Rooksmoor's Tablets of Lead

  Fiction 'A Study in Murder' by Robert Ryan This is the third book in Ryan's Dr. Watson (and indeed Sherlock Holmes) series, fo...

Fiction 'Vagabond' by Bernard Cornwell This is the second book after 'Harlequin'  (2000) which I read in July:  http://rooks...

Fiction 'Friends in High Places' by Donna Leon Perhaps it is because she is an American that Leon has an interest in issues around s...

Fiction 'The Victoria Vanishes' by Christopher Fowler This was originally, when published in 2008, the final book in the hexalogy ...

Fiction 'The Long Earth' by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter This is the first book in the 'Long' pentalogy by Pratchett...

Fiction 'Head of State' by Andrew Marr This is a peculiar book.  It seems to stem from Marr's wish to provide a range of caric...