Reviews 

No 3 in this wonderful quartet. Mountolive is a career diplomat, who early in the book is posted to Alexandria where he has an affair...

This was very good; neither Paddy nor I had read it before, but it is a rattlingly good plot with bits of Jane Eyre influence. A gauche...

Struggling to find a writer I can enjoy and read one of his en-route to Malaga (597). Quite enjoyed this; I can’t quite make Hill out as...

This is a strange book. A girl disappears in a small village, and one assume abductions, or worse. The style of the book is to ‘hover...

Struggled to get into this, but it is a cleverly written portrait, not so much of a psychopath but of a disintegrated marriage which...

The 3rd of Paddy’s library books, after burn out with Tana French. If 480 was brilliant and 481 execrable, this was middling. The genre...

I don’t know when I last read this book, but I thought it was absolutely wonderful this time round. It is quite beautifully constructed;...