Reviews 

Another one from Bristol. I had read this years ago. Found it quite hard going; she doesn’t write very fluently about people so the...

Fond though I am of Patrick Gale, I didn’t like this much; too much gay proselytising, although he explains the genesis of the book (a...

Another purloined book, the only Greene I could see there that I hadn’t read. This is a late and rather slight book; a parody I assume of...

A short and unplanned read post no.339 above. This is a very good book, but as I had forgotten about it I can’t think of much to say. If...

This is another good book, but nothing like as good as no.327. It may be quite autobiographical (at least in its settings) and lacks the...

If I had to pick my favourite novel, I think this might be it. It is absolutely brilliant (I have put Jane Siberry on to type this up,...

Aeroplane reading en route to Copenhagen. I had thought this was my favourite Greene, but was disappointed this time round. I understood...

Never read this either; written as a film script, (don’t think I have ever seen the film?) it is a brief but well-constructed story. The...

Pretty good. A relatively early Greene, about a rail trip from London to Istanbul in the 1930’s. As the train progresses — Ostende,...

Borrowed this from my father’s library, and was surprised to find I had read it before (in fact, we have a very ancient, dropped in the...

An old detective novel I must have ‘borrowed' from my Dad, as his annotations are evident. Quite well written, but pretty clichéd — a...

A beautiful (short) novel, about a couple who were literally a couple at university, meet in later life when he is married, have a brief...

Haven’t read a cricketing biography for years, and probably won’t repeat the experience for a while. Get this on Amazon

Spent my Waterstones birthday token from Dan on a couple of books. I had never, except by name, heard of this but the blurb on the back...

This is a very strange book. It is about a successful Western Architect who appears to have had enough of everything and gives it all up...

And no.100! (I did try to read 'Mr Sammler's Planet' by Saul Bellow after no.99, but gave up in the garden this morning. Too prosaic, and...

Despite my mixed response to Greene in this text, I found this one, bent and out of shape from having been read and it appears dropped in...

Didn't enjoy this for reasons I find hard to understand. Some Green is fantastic; others of his do little for me. In theory, I should...

One of P's. Very good part-thriller about sinister goings on at an English boarding school, which all have their origins in the past. Not...

Another brilliant book. An otherworldly priest in Cornwall (it links explicitly to no.37 above), not quite otherworldly enough to avoid...