After buying three cd's at last nights concert by the Wilders, I didn't pick up any discs today during my weekly trawl through the charity shops of Leith.
However, on arriving home today, there were a number of packages lying on the hall floor that had been delivered by the post. First of all there was a copy of "Nows The Time" by John Harvey bought through Amazon marketplace. This is a collection of short stories featuring John Harvey's detective Charlie Resnick. Resnick is a Nottingham Police Officer of Polish extraction, who listens to jazz (not that there is anything wrong with that). If you have not come across any of the Resnick books (or any of John Harvey's other works) then I would certainly recommend them to you.
There were also three other packages, which were a trilogy of Arthurian novels by a writer by the name of Simon Lister. The premise of these books is that some time in the future the Earth has suffered some sort of catastrophe which has stopped the Earth spinning on its axis, resulting in civilisation being destroyed. Humanity has got back to the level of the Dark Ages, and king Arthur has been reborn - that's about as far as I have gotten. This series of books has been published by the author (Simon Lister). The books are available from Mr Listers website, where he has a sample chapter available for download. The series of books are known as the Shadowlands trilogy. Don't know when I'll get round to reading them, but I will post some more thoughts on them when I start reading them. Check it out at www.simonlister.co.uk
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