Spanish
Antony Beevor “Battle for Spain - The Spanish Civil War. 1936-39”George Orwell's "A Homage to Catalonia"
Ernest Hemingway's "For Whom The Bell Tolls". Paul Preston's “Franco – A biography”
CJ Sansom “Winter in Madrid”
Graham Greene “Monsignor Quixote”
Giles Tremlett “Ghosts of Spain
Gabriel Garcia Marquez and E. Grossman “Love in the time of Cholera” Spanish love story
Isabelle Allende “Zorro”
Carlos Ruiz Zafon “Shadow of the Wind” Spanish Drama
Javier Cercas “Soldiers of Salamis” Civil war
Sport
David Peace “The Damned Utd”
Gary Imlach “My father and other Working Class Heroes”
Phil Ball Morbo the Story of Spanish football- History and politics in Spanish football.
Ulrich Hesse-Lichtenberger “Tor – the story of German football”
Lance Armstrong's “autobiography”
Rob Bagchi, Paul Rogerson "The Unforgiven"
H G Bissinger 'Friday Night Lights'
Andrew Jennings “Foul”
Tom Bower “Broken Dreams: Vanity, Greed and the Souring of British Football.”
James S Hirsch “Hurricane : The life of Rubin Carter, Fighter”
Paul McGrath autobiog
Niall Quinn Autobiog
Others
William Dalrymple “The Last Mughal. The fall of a dynasty, Delhi, 1857”
Joseph O'Connor's “Redemption Falls” American civil war
Jon Halliday & Jung Chang “Mao”
David Mitchell “Ghostwritten” Japanese death cult!!!
John McGahern's "That they may face the rising sun' Life in an Irish village
Brian Moore “Black Robe” Settling in Canada
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie "Half of a Yellow Sun". Biafran civil war
Joseph Ratzinger aka Pope Benedict XIV “Jesus of Nazareth”
Khaled Hosseini “The Kite Runner” a boy in Afghan Growing up
Ben Okri “the famished road” Read the review and still don’t understand it
JP Donleavy's “The Ginger man” or any other of books. Society in Dublin and London told through a drunk Womaniser….sounds goodSpike Milligan “Puckoon” It's 1924 and the Boundary Commission is deciding on the new line between Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic. With much pushing and shoving, the border finds it's way down the middle of Puckoon, dividing house from outhouse, man from wife, and pub chairs from bars. Something must be done!
Tom Sharpe ”Wilt” and “The Throwback”
Frank Skinners Autobiography.
John Cole's "As It Seemed To Me"
Richard Pryor's “Pryor convictions and other life sentences”
Jonathan Harr “A Civil Action” The story of a law suit which lasts 30 years”
Gary Younge, "Stranger in a Strange Land : Encounters in a disunited land" a series of articles on American culture, attitudes towards race, war and foreign policy
Jonathen Franzen “The Corrections” Franzen gives himself plenty of room to examine the foibles, fears, hopes, anxieties and neuroses of 21st-century American life
Nate Blakeslee “Tulia: Race, Cocain and corruption In a small Texas town”Malachi Martin “Hostage to the Devil: The possession and Exorcism of 5 living Americans “
Frederick Taylor 'Dresden'
antony beevor “Stalingrad”
Anonymous “A Woman in Berlin” Dominic Sandbrook “Never Had It So Good: A History of Britain from the Suez to the beatles”
Slavomir Rawicz “The Long Walk. The true story of a trek to freedom
John Boyne “The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas” Story of the HolocaustSusan Nathan “The Other Side of Israel”Giovanni Guareschi "The Little World of Don Camillo"
Paul Johnston "The Bone Yard" and "Water of Death"
Gabriel García Márquez “100 years of Solitude” The story of seven generations of the Buendia family and of Macondo, the town they have built. Though little more than a settlement surrounded by mountains, Macondo has its wars and disasters, even its wonders and miracles. A microcosm of Columbian life, its secrets lie hidden, encoded in a book and only Aureliano Buendia can fathom its mysteries and reveal its shrouded destiny. Blending political reality with magic realism, fantasy with comic invention
Bill Watkins “Celtic Childhood” Childhood stories in Ireland, England and Wales
Irish" by John Burrowes Story of the Irish in Glasgow
Paul Burke “Father Frank” an accidental journey into priesthood
Peter Sheridan “44: Dublin Made me"
Philip Pullnam 'His Dark Materials'
Terrel Miedaner “The Soul of Anna Klane “
Elizabeth Kostova "The Historian" (Don't read alone!)David J Garrow “Bearing the Cross”
Yann Martel's 'Life Of Pi' Campbell Armstrong “The Last Darkness” Murders in GlasgowIrwin Shaw “The Young Lions” People during WW2Tom Sharpe “Riotous Assembly” Sound like African perversion
Brian Masters “The Shrine of Jeffrey Dahmer”
Donald Woods “Biko”
John Irving " a prayer for owen meany"
Bill Bryson's "a short history of nearly everything".
David James Any of his books He created an interesting Russian Detective in Vadim. Plots set somewhere 2030 on as I remember. Original book is Monstrum I believe.
Robert Service “The collected Poems of “
AND the one’s that could not even get into the others category
Eric Thompson Magic Roundabout books The Adventures Of Dougal, The Adventures Of Brian, The Adventures Of Dylan and The Adventures Of Ermintrude
Gilbert Shelton "The Complete Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers"
