Reviews 

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

Very good, although quite difficult at times. The story of two teenagers, set in Colonial Malaya in the 1930s. The teenagers are both...

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

Never heard of this guy, or read anything of his before. 1930’s upper class decadence and sexual depravity meets 1930’s intellectualised...

One of Paddy’s and this was brilliant. Set in the early 1930’s and about a 38 year old spinster whose intended had been killed the 1st...

This is by the author of ‘The Miniturist’ which I have seen on television if not read. Not in the George Eliot class (well what would...

I enjoyed this, although it was long and hard work! Annoyingly, it succumbed to various clichés attaching to this type of novel; about 3...

A strange book about English provincial life, set unclearly in time, but I think in the 1930’s. The central figure is an adolescent boy...

Another Susan Hill recommendation. I have never read this author before, detective novels written I think in the 1950’s. This was a...

I don’t think I have ever read any Muriel Spark before, but put her on my list after reading 568. Quite a strange book; Jean Brodie’s...

Very readable, but a little similar to other (I think W Boyd) books; the 20th century seen through the developing life of an individual....

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

Extraordinary. Long and difficult (although ultimately very simple) book, simply about human life. Very un-glorified. The characters are...