Reviews 

Another very good book, although completely different. Set just after the end of the 2nd World War, Hilary Wainwright is an ex-British...

This is very good and well-written. Need to re-read ‘The Miniaturist’ which is the sequel. The central figures are Theo, the daughter...

Good to read a serious book, after a recent diet of (too much) crime. I had never heard of this but it is extraordinary. Jean Rhys was...

A serious and classic novel in response to the above thoughts; I am not sure if I have read this before, although we bought it in 1978!...

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...

Didn’t really know what to make of this. Far too long; should have been edited down to c300 pages rather than 500. Sasha Swire is the...

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...

As P said, this is much better than 'An American Marriage'. A story about a bigamous marriage written from the standpoint of the two...

A cleverly written take on 'Pride & Prejudice', based in the muslim immigrant community in Toronto. So we have Ayesha (Elizabeth Bennett)...

I have read this before, I think a very long time ago, as I had forgotten most of the plot. Long, hard work, but brilliant. The plot can...

This was good, but not that good - I think the publicity has over-egged it. I struggled with a couple of aspects; were the 3 central...

Re-read this as a substitute to 650 above, and can’t remember that much about it now, maybe not a recommendation. A series of unrelated...

This was quite a difficult book; I have read it before, but assume a long time ago. But as it progressed, I enjoyed it more and it is...

Maybe optimistic to pick a difficult late James after enjoying 593, but you can see the logic I hope. And I read the Ambassadors...

I have tried (I don’t think successfully) to read this is the past, but it is brilliant. The themes are all Henry James, but the cultural...

I have never read this before and perhaps because I am not in a very receptive phase didn’t enjoy it, although struggled to understand...

Another Susan Hill recommendation. I don’t think I will follow these anymore as our tastes don’t match at all. This is an early novel by...

His third book, which we seem to have had in the house for years, but I had never read. One girl, 2 men in love with her. Friends prior...

Struggled to get into this, but it is a cleverly written portrait, not so much of a psychopath but of a disintegrated marriage which...

I found this difficult and hard work. The two sisters (Elinor – sense) and (Marianne – which I think means passion) both fall in love...