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Aug 16, 20181 min read
617. Kamila Shamsie - Home Fire
This was very good, although I’d have enjoyed it more if: I had realised it was a reworking of Antigone and I had any knowledge of the...
Oct 4, 20171 min read
535. Mick Herron - Spook Street
This is a brilliant book; he seems to be really maturing into his Slough house characters, whose subtle and often very funny interactions...
Sep 28, 20171 min read
534. Cath Staincliffe - The Silence Between Breaths
Airport/aeroplane reading but this was completely different. A disparate group of characters are travelling Manchester to Euston in the...
Nov 27, 20161 min read
448. Charles Cumming - A Divided Spy
The 3rd in the Thomas Kell series. This was brilliant; he is a great writer this guy and I am surprised that none of these books has been...
Sep 13, 20131 min read
143. Sebastian Faulks - A Week In December
This is good but difficult. I read a lot of it thinking this is really a book to take on holiday and not to try to read during a busy...
Jul 24, 20131 min read
129. Iris Murdoch - The Sacred And Profane Love Machine
Haven’t read any for years and doubt I will again. The plot is a man with wife and child and mistress and child, and his absurd...
Jan 26, 20131 min read
74. Maj Sjowall & Per Wahlöö - The Terrorists
The last one in the series and pretty good. There is a wonderful lawyer whose name I can't remember who speaks I am sure with the authors...