Reading

I like reading, books^* are great. I aim for about a book a week, every week. Here are a few I've read recently:

Private Eye Annual 2020Ian Hislop

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"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!":
Adventures of a Curious CharacterRichard P. Feynman

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Absolute FriendsJohn le Carré

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The Death's Head Chess ClubJohn Donoghue

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The Little Sister (Philip Marlowe, #5)Raymond Chandler

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The Monk of MokhaDave Eggers

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The Power of MythJoseph Campbell

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The Uninhabitable Earth:
A Story of the FutureDavid Wallace-Wells

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For Whom the Bell TollsErnest Hemingway

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Women & Power:
A ManifestoMary Beard

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NeuroTribes:
The Legacy of Autism and How to Think Smarter About People Who Think DifferentlySteve Silberman

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Rome:
Eternal CityFerdinand Addis

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Hard TimesCharles Dickens

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Attila the HunJohn Man

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Moondust:
In Search Of The Men Who Fell To EarthAndrew Smith

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How to Walk a Puma:
And Other Things I Learned While Stumbling through South AmericaPeter Allison

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The Shortest History of GermanyJames Hawes

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The SunbirdWilbur Smith

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Ivory, Apes & Peacocks:
Animals, Adventure and Discovery in the Wild Places of AfricaAlan Root

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The Man Who Deciphered Linear B:
The Story of Michael VentrisAndrew Robinson

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The Door in the WallH.G. Wells

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Eight Little Piggies:
Reflections in Natural HistoryStephen Jay Gould

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The Three HostagesJohn Buchan

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The Emperors of Rome:
The Story of Imperial Rome from Julius Caesar to the Last EmperorDavid Stone Potter

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Station ElevenEmily St. John Mandel

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The Language of Kindness:
A Nurse's StoryChristie Watson

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Winter KingThomas Penn

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Blue Moon (Jack Reacher, #24)Lee Child

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The Man With the Golden GunIan Fleming

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Killing Floor (Jack Reacher, #1)Lee Child

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The CircleDave Eggers

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One Hot Summer:
Dickens, Darwin, Disraeli, and the Great Stink of 1858Rosemary Ashton

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Love, Life, and Elephants:
An African Love StoryDaphne Sheldrick

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The DeepNick Cutter

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Other Minds:
The Octopus and the Evolution of Intelligent LifePeter Godfrey-Smith

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WeYevgeny Zamyatin

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King and Maxwell (Sean King & Michelle Maxwell, #6)David Baldacci

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The Quiet AmericanGraham Greene

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No Is Not Enough:
Resisting Trump’s Shock Politics and Winning the World We NeedNaomi Klein

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The Invention of Nature:
The Adventures of Alexander von HumboldtAndrea Wulf

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The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an EyeDavid Lagercrantz

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1913:
The World Before the Great WarCharles Emmerson

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Journey to the Centre of the EarthJules Verne

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The House of Silk (Sherlock Holmes, #1)Anthony Horowitz

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Call for the Dead (George Smiley #1)John le Carré

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Iraq:
A HistoryJohn Robertson

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FenDaisy Johnson

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Time’s ArrowMartin Amis

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Breaking the Chains of Gravity:
The Story of Spaceflight before NASAAmy Shira Teitel

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The Ballad of Syd & MorganHaydn Middleton

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