what I have been reading & new books
'Blood Orchid An Unnatural History Of America' by Charles Bowden
'Bangkok 8' crime fiction by John Burdett
'Parisian Lives: Samuel Beckett, Simon De Beauvoir, And Me' a memoir by Deirdre Bair
'To Hell And Back: Europe 1914-1949' by Ian Kershaw
'Will' a fictional memoir by Will Self
'Aleister Crowley: Magick, Rock And Roll, And The Wickedest Man In The World' biography by Gary Lachman
'Life In A Cold Climate: Nancy Metford: The Biography' by Laura Thompson