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Rabbit, Run - John Updike (1960)

Poor Rabbit, his life was meant to be so good. Harry ‘Rabbit’ Angstrum was young, popular and the high school basketball star. But now, only a few years later, nothing has worked out the way he was so sure it would. With a young wife, a little boy and another child on the way…

A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess (1962)

Our humble narrator in ‘A Clockwork Orange’ is Alex, Alex is 15, living with his not so strict, caring and hard working parents, he goes to school and has a passion for Beethoven’s 9th. Evenings he enjoys drinking Milk Plus, ‘milk with daggers in it’, to sharpen you up for a bit…

Brighton Rock - Graham Greene (1938)

It is quite apt that in the month of promising to undertake this review, Graham Greene himself a member of the secret intelligence service whom worked under the infamous Kim Philby is also noted for aspiring John Le Carre, possibly even as his progeny, the author we are currently…

Post Office - Charles Bukowski (1971)

Henry Chinaski is a tough guy. He’s the invention of Charles Bukowski, a poet and writer who used to work with the post office. And this is where Chinaski works too. We follow him on what amounts to a story that’s pretty disjointed and full of some pretty sick goings-on. If you…

Catch 22 - Joseph Heller (1961)

The Martian - Andy Weir (2011)

A boys own adventure set on the big red planet, The Martian sets up our ‘hero’ biologist/astronaut Mark Watney as a McGuyver type character who can solve almost any problem with a little know how, a few tools and occasionally some luck. Stranded on Mars after a major dust storm…

The Rum Diary - Hunter S Thompson (1998)

The Razor's Edge - W. Somerset Maugham (1944)

The Call Of The Wild - Jack London (1903)

The Stand - Stephen King (long read)

Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad (1899)

For Whom the Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway (1940)

I am a big fan of Hemingway’s writing - the man not so much. His ability to evoke a particular time and place is what has drawn me to his work. The Sun Also Rises, The Snows of Kilimanjaro and A Movable Feast are all examples of immersive story telling where I can taste the cheap…