Olga Ravn - "The Employees"

Intriguing book about a starship sent from Earth, orbiting a strange planet, where the story, or rather the setting, is told via interviews with employees; both humans and human-alike androids.

I know the smell of oakmoss because you've planted it inside me, just as you've planted the idea that I should love one man only, be loyal to one man only, and that I should allow myself to be courted. All of us here are condemned to a dream of romantic love, eventhough no one I know loves in that way, or lives that kind of life. Yet these are the dreams you've given us. I know the smell of oakmoss, but I don't know what it feels like to the touch. Still, my hand bears the faint perception of me standing at the edge of a wood and staring out at the sea as my palm smoothes this moss on the trunk of the oak. Tell me, did you plant this perception in me? Is it a part of the programme? Or did the image come up from inside me, of its own accord?

Sayaka Murata - "Convenience Store Woman"

For me, a typical Japanese book, where I feel I miss a lot of its emotions and swirling feelings because I don't understand the culture well enough.

Curious book, about a woman unable to understand human emotion, who completely identifies with the proper working of a convenience store.  Meets a terrible guy who always complains and mentions the Stone Age. 

Nothing really happens. But a lot does, under the surface.

Gordon Corera - "Secret Pigeon Service"

Bought at Bletchley Park, wonderful book about the pigeons "serving" in WWII. There are pigeon prisoners of war!

MI14(d) was running operation Colomba.

The [BBC] broadcasts encoured them to defy the invaders and parodied the propaganda spouted by the Germans. For that reason, the Nazis hated the BBC for its subversive influence. Almost every member of the population listened. A German officer given the accurate time by a little girl on the streets asked how it was possible she knew it was a quarter past seven when she had no watch. She replied, 'Don't you see? There is no one on the street. They are all listening to the English radio."

... a British intelligence officer would ring up the BBC and identify himself with a codename - rather bizarrely, for Belgium this was Napoleon Bonaparte and for the Netherlands Bing Crosby. He would then ask for a specific phrase to be broadcast, such as 'here is a message for Adolphe - the wine is warm' - which was meaningless to everyone else but acted as a coded signal for a particular group.

This special crack team was called the Falcon Destruction Unit, and could be sent to a particular area at the request of any government service. The 007 of the bird world, it had a license to kill. [...] MI5 sprang into action with its counter-pigeon team - section B3c - led by the dedicated Richard Melville Walker, the security service's counter-pigeon expert.

film,series

•  "Wrong Turn" - wonderful night of terror style horror film
• "Sex Education" - third season, still good. Nice soundtrack as well
• "Get Out!" - Jordan Peele's amazing horror. Noting in case I missed doing that with the original