Reviews 

Have read this before, but tried to read it more seriously/critically, in view of the book group meeting later this week. Not really sure...

Book of the year for me, so far. Never heard of the author, got it out from the library as no.1015 above. Set on an island somewhere off...

Very good, but difficult at times, maybe just as a mid-week read being busy at work. A kind of psycho-analysis of English culture and...

This is very different, quite difficult and very good. A book about a boarding house in Portabello, Edinburgh, really throughout the 20th...

Sub-titled ‘A history of feminism in 11 fights’ this is very good, a mix of intelligent journalism and at times scholarly text. The...

Had been meaning, not very actively, to re-read this for some time, partly to remind myself of the plot. It is actually very good. What...

Another birthday present; this one from Patrick Stephenson. This is a geographical/historical picture, city by major city, of the world...

Aeroplane reading en route for Spain. Haven't read a David Lodge for years. Coming of age novel, apparently quite autobiographical, set...