Reviews 

I am not sure if I have ever read this before; although I have seen the TV adaptation many times and the book drags back memories,...

I am sure I read this about 2 years ago and hated it. This time round it was very good, maybe in contrast to the excess Kate Atkinson in...

Plassans is the village where no.315 takes place, so we have moved back from Paris to Provence. A priest is taken in as lodger by a...

This is a long and difficult book; I did punctuate it with no.290. About a modernist painter in modern day Australia; dedicated to Sydney...

Haven’t read any Lawrence for ages; I think that no.223 inclined me to read another novel of thwarted love across the classes. The sex is...

Reluctantly, as I hate doing this, I am abandoning this almost halfway through. It is quite different from what I expected — a...

This is subtitled 'a novel of sex and violence' which pretty well sums it up. Trouble is that there isn’t a great deal else; there is not...

Not one of the better ones; this features Sigindur Oli who is the least likeable of the trio of detectives. Corruption amongst Icelandic...

Described as a novel, this is really five short stories, with obscure (if at all) thematic interlinkings. The best was the last one, but...

I loved this, although the ending defeated me slightly (can one be slightly defeated?). The characters were all so well delineated,...