It must be two decades since I read The Black Dahlia, and dropping back into Ellroy is quite the adrenaline ride.
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Challenger
As an English kid of the 80s there were a handful of times that the “boring” news reports my parents watched really cut through… Sadly, those were most often disasters. The Herald of Free Enterprise sinking, the Piper Alpha fire, and the subject of this book, the Challenger explosion. This is the fascinating in-depth story all the way from the inception of the Shuttle programme to the disaster enquiry.
Tell me more…The Plot Against America
I’ve read at least half of this Philip Roth dystopia before, but a) wasn’t sure that I ever finished it and b) felt it may be a little close to the reality in 2025… which it very much was.
Tell me more…Four Days In November
One of the most extraordinary books I have read. An incredibly detailed, minute-by-minute account of JFK assassination; a seismic event for which everyone knows the outcomes and yet this is an utterly compelling and tense retelling.
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