Reviews 

A library book from P. I found this difficult to follow until, after finishing, I discovered in the author’s afterword, that it is part...

Featured on Radio 4’s ‘A Good Read’, a novel about transsexuals in New York. There were points of interest but the subject didn’t really...

Re-read this again, but nothing much to add. Good but puzzling. Get this from Waterstones

I like David’s books and have read this twice, as it was a difficult first read with a lot of characters living in Merryking Close (and...

Quite enjoyed this, but insubstantial. Tova, an elderly Swedish widow, works as cleaner in an aquarium and develops a relationship with...

Re-read this and it is very good. Character and motivation of Claire Treloggan very interesting and challenging. Nothing much to add. Get...

This was pretty low grade, despite being described as ‘reminiscent of Graham Greene’. I don’t think so. A quasi-espionage thriller set...

A new genre to me – ‘outback noir’; The Dry might fall into this category. An apparent murder in a grim town in the Australian outback,...

This is very different, quite difficult and very good. A book about a boarding house in Portabello, Edinburgh, really throughout the 20th...

Read this again, as I had a completely rubbishy library book. Much better on a 2nd read as the plot was less opaque, and the...

Not sure I would read any more of these. A Daniel Pitt novel from ‘The New York Times Bestselling Author’. Readable but dull. Set in...

I enjoyed this with some caveats. The character of Logan is better portrayed than in no.911 and the impact of his prosopagnosia comes out...

Definitely worth another read. A complex and at times bewildering thriller, which is difficult to do justice to without revealing the...

A gothic novel set in17th century Germany involving witches and daemonic possession, so not entirely my cup of tea. I found it pretty...

Didn’t like the title, so not a good start! Very opaque, but quite a good thriller once I had (just about) worked out the plot! Worth...

I didn’t think much of this; following the plot(s) with all the time shifts was pretty hard work. The third part of a trilogy (might have...

I am not reading very well at the moment, but this is a long and difficult book. About trees. It is cleverly structured – Part 1 'Roots'...

P recommended this; it didn’t do a lot for me. A bit of 15th century Italian history, (no nation state, just cities always at war with...

The last of the quartet. Young rock & roll Cuba vs its past. You do learn implicitly about Cuban history; the wealthy upper/middle class...

I think what I said at 786 above is correct; these books do seem to me to be quite structurally and thematically repetitive. We again...