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Jul 31, 20221 min read
1000. Robert Galbraith - Lethal White
The fourth (I think) Cormoran Strike book and the best I have read so far. Begins with Robin marrying Matthew (reluctantly) but they have...
Sep 1, 20211 min read
890. Reginald Hill - Recalled To Life
This is a rollicking good yarn; set initially in the 1960’s around the time of the Profumo scandal involving a murder set in Yorkshire...
Sep 5, 20141 min read
241. Michel Houellebecq - Whatever (Serpent's Tail)
Undoubtedly the worst and stupidest book I have read for a long time. The plot, if it has one, is about an incredibly cross Frenchman,...
May 16, 20141 min read
208. Graham Greene - The Confidential Agent
Borrowed this from my father’s library, and was surprised to find I had read it before (in fact, we have a very ancient, dropped in the...
Jun 15, 20131 min read
118. Richard Brooks - The Great Tax Robbery
Journalist/ex tax inspector exposes the complicity between modern governments, capital and multinationals re tax avoidance, tax...
Apr 19, 20131 min read
100. Graham Greene - The Confidential Agent
And no.100! (I did try to read 'Mr Sammler's Planet' by Saul Bellow after no.99, but gave up in the garden this morning. Too prosaic, and...
Apr 5, 20131 min read
95. Graham Greene - The Honorary Consul
Despite my mixed response to Greene in this text, I found this one, bent and out of shape from having been read and it appears dropped in...