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May 24, 20202 min read
782. Lawrence Durrell - Mountolive
No 3 in this wonderful quartet. Mountolive is a career diplomat, who early in the book is posted to Alexandria where he has an affair...
Feb 22, 20191 min read
661. Daphne Du Maurier - Rebecca
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...
Aug 4, 20181 min read
615. Reginald Hill - Bones And Silence
Struggling to find a writer I can enjoy and read one of his en-route to Malaga (597). Quite enjoyed this; I can’t quite make Hill out as...
Feb 27, 20181 min read
575. Jon McGregor - Reservoir 13
This is a strange book. A girl disappears in a small village, and one assume abductions, or worse. The style of the book is to ‘hover...
Sep 22, 20171 min read
527. Patricia Highsmith - Deep Water
Struggled to get into this, but it is a cleverly written portrait, not so much of a psychopath but of a disintegrated marriage which...
Apr 22, 20171 min read
482. Susan Lewis - The Moment She Left
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...
May 21, 20161 min read
401. Joseph Conrad - The Secret Agent
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;...