Monday, 17 October 2016

Review: Graeme Macrae Burnet, His Bloody Project

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Waterstones had a table with Booker Prize Shortlist books and I bought this one for no other reason than that it has achieved publicity...
Thursday, 13 October 2016

Review: John le Carre, The Pigeon Tunnel

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I started into this three hundred page book of thirty eight mainly short chapters just as I was finalising a book of twenty six sho...
Thursday, 6 October 2016

Review: Helen Rappaport, Caught in the Revolution, Petrograd 1917

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Living capital cities are always full of foreigners and always have been. Occasionally, a sclerotic regime has tried to keep them out...
Tuesday, 27 September 2016

Review: Germaine Greer, The Female Eunuch

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The Female Eunuch was published in 1970 when Germaine Greer was thirty or thirty one. I forget whether I read it at the time, though ...
Monday, 19 September 2016

Review: Amy Liptrot, The Outrun

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This is a lovely book written by a thirty year old woman who has returned to her native Orkney to recover having written off the best...
Sunday, 11 September 2016

Review: Sudhir Hazareesingh, How the French Think

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In 1958, aged ten, my father took me on a day trip from Folkestone to Boulogne aboard the Royal Daffodil, one of the ancient ferries w...
Thursday, 11 August 2016

Review: Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography

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I read this at a couple of sittings and enjoyed every bit of it. It's like Marxism; read this and you have the answer to everything...
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