Monday 24 August 2015

LOGGING THE LIBRARY - PART FORTY-FOUR

Halfway now, I reckon or just over.....tub 44 and all its mysteries......

Tub 44

Peter Straub, Irvine Welsh,

James Sallis, Anthony Frewin, Niall Griffiths,

No idea what its about - great cover though.

Frewin as good as Derek Raymond?

Niall Griffiths, John Irving, S.J. Rozan, Maureen Carter, Thom Jones,

Midlands crime

Norman Mailer, Elmore Leonard, Stuart Neville, Richard Ford, Martin Amis,

Short story collection,

Markus Zusak, Colin Bateman, T.C. Boyle, Mark Brandon Read, Lance Armstrong,

All American hero! 

Australian author of The Book Thief!

T.C. Boyle

Jon Savage, Fred Willard, Derick Allsop, Norman Parker, Val McDermid,

Norman Parker - time behind bars!

Best title and best cover - Fred Willard

Football life at Rochdale!

Ian Rankin, Mark Billingham, John Sandford, Irvine Welsh, John Harvey,

English crime

Jason Pinter - Henry Parker novel.

Charlie Priest series book,

John LeCarre, Hakan Nesser,

John Hodge, Ron Ellis, Martyn Waites,

John Hodge Screenplay - Irvine Welsh novel

UK Crime Magazine - Bullet

Top 100 Noirs from Al Guthrie - at one time I entertained the notion of tracking them all down.

Stephen Hunter, Len Deighton, Donald James, Quintin Jardine, David Morrell,

Harry Palmer book

David Hosp, Robert Wilson, Stuart Woods, Richard Montanari, John Harvey,

Crime-cum-thriller-cum-horror?

John Irving, Craig Russell, Jason Pinter, Stuart Pawson,


HIGHLIGHTS......John Irving, Colin Bateman, Anthony Frewin, Fred Willard

LOWLIGHTS...... none - they all look fairly good to me - no regrets!

FULL LIST OF 50:

AUTHOR TITLE YEAR SERIES FICTION/NON
ALLSOP DERRICK KICKING IN THE WIND 1996 N
AMIS MARTIN TIME'S ARROW 1991 F
ARMSTRONG LANCE IT'S NOT ABOUT THE BIKE: MY JOURNEY BACK TO LIFE 2000 N
BATEMAN COLIN OF WEE SWEETIE MICE AND MEN 1996 DS2 F
BILLINGHAM MARK THE BURNING GIRL 2004 TT4 F
BOYLE T. C. TALK TALK 2006 F
CARTER MAUREEN DEAD OLD 2005 BM2 F
DEIGHTON LEN BILLION DOLLAR BRAIN 1966 HP4 F
ELLIS RON GRAVE MISTAKE 2001 JA5 F
FORD RICHARD ROCK SPRINGS 1987 F
FREWIN ANTHONY SCORPIAN RISING 1999 F
GRIFFITHS NIALL STUMP 2003 F
GRIFFITHS NIALL KELLY + VICTOR 2002 F
HARVEY JOHN DARKNESS & LIGHT 2006 FE3 F
HARVEY JOHN IN A TRUE LIGHT 2001 F
HODGE JOHN TRAINSPOTTING: THE SCREENPLAY 1996 F
HOSP DAVID DARK HARBOUR 2005 SF1 F
HUNTER STEPHEN DIRTY WHITE BOYS 1994 F
IRVING JOHN UNTIL I FIND YOU 2005 F
IRVING JOHN THE CIDER HOUSE RULES 1985 F
JAMES DONALD MONSTRUM 1997 CV1 F
JARDINE QUINTIN HEAD SHOT 2002 BS12 F
JEFFREY KEITH  BULLET 4 (ed.) F
JONES THOM SONNY LISTON WAS A FRIEND OF MINE 1998 F
LE CARRE JOHN OUR GAME 1995 F
LEONARD ELMORE WHEN THE WOMEN COME OUT TO DANCE 2002 F
MAILER NORMAN THE NAKED AND THE DEAD 1948 F
McDERMID VAL STAR STRUCK 1998 KB6 F
MONTANARI RICHARD THE SKIN GODS 2006 JB+KB2 F
MORRELL DAVID THE LEAGUE OF NIGHT AND FOG 1987 M3 F
NESSER HAKAN THE UNLUCKY LOTTERY 2011 IVV6 F
NEVILLE STUART COLLUSION 2010 JLI2 F
PARKER NORMAN IN THE COMPANY OF KILLERS 1999 N
PAWSON STUART THE MUSHROOM MAN 1995 DICP2 F
PINTER JASON THE STOLEN 2008 HP3 F
RANKIN IAN FLESHMARKET CLOSE 2004 IR15 F
READ MARK BRANDON CHOPPER 4 1994 N
ROZAN S. J. TRAIL OF BLOOD 2009 BS+LC9 F
RUSSELL CRAIG LENNOX 2009 L1 F
SALLIS JAMES EYE OF THE CRICKET 1997 LG4 F
SANDFORD JOHN MORTAL PREY 2002 LD13 F
SAVAGE JON ENGLAND'S DREAMING 1991 N
STRAUB PETER FLOATING DRAGON 1982 F
WAITES MARTYN BONE MACHINE 2007 JD2 F
WELSH IRVINE SKAGBOYS 2012 T3 F
WELSH IRVINE IF YOU LIKED SCHOOL, YOU'LL LOVE WORK 2007 F
WILLARD FRED PRINCESS NAUGHTY AND THE VOODOO CADILLAC 2000 F
WILSON ROBERT THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS 2001 F
WOODS STUART UNDER THE LAKE 1986 F
ZUSAK MARKUS GETTING THE GIRL 2003 WB3 F

