Steve Haywood
The Strings of Murder by Oscar De Muriel
I used to not really like historical crime fiction, probably due to reading what I considered mediocre books with generic crimes dumped...
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Steve Haywood
- Feb 16, 2021
- 2 min
The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
I have wanted to read this book for a long time, but have always been put off by just how darn long it is. And it is long, about 970...
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Steve Haywood
- Dec 12, 2020
- 2 min
The Spy and the Traitor by Ben McIntyre
I read this book a few weeks ago, and was delighted earlier this week when Bill Gates' annual review of his best books of the year...
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Steve Haywood
- Oct 30, 2020
- 4 min
A Study in Scarlet by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
“There’s the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life, and our duty is to unravel it, and isolate it, and...
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Steve Haywood
- Jan 14, 2019
- 1 min
Wasp by Eric Frank Russell
Wasp is a fascinating read, very different to anything else I’ve read. While the setting and backplot make this science fiction, the...
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Steve Haywood
- Sep 24, 2017
- 2 min
Neither Here Nor There by Bill Bryson
It’s interesting that of all the Bill Bryson books I’ve enjoyed, I’ve liked each one for different reasons. For instance I enjoyed ‘Down...
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Steve Haywood
- Sep 24, 2017
- 2 min
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
“The real difference between us and chimpanzees is the mythical glue that binds together large numbers of individuals, families and...
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Steve Haywood
- Sep 24, 2017
- 2 min
Human Universe by Brian Cox
The book starts out looking at some of the history of astronomy, and opinions as to our place in the universe – it covers the likes of...
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Steve Haywood
- Sep 24, 2017
- 1 min
How to Stop Time by Matt Haig
This is the second book I’ve read by Matt Haig this month, the first being The Humans which was possibly the best book I’ve read this...
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Steve Haywood
- Sep 23, 2017
- 2 min
The Lost Continent by Bill Bryson
Bill Bryson is today one of the best known, if not the best known, travel writer (certainly in the UK if not in the USA and elsewhere...
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