Reviews 

I have read this before, and it is good, but long and quite difficult. The story of two families, one an Englishman married to a...

This is not the sort of book I would normally read. The title is misleading, it is not biographical at all, but a year of events and...

This is very good but quite difficult. Written from a contemporary viewpoint, it spans four generations of a Greek/Turkish family - the...

This is also extraordinary and very good. An incredibly well structured and plotted novel about cartography, encompassing an element of...

Very good and merits a re-read as hard to follow at times. The interaction of two families, one Turkish, and one diaspora Armenians based...

This is a wonderful book. Set mainly in Cyprus in the mid-1970s when the country was ripped apart by the Greek/Cypriot civil war, it...

This was quite hard work, but I ended up enjoying it, as the rather disparate plot elements were pulled together in the last 50 pages....

This is very good although I found the ending a bit of a damp squib. She writes beautifully in English about Turkey and Istanbul and the...

A very strange book. A story within a contemporary novel set mainly in a Turkish city in the 13th century involving a whirling dervish...

Very good, but difficult at times, maybe just as a mid-week read being busy at work. A kind of psycho-analysis of English culture and...

This is very good, and the title a good pun. A conventional middle class girl chooses the wrong partner, and escapes from London to New...

This is a wonderful book, by an author I have never heard of. The premise is that the brain continues activity for some minutes after...

A variant on Scandi noir, this is set in Helsinki, so Finnish noir, which lacks resonance. A quite good police procedural, with a very...

Didn’t really know what to make of this. Far too long; should have been edited down to c300 pages rather than 500. Sasha Swire is the...

I thought this was brilliant and well-deserving of the Booker prize it won in 2020. A very grim novel set in Glasgow in the 1980s. The...

In anticipation of a trip to the theatre. I don’t read much Shakespeare, but really enjoyed this and found it compact and easy to read....

I love Susie Steiner’s 'Manon' book, of which I think this is the 2nd (maybe 3rd) and it is shocking and horrible to hear that she now...

This is a sort of 'Dummies Guide' to UK politics and the underlying ideological issues, written I am told for the younger generation who...

Found this incredibly difficult, despite having ½ a degree in philosophy, although an O level failure in general science may have been...

I love Susie Steiner and her Manon detective. Sadly I think she has been very ill and is now blind, so this is only the third novel is...