Recent content by beneak

Written with great detail, this is an account of the foremost spy services: British Intelligence, both home and abroad, the KGB, the CIA, and others. From the cradle to adulthood. Phillip Knightly is first of all a journalist with an enquiring eye and, at times, a sharp pen. Bureaucracy...

Just Finished .. Hi all, I read, 'A Country Doctor's Notebook, by Mikhail Bulgakov,' on my travels. Wow. Gutsy fella'. It's heck of a story for anyone who likes fact-based stuff. I have in my hot and sticky 'lickle' hand, 'Hustling on Gorky Street by Yuri Brokin.' A pressie from the...

Fact-based, against the odds stuff: Touching the Void - Operation Mincemeat. Fact-based fiction that has a well researched story to tell: A Farewell to Arms - The Grapes of Wrath - To Kill a Mockingbird. Good fiction that is not outright fantasy (of which there is far too much weighing the...

Just to say, 'Hello' and we (the wifey joined up yesterday - Moneaka) hope to get lots from being here (good reads). Mon and I travel (forever in a departure lounge or on an airplane) a lot, and so like to gather good fodder before we set off.