I quite like some of the retroactive ones, but it sucks hard knowing that anybody not mentioned in the other ones won’t stick around.
Yeah some of them have been OK, I would love to see some of the peripheral characters get their own books, a Lossow or Fredrickson series would be immense.
Mandy Hickson - An Officer, Not A Gentleman. Just finished it and highly recommend. Mandy was one of the first female fast jets pilots in the RAF. Great read for anyone but especially Air Cadets
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V2-Robert Harris. Not far in but as ever with Harris his accuracy is good.
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Finished “Sweating the metal” just in time for “Tornado” to be delivered…
Currently reading The Cardinal of the Kremlin for the umpteenth time
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Just discovered the Terry Pratchett graphic novel versions. Reading Guards Guards.
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Currently reading The Massacre Of Mankind by Stephen Baxter. A book i discovered completely by accident.
Lemmy White Line Fever. More personality in one of his nail clippings than a roomful of some of today’s music stars.
He should have been an Hon Gp Capt, would have made mess nights interesting, I might have gone along. I think he would have enjoyed the role and who knows offered tickets for Motorhead gigs 
Tonight j finished Story Teller by Dave Grohl, if you’re a music fan it’s great and I now wish I was Dave Grohl
Just finished reading Harry Keeble’s “Crack House”. Very insightful book regarding drugs squad work in the late 90s - and, whilst still depressing, definitely less heartbreaking than his child protection unit books.
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In light of how the organisation and the country at large is going, the title of Quentin Letts latest book really grabbed me…
“Stop blo*ody bossing me about - How we need to stop being told what to do”
Enjoying it so far!
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Having taken my exam and not needing to study for a while I’ve. Finally got myself something fun to read.
A pair of silver wings by James Holland, it’s about a Spitfire pilot in Malta and Italy, switches backwards and forwards between the war and him in his 70’s finally facing upto the memories and what he went through.
You can really tell that James Holland is a historian and has interviewed lots of Veterans.
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I’m actually really enjoying working centrally to the local town. This is the result of today’s lunchtime wander to Waterstones.
I’m currently reading a dystopian fantasy/comedy entitled Air Cadet Central. 
Ooooh. New book for the reading list…
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I’ve just been hearing about that.
https://radio.bfbs.com/radioplayer/podcast/388eddf5-6890-5355-87ba-4c87a5d2c3e1
Just bought a copy of Show Me the Bodies: How We Let Grenfell Happen. Plan on reading it this week to coincide with the phase 2 inquiry report being released on Weds. Not expecting it to be a fun read but will report back with thoughts and reflections. Anyone read it?
Currently reading “Mosquito Men” about 627 Squadron (5 Groups low level pathfinders).
Not only is it a riveting read but there are sMe great anecdotes I’d never heard before.
Just read about Guy Gibson when he was Base Staff Officer going about making friends and influencing people including throwing all the non-commissioned ranks out of a pub and making it officers only, throwing his teddy bear out of the pram in the middle of the mess when he found out Leonard Cheshire was getting a VC for a series of raids as opposed to one action. To my favourite of going into a Squadron Mess, and trying to tear a strip off the Officers propping up the bar for not acknowledging him straight away, which led to him being bundled out and debagged.
Catch up on this thread…
Terry Pratchett was a master of his writing craft; I started reading his books yonks ago & they are still a firm favourite to dig out of the bookcase. His characterisations are some of the best - you can feel the tingle in your feet when Sam Grimes is perambulating on patrol over the cobbled streets of Ankh-Morpork.
So many stories with myriads of twists & turns. Who wouldn’t want to join the Assassins’ Guild? 
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