Reviews 

I love this book, although the plot has its incoherences. A very lyrical bildungsroman, but peppered with a series of very gruesome...

This is her first book, and very different from The Colony (no.1019). Set in 1940’s Germany, the central figures are a soldier on the...

Never heard of the author; one of a series set in London during the blitz. Unclear why the central detective has to be an aristocrat...

This is a pretty good WW2 thriller, set in Italy. It reminded me a bit of Sebastian Faulks’ Charlotte Grey. I didn’t like the title, as...

I think I may have read one of his before – a trilogy called 'Berlin Noir', many years ago. This was long and ponderous at times, but a...

Paul Scott apart, this would I think be my book of the year this year. A library book that Paddy enjoyed, set in post war England. Quite...

Continued brilliance. Sarah Layton quite prominent in this book, which ends with her losing her virginity. To what extent is her sexual...

Took this to Spain for aeroplane reading. I had remembered it mainly as a ‘French resistance’ novel with the dropped in British heroine,...

Not entirely sure whether volume one of 'The Balkan Trilogy' counts as a book, but volume two (no.193 below) certainly re-introduces the...

Best holiday read so far. About an English girl who goes to Cambridge pre-WW2 and falls in love with a Russian émigré communist. She is...

I had read this before and had always been a bit put off by the fact that (I think) Reginald Hill has written a book with a similar theme...

An early book, I think, very much coming of age/ 'Catcher in the Rye' (have I ever read this?) type of book. The coming of age is...