to watch is shown at our local pub or at Grayshott Social Club. £20 a month or thereabouts is a high price to pay for the occasional Championship, Super Rugby or tour match. What about other sports? The BBC's Formula One coverage isn't as good as Sky's, but it's acceptable. Frankly Sky F1 is overblown, too many hours of blather; the noise to signal ratio is too high. I rarely watch it live, and delete most of it without watching the recording. Cricket isn't worth watching at the moment; Test Match Special on BBC Radio 4 LW is enough pain. And I've said enough about wendyball already. Better without it. Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1380182485630228643.post-21952096737816108862013-12-31T13:11:00.001+00:002024-01-30T11:33:40.233+00:00Beach Books 2013<br />1) Snuff, Terry Pratchett <div><br />2) Our Kind of Traitor, John Le Carré </div><div><br />3) A Universe from Nothing, Lawrence M Krauss </div><div><br />4) The 100-Year Old Man Who Climbed Out Of The Window and Disappeared, Jonas Jonasson </div><div><br />5) Patrick Leigh Fermor: An Adventure, Artemis Cooper </div><div><br />6) The Pickwick Papers, Charles Dickens
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