19 comments:

  1. Col, I have never read Martin Amis who, if I'm not mistaken, was quite a sensation when he burst on the literary scene. John Irving is one of my favourite writers though I haven't read either of the novels in your tub. I do plan to read "The Cider House Rules."

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    1. So far my experience with Amis has been mixed. Style over substance. I saw the film of THE CIDER HOUSE RULES not too long ago, so I probably don't feel the need to read it quite so soon. I'm sure I read the other one 20-odd years ago. It's one of his shorter books!

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    2. Col, I have seen the movie too, which is the reason I want to read the book.

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    3. It was a great film - nice seeing Tobey Maguire as someone other than Spiderman. Michael Caine was excellent too.

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  2. You do have quite the tubful there, Col. Leonard, McDermid, Neville, and lots more I think you'll like. Looking forward to seeing what you think of them when you get there.

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    1. Margot - more books than sense perhaps, but yes plenty to look forward to!

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  3. I liked Robert Wilson's In the Company of Strangers. I did not recognize S. J. Rozan's Trail of Blood, but it is just an alternate title to Shanghai Moon. That was the least favorite of her books that I read, but I really really like that series. I have read almost all of her books.

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    1. My wife has read one of the Rojan's and liked it but I haven't tried the series yet. I've read the one Wilson book so far, but am struggling to recall too much about it.

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  4. Rock Springs is one of my favourite short story collections. Times Arrow is fun. It's like Amis doing a cover version of Kurt Vonnegut, really.

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    1. I've not yet tried anything from Richard Ford, I think I have The Sportswriter somewhere, but I'll go short before I go long. I'm now optimistic about the Amis!

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  5. Another very good tubful! Don't you sometimes get the temptation to start reading them all at once?

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    1. It's a bit overwhelming really - where do I start?

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  6. Anthony Frewin? Derek Raymond? New to me. Wikipedia said novelist Frewin was the assistant to Stanley Kubrick. Raymond, it said, was a crime writer and the “founder of British noir.” Could that be true? What about Gerald Kersh (NIGHT AND THE CITY)?

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    1. Elgin - Kersh is a good shout. I would recommend Raymond's series of Factory novels, though should point out I have yet to read him. They are supposed to be fairly bleak. 5 in total. Frewin and especially this book of his looks intriguing.

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  7. Quite a collection - lots of good authors and some that are new to me.... get those reviews going!

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    1. One of the better tubs possibly.....at the minute I'm running about 7 reviews behind...that'll teach me to have a couple of weeks off!

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  8. Yeah, It Wasn't About the Bike... ;-)

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    1. Haha, thought you'd dropped by to tell me you and your fellow citizens had donated some more of your taxes to good ol' Lance!

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