Excluding snatches of poetry, the odd chapter I re-read from books I had read half a dozen times already or books that I read the first chapter of and then discarded. If I subsequently have bothered to write about the book, it's linked to the relevant post.
Monday, 18 January 2021
Terminally Fabulous: A Young Woman’s Fight for Dignity and Fabulousness on her Terminal Cancer Journey by Lisa and Geraldine Magill
Monday, 28 Decenber 2020
The Collected Stories of Rumpole by John Mortimer
Friday, 18 December 2020
Hombres buenos (Good Men) by Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Wednesday, 16 December 2020
The Sorrow of War by Bao Ninh
Monday, 14 December 2020
Sharpe’s Company by Bernard Cornwell
Saturday, 12 December 2020
HMS Unseen by Patrick Robinson
Wednesday, 9 December
Kilo Class by Patrick Robinson
Sunday, 6 December 2020
Nimitz Class by Patrick Robinson
Monday, 9 November 2020
El pintor de batallas (The Painter of Battles) by Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Sunday, 1 November 2020
Pushing Ice by Alastair Reynolds
Thursday, 29 October 2020
Moving Target by Elizabeth Moon
Saturday, 24 October 2020
El húsar by Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Monday, 19 October 2020
The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
Tuesday, 13 October 2020
Trading in Danger by Elizabeth Moon
Tuesday, 6 October 2020
Moorish Spain by Richard Fletcher
Thursday, 17 September 2020
El catolicismo explicado a las ovejas (Catholicism explained to the Sheep) by Juan Eslava Galán
Thursday, 10 September 2020
Huan-ti átka (Huan-ti’s Curse) by Leslie L. Lawrence
Tuesday, 8 September 2020
Fresh Off the Boat by Eddie Huang
Friday, 28 August 2020
South by Java Head by Alistair Maclean
Saturday, 22 August 2020
River of Death by Alistair Maclean
Wednesday, 19 August 2020
Run Silent, Run Deep by Commander Edward L. Beach, USN
Thursday, 13 August 2020
Death in Venice by Thomas Mann
Friday, 17 July 2020
Basho’s Journey: The Literary Prose of Matsuo Basho by Matsuo Basho
Saturday, 4 July 2020
The Heiké Story by Eiji Yoshikawa
Monday, 29 June 2020
Una historia de España by Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Friday, 5 June 2020
Rivers of Gold: The Rise of the Spanish Empire by Hugh Thomas
Friday, 29 May 2020
The Penguin Book of Brexit Cartoons
Monday, 25 May 2020
Freedom and Death by Nikos Kazantzakis
Wednesday, 13 May 2020
Sicily: A Short History from the Ancient Greeks to Cosa Nostra by John Julius Norwich
Thursday, 7 May 2020
A pirkadat (The Break of Day, Fortunes of France 6) by Robert Merle
Thursday, 30 April 2020
Szenvedélyes szeretet (Violent love, Fortunes of France 5) by Robert Merle
Thursday, 23 April 2020
Íme, a király! (League of Spies) by Robert Merle
Friday, 17 April 2020
Jó városunk, Párizs (Heretic Dawn) by Robert Merle
Friday, 3 April 2020
La tabla de Flandes (The Flanders Panel) by Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Sunday, 15 March 2020
Friday, 6 March 2020
Autobiography of a Seaman by Admiral Lord Cochrane
Saturday, 29 February 2020
Bath Tangle by Georgette Heyer
Monday, 24 February 2020
Pigs Have Wings by P. G. Wodehouse
Friday, 14 February 2020
Lords of the Sea: How Athenian Trireme Battles Changed History by John R. Hale
Monday, 10 February 2020
Gesta Hungarorum (The Deeds of the Hungarians) by Anonymus
Thursday, 6 February 2020
A láthatatlan kolostor (The Invisible Monastery) by Leslie L. Lawrence
Friday, 31 January 2020
Tulpa by Leslie L. Lawrence
Monday, 27 January 2020
SPQR by Mary Beard
Friday, 24 January 2020
Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell
MOnday, 20 January 2020
Sharpe’s Eagle by Bernard Cornwell
Friday, 17 January 2020
Sharpe’s Gold by Bernard Cornwell
Sunday, 12 JANUARY 2020
Imperial Earth by Arthur C. Clarke
Thursday, 9 January 2020
The Ghost from the Grand Banks by Arthur C. Clarke
SATURDAY, 4 January 2020
Sharpe’s Siege by Bernard Cornwell
Thursday, 31 December 2019
