Category: Rooties Recent Reading

I have no opinion on the author as a person (I never followed the politics) but I’m certain he writes great stories. This book reminded me of reading his work when I was growing up. You think you know what’s going to happen but somehow there’s a twist at every stage. Personally I thought this…

I love flying, I like sailing. Therefore a book involving sailing is probably going to hold my interest though I found this one hard going. I’m not sure it’s the books fault, more the fact I took a couple of weeks to go through the first few chapters before I had more reading time. It…

Another classic Sharpe, I’m amazed by just how many stories Bernard Cornwell has written about one man, in one historically accurate time-line of 20 of his characters years. Sharpe is politically outmaneuvered early in the story by Major Pierre Ducos which results in Sharpe being hanged….. except we know he survives as he is in…