Trucking Magazine – July 2019

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REVIEWS BOOKS MUSIC DVDS

■Further

ARTIST: Richard Hawley

LABEL: BMG

Price: £8 (Amazon)

As Hawley’s eighth studio album,

this is perhaps the culmination of a

singer-songwriter finally finding his

rightful groove. Each of this CD’s 11

tracks work as effective, tight and

well-rounded vignettes that capitalise

on Hawley’s distinctive vocals and

first-class orchestration. It’s a definite

grower. AS

NE W & RECENT MUSIC RELE ASES

BREAK

TIME

Tomes, tunes & films to keep you

entertained in the cab

By Andy Stewart & Shaun Connors

PHOTOGRAPHY VARIOUS

OUR RATING ★★★★★ OUR RATING ★★★★★

■Angels in Blue

ARTIST: Find Me

LABEL: Frontiers

Price: £12.99 (Amazon)

Meld a Journey-esque sound with a

generous helping of Survivor and a

dash of Toto and you have this album

• something that truly would have set
  MTV on fire in the late-’80s/early ’90s.
  It’s my first ‘must listen’ album of 2019,
  and one created by a superbly talented
  bunch of musicians, fronted by the
  best AOR vocalist you’ve never heard
  of – Robbie LaBlanc (who? –ed). SC

■Glass

Actors: James McAvoy,

Bruce Willis, Samuel L Jackson

Certificate: 15

Runtime: 124 minutes

Price: £9.99 (Amazon)

Though writer/director M Night

Shyamalan’s output can be

decidedly hit and miss, this sequel

to Unbreakable and Split (two of his

better efforts) isn’t actually half bad.

It’s a comic-book thriller that sees a

couple of 'superheros' (McAvoy’s

Beast and Willis’ indestructible

Overseer) brought to a psychiatric

hospital, where they are to be

convinced they are not actually

superheroes after all. From there,

things get seriously twisty – but in a

good way, thankfully. AS

■The Mule

Actors: Clint Eastwood,

Bradley Cooper,

Laurence Fishburne

Certificate: 15

Runtime: 112 minutes

Price: £9.99 (Amazon)

The latest directorial effort from

Clint Eastwood is a cracker.

Eastwood plays Earl, and 80-year-

old down on his luck whose bank

account is running dry due to his

business failing. But then he’s

offered a chance to make some

decent cash – and all he has to

do is drive. And so begins Earl’s

second life as a delivery man

– though Earl has no idea he’s

actually transporting drugs for a

Mexican cartel... AS

OUR RATING★★★★★ OUR RATING ★★★★★

DVDs of the month

■British Recovery
Vehicles
Author: Bill Reid
Publisher: Amberley Publishing
ISBN: 978-1-4456-8215-0
Price: £14.99 (paperback)
Road transport author
Bill Reid’s
latest book
looks in
close detail
at the
vehicles used
to rescue
stricken or
disabled trucks
across the UK.
This full-colour
paperback,
which runs to 96 pages, is laid out
in the familiar large-picture-and-
caption format and charts the
evolution of recovery vehicles, with
the earliest examples being
converted cars.
Kicking things off in the book
are a Morris Commercial one-
tonner from the 1920s and Ford
AA from 1931, but things soon

shift up the weight range to

examples of heavier trucks, such

as a Commer LN5 from 1937.

The book continues through the

years with featured conversions

including Atkinson Silver Knights,

BMC FGK300s,

Diamond Ts, Foden

S10s, ERF B Series,

Russian Urals,

Volvo FB88s,

Scammell S26s,

Scania 164s and loads

more. An interesting

read for recovery

enthusiasts. AS

OUR RATING★★★★★

■The Spy

and the Traitor

Author: Ben MacIntyre

Publisher: Penguin

ISBN: 9780241972137

Price: £6.99

(Waterstones, paperback)

This new novel from Ben

MacIntyre centres on the

extraordinary true story of

disabled trucks
across the UK.
This full-colour OUR RATING

BMC FGK300s,

Diamond Ts, Foden

S10s, ERF B Series,

Russian Urals,

Volvo FB88s,

Scammell S26s,

Scania 164s and loads

more. An interesting

read for recovery

enthusiasts. AS

Russian defector Oleg

Gordievsky, a KGB double agent

whose daring escape to the UK

from Moscow is one of the most

electrifying tales to emerge

from the Cold War. AS

OUR RATING ★★★★★