Reviews 

Best novel I have read for a while. Beautifully constructed and written. The plot covers a 35 year period from the mid 1970’s to the...

Never heard of the author (he wrote ‘Get Carter’ apparently) and worked on the animation of 'Yellow Submarine'. This is basically London...

Embarrassingly, I have read this before but had (have) no memory of this until I said to P. ‘If I was still on speaking terms with [a...

A library book of Paddy’s. She liked it, I didn’t much, although one would have expected the opposite, given that I am more into rock and...

This was a good, big and difficult book. The basic plot premise is that a man buys a humanoid type machine, I believe for £85k. He and...

If she is so good, better read another. This is no.1 in the series; 628 is the 4th and last to date. This is very good as well; begins...

A library book via P. I thought, for most of this book, which is quite a hard work read, that ‘the interestings’ (5 or 6 student-y...

Grabbed another Jake Arnott as I finished 577 late evening and needed an easy start. This I think is a better book than 577, set in...

I didn’t enjoy this much, at least until very near the end when the subject became a little clearer. So, (as everyone says nowadays), it...

Not as good as part 1 (464), but he had set the scene then and doesn’t add much to it in Part 2, apart from dropping in various...

I quite like this guy; have read this before; it is the one about the Icelandic left wing students who go on a communist sponsored year...

A library book from P. Set in the 1970’s, a mildly bored and disaffected teenager is sent off to live with his hippy uncle on a houseboat...

I gather Dan Kavanagh is really Julian Barnes, writing private eye thrillers under this pseudonym. Certainly a fairly salacious page...

The last (I think) of the Brodie books. I found this the least enjoyable. It was somehow too dense and lacked the lightness of touch of...

I think I have read one of the Resnick novels before, without really enjoying it. Jon Harvey is coming to speak at our local library in a...

Very short, maybe a bit of a cheat. Had read it before, maybe 30+ years ago. Enigmatic, about a woman in Germany in the 1970's whose life...

Despite my mixed response to Greene in this text, I found this one, bent and out of shape from having been read and it appears dropped in...

(Requested) Xmas present from my son D. I enjoyed it in the end; found it difficult at first as: I was expecting a linear narrative Some...

This was brilliant. I had a weird and precise memory of having read the first chapter (only) before; maybe one of the publisher's bits of...