Reviews 

This was quite hard work, but I ended up enjoying it, as the rather disparate plot elements were pulled together in the last 50 pages....

A book by an Indian BBC presenter about an Indian guy who murdered in 1940 the British colonial administrator responsible for the...

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...

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

Lots of books as birthday presents. This I don’t think is one of the most distinguished, but people know I am a cricket fan. Miles Jupp,...

I started this to avoid starting no.153 before our flight to Barcelona and have just spilled a glass of water over the keyboard, but it...