The neighbours keep asking me to read it and go to their book club in the village. Kirstin is a member, which sounds like the setup for a sitcom to me.

Heh. I remember that.

Amazing cast in hindsight, but it wasn't at all funny.

A Very English Scandal by John Preston tells the tangled tale of the Jeremy Thorpe scandal. It's a great story with a cast of real characters; many firmly in the English eccentric category. Well written and recommended.

Is that the one with the TV series? Hugh Grant? Think I enjoyed if so ...

The Folio Society moon book that sold out is now back in stock.

Got part way through two books recently and had to stop reading them because they were so fucking dire. One turned out to be a YA fantasy novel (not that I've specifically got anything against YA fiction) called Red Queen that was a poor example of the genre whilst the other, Nophek Gloss, was just bad. I had to check that I hadn't accidentally bought a self published book, but no it was just bad. That'll teach me to randomly purchase 99p books.

Abandoned both and started Use Of Weapons, which is better in its first 20 pages than both of those others combined.

  It's bonkers but in a good way.

Gengis Khan:Life, Death and Resurrection is a history of the Mongol leader and the cultural impact in his homeland.

What a time to have been alive. Just as the Crusades are petering out this guy comes in marauding from the East with captured Chinese technology including flame throwers and crossbows that fire telegraph pole sized arrows with optional flaming or explosive heads (1000 of which were used to take Baghdad by his grandson after his death).  He got as far as Prussia after which he seemed to get bored and headed home. He was after the grasslands of Hungary and was happy once he grabbed those. His empire spanned from there to the Pacific and it created a sense of order that facilitated travels by the likes of Marco Polo because of his religious tolerance and creation of an administration (though he did slaughter millions of muslims who had the effrontery to fight back instead of just surrendering their cities).

The story is told by the author as he weaves in his experiences in Mongolia searching for his burial site which remains unknown.

Having known nothing on this subject this provides a great summary and overall view of Gengis Khan as a figure who approaches being a deity in China and Mongolia.

Jeff Vandermeer thinks cats should be kept indoors and now I don't like him as much as I did.

This has been an update on What Authors Tiger Likes.

Thank you.

I had the full collection, just by having picked them up one by one on release. During a house move I gave the whole lot to a charity shop and downloaded a Kindle set from the high seas. No regrets really, I got rid of a lot of books, not just the Pratchett stuff … but now that I have a bigger house there sure a lot of empty bookshelves here.

Pratchett really came into his stride after about book 4 IMO - the first few are good, but I feel like he really found his style by the time Mort came out. I will always recommend his books to anyone, not just fans of fantasy because they are as much social commentary as they are fantasy a lot of the time.

Guards! Guards! Would be my pick but you need to read the early books imo to get the references and some of the repeated humour.

T'was the game that got me onto Pratchett.

Mort was my first, and it’s definitely up there with my faves. Not sure I could pick one out though. I’m looking forward to reading The Wee Free Men to my kids.