by David West | Jul 27, 2022 | Readers Club
Sticking with Stephen King. On Writing is autobiographical and also packed with advice on the craft of writing. I loved it. I just opened it and flicked through it again. I came across this: “Not every book has to be loaded with symbolism, irony, or musical language...
by David West | Jul 26, 2022 | Readers Club
Horror isn’t my favourite genre, but you won’t need reminding what a genius Stephen King is. I still have nightmares about that possessed 1958 Plymouth Fury car, Christine. How many books have been written about haunted houses? I have no idea, but I only know one...
by David West | Jul 25, 2022 | Readers Club
I can’t ignore the book that has had such an important influence on my recent life. It’s another biography, sorry about that. Sir Francis Drake by George Malcolm Thomson. It’s certainly a fast paced, fact packed book. It was this passage that changed my life. “The...
by David West | Jul 24, 2022 | Readers Club
Veering away from biography, C.J. Sansom is a brilliant writer of historical fiction. My wife introduced me to his books. In my opinion Revelation is his finest. It’s the fourth book in the Matthew Shardlake Mysteries. Matthew is a barrister during Henry VIII’s reign....
by David West | Jul 18, 2022 | Readers Club
I read The Tao of Physics by Fritjof Capra in the late 1980’s after a friend recommended it. It draws parallels between quantum physics and eastern philosophy. Immediately after reading it, I woke up in the middle of the night feeling that I understood the universe....
by David West | Jul 16, 2022 | Readers Club
To get Book Club going, my favourite book is The Last Enemy by Richard Hillary. It was published as Falling Through Space in the US. I first read it at Oxford, and Hillary’s story begins during his time at Oxford immediately before WWII. He is determined to become a...
