Reviews 

Very good, but difficult at times, maybe just as a mid-week read being busy at work. A kind of psycho-analysis of English culture and...

The first book group book. About the five victims of Jack the Ripper. Not the sort of thing I would normally read. Written by a feminist...

This is really good – I expected a rather frothy and lightweight book from a woman who likes to prance around in period costume in her TV...

Sub-titled ‘A history of feminism in 11 fights’ this is very good, a mix of intelligent journalism and at times scholarly text. The...

Book of the year, so far. Beautifully written. About a single location – Glen Conach – in the Scottish highlands over several centuries....

The full title continues ‘of English cricket'. But I couldn’t really work out whether it was a parallel biography of these 2 cricket...

Bought this after indexing this blog and remembering 177 & 8. Didn’t enjoy it at all, 2 obscure narratives about young men in Australia...

I found this hard going; it was dramatised on Radio 4 but maybe their adaptation was better than the book. About an English governess who...

I think I summarised this quite well when I first read it (no.352), nearly 5 years ago. (no.779 above is a better summary of Justine than...

One of Paddy’s. A rather severe academic book about 5 women (Virginia Woolf, the poet HD, Dorothy Sayers, Jane Harrison, a Cambridge...

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 is a wonderful book by a wonderful writer. A real discovery for me. The theme is very obvious from the Vermeer reproduction on the...

Heard an extract on Radio 4. This is a shocking book about slavery in the deep south in the 19th century, but it is not a very good book....

Remarkably, there was another book of hers in the house, which obviously belonged to my Dad. This was totally different, although the...

This is by the author of ‘The Miniturist’ which I have seen on television if not read. Not in the George Eliot class (well what would...

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...

Obviously having my own Prague spring as this was inspired by 677 above, and apart from Kafka, Hasek is the major Prague writer from the...

A book by an Indian BBC presenter about an Indian guy who murdered in 1940 the British colonial administrator responsible for the...

Reluctant to spend more with Amazon, in view of all the crappy marketing material on my new kindle (this can have a negative effect,...

A library book of Paddy's. Couldn’t entirely make this out – an eponymous (Nell Stevens) PhD student in London has a love affair which...