Henning Mankell: Sidetracked

My first Mankell and my first Wallender.

Mankell came to my notice through a series of 10 novels by the Swedish husband & wife team of Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö and their wonderful creation Martin Beck. Wallender arrived then on our TV screens - first with Kenneth Branagh and later an original Swedish series.  After all this, I had very high expectations for this book - though any Wallender would have suffered the same.

Thankfully, it did live up to expectations and closer to the Swedish series as well despite the gloss of the BBC productions. It was a very long read especially compared to the Martin Beck series but well worth it.
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Paul Auster: The New York Trilogy

A strange book or collection of 3 novellas which are all inter-related.

"City of Glass" - a rather surreal gumshoe story that never quite resolves itself

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Gimenez & Romero: Plone 3 Cookbook

Another great book from Packt on Plone; up until now I have usually got the PDF versions of their Plone books reckoning that it would be more useful to be able to cut and paste from an on-screen version. For this volume I decided it would be much handier to have a desktop version to leaf through and cherry pick.
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