Reviews 

A pre 'Slough House' novella. Begins as a slightly old fashioned Le Carre type spy thriller and gradually introduces some 'Slough House'...

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

This guy is brilliant! Re reading almost immediately, so see 535! Get this on Amazon

Went for another Mick Herron, despite the above. These books do improve all the time. I didn’t fully understand the plot here – which of...

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

During a sleepless night on 15 August, I began re-reading Patrick Gale’s Rough Music on my kindle as a bit of emergency late night...

Symptomatic of being short of reading ideas, buying another by the same author immediately after finishing the first (see David Mark, 491...

A late Xmas present from B. Very good (and long) book; Le Carré’s adult life mirrors much of my (actual) life, so much of the terrain...

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...

I seem to have finished the very good Tom Kell trilogy. This is the first in a (somebody else) series and it is not a promising start. A...

I think this may be his first novel (see 447); I have read it before but always enjoy it. The plot is as described above, although with...

The 3rd in the Thomas Kell series. This was brilliant; he is a great writer this guy and I am surprised that none of these books has been...

I was looking for a different Le Carré book, but this one was referred to in 446, so I thought I would give it a go (I must have read it...

The 2nd in the Thomas Kell series. This was weird because I had read the book before, and spent a lot of the time reading it puzzling...

The first of a series of novels featuring Thomas Kell, a disillusioned and cynical ex MI5 officer, who has been suspended in disgrace...

The third of the three I bought with the birthday tokens and by far the best. The key point is that this is a good novel, with the spy...

Went to Windsor on Saturday and used my birthday tokens on some spy thrillers recommended on an Andrew Marr BBC program, perhaps because...

Bought this, slightly conned by Waterstones’ promotion, as it is being serialised on the TV. Don’t think I have read a Le Carré since...

Meant to read a Zola next, but got a bit hooked by no.352. This is much more of a stand- alone novel, centering mainly on Mountolive, a...

Despite the endorsement by Philip Pullman (who I thought may have written the first chapters), this was complete rubbish. Not much more...