Tuesday, April 21, 2026

Now, the people!

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 by Jean-Luc Melenchon Originally published in France in 2023 this English edition was published in 2025. He highlights the problems the wor...
Sunday, April 05, 2026

The Predicament

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 by William Boyd A second novel fearuring Gabriel Dax, a travel writer who inadvertently ends up working for MI6 and the KGB (and subcontrac...
Wednesday, April 01, 2026

Death of a Hawker

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By Janwillem van de Wetering The usual quirky caper from our two Amsterdam detectives as they track down a murderer of two people, the first...
Tuesday, March 31, 2026

Maigret and the Saturday Caller

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 by Georges Simenon A man turns up at Maigret's house and claims he is planning to kill his wife and her lover who have gradually taken ...
Thursday, March 26, 2026

The Eleventh Hour

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 by Salman Rushdie A collection of short five short stories, two of which have been published before in the New Yorker, They all deal with a...
Wednesday, March 18, 2026

Departure(s)

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 by Julian Barnes His final book-or so he tells us at the start, but can you trust a novelist? This book seems part novel, part memoir and r...
Friday, March 13, 2026

Robinson Crusoe

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 by Daniel Defoe A difficult read in many ways with its racist approach to the depiction of Friday and it's over the top preaching of th...

Maigret and the Good People of Montparnasse

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 by Georges Simenon An unusual murder in a family of "good" people gets Maigret frustrated and having to dig into the family histo...