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1081. Colin Dexter - Death Is Now My Neighbour
This is a more conventional Morse novel than no.1072 and I didn’t enjoy it as much. A suburban Oxford street, a murder, several suspects,...
Jul 27, 20231 min read


1029. William Boyd - Any Human Heart
I have read this before; it is very good. A journey through the 20th century, centred on Logan Mountstuart, a half English/half Uruguayan...
Nov 16, 20221 min read


964. Elif Shafak - Three Daughters of Eve
This is very good although I found the ending a bit of a damp squib. She writes beautifully in English about Turkey and Istanbul and the...
Apr 7, 20221 min read


327. Patrick Gale - Notes From An Exhibition
If I had to pick my favourite novel, I think this might be it. It is absolutely brilliant (I have put Jane Siberry on to type this up,...
Aug 9, 20151 min read


297. Naomi Alderman - The Lessons
Totally different in style, and content, this is a coming of age novel about a group of friends at Oxford together, and two in...
Apr 12, 20151 min read


255. John Carey - The Unexpected Professor
I found this very dull until about the last two chapters when it suddenly blazed into life. Perhaps Carey’s early life was dull as the...
Oct 22, 20141 min read


170. Colin Dexter - Death Is Now My Neighbour
Haven’t read a Morse book for years. Dexter does write vigorous, wordy as you would expect, prose, and it is a fast page-turner of a...
Dec 15, 20131 min read


52. William Boyd - Restless
This was brilliant. I had a weird and precise memory of having read the first chapter (only) before; maybe one of the publisher's bits of...
Oct 31, 20121 min read