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Oct 14, 20171 min read
541. Mick Herron - Why We Die
The 3rd Zoe Boehm, and despite the slightly portentous title, this book is imbued with death and jokes about death. More a...
Oct 12, 20171 min read
540. Mick Herron - The Last Voice You Hear
The 2nd Zoe Boehm. Very good again; I think this guy is a great writer. I found the series of improbable coincidences across the 1st 50...
Oct 7, 20171 min read
537. Mick Herron - Down Cemetery Road
The first in the private eye Zoe Boehm series, although until near the end she appears as a minor character in this book. Completely...
Oct 5, 20171 min read
536. Mick Herron - The List
A pre 'Slough House' novella. Begins as a slightly old fashioned Le Carre type spy thriller and gradually introduces some 'Slough House'...
Oct 4, 20171 min read
535. Mick Herron - Spook Street
This is a brilliant book; he seems to be really maturing into his Slough house characters, whose subtle and often very funny interactions...
Sep 28, 20171 min read
533. Mick Herron - Spook Street
This guy is brilliant! Re reading almost immediately, so see 535! Get this on Amazon
Sep 25, 20171 min read
530. Tim Heald - Brian Johnston, The Authorised Biography
A change from the novels, but this was (I wrote pretty lightweight) but with hindsight I would say execrable. From the hotel library. Get...
Sep 22, 20171 min read
527. Patricia Highsmith - Deep Water
Struggled to get into this, but it is a cleverly written portrait, not so much of a psychopath but of a disintegrated marriage which...
Sep 18, 20171 min read
524. Jane Harper - The Dry
A BBC book of the week I think not long before we went away. Very good Aussie (although I think JH is English) crime thriller. Set in a...
Sep 1, 20171 min read
518. Mick Herron - Real Tigers
Went for another Mick Herron, despite the above. These books do improve all the time. I didn’t fully understand the plot here – which of...
Aug 27, 20171 min read
517. Mick Herron - Slow Horses
Originally read this (463) in January, as all his books were well reviewed, inter alia, by Ann Cleeves in the Radio Times. There are a...
Aug 24, 20171 min read
516. Mick Herron - Dead Lions
The 2nd of the Jackson Lamb/Slough House espionage thrillers. This one began much more in spy thriller mode, but that was a deception...
Aug 19, 20171 min read
515. Matt Haig - The Humans
Possibly book of the year so far! An alien descends to earth (or in fact wakes up naked on a motorway near Cambridge) having been sent to...
Aug 14, 20171 min read
513. Georgina Harding - The Spy Game
Symptomatic of being short of reading ideas, buying another by the same author immediately after finishing the first (see David Mark, 491...
Aug 11, 20171 min read
512. Georgina Harding - The Gun Room
A book that P got from the library and was about to return unread. I thought it was wonderful; about war and its miseries; the central...
Aug 10, 20171 min read
511. Thomas Hardy - Tess Of The d'Urbervilles
Triggered by 509; these Victorian (or maybe post in Hardy’s case) novelists are so prolix; 450 pages. The plot wasn’t that similar to...
Mar 9, 20171 min read
472. Victoria Hislop - Cartes Postales From Greece
This is quite a nice book; beautifully illustrated with post card pictures from Greece. A young bored Londoner begins to receive...
Jan 28, 20171 min read
463. Mick Herron - Slow Horses
I have never heard of the author and can’t make my mind up about the book. The ‘Slow Horses’ are rejects from MI5 (or equivalent) who...
Jan 22, 20171 min read
462. Anthony Horowitz - Magpie Murders
A very clever book, although its cleverness is probably the most striking point. A very mannered traditional ‘Miss Marple’ style novel,...
Jun 15, 20161 min read
413. Sarah Hilary - Someone Else's Skin
Rather desperate and protracted (due to flight cancellation) airport reading on the way home. A thriller about inversion in a battered...