BOOKS! BOOKS! BOOKS!

Another mixed bag – my favourite is Nevil Shute’s last novel “Trustee from the Toolroom”.  He’s a great storyteller and the novel reflects on the modest life of an engineer/technical journalist in the 1950’s who travels across the world on a shoe string to secure the inheritance of his niece.  Who wouldn’t be captivated by a novel that begins with this quote: “An engineer is a man who can do for five bob what any bloody fool can do for a quid”?

“The Silent Boy” by Andrew Taylor is an historical mystery novel set in the time of the French Revolution – well written and plotted.

The third book, “Consolations – the Solace, Nourishment and Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words” by the poet David Whyte had good critical write up but it didn’t work for me.  Will it work for you?