Reviews 

One of my favourite books and every time you read it, you pick up different aspects. I found the opening chapters hard work, but was...

This was a brilliant TV drama twenty plus years ago, but I think the book has dated. Heavily imbued in the English class system as it was...

Can’t remember the titles of all these books (particularly if read on a kindle), but this is the one that starts with Catherine Standish’...

This is very good and a lot better than no.1039. Set in the late 18th century in London, Istanbul, and elsewhere, it involves a...

I like Horowitz, but this is no.3 of a series of post Ian Fleming James Bond novels. The last Ian Fleming I read must have been about 50...

Worth a re-read, but not much to add to no.995 above. Still very good. Get this on Amazon

This is brilliant. After an uncharacteristically slow start (with the slow horses being lined up and introducing themselves partly with...

Very good, quite difficult, and very different. Most of it is 200 audio files created by a dyslexic (I think?) and semi-literate ex-con...

I love the Alexandria Quartet, but this is a fairly lightweight thriller set in communist-occupied Serbia in the 1950’s. The central...

One of his ‘entertainments’ which I don’t on the whole enjoy. The conceit is quite amusing, a vacuum salesman in Havana is recruited by...

This is a pretty good WW2 thriller, set in Italy. It reminded me a bit of Sebastian Faulks’ Charlotte Grey. I didn’t like the title, as...

One of my favourite of his books, despite my copy having been in the bath some years ago. Thematically, very John le Carré – set possibly...

This is a rollicking good yarn; set initially in the 1960’s around the time of the Profumo scandal involving a murder set in Yorkshire...

This is rather overblown by the publishers ‘the iconic number one bestseller’, ‘the classic lost thriller’. In point of fact, as Rankin...

I enjoyed this, although it is a bit of a ‘girlie’ book. The three central characters are all female, and the men were largely ciphers in...

Published in 1995, so 25 years old. Made me wonder about the author’s sexuality. There are three main characters, Tim Cranmer the...

I enjoyed this, despite being irritated at times. Quite a big canvass for a debut novel. Set mainly in Lisbon in the middle of the 2nd...

Probably his last published book, as he died last week. Le Carré is a writer (like Graham Greene) whose prose an English middle class...

Needed a book with a with nice linear narrative after some of the longeurs of the previous few. This was wonderful. A fictionalised diary...

Completely different in tone from 767, which I enjoyed more. This is a quasi historical detective novel, the historical bit of the plot a...