The Last Days of Pompeii by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Tuesday, 24 December 2019
Wodehouse at the Wicket by P. G. Wodehouse
Friday, 29 November 2019
Constantinople: The Last Great Siege, 1453 by Roger Crowley
Monday, 25 November 2019
El maestro de esgrima (The Fencing Master) by Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Monday, 4 November 2019
Sidi: Un relato de la frontera (Sidi: A Border Tale) by Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Friday, 1 November 2019
La escuadra costera (The Inshore Squadron) by Alexander Kent
Monday, 14 October 2019
Moral Letters to Lucilius / Letters from a Stoic by Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Nubes de tormenta (Signal – Close Action) by Alexander Kent
Friday, 4 October 2019
El buque insignia (The Flag Captain) by Alexander Kent
Friday, 27 September 2019
El héroe discreto (The Discreet Hero) by Mario Vargas Llosa
Saturday, 21 September 2019
Enemigo a la vista (Enemy in Sight) by Alexander Kent
Tuesday, 17 September 2019
En línea de combate (Form Line of Battle) by Alexander Kent
Tuesday, 10 September 2019
Bailén by Benito Pérez Galdós
Monday, 2 September 2019
South from Granada by Gerald Brenan
Friday, 26 July 2019
Wednesday, 24 July 2019
The Test by Nathan Leamon
Friday, 19 July 2019
El 19 marzo y el 2 de mayo (19th March and 2nd May) by Benito Pérez Galdós
Tuesday, 16 July 2019
The Great Betrayal: The Great Siege of Constantinople by Ernle Bradford
Monday, 15 July 2019
The Duel by Joseph Conrad
Monday, 24 June 2019
Once to Sinai: The Further Pilgrimage of Friar Felix Fabri by H. F. M. Prescott
Wednesday, 6 June 2019
La corte de Carlos IV (The Court of Charles IV) by Benito Pérez Galdós
Friday, 24 May 2019
Isla del tesoro (Treasure Island) by Robert Louis Stevenson
Saturday, 18 May 2019
Why Is Art Full of Naked People? by Susie Hodge
Tuesday, 14 May 2019
King Jesus by Robert Graves
Tuesday, 30 April 2019
Zen Culture by Thomas Hoover
Wednesday, 24 April 2019
Jádegyűrű-lépéses mandarinkacsa-rúgás (Step of Jade Ring, Leg of Mandarin Duck) by András Tótisz
Thursday, 18 April 2019
Fundación y Tierra (Foundation and Earth) by Isaac Asimov
Friday, 5 April 2019
Los limites de la fundación (Foundation’s Edge) by Isaac Asimov
Wednesday, 3 April 2019
1000 sitios que ver en España al menos una vez en la vida (1000 Places to See in Spain at least Once in Life) by Juan Eslava Galán
Wednesday, 20 March 2019
Don Quijote de La Mancha by Miguel Cervantes de Saavedra
Monday, 18 March 2019
Kozmikus főnyeremény (Dimension of Miracles) by Robert Sheckley
Friday, 15 March 2019
A rodzsungok kolostora (The Monastery of Ro-langs) by Leslie L. Lawrence
Wednesday, 27 February 2019
La Rubaiyat de Omar Khayyam (The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam) by Omar Khayyam
Sunday, 17 February 2019
Diario del gran asedio de Malta 1565 (The Great Siege of Malta 1565) by Francisco Balbi de Correggio
Friday, 15 February 2019
Segunda Fundación (Second Foundation) by Isaac Asimov
Tuesday, 12 February 2019
Fundación e Imperio (Foundation and Empire) by Isaac Asimov
Friday, 8 February 2019
Fundación (Foundation) by Isaac Asimov
Wednesday, 30 January 2019
La vida, el universo y todo lo demás (Life, the Universe and Everything) by Douglas Adams
Tuesday, 15 January 2019
El restaurante del fin del mundo (The Restaurant at the End of the Universe) by Douglas Adams
Thursday, 3 January 2019
Guía del autoestopista galáctico (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy) by Douglas Adams
Tuesday, 25 December 2018
The Radetzky March by Joseph Roth
Sunday, 9 December 2018
Fiesta (The Sun Also Rises) by Ernest Hemingway
Wednesday, 14 November 2018
Uncompromising Honor by David Weber
Saturday, 3 November 2018
Una historia de la guerra civil que no va a gustar a nadie (A History of the Civil War that Nobody’s Going to Like) by Juan Eslava Galán
Friday, 19 October 2018
The Diary of an Idle Woman in Sicily by Frances Elliot
Friday, 5 October 2018
El codigo Da Vinci (The Da Vinci Code)by Dan Brown
Sunday, 23 September 2018
