Reviews 

This is her first book, and very different from The Colony (no.1019). Set in 1940’s Germany, the central figures are a soldier on the...

Quite a well known author, but I am not sure I have read much (if any) before. This is a bit of historical fiction, about the V2 rocket...

Never read any by this guy before, but from the bibliography, at the start, I should; he sounds a bit like Antony Burgess, mixing fiction...

This is a brilliant book. I am not sure I had ever completed it before (the left had side of the spine is suspiciously unbent) and I had...

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...

I think I may have read one of his before – a trilogy called 'Berlin Noir', many years ago. This was long and ponderous at times, but a...

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...

Thought I would go for something a bit lighter. Had read this before and possibly seen it on the TV, many years ago. It is the one in...

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...

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

One that I am sure we used to have. An English diplomat in Berlin in the late 1950’s falls in love with a German girl, and needs to trace...

This is a lovely book. Saw the film on the TV last week and discovered that our next door neighbour had given the book (twice) to Paddy...

This is a wonderful, but still (at 3rd or 4th reading) difficult book. Is it (just) 4 symbolic characters at the end of the 2nd world war...

Brilliant. As the blurb/a reviewer says, partly a hymn to Paris, but also via the alternating and very different narrators, an...

Well, close on the title. Very much the successor to 663 (which I think you would have to have read first) but, for me, less compelling....

I loved this – book of the year so far. It began with her parachute drop into France in 1942 or 3, and then bounced back into her...

I struggled with the first half of this book which seemed almost Dickensian in its slow development. 2 kids are abandoned by their...

This sort of thing has not been done before, and I thought it was brilliant. Too complex a plot to summarise, but a very funny and clever...

This was quite a difficult book; I have read it before, but assume a long time ago. But as it progressed, I enjoyed it more and it is...

Still not certain whether I have read this before. The central figure, Logan Mountstewart, sounds very familiar, but I had no memory of...