For my interest only …

Read:

• Dodger, Terry Pratchett
• Forty Signs of Rain, Kim Stanley Robinson
• The Fear Index, Robert Harris
• Katya’s World, Jonathan L. Howard
• The Push, Dave Hutchinson
• Riding Rockets, Mike Mullane
• House of Suns, Alastair Reynolds
• In the Service of the Sultan: A First Hand Account of the Dhofar Insurgency, Ian Gardiner
• Century Rain, Alastair Reynolds
• The Man Who Left Too Soon: the Life and Works of Stieg Larsson, Barry Forshaw
• The Locked Room, Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö
• The Coming of the Terraphiles, Michael Moorcock
• White Savage: William Johnson and the Invention of America, Fintan O’Toole
• Embassytown, China Miéville
• Stonehenge: A Novel of 2000 BC, Bernard Cornwell
• Absolution Gap, Alastair Reynolds
• The Lost Abbey of Abingdon
• Heart, Simon Morden
• Young Sherlock Holmes: Fire Storm, Andrew Lane
• Napoleon’s Master: A Life of Prince Talleyrand, David Lawday
• Little Star, by John Ajvide Lindqvist
• A Storm of Swords: Blood and Gold Part 2, by George R.R. Martin
• Patrick O’Brian, by Nikolai Tolstoy
• Rule 34, by Charles Stross
• The Secrets of Station X: How the Bletchley Park Codebreakers Helped Win the War, by Michael Smith
• Damage Time, Colin Harvey
• Electronic Brains: Stories from the Dawn of the Computer Age, Mike Hally
• Good Evening, Mrs Craven, Mollie Panter-Downes

Watched:

• The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
• The Dark Knight Rises
• Margin Call
• Skyfall
• Looper
• Private Peaceful
• An Education
• A Serious Man
• Young Adult
• Rio
• The Descendants
• War Horse
• Aliens
• The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn
• The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists!
• Alien
• We Need to Talk About Kevin
• The Ides of March
• Glengarry Glen Ross
• Source Code
• Cowboys & Aliens
• Stop Making Sense
• Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
• Hugo
• The Artist
• The Guard
• In the Loop
• The Sentinel
• Dean Spanley