Hugo Charteris - Picnic at Porokorro

Drawn in by the blurb which is wonderfully? racist in it’s periodical (’50s) assumption that the major political issue of British mining companies searching for diamonds in South Africa is the nuisance factor of black people in the running of an efficiently legitimate corporate rape of their land!

Frederick Forsyth - The Odessa File

Picked this up when i realised that in my mad, stupid panic to pack for my holiday I had neglected to include any reading matter! Never expected to get too far into it (we have two young kids who, at the ages of 4 & 2 haven’t grasped the concept of reading for relaxation, or, [...]