June 27, 2019 Cari Mora by Thomas Harris Review by Basil Ransome-Davies The day my review copy of Cari Mora arrived I spent the afternoon strolling on Morecambe’s splendid promenade. The view…
February 26, 2019 To Kill the Truth by Sam Bourne Review by Rob Spence We live in an age of fake news, propagated by politicians, celebrities and media organisations. Perhaps we always have –…
March 13, 2018 The Extremist by Nadia Dalbuono Review by Marina Sofia You might be forgiven for expecting this book set in Italy to be translated from Italian, given the Italian sounding…
August 31, 2017 The End of the Web by George Sims Reviewed by Harriet No, the title doesn’t refer to a predicted end of the internet. This is a 1976 novel, written before such things…
June 8, 2017 Running Blind by Desmond Bagley Review by Annabel I’m delighted that the vogue for republishing the best thrillers from the 1960s onwards as exemplified by the books of Lionel…
August 18, 2016 The Night of Wenceslas by Lionel Davidson Reviewed by Harriet Is there no end to these amazing novelists who appeared to have sunk without trace and are now being revived for…
April 9, 2015 Kolymsky Heights by Lionel Davidson Reviewed by Harriet I must admit that I’d never heard of Lionel Davidson before this novel came my way. I now know him to…
