Reviews 

Very different and quite strange. A fictionalised documentary history of a singing duo, Nev a brummie who escapes to the US to pursue...

Never heard of the author, although he has written a lot and this was very good. About the fictional mid 1960’s rock band, covering their...

Embarrassingly, I have read this before but had (have) no memory of this until I said to P. ‘If I was still on speaking terms with [a...

The perfect book for gay male cellists. Much as I enjoyed this, it did strike me (unless I am missing something) that this was really two...

One of Paddy’s, the fictionalised biography of an English, Sandy Denny type and era folk/rock singer (born c1950 so of our era)....

An unread birthday or Xmas present from a few years ago, but we went to see a tribute band just before we went away. Quite an academic...

A Christmas best seller for middle aged men (I am told). I thought this was very good; Springsteen is a pretty honest guy, not at all...

Great airport reading choice; I think one of Robinson’s best. About two dead adolescent boys – 30 years apart, one a schoolfriend of...

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

(Requested) Xmas present from my son D. I enjoyed it in the end; found it difficult at first as: I was expecting a linear narrative Some...