Reviews 

Quite enjoyed this, but it was a pale imitation of Boyd’s brilliant 'Any Human Heart'. Set one hundred years earlier, and involving an...

I have read this before; it is very good. A journey through the 20th century, centred on Logan Mountstuart, a half English/half Uruguayan...

A strange and difficult book. An anonymous narrator travels the world and does (or doesn’t) have one night stands with strangers she...

I asked for this for my birthday, and try to avoid writing about books I haven’t finished, but sometimes life is just too short. He...

Airport/aeroplane reading but this was completely different. A disparate group of characters are travelling Manchester to Euston in the...

Didn’t enjoy this at all; very dated and the humour seemed to me to be 2nd rate Clive James. Not entirely sure why I read it; except that...

I read the first half of this thinking it was a novel with a rather slow start. It is difficult to say what sort of book it is – lots of...

Another cricket related birthday present, but this is a brilliant travel book, and the cricket is just a coat hanger to steer him...

Pretty good. A relatively early Greene, about a rail trip from London to Istanbul in the 1930’s. As the train progresses — Ostende,...

Wow, probably the read of the year. This is a huge book and possibly very underrated. The central character, whose name I forget, is a...