Reviews 

A gift from our next door neighbour, for whom we were cooking. Never read any Robert Harris before. I thought this started well, but...

Quite good. A ‘gang’ of crooks involved in pornography and other sexually deviant stuff, interact inadvertently with gritty Yorkshire...

Completely different in tone from 767, which I enjoyed more. This is a quasi historical detective novel, the historical bit of the plot a...

Bingeing a bit on R Hill at the moment. This is brilliant. A combination of Lady Chatterley (aka Ellie Pascoe) + a post-miner’s strike...

Was trying to find a different book, which I think I read from the library so not on my Kindle, it appears. So re-read this instead. I...

I have read this before, but found it absolutely brilliant 2nd time round. The Slough House characters (and indeed the house itself) are...

Bingeing on detective novels at the moment. Reginald Hill was a great writer, but his novels became more obscure and baroque as his...

I think the 3rd Dalziel and Pascoe and, despite what I said above, this was pretty complex and difficult. Also introduces Frannie Root,...

Am writing this on 20 February and can’t honestly remember anything about this book. These are a bit of a cheat. It is part of a series...

The prequel, I think to 743, and I have read this one before. Structurally quite similar- another elderly German ex MI5 agent dies, a...

Interesting to read this just after Le Carre, as this treads the same territory 30(?) years later and features ancient, superannuated...

I may not have been in the right mood, but thought this was one of his weaker books. Weak and slowly developed plot line and just not a...

Much less enjoyable, despite being some newspaper’s ‘Book of the Year’. A mix of tittle tattle journalism and an underlying thesis,...

I half enjoyed this, if that is possible. Paddy said it reminded her a bit of Iris Murdoch, although it was better written and without...

Obviously having my own Prague spring as this was inspired by 677 above, and apart from Kafka, Hasek is the major Prague writer from the...

Reluctant to spend more with Amazon, in view of all the crappy marketing material on my new kindle (this can have a negative effect,...

A library book of P’s. It is quite a slight book, with a heroine lacking in character and very reactive, although P says that girls were...

Re-read this as a substitute to 650 above, and can’t remember that much about it now, maybe not a recommendation. A series of unrelated...

A book about walking. I enjoyed this more as it went on; initially it struck me as a bit ‘forced’, as if she or her publisher had decided...

(I think I have got the title right). Quite a slight (although not cheap) book about two sisters and a madman who cons the less...