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Susan Elderkin's 'Sunset Over Chocolate Mountains' begins: "When he moved to Arizona and set up home amongst the giant saguaros of the Sonoran Desert, Theobald Moon developed the habit of getting up early in the morning, peeing in a glass, and knocking it back in a few quick gulps while it...

Nah. I wait til they're out of date and then read them. I'm funny like that

The Wasp Factory is a great book. It received a great deal of shock-horror criticism in the UK press. I would tell people that one of my favourite authors was Iain Banks, and they would say "the man that wrote that vile book about hurting poor animals?", and I would reply with glee "yes that's...

Just finished nothing. But I've started reading Manfred's Pain by Robert McLiam Wilson. Might read something by Peter Ackroyd next. Maybe The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde. Who, incidentally, lays claim to one of the funniest 'last dying words' episode. He, apparently, said to those...

New Humanist New Statesman New Scientist New Porn Anything new basically.

I don't really scare very easily at all - probably comes from having a rather hair-raising childhood. However, House of Leaves scared me a little at times, especially as I read it into the early hours of the night, alone in a big empty house, with little in the way of lighting. I remember...

The speeches of George Bush. I'm determined to find some truth in them somewhere.

Goeffrey of Monmouth's History of the Kings of Britain is the place to start. Then move on to Layamon and Wace's reworking of Geoffrey. Wace is the first to mention the round table.Then there are lots of anonymous medieval works, such as Quest for the Holy Grail, Lancelot du Lac, etc...

Has anyone here read DJ Taylor's biog of Orwell that won the Whitbread Biography award this year? If so, what did you think?

I've read both Ghostwritten and Number9Dream. The first is better IMO. It is the story of a character that travels across the world, across time, and through each story. It is quite fast-paced and well written. When I read it, I couldn't put it down. Not sure whether I would compare it to...

Cheesus, I can't believe they don't know what you're on about, Bobby!

1) Atheism by George Smith 2) Atheism by Michael Martin 3) The Cheque - without that book, I would never have got the other two.

I'm currently reading Eureka Street by Robert McLiam Wilson. Oh and Cod: Biography of a Swedish Fish That Changed The World by Mark Kurlansky. See you don't need to be President of the US of A to change the world. Although, it probably does help. Unless your a cod. Especially a Swedish one.

I prefer The Castle of Crossed Destinies and Pilchards, preferably Portuguese ones. :)

I'm reading Nietzsche: A Philosophical Biography by Safranski; and The Scientific Outlook by Bertrand Russell. Russell's book, whilst slightly dated, is still pretty much on the ball. The Nietzsche biog is a fascinating read of a highly influential and intelligent thinker who was terribly...

Lewis Wolpert has written a book on depression called Malignant Sadness: An Anatomy of Depression. It received extremely good reviews when it was published. I haven't read it myself, but I have read some of Wolpert's books, and he is a very lucid, cogent and readable scientist. He also suffers...

Idiots are human too!:) It's looking grim for the coalition now.

The British Library, Tate Gallery Tea Rooms, various quiet pubs, in bed, in the bath, on the toilet, heck I'll read almost anywhere if I can get away with it - however, one place I can't read, is out in an open space, I can never get comfortable enough even in fine weather.

Alex is the product of that society, a whistleblower that is consistently ignored. And you do feel sorry for him. Not just because he had no empathy towards his victims, but also because of the treatment he gets and what that does to him. He is a disposable product of a disposable society.

Thanks Sillywabbit. I have a feeling I will.