Yo, robot (I, Robot) by Isaac Asimov
Monday, 27 August 2018
Old Court Life in Spain by Frances Elliott
Wednesday, 1 August 2018
Vivo o muerto (Dead or Alive) by Tom Clancy
Friday, 20 July 2018
Estado de sitio (State of Siege) by Tom Clancy
Tuesday, 26 June 2018
Magellan by Stefan Zweig
Thursday, 31 May 2018
The History of Zen by Thomas Hoover
Thursday, 17 May 2018
Cita dorada (Golden Rendezvous) by Alistair MacLean
Wednesday, 2 May 2018
Hombres de armas (Men at Arms) by Terry Pratchett
Thursday, 26 April 2018
¡Guardias! ¡Guardias! (Guards! Guards!) by Terry Pratchett
Sunday, 22 April 2018
Wednesday, 11 April 2018
Matar a Leonardo da Vinci (To Kill Leonardo da Vinci) by Christian Gálvez
Sunday, 8 April 2018
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
Thursday, 5 April 2018
Pilgrim of Hate by Ellis Peters
Monday, 2 APRIL 2018
An Excellent Mystery by Ellis Peters
Friday, 16 March 2018
A Rising Thunder by David Weber
Thursday, 8 March 2018
Mission of Honor by David Weber
Murphy’s Law And Other Reasons Why Things Go Wrong by Arthur Bloch
Tuesday, 27 February 2018
At All Costs by David Weber
Friday, 23 February 2018
War of Honor by David Weber
Saturday, 3 February 2018
Ashes of Victory by David Weber
Saturday, 27 January 2018
Echoes of Honor by David Weber
Tuesday, 16 January 2018
In Enemy Hands by David Weber
Delphi: A History of the Centre of the Ancient World by Michael Scott
Friday, 12 January 2018
Honour Among Enemies by David Weber
Monday, 8 January 2018
Flag in Exile by David Weber
Sunday, 7 January 2018
Field of Dishonour by David Weber
Monday, 1 January 2018
The Short Victorious War by David Weber
Thursday, 28 December 2017
The Honour of the Queen by David Weber
Monday, 25 December 2017
On Basilisk Station by David Weber
Saturday, 23 December 2017
Captain Brand of the “Centipede” by Harry Gringo
Thursday, 21 December 2017
Childhood’s End by Arthur C. Clarke
Tuesday, 19 December 2017
The Wanderings of Brother Felix Fabri by Felix Fabri
Thursday, 14 December 2017
The Three Cutters by Captain Frederick Marryat
Monday, 11 December 2017
The Pirate by Captain Frederick Marryat
Tuesday, 21 November 2017
Vida de este capitán (The Life of This Captain) by Alonso de Contreras
Thursday, 16 November 2017
Quién mató a Palomino Molero? (Who Killed Palomino Molero?) by Mario Vargas LLosa
FRiday, 10 November 2017
Silence by Shusaku Endo
Monday, 6 November 2107
The Golden Rendezvous by Alistair Maclean
Friday, 3 November 2017
Santorini by Alistair Maclean
Monday, 30 October 2017
Piszkos Fred közbelép (Dirty Fred Intervenes) by Jenő Rejtő
Wednesday, 25 October 2017
A három testőr Afrikában (The Three Musketeers in Africa) by Jenő Rejtő
Monday, 16 October 2017
Full Moon by P. G. Wodehouse
Saturday, 14 October 2017
A hódító (The Conqueror) by Ivan Olbracht
Thursday, 12 October 2017
Shogun by James Clavell
Friday, 6 october 2017
Why Read the Classics? by Italo Calvino
Monday, 2 October 2017
Breakfast at Tiffany’s by Truman Capote
Friday, 22 September 2017
Captain Blood by Rafael Sabatini
Wednesday, 13 September 2017
A Cup of Sake Beneath the Cherry Trees by Yoshida Kenko
Saturday, 9 September 2017
The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches by Matsuo Basho
Tuesday, 29 August 2017
Tao Teh King by Lao Tzu
Monday, 28 August 2017
Los barcos se pierden en tierra (Ships Are Lost on Land) by Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Saturday, 12 August 2017
Misterioso asesinato en casa de Cervantes (Mysterious Murder in the House of Cervantes) by Juan Esclava Galán
Wednesday, 9 August 2017
Kerengő (Cloister) by György Spiró
Friday, 4 August 2017:
Os Lusíadas: em Banda Desenhada (The Lusiads: in Comics) by Luís Vaz de Camões & José Ruy
Sunday 30 July 2017
Conquerors: How Portugal Forged the First Global Empire by Roger Crowley
Sunday 9 July 2017
Julianus barát (Brother Julian) by János Kodolányi
Friday, 7 July 2017
2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke
Friday, 30 June 2017
