Reviews 

This is rather overblown by the publishers ‘the iconic number one bestseller’, ‘the classic lost thriller’. In point of fact, as Rankin...

Certainly non -fiction book of the year so far. I disliked it at first as I thought that he was writing from a right wing perspective, a...

No 538 re-read before due back in the library. Brilliant, book of the year I think. No easier to follow 2nd time round, but brilliant...

Bought in February 1977 from the 2nd hand book store in the town where we then lived, but never as far as I can tell, read until now. One...

Wow, probably the read of the year. This is a huge book and possibly very underrated. The central character, whose name I forget, is a...

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

Have tried reading this many times, but there is a big Ford Maddox Ford drama 'Parades End' on the TV which has encouraged me to give it...

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...