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Posted: Wed Aug 12, 2009 1:15 am
by Simon Rudge
Worth a bit of a look, but try 'The Limit' by AC Ross (Aircraftsman Ross), a relatively short but very interesting account of his races with TE Lawrence, (of Arabia) Ross in an aircraft, Lawrence on his Brough Superior motorbike) .

Posted: Wed Aug 12, 2009 7:36 am
by jb
Read the books that your wife takes.
Failing that try:-

First Light - Wellum
The Right Stuff - Wolfe
Touch Wood - Duncan Hamilton

Richard Branson's autobiography

Historian - Kostova
Dissolution - Sansom
Shadow of the Wind - Zafon

Wallender books by Mankell
anything by le Carre
anything by Margaret Attwood