Reviews 

I have read this before, and it is good, but long and quite difficult. The story of two families, one an Englishman married to a...

A library book via P, about a couple, the Delaney’s, their four adult children and very good on adult sibling rivalry. The couple used to...

"I sucked twelve cocks in Magaluf" is an opening sentence to rival Jane Austen or Tolstoy. Subtitled "what if the worst thing you did...

I enjoyed the beginning of this, but as it progressed the similarities to (and repetitions of) My Brilliant Friend began to proliferate....

This is very good, and the title a good pun. A conventional middle class girl chooses the wrong partner, and escapes from London to New...

One of my favourite of his books, despite my copy having been in the bath some years ago. Thematically, very John le Carré – set possibly...

One of P’s. I quite enjoyed this and it was original in that the two central characters Dan and Bea (Dante P suggested?!) are both dead...

Very good. Quite a difficult book about her childhood in Motherwell, written by a successful and now I think sadly dead journalist in her...

Thought I would go for something a bit lighter. Had read this before and possibly seen it on the TV, many years ago. It is the one in...

Quite a strange, but interesting, book. Anne Glenconner is a typical upper class English girl, born into the aristocracy, marries another...

Paddy recommended this. I found it slightly hard going although as I got into it I wondered why. Maybe re-read on a beach. 3 main...

Recommended on BBC’s A Good Read, and I had never read any of hers before. Good, but I struggled to understand the underlying theme. Set...

This was on the radio a few weeks ago and is her much heralded 3rd book. I found it hard work, and not frankly that good. The narrative...

I didn’t enjoy this as much as the previous ones. The theme/motif here was trees, apples early in the book and sequoias, towards the end,...

I had no idea this guys wrote books, as well as being a chat show host. I wouldn’t say this was very well written, but the plot was...

This is a huge and very challenging book. The basic plot is relatively simple – three brothers with an unpleasant and dissolute father,...

This is a strange book; Radio 4’s book of the month for November which is where I came across it. The Loney is a bit of actual (or...

If she is so good, better read another. This is no.1 in the series; 628 is the 4th and last to date. This is very good as well; begins...

I had never read this and really enjoyed it, although probably a holiday/beach read. Written with great power, anger and a lot of...

This was very good, although I’d have enjoyed it more if: I had realised it was a reworking of Antigone and I had any knowledge of the...