Reviews 

Grabbed another Jake Arnott as I finished 577 late evening and needed an easy start. This I think is a better book than 577, set in...

A virtuoso feat of writing, but maybe not much else? Set in 18th century London, written in an (I assume) genuine working class London...

Another Susan Hill recommendation. I have never read this author before, detective novels written I think in the 1950’s. This was a...

This is a brilliant book; he seems to be really maturing into his Slough house characters, whose subtle and often very funny interactions...

The 2nd of the Jackson Lamb/Slough House espionage thrillers. This one began much more in spy thriller mode, but that was a deception...

Not as good as part 1 (464), but he had set the scene then and doesn’t add much to it in Part 2, apart from dropping in various...

I think this guy is also a TV script-writer, but this was very good. Set in the East End post war, a bunch of working class on the...

I have never heard of the author and can’t make my mind up about the book. The ‘Slow Horses’ are rejects from MI5 (or equivalent) who...

Paul Scott apart, this would I think be my book of the year this year. A library book that Paddy enjoyed, set in post war England. Quite...

Another book from the ‘Best Crime Thriller’ website. Patrick Neate (or at least his hero) is a Ugandan Asian private eye, living in...

Another from P (I can’t decide what to read at the moment so am piggy backing on her choices). This was brilliant, I thought. A...

I gather Dan Kavanagh is really Julian Barnes, writing private eye thrillers under this pseudonym. Certainly a fairly salacious page...

I can see why I dumped these books in the attic when the bookcases became over-crowded a few years ago; they’re OK but it is doubtful...

Don’t think I have ever read any Doris Lessing. This struck me as both ponderous and dated. A middle aged woman discovers that motherhood...

Another of P’s library books; I found this a curious mixture of annoying and extremely good. An autobiographical (I assume) story of a...

This is totally different; a kind of 17th century 'Brokeback Mountain'. It is huge in scope, covering bloody bits of the civil war which...

Need something easy to read so picked an early Ian Rankin, which I didn’t remember. Rebus is seconded to London, to help the Met out on a...

Bought four books in Waterstones with a token Dan gave me for Xmas. I had never heard of this or the author who turns out to be the wife...

Another Rebus. I never used to enjoy these, but no.128 rekindled my interest. Rebus is sent to London to help investigate a serial...

Still can't make up my mind about this guy; this was not a great book. Need to find another author! Get this on Amazon