By following his intuition and questioning a three year old boy Martin Beck discovers that the man who killed the children used a tube to ge...

Just before I left to head off to work this morning there was a discussion on Radio 4’s Today programme (it happened at 8.20 and you can li...

There was a great moment in a charity bookshop yesterday when a woman walked in and asked if she could donate some books. "Would you li...

Although for most of the first two volumes you have wanted Jenkins to become more committed to a course of action that will either bring suc...

I don’t want to moan too much but if there is one thing that bugs me it is reading a book that has been highliughted, underlined and annonat...

With the discovery of a dead child the pace of the thriller picks up and the key to getting a break in the case is to disover the identity o...

Straight into book three. After this I might take a break but for now it seems too early to leave the world of Nicholas Jenkins. The third b...

The idea of a comfort break on the reading front has always included a well written thriller. Along with dipping into Tintin the next best t...

It is rare to read a book that manages to wrap you up in a feeling. It is hard to describe but reading through the last pages of this book y...

The book Koba The Dread is the equivalent of a well-articulated argumentative friend getting both increasingly louder and persistent in arg...

If there is a theme emerging in this second book it is around the pursuit not just of wealth but also love. As Jenkins strolls around wonder...

When you start an epic journey like the 12 volumes Dance to the Music of Time there is a sense of trepidation. That is heightened by the pr...

This is another magnetic bookmark from the London Transport Museum that celebrates the Metropolitan line. I have no particular feelings abou...

Happy Easter from a cold and snowy London. Hope you have a good day.

Saw an interesting story in the business section of the Daily Telegraph about a rival to Amazon launching called BookRabbit.com . The idea ...