Reviews 

Complete change from Herron, but this is very good as well. Written in bold, experimental and poetic prose, it features mainly 2...

Airport/aeroplane reading but this was completely different. A disparate group of characters are travelling Manchester to Euston in the...

Her first book, pre Manon. I loved it in places. The ending was a bit dull. Basically an everyday tale of sheep farming in N Yorkshire -...

Wanted to re-read no. 488 to better understand the back-plot to 521. Fly (the adopted son) appears, but the sister and her baby only...

What a contrast to Joanna Trollope. The 2nd book in what I hope will become the Manon series, about a policewoman in Huntingdon. (488 was...

A book about living off the land for a year. The author decided to live entirely off natural produce (animals he could kill, stuff...

Brilliant new book, brilliant new author. Very cleverly plotted although the phrase from The 4 Quartets at the beginning rather gives...

A late Xmas present from B. Very good (and long) book; Le Carré’s adult life mirrors much of my (actual) life, so much of the terrain...

A Christmas best seller for middle aged men (I am told). I thought this was very good; Springsteen is a pretty honest guy, not at all...

The sequel to 'The Raj Quartet', and very different in lots of ways. I suppose essentially a tragi-comedy, about Tusker and Lucy Smalley,...

These are big long books and it has taken a week to read each one. Guy Perron (Charles Dance on the TV) finally appears in this one and...

Barbie now comes into focus. The whole thing is quite brilliant and I am amazed that he is not better known as a writer, and how long it...

Continued brilliance. Sarah Layton quite prominent in this book, which ends with her losing her virginity. To what extent is her sexual...

Book of the year so fay, and by a long stretch. I have read this before, and we have watched and enjoyed the Granada DVD many times, but...

P’s book of the year so far, but not mine. The memoir of a woman who has a daughter with cystic fibrosis, who goes to live in France with...

P enjoyed this, but I didn’t much. You can tell it is a ‘good quality’ novel, but I just didn’t warm to it. The Burgess' are a couple of...

Tried starting this two years ago in Spain; couldn’t get into it. A bit of a curate’s egg; some of his writing is excellent; some less...

I didn’t think much of this. A crime thriller of sorts set in Stalinist and post-Stalinist USSR. The problem I had with it is that...

Autobiography of the well known chef and restaurateur. I liked the guy more before reading this than after. A fairly spoiled and...

This was very good, especially given that the author is in her early 30’s. About a wedding party on an island I think off New England,...