22/11/10 - Robert Harris - Fatherland

OK - I needed a book for the flight - and this was perfect. A crime fiction - set in Nazi Europe in the 1960s - with Hitler an aging 75. Sure - an easy read - but interesting characters and gripping tale - slightly tempered by the over-telling of the underlying mystery.

18/11/10 - David Malouf - Ransom

Book-club book - re-write of a small part of the Illiad by Homer. It was interesting and engaging at times I guess - but I think I'd probably rather have read the Illiad - or even better the Odyssey.