Reviews 

Book 3 which takes us from 1942 to the end of the war. Lots of events as the girls grow up and Louise gets married to a dreadful man,...

Never read this, or any of her books, before. Huge cast of characters, introduced in short ensemble sketches, so very difficult to...

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,...

The only other Zola book in the house, although I have since invested something like £1.69 in Amazon to buy the complete works for my...

If I have read Thomas Mann before, it was 'Death in Venice' 40 years ago. This, especially the first half, was a wonderfully stately...

A swop with Paddy for no.159. Very different and hard to place genre-wise. Part historical romance, part derring-do adventure, part...

Spent my Waterstones birthday token from Dan on a couple of books. I had never, except by name, heard of this but the blurb on the back...

The third and best of the Garnethill trilogy, I have said to Paddy good enough to read as a stand alone. Everything does get resolved in...

Brilliant. Robinson is a bit like a velvet coat; you slip into his prose and feel immediately comfortable with the nuances. I think I...

Mistook "good quality crime" on some website for Mills & Boon. Complete tat. Get this on Amazon

Don't know why I read this as it is not very good. Probably avoiding another Tolstoy, already read detective novel and/or spending money...

I am hooked on these now. Found this one hard to get into initially (no murder, just a clear cut suicide) but so cleverly done that you...

A huge book, mainly I guess a fictionalised (although this seems controversial among the critics) biography of Wittgenstein. Pretty...

Wonderful. A story about a Canadian painter who comes to live in Penzance with her English partner and their four children; collectively...