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Jul 27, 20231 min read
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,...
Nov 16, 20221 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...
Apr 6, 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...
Aug 8, 20151 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,...
Apr 11, 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...
Oct 21, 20141 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...
Dec 15, 20131 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...
Oct 31, 20121 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...