Reviews 

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

I didn’t enjoy this as much as | expected, having read it years ago and knowing roughly what to expect (comic British colonial in,...

Read this in English, but Father Goriot sounds a bit naff. Quite a difficult book to read, as no chapters or other natural breaks in the...

This is a long and at times difficult book — quite different from no.187 in its breadth and a huge range of characters. Very difficult at...

A proper story at last. I hadn’t realised how early in the 19th century Balzac was writing; 1820’s/30’s. So there is lots of classicism,...

L used to be a big fan of James Lee Burke (and James Ellroy), but Burkes’ more recent books seem to me have to become very repetitive...

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...

Complete tat; airport fiction for a poor airport. Get this on Amazon

Not as good as some of the others; a thriller of sorts. The central figure Adam Kindred witnesses a murder, is a suspect and finds...

This is subtitled 'a novel of sex and violence' which pretty well sums it up. Trouble is that there isn’t a great deal else; there is not...

Wonderful! Boyd is fast becoming my favourite modern English novelist. I have read this before (don’t know whether an earlier reading is...

I have read quite a few of the Matt Scudder novels, but this is a new book with a new (anti-hero?) Keller. Keller is a semi-retired...

My other birthday book! I read this years ago, enjoyed it, and couldn't find it on Amazon for the kindle, hence the paperback purchase. I...

Not a lot better than the first Enderby. Apart from the plot being different, I can’t think of much to say about it — is it a comedy...

Borrowed a few Burgess books from my Dad after enjoying 'Earthly Powers' so much on holiday. I found this a difficult book; Enderby is...

Never read any before and sadly the guy died of cancer earlier this year. The central character in this book is suffering and suffers the...

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...

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...

Journalist/ex tax inspector exposes the complicity between modern governments, capital and multinationals re tax avoidance, tax...

Mistook "good quality crime" on some website for Mills & Boon. Complete tat. Get this on Amazon