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Apr 27, 20181 min read
588. R. J. Ellory - A Quiet Belief In Angels
Have read this before and am not entirely sure what to make of it. A bildungsroman (is that what they are called?), about a boy brought...
Apr 13, 20181 min read
586. Josephine Tey - The Daughter Of Time
This was clever and perhaps one of the first (? I have no idea) books to debunk conventional historical knowledge; no that is not right...
Mar 25, 20181 min read
581. R. J. Ellory - A Simple Act Of Violence
I have read this before with little memory of it, but would say it is the best of 2018 so far. Really clever plotting, looks like a...
Mar 20, 20181 min read
579. Graham Greene - Brighton Rock
This is interesting because I first read this in June 2012 (no 19) and hated it! 6 years later I thought it was pretty good; not that...
Feb 27, 20181 min read
575. Jon McGregor - Reservoir 13
This is a strange book. A girl disappears in a small village, and one assume abductions, or worse. The style of the book is to ‘hover...
Feb 17, 20181 min read
573. Mick Herron - London Rules
I think this is the best one yet; the writing, ‘fit’ with the various characters and plotting all excellent. The first chapter and...
Jan 27, 20181 min read
569. Louise Penny - Still Life
I think this is the 3rd time I have read this, the first book in the series. Finished 568 above, couldn’t sleep and needed a kindle book...
Dec 26, 20171 min read
562. Keigo Higashino - Salvation Of A Saint
Always a bad idea this, to binge read writers you have discovered and enjoy. This one is quite good but the plot is very monothematic -...
Dec 24, 20171 min read
561. Keigo Higashino - The Devotion Of Suspect X
I’d have enjoyed this much more on kindle had I realised that there was a paperback copy of my bookcase! I realised, mid-way through page...
Dec 23, 20171 min read
560. Henning Mankell - After The Fire
Mankell’s last book, completed I think not long before he died. Unsurprisingly, quite a gloomy book, about an elderly retired doctor...
Dec 19, 20171 min read
559. Keigo Higashino - A Midsummer's Equation
A rare trip to the library on Saturday. This is extremely good and he has written a few more. A sort of modern Japanese Miss Marple....
Nov 29, 20171 min read
553. Jane Harper - Force Of Nature
The 2nd novel, I think, by the author of ‘The Dry’, no 524. With hindsight, I think that book may have been slightly over-hyped; this was...
Nov 16, 20171 min read
551. Tim O'Brien - In The Lake Of The Woods
Bought this years ago, for obvious reasons and have never managed to read it. It is actually very good, about a couple who both disappear...
Nov 13, 20171 min read
550. Emily Fridlund - History Of Wolves
Pretty obscure and not very good. A story about a hippie girl who befriends a family across the Minnesota lake from where they live, who...
Oct 14, 20171 min read
541. Mick Herron - Why We Die
The 3rd Zoe Boehm, and despite the slightly portentous title, this book is imbued with death and jokes about death. More a...
Oct 12, 20171 min read
540. Mick Herron - The Last Voice You Hear
The 2nd Zoe Boehm. Very good again; I think this guy is a great writer. I found the series of improbable coincidences across the 1st 50...
Oct 7, 20171 min read
537. Mick Herron - Down Cemetery Road
The first in the private eye Zoe Boehm series, although until near the end she appears as a minor character in this book. Completely...
Oct 5, 20171 min read
536. Mick Herron - The List
A pre 'Slough House' novella. Begins as a slightly old fashioned Le Carre type spy thriller and gradually introduces some 'Slough House'...
Sep 18, 20171 min read
524. Jane Harper - The Dry
A BBC book of the week I think not long before we went away. Very good Aussie (although I think JH is English) crime thriller. Set in a...
Sep 4, 20171 min read
519. Benjamin Black - Prague Nights
Benjamin Black is the non de plume of John Banville, not that I have heard of him either. This is a slightly picaresque quasi-historical...