Clichés like “a page turner” and “unputdownable” are unavoidable in a review of this extraordinary, gripping, dark novel which is – yes, here goes – a page turner and is absolutely unputdownable. This hefty novel (beautifully translated from the original Swedish) grips you from the very first page, and keeps you …
I read the first Cormoran Strike mystery while sitting in a tent at high altitude in Ladakh, on a climbing expedition last August. I have just read the second in the series, “The Silkworm” while sitting in a tent at high altitude in Ladakh, on a climbing expedition this August etc …
No doubt about it, John Grisham is a cracking storyteller, and “The Broker” is a gripping read from start to finish. This is one of the least “legal” of Mr. Grisham’s novels (at least amongst the ones I have read) and even though the broker in question is indeed a …
Oh dear. I am going to have to use hoary old cliches like “gripping”, “unputdownable” and “a terrific page turner”, but for want of better words, this is exactly what Gillian Flynn’s latest novel, “Gone Girl” is. A book such as this is rare -utterly brilliant, and clever, and full …
It’s been a few years since I read a John Grisham novel. Not by design, I hasten to add, but more by accident/many more book clubs books to read than I can decently keep up with (ooh, ugly, unwieldy sentence, that, & ending with a preposition to boot…) Anyway, away …
One shouldn’t especially like a book because it is based in one’s home town, should one? Or is that lovely insider feeling of “Yes, of course, I remember that building,” or “Yes, yes, that is exactly the way it used to feel” reason enough to love a book ? Oh, …
The books I had taken on a holiday up in the mountains were finished, so I poked around on my host’s book-shelves. “Is this one any good ?” I asked, holding up a copy of “One shot”. “Um, don’t know, can’t remember. Let me have a look.” Re-reading the enthusiastic …
