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210. Bruce Chatwin - Utz
Didn’t want to overdo the Greene while we were stuck in Bristol, so borrowed a couple more, which I haven’t read yet. Never read any...
May 18, 20141 min read


176. Albert Camus - The Outsider
Don’t know what prompted me to re-read this. It is very short, and I wasn’t feeling well when I read it and wrote the above. It is...
Jan 11, 20141 min read


164. Andrea Camilleri - The Dance Of The Seagull
Inspector Montalbano populates BBC4 Saturday evenings in the gaps between big, dark Scandinavian thrillers (or currently Borgen, which is...
Nov 17, 20131 min read


150. Raymond Chandler - The Big Sleep
I think this is perhaps the first time I have read this book ‘properly’ if that is an appropriate adverb. General Sternwood has a...
Oct 4, 20131 min read


4. John Le Carré - A Small Town In Germany
Read this before, probably about 30 years ago! Set in Bonn in the late '60s, the central figure (although he never appears) is a man who...
Apr 20, 20121 min read