Rooksmoor's Tablets of Lead

Fiction 'Berlin Alexanderplatz' by Alfred Döblin This is one of the books to add to my list of ones I regret reading. I was drawn to...

Fiction 'Agent 6' by Tom Rob Smith I picked up this book in a charity shop, but should really have looked back at my review of Smith...

 Fiction 'The Sussex Downs Murder' John Bude [Ernest Elmore] Published in 1936, this was the third crime novel by John Bude. It is f...

As I have noted before, I am regular reader of various features in 'The Guardian'  newspaper. I know I am never going to be famous s...

  Fiction 'Six of Crows' by Leigh Bardugo This is a good grimdark novel set in a fantasy world with mid-19th Century technology (tho...

  Fiction 'Stasi Child' by David Young This is a novel set in 1975 featuring Oberleutnant Karin Müller member of the East Berlin Vop...

This year I read 59 books, the shortest being 160 pages and the longest being 634 pages. P.P. 06/03/2025 I was interested to see where this ...