January 17, 2019 Berta Isla by Javier Marías Translated by Margaret Jull Costa Review by Anna Hollingsworth I’m not one for classic spy stories: I don’t care if the martinis come shaken…
October 23, 2018 Transcription by Kate Atkinson Reviewed by Harriet ‘Don’t let your imagination run away with you, Miss Armstrong. You have an unfortunate tendency to do that. Iris isn’t real’….
October 24, 2017 A Legacy of Spies by John le Carré Review by Basil Ransome-Davies However deeply the irony may have entered his soul, John le Carré has no reputation as a jester. An element…
January 19, 2016 The Long Room by Francesca Kay Reviewed by Harriet A gripping story of obsession and spies set in eighties London. So says the blurb on the back of this truly…
