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Jun 21, 20201 min read
793. Robert Harris - The Fear Index
A gift from our next door neighbour, for whom we were cooking. Never read any Robert Harris before. I thought this started well, but...
May 7, 20201 min read
774. Reginald Hill - A Pinch Of Snuff
Quite good. A ‘gang’ of crooks involved in pornography and other sexually deviant stuff, interact inadvertently with gritty Yorkshire...
Apr 20, 20201 min read
768. Reginald Hill - Recalled To Life
Completely different in tone from 767, which I enjoyed more. This is a quasi historical detective novel, the historical bit of the plot a...
Apr 17, 20201 min read
767. Reginald Hill - Underworld
Bingeing a bit on R Hill at the moment. This is brilliant. A combination of Lady Chatterley (aka Ellie Pascoe) + a post-miner’s strike...
Apr 13, 20201 min read
765. Mick Herron - Joe Country
Was trying to find a different book, which I think I read from the library so not on my Kindle, it appears. So re-read this instead. I...
Apr 4, 20201 min read
763. Mick Herron - Spook Street
I have read this before, but found it absolutely brilliant 2nd time round. The Slough House characters (and indeed the house itself) are...
Mar 28, 20201 min read
758. Reginald Hill - Child's Play
Bingeing on detective novels at the moment. Reginald Hill was a great writer, but his novels became more obscure and baroque as his...
Mar 23, 20201 min read
759. Reginald Hill - An Advancement of Learning
I think the 3rd Dalziel and Pascoe and, despite what I said above, this was pretty complex and difficult. Also introduces Frannie Root,...
Feb 10, 20201 min read
750. Mick Herron - The Catch
Am writing this on 20 February and can’t honestly remember anything about this book. These are a bit of a cheat. It is part of a series...
Jan 14, 20201 min read
744. Mick Herron - The List
The prequel, I think to 743, and I have read this one before. Structurally quite similar- another elderly German ex MI5 agent dies, a...
Jan 13, 20201 min read
743. Mick Herron - The Drop
Interesting to read this just after Le Carre, as this treads the same territory 30(?) years later and features ancient, superannuated...
Aug 30, 20191 min read
706. Mick Herron - Joe Country
I may not have been in the right mood, but thought this was one of his weaker books. Weak and slowly developed plot line and just not a...
Aug 8, 20191 min read
702. Isabel Hardman - Why We Get The Wrong Politicians
Much less enjoyable, despite being some newspaper’s ‘Book of the Year’. A mix of tittle tattle journalism and an underlying thesis,...
Jun 30, 20191 min read
693. Tessa Hadley - Late In The Day
I half enjoyed this, if that is possible. Paddy said it reminded her a bit of Iris Murdoch, although it was better written and without...
Apr 25, 20191 min read
678. Jaroslav Hasek - The Good Soldier Svejk
Obviously having my own Prague spring as this was inspired by 677 above, and apart from Kafka, Hasek is the major Prague writer from the...
Mar 14, 20191 min read
667. Stacey Halls - The Familiars
Reluctant to spend more with Amazon, in view of all the crappy marketing material on my new kindle (this can have a negative effect,...
Feb 4, 20191 min read
655. Susan Hill - From The Heart
A library book of P’s. It is quite a slight book, with a heroine lacking in character and very reactive, although P says that girls were...
Jan 13, 20191 min read
651. Reginald Hill - A Killing Kindness
Re-read this as a substitute to 650 above, and can’t remember that much about it now, maybe not a recommendation. A series of unrelated...
Dec 15, 20181 min read
645. Kate Humble - Thinking On My Feet
A book about walking. I enjoyed this more as it went on; initially it struck me as a bit ‘forced’, as if she or her publisher had decided...
Nov 14, 20181 min read
640. Mick Herron - This Is What Happened
(I think I have got the title right). Quite a slight (although not cheap) book about two sisters and a madman who cons the less...