Reviews 

I thought this was a bit silly, although I learned things I didn’t know from it. Like the existence of plant hunters in Victorian...

Paddy recommended this, having heard the author on Women’s Hour. Although it has been widely praised, I thought it was rubbish, well that...

Another library book via P. I am not reading at all fluently at the moment; this was quite a good book but I didn’t really enjoy it at...

As it is a library book, due back 5 September, I thought worth another read. It is actually quite an old fashioned novel, reminded me at...

Despite the endorsement by Philip Pullman (who I thought may have written the first chapters), this was complete rubbish. Not much more...

Volume three of the above. They are now all in Athens, although only briefly as the Germans invade toward the end, and they flee on a...

Volume two of the above. Rumania rather passively allows itself to be occupied by the Germans because there is no political will there,...

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

Inspired by the chase around Scotland in no.68 ( and struggling a bit with no.70) I Kindled this for nothing. Never read it or any other...