Abducting a General: The Kreipe Operation and SOE in Crete by Patrick Leigh Fermor
Monday, 29 May 2017
La carta esférica (The Nautical Chart) by Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Friday, 26 May 2017
Elephant Bill by Lt.-Col. J. H. Williams
Thursday, 17 May 2017
Trafalgar by Benito Pérez Galdós
Monday, 15 May 2017
Perzsa levelek (Persian Letters) by Charles-Louis de Secondat de Montesquieu
Wednesday, 10 May 2017
Don Quijote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes
Thursday, 27 April 2017
The Persians by Aeschylus
El juguete rabioso by Roberto Arlt
Friday, 7 April 2017
Roads to Santiago: Detours and Riddles in the Lands and History of Spain by Cees Nooteboom
Friday, 24 March 2017
Ad infinitum: A Biography of Latin by Nicholas Ostler
Monday, 20 March 2017
The Elephant Whisperer by Lawrence Anthony with Graham Spence
Saturday, 18 March 2017
The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
Tuesday, 14 March 2017
Canoeing in the Wilderness by Henry David Thoreau
Sunday, 12 February 2017
El asedio (The Siege) by Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Saturday, 11 February 2017
A gyertyák csonkig égnek (Embers) by Sándor Márai
Friday, 10 February 2017
Read This If You Want to Take Great Photographs by Henry Carroll
Sunday, 22 January 2017
Roumeli: Travels in Northern Greece by Patrick Leigh Fermor
Monday, 16 January 2017
Falcó by Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Saturday, 3 December 2016
Tuesday, 22 November 2016
Final Assault by Stephen Ames Berry
Saturday, 19 November 2016
The AI War by Stephen Ames Berry
Friday, 18 November 2016
The Battle for Terra Two by Stephen Ames Berry
Wednesday, 16 November 2016
The Biofab War by Stephen Ames Berry
Sunday, 6 November 2016
Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative by Austin Kleon
Show Your Work! 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered by Austin Kleon
Wednesday, 28 September 2106
Háború és béke (War and Peace) by Leo Tolstoy
Sunday, 11 September 2016
Anabasis (The Persian Expedition) by Xenophon
Friday, 2 September 2016
The World Encompassed by Sir Francis Drake
Tuesday, 23 August 2016
La historia de España sin los trozos aburridos (The History of Spain Without the Boring Bits) by Fernando Garcés Blázquez
Sunday, 21 August 2016
A három testőr (The Three Musketeers) by Alexandre Dumas
Monday, 8 August 2016
El club Dumas (The Dumas Club) by Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Saturday, 6 August 2016
The Periodic Table by Primo Levi
Sunday, 31 July 2016
La fragata Sirena (The Frigate Sirena) by Luis Delgado Bañón
Saturday, 23 July 2016
The Bible in Spain by George Borrow
The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder
Monday, 18 July 2016
Empires of the Sea: The Final Battle for the Mediterranean, 1521-1580 by Roger Crowley
Sunday, 17 July 2016
A Moment of War by Laurie Lee
Saturday, 16 July 2016
Sum: Tales from the Afterlives by David Eagleman
Tuesday, 12 July 2016
As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning by Laurie Lee
Sunday, 10 July 2016
A Rose for the Winter by Laurie Lee
Wednesday, 6 July 2016
The Toll-Gate by Georgette Heyer
Thursday, 23 June 2016
Little Cabbages by George Mikes
Saturday, 18 June 2016
Mortal Passion by George Mikes
Wednesday, 15 June 2016
Noticia de un secuestro (News of a Kidnapping) by Gabriel García Márquez
Monday, 13 June 2016
Waterhouse on Newspaper Style by Keith Waterhouse
Saturday, 4 June 2016
Un día de cólera (A Day of Anger) by Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Monday, 30 May 2016
Tales of the Alhambra by Washington Irving
Sunday, 15 May 2016
The Wind Off the Island: Voyage to the Playground of the Gods by Ernle Bradford
Wednesday, 4 May 2016
España desde el bar (Spain from the bar) by Joan Planas
Saturday, 30 April 2016
Problemski Hotel by Dimitri Verhulst
Saturday, 23 April 2016
Los que duermen (Those Who Sleep) by Juan Gómez Bárcena
Thursday, 21 April 2016
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Tuesday, 12 April 2016
