What I'm reading ...

I have started La Belle Sauvage by Philip Pullman, my next book club book. Having read some of the author’s work before, I am optimistic ...

The Secret War: Spies, Codes and Guerrillas 1939–1945 - by Max Hastings

This book has a lot going for it. Lots of detail about intelligence activities in WW2 and numerous stories and anecdotes about the activities of agents etc. The book is clearly very well researched, so I am confident of the accuracy of the information. However, for me, it was all too much. I managed to read about one third of the book and found getting there rather hard work. Ultimately I felt that there was a very nice 200-page book in here - it just needs someone to to do thorough editing. I did learn lots of interesting things, but there comes a point when it is time to move on ...