So which near and far destinations in time and space have your books transported you to this month?

I've mainly been in the USA this month but broken up with occasional visits to other places.

I started the month at Buckingham Palace in "An Uncommon Reader" by Alan Bennett and accompanied her Majesty on a few royal visits too.  Then it was up to Edinburgh and around the Borders region with Inspector Rebus in "The Naming of the Dead" by Ian Rankin.

Then to the USA, although not sure exactly where with a genius baby in "Glyph" by Percival Everett.  Then onto Washington DC (in the 1950s) in "The Big Blowdown" by George P Pelecanos.  I then spent some time in California, mainly in LA, its postal service and the race track with "Post Office" by Charles Bukowski.  I stayed on in the USA, including New England , in "She's Come Undone" by Wally Lamb stretching from the 1950s to 1980s..

Next was my most exotic trip of the month, as I visiited Morrocco in I think the 1970s in "Hideous Kinky" by Esther Freud.

Then back the USA, mainly New York in "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes.

I went over the border into Canada with "Film Club" by David Gilmour before going back to 1960's California, in particular Berkeley in the company of "The Graduate" by Charles Webb.

I'm currently dividing my time between somewhere on the English Coast in the 1970s in "The Sea, The Sea" by Iris Murdoch and an unnamed northern town in "If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things" by Jon McGregor.

Currently in Holloway Prison with "Flying under Bridges" Sandy Toksvig, but before that was in Texas, New Mexico and Arizona with "These is my Words" Nancy Turner.  Oh and earlier in the month in the company of "The Red Dog" Louis de Bernier, I was in Australia!  I also stayed in Dorset to read "Rogue Male" Geoffrey Household, and then off to East Anglia on the coast to read "The Bookshop" with Penelope Fitzgerald.

I really lost track where I had been with Sight Unseen by Robert Goddard, he was a swift mover all over the place - Jersey, Reading, London, oh dear I can't remember now, but half the time he did not have a car and travelled by train.  Great read though. 

I was here, there and everywhere thanks to Tom Holts portable door in The Better Mousetrap, then back to present day horrid London with Tom Thorne in Death Message.  I popped over to the USA - firstly New Jersey and Vermont in Wife For Hire, then on a road trip from NYC to Florida then West to LA in *** Happens.  As if that wasn't enough I decided to accompany Ewan and Charley from London to NYC, but not across the Atlantic, The Long Way Round instead!  I am currently still in the USA with Myron Bolitar in One False Move.

Aaggh!  Will someone sort out my paragraphs?! 

After all that excitement, I decided a Findus pancake and a bowl of Angel Delight were in order, so headed off to the 1970’s whereupon I joined the hunt for the ‘Karate Killer’ (A Three Pipe Problem).   More murder, but off to the Granite City this time, helping DS Logan MacRae with a rather nasty  case (Dying Light).

After lunch with Count Karlstein in his remote castle, and a busy few days battling ‘You-Know-Who’ (Harry Potter & The Half Blood Prince & Deathly Hallows), I am now solving a very mysterious case with Oscar Wilde (who is a fop, and a dandy).  (That's for the benefit of all those listeners of The Wogan Show).

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peppercricket:

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I'm interested in A Three Pipe Problem is there something on my swaps or TBR that takes your fancy?

Wendy - it's yours.  But i'm off home now, so I'll come back to you in the morning.  Like to have time to peruse!  PM me your address anyway.

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peppercricket:

Wendy - it's yours.  But i'm off home now, so I'll come back to you in the morning.  Like to have time to peruse!  PM me your address anyway.

x

have done so - going home now as well.

mostly in london at the end or just after the2nd world war with various books and birmingham with the chocolate girls and its sequel.

London in the 18C and19C,from romps with baby snatchers in The Spaniard's Daughter to pornographic book binders in The Diary of Dora Damage.

London present day in A Spot of Bother and backwards in time to the London of WW2 in The Night Watch.

And solving an murder/mystery with Frank Elder in and around Nottingham....

Hmm this month I have been mostly America and London -

• America - Minneapolis, New York, California, Texas & possibly a few others but i cant remember now
• UK - London, Devon
• Out to sea

This month I have been all over the place.  More than normal anyway!!

France and the Pyranees

Africa

London

Lincoln

An Island off the coast of Scotland

America (New Jersey and New York)

Italy

Edinburgh

I started the month in the desert, visiting the Yellow City (courtesy of Sisters of the Raven by Barbara Hambly) before heading off to New York in the late 19th century and then offworld again to the Bronze/Iron Age equivalent world of The Redemption of Althalus. Then it was off on a whistlestop tour of Seattle, Afghanistan and the 19th century West of Ireland/London before confronting ancient evil in North Yorkshire.

Then it was back to an unspecified American city and off to another medieval land, both courtesy of Tor's free ebooks before I returned to present day Los Angeles (with Faye Kellerman's excellent The Burnt House) and finished off the month in the 1960's on a small Scottish island with a Great Auk (Master of the Fallen Chairs by Henry Porter).

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