The Art Thief by Michael Finkel
The gripping true story of a French man who compulsively stole art from museums all across Europe. A real gasp-out-loud kind of book.
Do Let’s Have Another Drink! by Gareth Russell
A biography told via entertaining anecdotes. I really liked it.
Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone by Benjamin Stevenson
It seems wrong to call a book about multiple murders amusing, but there you go. Very well done.
Jane and Prudence by Barbara Pym
Two favourite quotations from the text:
Oh, but it was splendid the things women were doing for men all the time, thought Jane. Making them feel, perhaps sometimes by no more than a casual glance, that they were loved and admired and desired when they were worthy of none of these things…
and
“I suppose I’ll never get a man if I don’t take more trouble with myself,” Eleanor went on, but she spoke comfortably and without regret, thinking of her flat in Westminster, so convenient for the Ministry, her weekend golf, concerts and theatres with women friends, in the best seats and with a good supper afterwards.
Very enjoyable.
