Reviews 

There are good books to read in the run up to 31 January, fast-paced detective stories. Like no.1044, this is quite Freudian, featuring...

I think this guy is good. Hard to summarise this thematically, as there a multiple strands – Richard I’s attempt to recover the Cross...

There is less plot really in this one: Darley returns to Alexandria, gives the girl to her father Nessim and becomes Clea’s lover....

This is no.2 in the series and is quite extraordinary. Aristide, an ineffectual and vacillating son of Pierre in no.315 above, has moved...

Misleadingly packaged as a thriller (which it isn’t) this is the strangest book I've read on holiday. A very weird Japanese novel about...

Best serious holiday read so far. Never read any Faulkner before, but this, although difficult was very good, especially part two (out of...

Totally different in style, and content, this is a coming of age novel about a group of friends at Oxford together, and two in...