Reviews 

Probably the worst book I have read for a while; don’t know why I bothered to finish it. Set in North Italy, near the border with Germany...

This is a pretty good WW2 thriller, set in Italy. It reminded me a bit of Sebastian Faulks’ Charlotte Grey. I didn’t like the title, as...

I can’t pretend to have read this cover to cover, as it is half recipes and half Sophie Grigson’s emigration from the UK to Puglia, which...

I enjoyed this more than I expected. I can’t see anything special about his prose style. But I enjoyed this as a novel about an American...

The 4th and final novel of the sequence. I never normally read books out of sequence but P had this from the library and we have watched...

One of Paddy’s cast off’s (like no.300 above). I read too many ‘feminine’ books because they are there available. This was quite good,...

This is a fictionalised account of the Borgias. The writing is poor; the characters very stereotyped and lacking in character. Reads...

Superior chic lit really. Quite a good plot, about the current lives of a couple of gels who went child-minding in Italy in the late 70’s...

Inspector Montalbano populates BBC4 Saturday evenings in the gaps between big, dark Scandinavian thrillers (or currently Borgen, which is...

Wow, probably the read of the year. This is a huge book and possibly very underrated. The central character, whose name I forget, is a...

Probably enjoyed this less than I expected, although not in a very receptive mood when I read it. The plot is fairly far fetched; English...