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I bought that ages ago after reading a review in the FT but I havenāt actually read it yet 
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about halfway through and Iām enjoying it. I have the Books of Jacob as well and thought this may give me a better introduction before hitting the bigger tome.
TIL that I already own two books that were on my wish list.
Senility FTW.
I read Eastern Approaches years ago. The guy was a nutter. But I fancied reading it again and it appears that my original copy has survived unnoticed on shelves for about 30 years.
This will seem a bit low rent after my completion of Robert Harrrisā ālustrumā, but Iāve been looking for a copy of this for years! I first read it as a teenager (before the film came out), and remember being somewhat disappointed by the movie release. The book was, from memory, much more graphic, violent and tragic.
I was just browsing windows in Budapest and this was right there!
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I read it before the film too & really enjoyed it. The film, while a spectacle, was nothing like as engaging as the book.
Ditto the novel Jaws.
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The NHM provided considerable consultancy to the film-makers, most especially on the whole stuff-in-amber angle which is obviously key to the whole concept, but also on a huge amount of peripheral aspects intended to make the movie more plausible.
Those of us who worked on it were invited to a fairly lavish premiere in Leicester Square - entire cinema to ourselves weeks before it officially opened, which was nice - but while the effects were, at the time, mindblowing - they simply ignored every last thing we told them!
We ran an antire ancient-DNA lab for a number of years off the money we made from that consultancy, so there was at least thatā¦
Iāve still never read the novel, but no surprise to hear the movieās WAY off that, tooā¦
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I think the author was relatively well informed and itās certainly a much more authentic take on events I feel. But that wouldnāt sell a film I donāt think!
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Nope 
If you had just read the description and asked the author I would have guessed at Tom Robbins
Les Dawson would never have entered my head 
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Itās a bizarre one alright Kev and apparently commands big money second hand as well.
If ever a book needed a nom-de-plume!
Donāt get me wrong - I rather liked LD when I was a kid, but not remotely someone Iād turn to for fantasy/science fiction.
Which is presumably why itās a rarity.
Itās a weird one indeed - Iād love to have a read of it.
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You could always tell when the mother in law was coming to stay because the mice would all start throwing themselves on the traps
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