Good Reading

My new novel Going with Gabriel, out a month ago today, has now been reviewed 20 times on the Goodreads.com web-site. It has an average rating of 3.65 although 6 of those reviewers rated it 4 (very good) and 6 others as a 5 (excellent). I must admit to some disappointment - until, on a whim, I looked at the ratings for the past seven Booker Prize winners.

Going backwards in time they rated at:- 3.91, 3.74, 2.98, 3.24, 3.35, 3.79, and 3.44. Furthermore I noted The Da Vinci Code's 3.56 rating, H...