Reviews 

Best serious holiday read so far. Never read any Faulkner before, but this, although difficult was very good, especially part two (out of...

Beautifully written, really quite a simple love story, except not really. A compressed version of 'Birdsong', I had forgotten how much of...

Found the plot very hard to follow, but probably no more so the ‘The Sound and the Fury' (no.220), although that was billed as difficult....

A swop with Paddy for no.159. Very different and hard to place genre-wise. Part historical romance, part derring-do adventure, part...

The last holiday book. I have read this before but couldn’t remember much. It is a love triangle between Charlie, a washed-out British...

Trying to read some old books, preferably in paper, before we fly off to Spain. I enjoyed this more than I expected; the key bit of...

A very modern thriller, about a couple whose marriage has disintegrated, and he (Nick) may have killed her (Amy) and disposed of the...

An Xmas present from our next-door neighbors, who are obviously fans (I have never read one before). Fast-paced WW2 thriller; the needle...

Described as a novel, this is really five short stories, with obscure (if at all) thematic interlinkings. The best was the last one, but...

Hadn't read this for years, if indeed ever. Very slow to get moving. I thought it was quite DH Lawrence-ish; love across the social...

I thought, rather to my surprise, that this was complete tosh. Badly written (or translated? I know Flaubert is supposed to be a master...