Rooksmoor's Tablets of Lead

  Fiction 'Prussian Blue' by Philip Kerr Like many of the Bernie Gunther stories, this one is set in two time periods, 1956 - follow...

This month travelling (by car, train is too expensive) and reading the Goldhagen book (634 pages) meant I only finished two books. Fiction ...

  Fiction 'A Second Chance' by Jodi Taylor This is the third book in the Chronicles of St. Mary's series (though with the additi...

Fiction 'The Murder in the Basement' by Anthony Berkeley [Anthony Berkeley Cox]   I have been given quite a lot of the classic crime...

  Fiction 'The Lady from Zagreb' by Philip Kerr I have lined up the last few novels by Kerr (who died in 2018) featuring his German ...

  Fiction 'My Name is Red' by Orhan Pamuk It was highlighted that this book translated from Turkish was written very much in a Turki...

Well, this year I managed to read 53 books which averages out at just over one per week. However, the pattern across the year has been imbal...