Tom's Book List

 by William Boyd A really enjoyable spy caper set in the early 1960's. The characters are brilliantly drawn, although with an annoying h...

 by Benjamin Wood The story of Thomas, set in the late fifties in a Northern coastal town, where he plies a thankless trade scraping shellfi...

 by Susan Choi A story told from the perspectives of four main characters over a period of several decades from the end of the twentieth cen...

 by Catherine Hewitt The rags to riches story of a nineteenth century courtesan. The story was really interesting, Comtesse Valtesse de la B...

 by Georges Simenon Maigret is thinking about impending retirement and getting grumpy. He has to deal with a young new prosecutor who he doe...

 by Maria Reva A wacky read that I enjoyed immensely. It is set in Ukraine just at the time the Russian invasion is starting in 2022. It inv...

 by Natasha Brown A disappointing read. It started with a great  plot: a man attacked with a gold bar while squatting in an old farmhouse. H...

 by Jonathan Buckley Set almost entirely at a Greek seaside village/town a British women returns to the same place nine years after her last...

 by Ledia Xhoga An Albanian translator/interpreter living in New York runs into problems when working for a Kosovar who has traumas he is tr...