My library just grew again 2015...

[Steel Penguin]

Any of the Ian M Banks  novels,   EE doc smith  stuff is good space opera.  if you've a hankering for new stuff from classic UK TV shows see if any of the big finish books are available ( they do Blakes 7  dr who and ouhers)    Terry Pratchett  I find very re-readable,  if you want something youll not run out off  the Perry Roden series is verrrrry long,  some of the star treck and star wars spin offs and novels are good but formulaic pulpiness,  if you can get the Michael Stackpole  dark conspiracy trilogy I like,  and the Battletech novels are enjoyable ( watch the order on those though  they cover a good few years of game history there)
as to how many of them are available on kindle   err  haven't got a clue.

[Nick]

During my 10-day world tour of Scotland I found myself in several bookshops, especially in the Scottish National Book Town of Wigtown where only 7 of the 13 bookshops were open 

I've just finished The Last Enemy by Richard Hillary, a young man who by his own account was a bit of a rotter, layabout and drunken cad whilst at Oxford University. Having been in the University Air Squadron he naturally joined the RAF in 1939 and flew Spitfires from Hornchurch with 603 Squadron during the Battle of Britain. He was shot down in flames and badly burnt to the point that he needed months of treatment from Archie McIndoe.
His telling of the horror and humour and boredom and tragic losses of war is dramatic and poignant.
"Twenty-four of us flew south that tenth day of August 1940: of those twenty-four, eight were to fly back." His section left five hours late, they arrived at Hornchurch to find the rest of the squadron had gone straight into combat that morning. "From this flight Don MacDonald did not return." Don's brother Harold was in the same unit and died in battle one month later.

He finally got back in the air in 1942 but sadly died in an accident the next year on the Scottish Borders near RAF Charterhall.

[kitnut617]

Any recommendations?

Simon, for the "anything from a book/movie/game" GB I did over on the BTS forum, I restarted my Avro Atlantic build because it appears in a book by Neville Shute called 'In the Wet' (The Atlantic is called a De Havilland Ceres in the book).  As I didn't know what the book was about I bought a copy so I could find what the plot was and to work it into my backstory and I put on our Kindle, I found it to be quite good ----

[pyro-manic]

Alastair Reynolds, for excellent "hard" sci-fi. Try Chasm City, Pushing Ice and Terminal World.

Would highly recommend "Yellow Blue Tibia" by Adam Roberts.

I recently read The Children of Hurin, a Tolkien story that was pieced together from his unfinished manuscripts by his son. Brilliant, if rather bleak.

I am rather enjoying Joe Abercrombie at the moment. Gritty hack and slash fantasy, about politics, revenge and war. I've read Best Served Cold and The Heroes so far. Both very good.

[zenrat]

I'm going on a beach holiday next week. The missus will be happy getting nuked on a sun bed, I'm going to stock up the Kindle to stave off extreme boredom.

Any recommendations?

Have a look to see what classic sci fi is available as a free e-book.  From memory there's some HG Wells and other stuff of that ilk.

[PR19_Kit]

What Robert said, 'In the Wet' is superb, full of aviation snippets and a darn good story too. I think I've worn out 2-3 copies of it. 

[Mossie]

Cheers guys, a lot to consider, that's great as I'll probably have a lot of time to read!

Tank you all for your help.

[NARSES2]

 EE doc smith  stuff is good space opera. 

Can recommend both the Lensman and Skylark series 

[NARSES2]

Another MAA title. Armies of the War of the Triple Alliance 1864-1870.

A conflict I've always found fascinating and terrifying at the same time. The population of Paraguay was virtually wiped out.

[Librarian]

 EE doc smith  stuff is good space opera. 

Can recommend both the Lensman and Skylark series 

I'd completely forgotten those. Read them in my teens....have to revisit them.

Any Tolkien fans etc should read the massive and beyond phenomenal Steven Erikson Malazan series (and the Esslemont tie-ins). I love books were you have to occasionaly reach for a dictionary....a learning experience, my vocabulary is far richer.

[Mossie]

I agree, part of the reason I like the Kindle is that you can hover over the word and a description comes up immediately.

[Gondor]

 EE doc smith  stuff is good space opera. 

Can recommend both the Lensman and Skylark series 

Dont forget the "Family d`Alembert" series or the "Lord Tedric" series either 

Gondor

[Thorvic]

I agree, part of the reason I like the Kindle is that you can hover over the word and a description comes up immediately.

English to Yorkshire translation ? 

[Mossie]

That'd be no good, you'd need a dictionary for the 'Ull sub-dialect, which is impenetrable west of Brough.  Family in Huddersfield don't understand me!

[Nick]

've had a count and I only bought 15 books on my Scottish roadtrip 

Point of Impact by John Nichol. Shot down in the Gulf War, this was his entry to fiction writing and it's a good adventure into why the RAF's top fighter the Tempest (a thinly disguised Tornado) keeps on crashing. Makes you wonder about the truth behind the Tonka....
The cover art is What-If, looks like a Tornado with canards at the nose and short fixed wings like a Jaguar... shouldn't be that hard for a scratch build.