[Books] Best Books - Your Recommendations

[John Elwin]

Originally Posted by S griffin

Got Maurice Hamilton's biography of Murray Walker for xmas. Have to say it's an excellent read, focused a lot on the memorable events Murray commentated on, like Australia 86, Japan 89/90 or the tragic Imola 94. His commentary from those events is remembered in great deal

I also have Murray's autobiography from 2002 and this latest biography is a nice extension of that IMO

I finally got around to reading Richard Williams' account of Dick Seaman's life, bought upon your recommendation. You were right - it is an excellent read. Someone I really knew little about prior to reading the book, but I do now!

I've had a bit of a surfeit of that era, as prior to the Seaman book, I read Joe Saward's 'Grand Prix Saboteurs'. That is a real mix of pre-war racing, concentrating as it does on the life & careers of Willy Grover & Robert Benoist, who started out as racing rivals but ended up as good friends, both eventually enlisting in the SOE during WW2 & carrying-out undercover operations, primarily in Paris. The book has been the subject of a lot of research as you would expect from Joe Seward & comes highly recommended.

I've had a lot of time for reading lately & have also just read Roger Nathan's story about his racing career in the 1960's entitled 'An Adventurous Life'. Again a fascinating story of how he built his own cars, the Costin-Nathan & Astra RNR etc.

Now I am just starting on his second book, covering his second career as an aviator. He describes it as "...being like an Indiana Jones novel, except it is all true!