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Not starting a book club. Just bringing everyone's attention to the new book section. Link at the top of page.

I have put a few books up there already, happy to add any suggestions people have. There is a review section for each book where you can say how shit each one is. They all link through to Amazon where you can purchase any of the books with WHO earning a commission from the sales. I have put Alex's book up there already and anything WHO earns from that book I will push into the WHO fund.

I don't think we have a thread on books, so this thread can double up as a what-yer-reading now thread, West Ham related or not. I am currently reading Jonathan Rose, The intellectual Life of the British Working Classes. Delved straight into chapter 9, Alienation from Marxism. Fascinating insight into what inoculated us from communism: communists themselves apparently. 

Anyway, enjoy the books and hopefully you find something interesting among them and have some good suggestions on what to add.

World War Z is a fictional account of a World wide Zombie apocalypse. Written by Max Brookes ( Mel Brookes’ son) it is based upon a set of oral accounts of WW2 where survivors tell their stories.

obviously not for everybody but I thank the poster who recommended it as its a classic. 

A good addition and I'm looking forward to reading some of the recommendations.

I've just finished reading Tony Gales autobiography That's Entertainment  and  have also been listening to the audio of An irrational hatred of Luton which I enjoyed immensely the first time around some thirty years back.

BRANDED wrote: ↑26 Mar 2026, 22:15 Best book recommended on here over the years was
World War Z

cant remember who recommended it but it was a great book and their description encouraged me to get it.


 

Best book recommended on here over the years was
World War Z

cant remember who recommended it but it was a great book and their description encouraged me to get it.

 

zico wrote: ↑26 Mar 2026, 21:09 Wils just to say again that West Ham The Managers by Tony McDonald is on a par with the Tim Crane books. If I remember rightly it goes up to Curbs tenure but it is a classic read. Makes you realise how we have gone  through Managers in the last ten years or so.

Wils just to say again that West Ham The Managers by Tony McDonald is on a par with the Tim Crane books. If I remember rightly it goes up to Curbs tenure but it is a classic read. Makes you realise how we have gone  through Managers in the last ten years or so.

Takashi Miike" wrote: ↑25 Mar 2026, 21:41 Wils, any chance of you adding 'They Played For John Lyall : The West Ham Years' by Tim Crane?  It's The best West Ham book I've read

Swiss. wrote: ↑26 Mar 2026, 13:33

Gank wrote: ↑25 Mar 2026, 21:02

wils wrote: ↑25 Mar 2026, 20:52

To save everyone looking for her.

Oh yeah, what a stunner.

(Pukes into bin)

Yeah I bet your missus is a real stunner...not. 

Gank wrote: ↑25 Mar 2026, 21:02

wils wrote: ↑25 Mar 2026, 20:52

yngwies Cat" wrote: ↑25 Mar 2026, 20:49 Eagle Days: Life and Death for the Luftwaffe in the Battle of Britain
Victoria Taylor

Very good, and the author is pretty fit 

To save everyone looking for her.

Oh yeah, what a stunner.

(Pukes into bin)

It's her Brains

wils wrote: ↑25 Mar 2026, 20:52

yngwies Cat" wrote: ↑25 Mar 2026, 20:49 Eagle Days: Life and Death for the Luftwaffe in the Battle of Britain
Victoria Taylor

Very good, and the author is pretty fit 

To save everyone looking for her.

Just read 'Good cop,bad war' by Neil Woods and has completely changed my view on how to handle the war on drugs 
Very recommend and eye opener 

Lately I read 1812 Napoleons fatal march on Moscow,

Owen Tudor he married Henry V widow ,

The battle of Battle of Bosworth the defeat of Ricard III by Henry VII the first Tudor King

The Sacred history Johnathon Black how ancient myths worked there way into nowadays religion

An auto biography of Vassily Grossman he was a war correspondent for the USSR when they were fighting the Nazis

Have always enjoyed books - especially the ones with pictures to colour in and painting by numbers. Got through loads flipping across the planet for over 20 years going to/from contract assignments.

Now I'm retired, I expected to spend weeks & weeks just sat here, listening to music, drinking tea (or, depending on the time of day) something stronger.

The music and supping goes om apace, but finding time to read?

Well! 2 years ago, a friend lent me 2 books: one, Murray Walker's autobiography, the other "Another City, Not My Own" by Dominick Dunn.

My cleaner has picked them up [to dust the bookshelf] more often that have I.

Takashi Miike" wrote: ↑25 Mar 2026, 21:41 Wils, any chance of you adding 'They Played For John Lyall : The West Ham Years' by Tim Crane?  It's The best West Ham book I've read

Wils, any chance of you adding 'They Played For John Lyall : The West Ham Years' by Tim Crane?  It's The best West Ham book I've read

wils wrote: ↑25 Mar 2026, 20:52

yngwies Cat" wrote: ↑25 Mar 2026, 20:49 Eagle Days: Life and Death for the Luftwaffe in the Battle of Britain
Victoria Taylor

Very good, and the author is pretty fit 

To save everyone looking for her.

yngwies Cat" wrote: ↑25 Mar 2026, 20:49 Eagle Days: Life and Death for the Luftwaffe in the Battle of Britain
Victoria Taylor

Very good, and the author is pretty fit 

Eagle Days: Life and Death for the Luftwaffe in the Battle of Britain
Victoria Taylor

Very good, and the author is pretty fit 

I am reading the P.G. Wodehouse Blandings books and they are so well written and hilarious..
Don't read Something Fresh on public transport as you will get funny looks.

I just bought the hard cover book from Amazon of Admiral Andrew Cunningham one of our best naval commanders of WWII.