read the siege the first in the promised agent of rome series by nick brown a debut novel whose early chapters made me nostaglic for asterix the gaul a typical roman army action thriller with inexperinced junor commander taking command of a mix of roman legioanairies in harry sidebottom terrority to hold a fort against quen zenobia rather obvious that there were too many red shirt roman solders just waiting for the arrows to fall greatly improved by the ending and made me eager for the sequels
songs of dying earth picked this up thinking it was an anthology of sci fi tales set in a ravaged future earth turned out tribute volume to the dying earth a book by jack vance i had never read a furious jabberwocky of overblown fantasy that constantly reminded me of disneys sword in the stone didn't really miss much by not reading the original vance
city clifford simak another long past 50s sci fi the story of the end of man and the rise of sentient dogs and ant civilizations read to a conclusion
Beacon of Change: How the 1951 Festival of Britain Shaped the Modern Age by barry turner
i have a guide book fro this original exhibition given to me by a elderly next door neighbour who went in 1951 good introduction to the creation and development of this formal black and white festival
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