Reviews 

This is her first book, and very different from The Colony (no.1019). Set in 1940’s Germany, the central figures are a soldier on the...

This was pretty low grade, despite being described as ‘reminiscent of Graham Greene’. I don’t think so. A quasi-espionage thriller set...

Never read any by this guy before, but from the bibliography, at the start, I should; he sounds a bit like Antony Burgess, mixing fiction...

A gothic novel set in17th century Germany involving witches and daemonic possession, so not entirely my cup of tea. I found it pretty...

The prequel, I think to 743, and I have read this one before. Structurally quite similar- another elderly German ex MI5 agent dies, a...

Interesting to read this just after Le Carre, as this treads the same territory 30(?) years later and features ancient, superannuated...

The 3rd paper book bought with Daniel’s Xmas Waterstone’s voucher. I has no idea that Childers’ was on IRA man, executed by firing squad...

I think this may be his first novel (see 447); I have read it before but always enjoy it. The plot is as described above, although with...

If I have read Thomas Mann before, it was 'Death in Venice' 40 years ago. This, especially the first half, was a wonderfully stately...

Couldn’t get ‘The Man Without Qualities’ on a Kindle so this as a substitute. Typical German early 20th century expressionist (is this...

Not entirely sure whether volume one of 'The Balkan Trilogy' counts as a book, but volume two (no.193 below) certainly re-introduces the...

I have read a trilogy, I think called 'Berlin Noir' before, without really enjoying it. l am not sure that I enjoyed this a lot either-...

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

Very short, maybe a bit of a cheat. Had read it before, maybe 30+ years ago. Enigmatic, about a woman in Germany in the 1970's whose life...

Read this before, probably about 30 years ago! Set in Bonn in the late '60s, the central figure (although he never appears) is a man who...