Jack Head

I know that Lewis Isbell will take the piss out of me for enjoying this because it was published in the 21st century, but this is genuinely one of the best non fic books I've read. Could easily have been dry and not much fun because of its subject but it almost reads like a fiction. Absolute belter, what a book to take me to the 52 book year

How can such a short book be so well written

Iris Murdoch I will always love your books where people just bumble about London and/or France

Spoiler alert: it got worse after 1795

Let down slightly by it's non-ending and a bit overhyped. 3.5 stars

A bit like a 300 page pat on the back for the Good Friday agreement and meeting Mandela but some useful techniques for professional development (yawn)

Couldn't get past the way that accents were written

A genuinely really good road trip book that doesn't just feel like a retelling of On The Road

Bashed this out in one day sat by the pool with a jug of sangria. It was good but obviously not as good as the secret history and very American

Bleugh

If I had a pound for every time this year I'd read a really good book about the IRA I'd have two pounds, which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice

Some belters in here !

Shaky start but second half makes up for it. Cracker on the whole

The book equivalent of a rice cake. Bland, but not bland enough for any real complaints to be formed

You know it's too slow of a burn if I think it's too slow

Quite dry esp as an audiobook

Wow someone from a small film school should really work on adapting this in to a short film

I am a firm believer that if you want to write an autobiography, you should have to sit in a room with a panel of experts and tell them 3 anecdotes about your life. If they are boring, no autobiography. Ed Gamble would have failed said panel. Stick to the standup

Reads very quickly for a 700 page book, but definitely didn't need to be a 700 page book

First one was better. And Patricia Highsmith was, to quote my mother, “someone who gives lesbians a bad name”. Take of that what you will

I love me a character study

As someone who works in project management I can confirm it is always the next risk down after North Korea

Sunday, Bloody Sunday!

An absolute cracker. Even an ignorant little Anglo boy like me with no real knowledge of the Troubles could follow this, written so well and keeps a really complicated issue easy to follow. Time to buy 7 million more books about the Troubles!

Yum yum yum. Shame he wasn't a nice bloke

Belter