Reviews 

A library book via P, as was no.1051. I struggled with the lack of any significant plot here. One of Charles Dickens’ many children...

A new genre to me – ‘outback noir’; The Dry might fall into this category. An apparent murder in a grim town in the Australian outback,...

A wonderful book, read it before (177 & 8) and still difficult. So, just to help out any other baffled reader, the even numbered chapters...

Bought this after indexing this blog and remembering 177 & 8. Didn’t enjoy it at all, 2 obscure narratives about young men in Australia...

A great cricket book, first published in 1963, at the end of this Ashes series, about 3 years before I got interested in cricket. Ross...

One of Paddy’s – this pretty good. Sounds a bit Dorothy Sayers from the title and not that dissimilar in certain ways. Nine (perfect...

The 2nd novel, I think, by the author of ‘The Dry’, no 524. With hindsight, I think that book may have been slightly over-hyped; this was...

A BBC book of the week I think not long before we went away. Very good Aussie (although I think JH is English) crime thriller. Set in a...

I am not sure that (if ever) I have read this since 1976 (when it is signed as a Xmas present for P). It is quite hard going, but pretty...

This is a long and difficult book; I did punctuate it with no.290. About a modernist painter in modern day Australia; dedicated to Sydney...

Another cricket related birthday present, but this is a brilliant travel book, and the cricket is just a coat hanger to steer him...

Just re-read it; it is a brilliant book, once you can follow the plotting which is alternative chapters, odd numbers set on the island...

Paddy got this from the library; it is written by some bright young thing ex Jesus College, where she used to work. It is very, very...