Recommended Reads

Sci-Fi

“Nightfall and other stories” by Isaac Asimov (Classic)

“The Long Arm of Gil Hamilton” by Larry Niven

“Rendezvous with Rama” by Arthur C Clarke

“Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep” by Philip K Dick (made into the film Blade Runner)

“The Hitch-hikers’ Guide to the Galaxy” by Douglas Adams (Who doesn’t know this one?)

Fantasy

“Hawkwoods Voyage” by Paul Kearney (First class)

“Legend” by David Gemmel (Legendary)

General Fiction

“Shōgun” by James Clavell (Turned into film and TV series how many times?)

The Trojan Trilogy by David Gemmel (Do NOT miss these if you are in any way into historical fiction.)

“Lord of the Silver Bow”-“Shield of Thunder”-“Fall of Kings”

“The Thursday Murder Club” by Richard Osman 

Non Fiction

“Man Flies” by Nancy Winters (A biography of Aviation Pioneer Alberto Santos Dumont- whose legacy is still with us.)

War fiction

“All Quiet on the Western Front” by Erich Maria Remarque (Yep, that one)

“Bomber” by Len Deighton (frighteningly real)

“Battleflag” by Bernard Cornwell (Second Manassas and every bit as good as Sharpe and Uhtred)

War Factual

“A Bridge Too Far” by Cornelius Ryan  (The American version of Operation Market Garden and the bridge at Arnhem in WW2.- even with its historical inaccuracies, omissions, wrong conclusions and inappropriate melodrama)

“Band of Brigands” by Christy Campbell (The story of the birth of the Tank Corps in the Great War)

“End of the Beginning” by Tom Clayton & Phil Craig (The turning of the tide in WW2- from a Churchillian quote: This is not the end, it is not even the beginning of the end but it may be the end of the beginning.)

“First Light” by Geoffrey Wellum (Memoirs of a pilot in the Battle of Britain and Malta)

“The Korean War” by Max Hastings (A biography of the 1950-52 conflict)

“The K Boats” by Don Everitt (Steam submarines- really!)

Others:

Lately I have been catching up on stories by Rob Mawson who writes under the pseudonym of Robert Radcliffe. They’re not bad, and definitely worth looking at.