Hi again Apart from Strumpet City I am listening to a book called After Mary by Katherine McMahon. It seems to be a rather over romantic view of Guy Fawkes and roman Catholicism in 1605. I don't know anything about the author and am finding the book rather hard going. This is a book club read so I feel obliged to get through it. I am also reading another unknown, at least to me, author Tim Parks. His book is called Cleaver and it is about a celebrity journalist whose son has written a 'fictional' autobiography that exposes his father's life. Father is trying to come to terms with what his son has written by hiding in the mountains of the South Tyroll. So far not much has happened and I am not sure that it is going to. I will be most disappointed if it turns into a novel of naval gazing and not much else. Steve