Reviews 

Tried starting this two years ago in Spain; couldn’t get into it. A bit of a curate’s egg; some of his writing is excellent; some less...

Tried, but failed to finish this at the end of the holiday. Bellow now seems to me to be very overrated; some Jewish humour, but pretty...

Best serious holiday read so far. Never read any Faulkner before, but this, although difficult was very good, especially part two (out of...

Not sure what to make of this, or exactly what genre it aspires to. I guess spy thriller. I thought it would compare interestingly with...

Paddy recommended this; I didn’t like it at first, but enjoyed it more and more as it progressed. It is a semi-fictionalised biography of...

Found the plot very hard to follow, but probably no more so the ‘The Sound and the Fury' (no.220), although that was billed as difficult....

Truly awful, but I needed a bit of a light read and found this in the villa. Kellerman is the worst type of US psycho-crime babble...

By way of contrast, a book I have never read before and a real shock at that. Not a comedy of manners, nor a US/European culture clash as...

Trying to read some old books, preferably in paper, before we fly off to Spain. I enjoyed this more than I expected; the key bit of...

This is a wonderful book. I expected to find it hard work (it was at times) but as a chronicle of American naivety, Puritanism and I...