El puente de los asesinos (The Bridge of Assassins) by Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Monday, 11 April 2016
Corsarios de Levante (The Pirates of the Levant) by Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Tuesday, 5 April 2016
El caballero del jubón amarillo (The Man in the Yellow Doublet) by Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Monday, 4 April 2016
El oro del rey (The King’s Gold) by Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Thursday, 31 March 2016
City of Fortune: How Venice Won and Lost a Naval Empire by Roger Crowley
Tuesday, 29 March 2016
El sol de Breda (The Sun Over Breda) by Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Saturday, 19 March 2016
Limpieza de sangre (Purity of Blood) by Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Tuesday, 8 March 2016
El capitán Alatriste (Captain Alatriste) by Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Saturday, 5 March 2016
The Way of Herodotus: Travels with the Man Who Invented History by Justin Marozzi
Wednesday, 2 March 2016
Slaughterhouse-5 by Kurt Vonnegut
Friday, 19 February 2016
Mani: Travels in the Southern Peloponnese by Patrick Leigh Fermor
Friday, 19 February 2016
Five Black Ships by Napoleón Baccino Ponce de León
Wednesday, 17 February 2016
Moscow Stations by Venedikt Yerofeev
Sunday, 14 February 2016
The Noise of Time by Julian Barnes
Sunday, 7 February 2016
The Journeying Moon: Sailing into History by Ernle Bradford
Tuesday, 2 February 2016
Saturday, 23 January 2016
The Odyssey by Homer
Tuesday, 5 January 2016
Seven Ancient Wonders by Matthew Reilly
Friday, 1 January 2016
Ulysses Found by Ernle Bradford
Sunday, 27 December 2015
Shooting Stars: Ten Historical Miniatures by Stefan Zweig
Monday, 21 December 2015
Lituma en los Andes (Death in the Andes) by Mario Vargas Llosa
Saturday, 19 December 2015
Red Strangers by Elspeth Huxley
Thursday, 17 December 2015
Paisajes del alma (Landscapes of the Soul) by Miguel de Unamuno
Thursday, 10 December 2015
Az aranytemplom (The Temple of the Golden Pavilion) by Yukio Mishima
Sunday, 6 December 2015
Sayings of Spartans (Morals III) by Plutarch
Wednesday, 2 December 2015
Spain: What Everybody Needs to Know by William Chislett
Friday, 27 November 2015
Wednesday, 18 November 2015
La fragata Princesa (The Frigate Princesa) by Luis Delgado Bañón
Tuesday, 10 November 2015
Diarios de motocicleta: Notas de viaje por America Latina (The Motorcycle Diaries) by Ernesto “Che” Guevara
Tuesday, 27 October 2015
The Kapillan of Malta by Nicholas Montserrat
Saturday, 24 October 2015
The Great Siege: Malta 1565 by Ernle Bradford
Wednesday, 21 October 2015
A hadirepülő (Flight to Arras) by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Tuesday, 13 October 2015
Az ember földje (Wind, Sand and Stars) by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Saturday, 10 October 2015
Éjszakai repülés (Night Flight) by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Tuesday, 6 October 2015
Crónica de una muerte anunciada (Chronicle of a Death Foretold) by Gabriel García Márquez
Sunday, 4 October 2015
A déli futárgép (Southern Mail) by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Saturday, 29 August 2015
Libertad de acción (With All Despatch) by Alexander Kent
Sunday, 23 August 2015
The Mighty Dead: Why Homer Matters by Adam Nicolson
Monday, 3 August 2015
De amor y de sombra (Of Love and Shadows) by Isabel Allende
Saturday, 1 August 2015
The Complete Little World of Don Camillo by Giovanni Guareschi
Friday, 31 July 2015
El coronel no tiene quien le escriba (No One Writes to the Colonel) by Gabriel García Márquez
Friday, 24 July 2015
Commander: The Life and Exploits of Britain’s Greatest Frigate Captain by Stephen Taylor
Aires de motín (Passage to Mutiny) by Alexander Kent
Sunday, 24 July 2015
Sketches of Spain by Federico García Lorca
The Great Sea: A Human History of the Mediterranean by David Abulafia
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