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Retired scientist, I read a lot, fiction and non-fiction, on a wide range of subjects, though science, politics, philosophy, law, science fiction and historical detective stories are favourites.

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Peter Zeihan: The End of the World Is Just the Beginning (Paperback, 2022, Harper Business)
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Andrew Taylor: Shadows of London (2023, HarperCollins Publishers Limited)
Rachel Clarke: Breathtaking (EBook, Little, Brown Book Group)

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Adam Kucharski: The Rules of Contagion (Hardcover, 2020, Basic Books)
Javier Blas, Jack Farchy: The World For Sale (2021)
Simon Winchester: Exactly: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World (2018, William Collins)

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Frank Herbert: Dune (1987, Ace Books)
Sarah Gilbert, Dr. Catherine Green: Vaxxers (Hardcover, 2022, Hodder & Stoughton)
Susanna Clarke: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (2005)

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commented on A Painted House by John Grisham

John Grisham: A Painted House (Paperback, 2001, Century) No rating

Using his own childhood for inspiration (and leaving the lawyers behind), bestselling author John Grisham …

I found the similarities between the cotton farming community and the Lewis Islanders of The Lewis Trilogy were interesting. Both are economically living on the edge, working extremely hard just to survive. A strongly fundamentalist church plays a strong part in people's lives, on the Sabbath at least.

commented on A Painted House by John Grisham

John Grisham: A Painted House (Paperback, 2001, Century) No rating

Using his own childhood for inspiration (and leaving the lawyers behind), bestselling author John Grisham …

Luke's uncle is away fighting in the Korean War. The lower ranks of armies fighting foreign wars for reasons which are not obvious to the home population seen to be disproportionally filled with young men from rural or impoverished backgrounds, sent to fight far from home. I am reminded of the Russians being send to fight in Ukraine.