Reviews 

Have read this before and it is brilliant. Starts with a murder, and then looks for the next 100 or so pages like a police-procedural,...

A book about the failure of the Corbyn experiment in the Labour party. Far too long and detailed for me. Jones clearly endorsed the...

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...

A commentary, by a political journalist, on British prime ministers from Wilson to Johnson, so roughly covering my adult life. Very good,...

This is a sort of 'Dummies Guide' to UK politics and the underlying ideological issues, written I am told for the younger generation who...

Much less enjoyable, despite being some newspaper’s ‘Book of the Year’. A mix of tittle tattle journalism and an underlying thesis,...

This is a very good book, but muscular and not an easy read. About millennial London, but quite unlike 684 or Lanchester’s ‘Capital’;...

This was as good as the other 2 (665 & 666 above), and despite my negative comments about e-reading above, you can buy these without...

An early (I think) Rebus novel, pre Siobhan Clarke and Cafferty. This is pretty good - about an up and coming (married) politician caught...

Quite a long read, but have been very busy with work; maybe a summer holiday beach book. Quite a difficult read, very funny in places but...

A book about Brexit, by the author of The Rotters Club, and a sequel in that some of the characters recur. Quite an angry (I presume)...

No.598 which I convinced myself over dinner with Paddy in Korcula was worth re-reading (having re-started it and intending to be...

This was my intended aeroplane read. Have read this before but a long time ago and muddled the plot in my mind with another of his books....

This was very good, although I’d have enjoyed it more if: I had realised it was a reworking of Antigone and I had any knowledge of the...

Took me a long time to read this (not long) book, but a lot of sport on TV and I struggled to get into it. The characters all have banal...

Sensationalist in topic, possibly by analogy to the Cameron era, but not really that good. (Actually better I think). A political aide is...

This is by a university academic about the rise of UKIP. Full of (to me) uninteresting graphs, but the basic narrative was quite...

The 3rd in the Thomas Kell series. This was brilliant; he is a great writer this guy and I am surprised that none of these books has been...

The 2nd in the Thomas Kell series. This was weird because I had read the book before, and spent a lot of the time reading it puzzling...

Yet another via P as I can’t choose books for myself at the moment. This, sadly, was completed by his son as Torday died just before it...