Books read in 2026

1. The Great When, Alan Moore (Christmas present from D)

The thing that struck me immediately was Alan Moore's word power. Absolute delight in the construction of many sentences. I quoted one on Bluesky: "This was the whole problem with the past, that it was never really over, when the dreadful bricks of yesterday were what tomorrow would be built from." There were many more I didn't take to social media to share. The upshot of all that is that this takes a long time to read. Page turner it ain't. Laugh out loud funny in some places (the thug who looked like Glen Miller, for example) and with atmosphere and colour everywhere. So, yes, a good book for sure, one that was being promoted heavily in Waterstone's in the run up to Christmas, but now I need a quick read.

2. Final Orbit, Chris Hadfield