Reviews 

One of my favourite books and every time you read it, you pick up different aspects. I found the opening chapters hard work, but was...

This was a brilliant TV drama twenty plus years ago, but I think the book has dated. Heavily imbued in the English class system as it was...

A library book via P. A P.I. Marc Novak is approached by a mysterious official-sounding couple to investigate the death of Lady Di In...

Quite enjoyed this. Particularly the opening scenes set in rural Kansas, reminded me of Patrick White on the Australian outback. The plot...

This is very good. A portrait of (possibly Middle) England over the 75 years since the end of WW2 until the anniversary 75 years later....

This is very good. A young trendy woman has had an affair and child with a political activist, who has subsequently disappeared. She...

Very good, although quite difficult at times. The story of two teenagers, set in Colonial Malaya in the 1930s. The teenagers are both...

I enjoyed this but found the plot frustrating. Linda the narrator and central character is a wonderfully drawn marginal character,...

Very good for a first novel, written by a full time NHS doctor, but better than the last two or three by well established writers....

One of P’s. Very strange book – if it reminded me of anything it was Philip Pullman with the parallel world's theme. Or it could be a...

We are going to see this in the theatre tonight, with Ian McKellan and other vaunted actors, and I hope it is better on stage than on the...

This was very good, but I would have enjoyed it more if it had been written in a linear narrative, rather than with all the time shifts,...

Bought this by mistake, as P already has a copy and I read it 18 months ago. But I like Chevalier and it is quite a good book. About a...

Published in 1995, so 25 years old. Made me wonder about the author’s sexuality. There are three main characters, Tim Cranmer the...

Didn’t plan to read another immediately, but finished 789 in bed on Thursday. These are quite hard work, but maybe reading late at night...

This is quite complex. Chandler seems to write about a very decadent West Coast American in, is it the 1930’s or 40’s. Sexual fidelity...

I have read this many times before but never really understood it; the plot is quite complex, but essentially it is a novel about a sex...

This I think is the 3rd book in a trilogy which ends with Smiley trapping Karla’s daughter who has been smuggled into Europe...

I didn’t enjoy this as much as the previous ones. The theme/motif here was trees, apples early in the book and sequoias, towards the end,...

This is a wonderful book by a wonderful writer. A real discovery for me. The theme is very obvious from the Vermeer reproduction on the...