bookshow 21st May '09

Guests to-day were Peter Lawrence a rookie on this show & Malcolm Martland(an old hand)
Peter enjoys reading all category of books - travel, history, fact, fiction and has enjoyed reading, Iris Murdoch, Hilary Mantel, Margaret Atwood, Philip Roth, John Updike.
Peter chose his books today because they are such prolific writers: Zoe Heller & Kate Atkinson.
Peter and I both very much enjoyed Margaret Attwood's Oryx & Crake, I would never had read it if I had not belonged to the book group so for that I am eternally grateful, and Wilbur Smiths River God.

Malcolm reviewed a Jeffrey Deaver. The Jeffrey Deaver I remember was film 'The Bone Collector' which starred Denzel Washington & Angeline Jolie. It was based on Deavers book 'The Bone Collector' which has his character Rhymes, as a quadriplegic, after an accident left him that way. Excellent film.

Malcolm also reviewed in more depth Ian Aitch ' We're British Innit' which is like an A-Z of quintessential British things, like Malcolm chose to quote from the book 'C' for church bells. I chose 'I' for Innit: This useful piece of punctuation can be used to end any sentence in Britain, providing a simple reaffirmation of the facts therein (It is well hot, innit?) or adding emphasis to the need for confirmation of a fact from a companion (Are you going to the cinema, innit?). The genius of the word is that it can be retrospectively applied to classic literature or speeches and still make sense. So, Shakespeare may ask ‘To be, or not to be, innit?’.