Reviews 

This one follows no.1096, I think, and involves Banks’ daughter Tracy who gets involved with a ‘Bad Boy’. The early bit of the book is...

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

Quite a ‘quiet’ book, about the fictional life of an academic who abandons agricultural training (parents being farmers) for literature...

Quite formulaic US crime novel, with a very ambiguous villainess. Reminded me a bit of Elmore Leonard and a bit Hitchcock also. But this...

Have read this before and am not entirely sure what to make of it. A bildungsroman (is that what they are called?), about a boy brought...

Pretty good and totally different. Full of pretty lurid sex which however becomes just a motif. Quite like an 18th century novel about...

Rescued a load of rather low grade thrillers from the attic in a search for other books, as in Simon Raven novels, none of which I could...

I wasn’t even aware I had this book – obviously a Radio 4 inspired impulse buy. But very good, even following Ms. Austen. Courtroom drama...

Not sure what to make of this, or exactly what genre it aspires to. I guess spy thriller. I thought it would compare interestingly with...

Have read this before but it is really good. It is about a huge CIA conspiracy which two CIA members try to uncover by creating an...

The last holiday book. I have read this before but couldn’t remember much. It is a love triangle between Charlie, a washed-out British...

This is quite a good US cop thriller written, amazingly, by someone who must be someone's Gran and who lives in Northumbria. It has a...

An early book, I think, very much coming of age/ 'Catcher in the Rye' (have I ever read this?) type of book. The coming of age is...