Reviews 

I thought this was brilliant and well-deserving of the Booker prize it won in 2020. A very grim novel set in Glasgow in the 1980s. The...

The first Laidlaw novel, completed by Rankin following McIvanney’s death in 2015. I found it very hard work and with few characters of...

I like Denise Mina, with her weird punk hair, and enjoyed her on the TV recently with Frank Skinner on Boswell & Johnson’s tour of...

A book whose provenance I don’t know; must have been my father’s if the marginal jottings are in his handwriting. Not unlike a Rebus...

This is the first of the Lewis trilogy, no.199 above being the third. Again very good, the same central character (Finn) is not yet an...

The follow-up to 'Garnethill', which I must have enjoyed more than no.134 above indicates. The plot is less personal to Maureen this time...