Reviews 

Have read this before, but tried to read it more seriously/critically, in view of the book group meeting later this week. Not really sure...

This is a wonderful book, that has somehow sat unread on the bookshelf for years, maybe since my dad died? Diarmuid Devine is a middle...

Re-read this, possibly influenced or inspired by discussion about religions with Robert Spicer (738) and then reading Burgess’ book about...

Emergency purchase at WH Smiths in Gatwick, as kindle won’t accept my card for some reason. Wildly controversial at the time, now perhaps...

Did indeed! This guy is very good, and these are high class police procedurals, with a good variety of police colleagues of McAvoy, who...

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...

I gather Dan Kavanagh is really Julian Barnes, writing private eye thrillers under this pseudonym. Certainly a fairly salacious page...

This has sat on our bookcase since October 1977 unread. It seems to be quite a famous book, but it is pretty poor. I don’t know who...

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,...

These are pretty good; read most of the series may years ago and this is no.1. Very public school, post Evelyn Waugh but well written,...

This is another good book, but nothing like as good as no.327. It may be quite autobiographical (at least in its settings) and lacks the...