Reviews 

This was very good; neither Paddy nor I had read it before, but it is a rattlingly good plot with bits of Jane Eyre influence. A gauche...

I struggled with the first half of this book which seemed almost Dickensian in its slow development. 2 kids are abandoned by their...

A library book of Paddy's. Couldn’t entirely make this out – an eponymous (Nell Stevens) PhD student in London has a love affair which...

One of P’s library books. I thought this was pretty good for a first novel; a big long chronicle covering the last 100 years or so of a...

I thought this was very good. A thriller, gay female love story/ romance. A young girl Nadine is moved into a Bristol flat by her...

One of Paddy’s from the library. I loved this (as did she). Romance/thriller set in a seaside north Yorkshire village, starting with a...

The 3rd of Paddy’s library books, after burn out with Tana French. If 480 was brilliant and 481 execrable, this was middling. The genre...

This is quite a nice book; beautifully illustrated with post card pictures from Greece. A young bored Londoner begins to receive...

I found this difficult and hard work. The two sisters (Elinor – sense) and (Marianne – which I think means passion) both fall in love...

Another that Paddy enjoyed from the library. I guess this is chic-lit, and on the whole I enjoyed it. Made me think about the difference...

Book of the year so fay, and by a long stretch. I have read this before, and we have watched and enjoyed the Granada DVD many times, but...

I always try to take one big, difficult book on holiday, and am not a fan of Dickens, but persevere. Fairly typical of what I dislike...

I don’t know when I last read this book, but I thought it was absolutely wonderful this time round. It is quite beautifully constructed;...

Another one from Bristol. I had read this years ago. Found it quite hard going; she doesn’t write very fluently about people so the...

Took this to Spain for aeroplane reading. I had remembered it mainly as a ‘French resistance’ novel with the dropped in British heroine,...

As it is a library book, due back 5 September, I thought worth another read. It is actually quite an old fashioned novel, reminded me at...

And now for something completely different, Paddy’s aeroplane reading, rather classier than mine. I haven’t read this for years and my...

A swop with Paddy for no.159. Very different and hard to place genre-wise. Part historical romance, part derring-do adventure, part...

Paddy recommended this and I read a lot of it probably not in a great mood. About an orphan girl, and a goof cast of Gallic characters in...

Couldn't finish this post-holiday, so read about half. OK in the sun in Spain, not post return to work in the gloom of an English...