Reviews 

I quite enjoyed this. A comedy about a wealthy and overprivileged family in contemporary London, George a TV presenter having an affair...

I have read this before, but have no memory of it, I think, except for a scene where the daughter is lost on Hampstead Heath. There is a...

This is very good. A young trendy woman has had an affair and child with a political activist, who has subsequently disappeared. She...

Read this again as it is book group tonight. I can’t say that it was much better on a second reading. The heroine was a slightly bohemian...

I quite enjoyed this, although it is quite slight. A married Tokyo housewife, bored by her husband, who is a typical Japanese company...

Definitely worth another read. A complex and at times bewildering thriller, which is difficult to do justice to without revealing the...

This was very good, but I would have enjoyed it more if it had been written in a linear narrative, rather than with all the time shifts,...

Reluctantly, as I hate doing this, I am abandoning this almost halfway through. It is quite different from what I expected — a...

A beautiful (short) novel, about a couple who were literally a couple at university, meet in later life when he is married, have a brief...

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...

Marketed as a spy thriller, this was, at best, a very literary take on the genre. I can’t pretend I liked it much; poorly written...

The last holiday book. I have read this before but couldn’t remember much. It is a love triangle between Charlie, a washed-out British...

This is a very strange book. It is about a successful Western Architect who appears to have had enough of everything and gives it all up...

The new Inspector Banks, just published. The wonderful opening chapter (for me); Banks' anxiety about retirement plated out against...