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Oct 21, 20231 min read
1099. John Grisham - The Firm
A birthday present from D. I read this years ago when it first came out (pub 1989). It is very much an 80’s book about greed rampant...
Jun 1, 20231 min read
1071. Elly Griffiths - The Woman In Blue
I am not really sure that I like these. The character Ruth is interesting and attractive, but the plotting is weak – a couple of murders,...
May 25, 20231 min read
1068. Elly Griffiths - The Stranger Diaries
This is a good gothic/modern crime novel, about several murders in a school. There are three narrators who intersperse, Clare, a teacher...
May 13, 20231 min read
1065. Elly Griffiths - The Crossing Places
Recommended by Eve, our librarian. Crime meets archaeology. The crime is a plus for me, the archaeology less so. Ruth, the central figure...
Feb 18, 20231 min read
1047. Robert Galbraith - The Ink Black Heart
I have enjoyed most of these books, but not this one. The Strike/Robin relationship continues to be well chronicled and on a ‘Will they,...
Aug 19, 20221 min read
1004. Robert Galbraith - Troubled Blood
Bought this in error, read it before as a library book (no.980), but it is very good, long and complex with a huge cast of characters. A...
Jul 31, 20221 min read
1000. Robert Galbraith - Lethal White
The fourth (I think) Cormoran Strike book and the best I have read so far. Begins with Robin marrying Matthew (reluctantly) but they have...
Jul 23, 20221 min read
998. Graham Greene - The Power And The Glory
I didn’t enjoy this much, although expected to, after a heavy diet of thrillers. There is a bit in the introduction by John Updike who...
Jun 9, 20221 min read
987. Robert Galbraith - The Cuckoo's Calling
The first of the Cormorant Strike novels in which the eponymous hero and Robin his P.A, business partner and romantic partner are...
May 23, 20221 min read
980. Robert Galbraith - Troubled Blood
JK Rowling writes as Robert Galbraith, and I have seen some of the Strike books on the TV, but never read one. This is incredibly long,...
Mar 31, 20221 min read
962. Patrick Gale - Mother's Boy
I love Patrick Gale, but struggled initially with this. The plot is very linear with few of the surprising plot twists that one expects....
Jan 6, 20221 min read
931. Graham Greene - Our Man In Havana
One of his ‘entertainments’ which I don’t on the whole enjoy. The conceit is quite amusing, a vacuum salesman in Havana is recruited by...
Oct 28, 20211 min read
912. Graham Greene - The Human Factor
One of my favourite of his books, despite my copy having been in the bath some years ago. Thematically, very John le Carré – set possibly...
Oct 14, 20211 min read
906. Sophie Grigson - A Curious Absence Of Chickens
I can’t pretend to have read this cover to cover, as it is half recipes and half Sophie Grigson’s emigration from the UK to Puglia, which...
Sep 29, 20211 min read
899. Ann Granger - The Dead Women Of Deptford
Never heard of the author, but this was very good, and beautifully written. A crime novel, set possibly in Edwardian or late Victorian...
Jun 14, 20211 min read
868. Patrick Gale - Take Nothing With You
Embarrassingly, I have read this before but had (have) no memory of this until I said to P. ‘If I was still on speaking terms with [a...
Apr 2, 20211 min read
854. Anne Glenconner - Lady In Waiting
Quite a strange, but interesting, book. Anne Glenconner is a typical upper class English girl, born into the aristocracy, marries another...
Aug 24, 20201 min read
810. Jane Gardam - Bilgewater
Paddy loves this but I found it pretty hard work. It is well written (the prose is streets above 809 above), but I just couldn’t warm to...
Jun 13, 20201 min read
791. Graham Greene - The Tenth Man
I am not reading very well at the moment and have trouble following the plots of lots of books, this is really a novella written for a...
Apr 1, 20201 min read
761. Elizabeth Gaskell - Mary Barton
We bought this in Lymington in September 1978 and if I have read it before, it won’t have been since shortly after then. Gaskell is a...