England - Speaking of Dinosaurs - Philip E. High

This book was part of a stash of 12 random books in the venture series I found in a charity shop. This had the most exciting sounding title, and had dinosaurs on in the title, so it got bumped up the to be read pile.

It doesn't really fit into my books from around the world project, but I'm blogging all the sci fi I'm reading on here too. So it gets added to the England list, maybe one day i'll try and read a book written by an author from every county in the UK, oh God! of course i'm going to do that. I've really enjoyed discovering new books and searching for book from around the world so now. i'm pretty sure i'm going to go back over my read pile and see which counties the authors were born in!

Anyway the book was really good, way better than I was expecting, I was thinking it would be pretty pulpy and trashy, but the ideas where really cool. I'm no expert on writing style or anything like that, but it was easy reading, with only a couple of plot holes and 'why would you do that!!?!?!?!?' moments but I would recommend this and may even read more of Philip E. High's work.

England - Step Forward Harry Salt - Ross Lowe

This book is set in my home county of Derbyshire in England, and published by a small independent company that set up shop in my home town (https://www.beardedbadgerpublishing.com/). Anyway enough trying to promote a mates publishing company, on with the book.

I wanted to love this book, and I had high hopes for it too, and the first few chapters were nicely odd, weird and engaging. As the book continued I got pretty hooked and was invested in Harry Salt's life and new adventure. The book took a nice twist about two thirds into the book, and settled nicely into the sci-fi genre. Weirdly as it started into sci-fi I found the book took on a very different feel, and just went a little childish and slightly slapstick. Look, I loved the book, the ideas, and the style of writing, and the connections to Derbyshire, i was just a little disappointed with the last third of the book.

England - Imagination Chamber - Philip Pulman

England - Imagination Chamber - Philip Pulman

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England - The Hitch-hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams

It doesn't get more English that THHGTTG, with a dressing gown wearing, tea drinking, petty minded protagonist.

Everything about this book screams it's English heritage and culture. I'm a huge fan of Douglas Adams and the trilogy of five books that this grew into. This a funny book full of slapstick silliness, clever satire, puns, profanities, sarcasm and pretty much every type or humour going. The sci fi side of the book makes the perfect setting to marry so many ideas and thoughts and I LOVE IT!