Christmas book review

BTN seems to have found favour with book publishers and while it cannot be said a multitude of titles have arrived, even the few are more than last year.

The Ghost at Brooklands Museum by Mark Richardson
Record making by Michael Bartlett
Easyland by Tony Anderson – How easyJet conquered Europe
The Journey by Captain John Hugh Richards

In the era of self-publishing, titles that would not easily see the light of day are becoming more and more popular. The world-wide web is the vehicle for their promotion and the cost/risk is down to the writer. There are even specialist agencies that will tell you how to do it.   www.grosvenorhousepublishing.co.uk

Our reviews are very brief: 

The Brooklands Ghost is a schoolboy’s tale, the museum notorious for being a haunted location with numerous sightings of ghosts having been reported over the years. It would make for a good film with the stars of the 1930s included in the storyline, and even King George V. ISBN 978-1-78589-883-9   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hqowm_Pr-8U

Brother Michael Bartlett, the mad monk, and also known as "the eccentric globetrotter", holds various Guinness World Records for scheduled air travel including travelling around the word in 57hr. He has flown on 274 airlines and operators on 145 different types through 388 airports in 128 countries.  Michael reckons to have covered 1.5 millionland miles.  His compilation of writings, press cuttings and statistics would need a non-stop flight to Oz (see last week’s BTN) to act as a starter. But it all looks fascinating. And BTN gets a mention.  michaelbartlettogs@hotmail.com

Tony Anderson was easyJet’s third employee and marketing director in its early years. Reminiscing at the airline's 20th-anniversary party, he takes us through the growth of the airline from three aircraft to today’s 234, and counting. The book is dedicated to British Airways, "whose high fares made it possible".  ISBN 978-1-78623-780-4

John Hugh Richards is a former Concorde (and Vickers Viscount among others) pilot who has retrieved all his log books to create a fascinating tale of flying for the corporation (British Airways as it is now) from a humble start at Kidlington (Oxford Airport) to retiring eventually from Korean Air after 21,250 safe hours. In those days, you were off-line at BA at 55 and could do a further five years with another carrier. The book offers a fine tribute to Rex Smith OBE, sometime deputy chairman of the CAA, the man who took Captain Richards on his first ever flight.  978-1-78148-738-9

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