Reviews 

Never read any before, and found this beautifully written but hard work to read. Like a porcelain statue. The plot, as I remember it,...

Enjoyed the last one enough to read another. This is brilliant and I think probably one of the best. A family tragedy, involving...

A library book via P, as was no.1051. I struggled with the lack of any significant plot here. One of Charles Dickens’ many children...

Interesting to read this following no.1035. This is about a contemporary black American woman, married to a white man, who is dragged...

This is very good but quite difficult. Written from a contemporary viewpoint, it spans four generations of a Greek/Turkish family - the...

Subtitled ‘Anne Brontë and the Art of Life’, this is very good. Effectively an impressionistic biography of the Brontë family (who all...

Very good and merits a re-read as hard to follow at times. The interaction of two families, one Turkish, and one diaspora Armenians based...

The first of the Cormorant Strike novels in which the eponymous hero and Robin his P.A, business partner and romantic partner are...

Pleased that the local library is open again post lockdown; I am probably borrowing too many books, and the choices there are quite...

I thought this was brilliant and well-deserving of the Booker prize it won in 2020. A very grim novel set in Glasgow in the 1980s. The...

Extraordinary. Long and difficult (although ultimately very simple) book, simply about human life. Very un-glorified. The characters are...

Have read this before but wanted to re-read it. It introduces Erlendur and explicates more of his family history than some of the other...

Haven't read this for about 40 years since studying it as an A-level set text. Found it surprisingly hard work; enjoyed it enormously at...