What are you favourite series of books. Mine are the Sven Hassel ones about life in a German Penal battalion during WWII. The Spike Milligan war memoirs The books about Adam Bolitho, about the life and career of a sailor during Nelson's time by Alexander Kent.
Random one but Susan Cooper's series, The Dark Is Rising. Captivated me as a teenager. please log in to view this image
Murakami IQ 1984 and the Christopher Brookmyre Jack Parlabane books. Oh, and quite obviously the colin Bateman Dan Starkey novels.
The Rebus novels and Conn Iggulden's Caesar and Genghis series. And the Sharpe books from when I was a lad.
I'm currently working my through this series of books. I find them absolutely riveting. I can't put them down. And the plots in them have so many twists, you just can't guess what happens next. Brilliant please log in to view this image
Allan Mallinson series about the 6th Light Dragoons are good. Sort of Sharpe but more intellectual and better written about the rise of an officer cadet to full Colonel. There are 11 in the series so far. Also think the Spike Milligan war memoirs are brilliant and obviously Game of Thrones for fantasy style.
For me Sartre's The Roads to Freedom trilogy. A more recent thing I got into was David Peace's Red Riding stuff. The 1977 one is probably one of the bleakest books I have ever read. C4 made three films out of them a couple of years back despite Red Riding thing being a quadrilogy they kind of skipped over 1977.
Absolute agreement. Outstanding from start to finish. Slightly lighter, tried any Jo Nesbo Harry Hole novels?
Martin Cruz Smith: Gorky Park Polar Star Red Square Havana Bay Wolves Eat Dogs Chernobyl, Stalin's Ghost Three Stations Arkady Renko Not everyones cup of tea, moi? I love the character.
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All of the Conn Iguldenn series based on Caesar, Ghengis Khan and Napoleon And Simon Scarrow's "grown up" series involving mainly the adventures of a couple of Roman soldiers. Easier reading than Conn Iguldenn and not maybe as slavishly true to history, but very entertaining nevertheless. (I say grown up because the same author writes a tandem series, aimed more at the young adult.)