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First story 'introduces' Wallander...& it would have been useful at the start of the saga! But a cracking tale well told! I must read more!!!

A prequel to the peerless Wallander novels; five stories...full of a young policeman's novice years...

Not all black and white then...seriously distorted Republican views seem to have been accepted as truth...the symbol of every Irish 'hero' is a gun aimed at an Irish copper!

Dipping in to this at all points!

Full of very interesting material from a non-military point-of-view.Background to Dad's Army?

Some very vivid writing here - not what yo'd expect at all from Lawrence,eh?.

An entertaining if cliched story of Titanic survivors & tiresomely self-righteous suffragists! It takes more than broken windows & torched post-boxes to gain the vote,doesn't it?

Very disparate stories, the first three; very good too!

This is very good crime-writing; finally, Leon has found an edge to her view of Venice in the 21st century...& it's sharp!

The title story relates the finer detail to the lurid cover of this paperback - one of Lawrence's daubs of fleshy excesses!, which drew a blushing grin from the 'faded rosebud' assistant of the species in the charity shop...for 20p it was a priceless moment of Lawrencesque eroticism, as she chided me gently.."A-hem!!..." I told her that Lawrence had lived not 100 yards from where we stood..when he taught in Croydon.

The wheat and the chaff of Joyce's TPOTAAAYM...no, that's not from Finnegans Wake!...but a quick solution to a long title! Some great writing here but so much verbiage that the green fields of Ireland are a pale shadow on the wall of a Dublin urinal! ???

For Joyceans everywhere! How a work of rare quality is born & bred..with a blue crayon & savage editing!

A terrific yarn which begins with an escape from the 'Titanic'! Who can tell what adventures await the hero & heroine now?!

Montalbano,57 & counting down...but still punching above his weight..takes-on an illusive & elusive criminal...with a series of puzzling clues into the farrago of food, feminine moods & floundering colleagues....

Brilliant stuff from a biographer with real bite!

Gripped by the proverbials! Deighton is terrific!

Blackout...gas masks & ARP wardens...the price to be paid by civilians to be ready for the onslaught to come....

Some wonderful stuff amongst the hywl!

Headingley's heroes of 1981 Botham,Dilley & Willis slay the Aussie giants @ 500-1 odds!

Absorbing if a trifle indulgent...

Act 1 lays out the entrails of Webster's masterwork!

Curious but alluring...passing strange!

Both hits-out from the start; if it's there to hit, he hits it! Ian Chappell too!

A good start with the evacuation of children from cities a bureaucratic & administrative nightmare! For some of the evacuees the nightmare was too real!

A good start with the evacuation of children from cities a bureaucratic & administrative nightmare! For some of the evacuees the nightmare was too real!