My library just grew again 2016

[seadude]

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
Independence Day: Crucible  (Prequel to the Independence Day Resurrection movie.)
The Rage War Book 1: Predator Incursion
The Rage War Book 2: ALIEN Invasion
(The Rage War Book 3 comes out in September.)

[Nick]

The Terran Trade Authority Handbook on Spacecraft, 2000 to 2100AD. 

[seadude]

The Terran Trade Authority Handbook on Spacecraft, 2000 to 2100AD. 

I remember that book! I don't have it, but I remember seeing it at my local library long, long ago. Had some cool looking spaceships and artwork. 

[The Wooksta!]

I've a copy somewhere in me Mam's loft, along with the "Great Space Battles" companion.

This was one of my favourites:

[reddfoxx]

Love that series!  I read them all as a kid, and have started to rebuild my collection- I have Spacecraft, Spacewreck, and Starliners.

[NARSES2]

Back to one of my first loves - "The Late Roman Army" by Gabriele Esposito. Looking forward to getting back to the great Cataphract/Clibanarii debate 

[Thorvic]

Ships of the Royal Navy By Raymond Blackman 1973 edition off eBay

[Rheged]

Free to a good home

I bought a bundle of second hand maps and books in a Leominster junk shop recently for 50p.  I just wanted the maps but in the bundle was a copy  Gavin Lyall's book Shooting Script. Plot  intro courtesy of Wikipedia below.   I already have my own copy, so I'm willing to post it out (within the UK) to anyone who would like it.  I  DON'T want paid, just make a donation to your favourite charity (or the RNLI)  and you can have it!

PM me with a street address, and the first response gets it if there are multiple replies.   A gentleman of this forum who specialises in ultra long winged flying machines concurs with me that it's a really good read.



Plot introduction
Keith Carr, an ex-Royal Air Force fighter pilot with combat experience in the Korean War is now living in Jamaica, where he makes a threadbare living flying charter cargo flights around the Caribbean in his mortgaged second-hand de Havilland Dove. After a rival pilot from his Korean War days lands a high-priced job commanding a squadron of de Havilland Vampire jet fighters for the hard-line military dictators on the nearby island nation of "Republica Libra", Carr suddenly finds life more difficult. For some reason, the United States FBI is keeping him under surveillance. Republica Libra at first offers him a job, and then impounds his plane when he refuses – and one of his flying students ends up murdered. Carr is hired by the flamboyant movie director Walt Whitmore, who is filming an action movie on the north coast of Jamaica, and Carr is assigned to fly an old World War II vintage B-25 Mitchell medium bomber as a camera plane. However, it soon becomes apparent that Whitmore has more in mind for Carr and the decrepit bomber than just making a film. The character of Whitmore was inspired by John Wayne, with whom Lyall spent four days at a studio while Wayne was filming.

[PR19_Kit]

  A gentleman of this forum who specialises in ultra long winged flying machines concurs with me that it's a really good read.

Damn right it is, one of those books you really don't want to put down once you've started it.

And the end is AWESOME! 

[Green Dragon]

With all the crap & remakes that comes out of Hollywood why hasn't that been made into movie?

Paul Harrison

[Nick]

With all the crap & remakes that comes out of Hollywood why hasn't that been made into movie?

Paul Harrison

There's a lot of books from the 1960s and 70s that could make rather good movies. Works by Desmond Bagley, Alistair Maclean, Joe Poyer, Douglas Reeman come to mind. I'm sure there are plenty of other authors out there that have been overlooked and lost in time purely to not being actively promoted today.

[Rheged]

With all the crap & remakes that comes out of Hollywood why hasn't that been made into movie?

Paul Harrison

In this case, Katherine Whitehorn (Gavin Lyall's wife and literary executor) has refused several offers because potential film makers wanted to mess around with the story too much.   

I agree that there's a lot of vastly  under-rated stuff out there.  But  perhaps it's better remaining in print only------the visual special effects are so much more vivid in the reader's imagination!

[PR19_Kit]

------the visual special effects are so much more vivid in the reader's imagination!

The brick-drop would have been AWESOME! 

[Green Dragon]

With all the crap & remakes that comes out of Hollywood why hasn't that been made into movie?

Paul Harrison

In this case, Katherine Whitehorn (Gavin Lyall's wife and literary executor) has refused several offers because potential film makers wanted to mess around with the story too much.   

I agree that there's a lot of vastly  under-rated stuff out there.  But  perhaps it's better remaining in print only------the visual special effects are so much more vivid in the reader's imagination!

Thanks for the info Rheged  Movie suits mess everything up, they always reckon they know better than the writers.

Paul Harrison

[Thorvic]

French Secret Projects:- Post War Fighters  by J C Carbonel 

https://www.amazon.co.uk/French-Secret-Projects-Post-Fighters/dp/1910809004/ref=pd_rhf_gw_p_img_1?ie=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=K4JB4BR6HPEDDKXTAKXR