Just over half way through and the morale of the story so far seems to be about the dangers of judging someone not only by appearances but a...

Maybe it's an odd last word to have on Mailer and Castle in the Forest but the decision by the Literary Review to award the recently dec...

Although this is a great read it differs from the first book that had the feeling of being a police procedural type thriller into something ...

It might seem a bit repetitive but the lunchtime read continues to be Makine because they had a lot of his books in the library and they are...

There is always a danger with mixing politics with a thriller that it will get in the way as it has to be explained to the reader which dist...

Forgot to post the link to an interesting piece in the Telegraph yesterday by A.N.Wilson in response to the launch of Amazon’s Kindle. The ...

The second half of the book is more gripping than the first because the climax of the story is coming as the pianist on the train talks abou...

A few of the questions that you are left with at the end of the first book are answered reasonably quickly with Wallander’s colleague dying ...

Russia is one of those countries that provides a wealth of material for writers. On one level there is the landscape, which in this case is ...

There have been hundreds of books about Adolf Hitler all not only detailing how he came to power and what he did once he got there but also ...

Not exactly sure where this leather bookmark was purchased but I have a feeling it might be the Barnes Wetland Centre is South West London. ...

The plan was to do a review of Norman Mailer’s Castle in the Forest but the room where the computer lives has lost its heating and it is ab...

Although there are plenty of character flaws with the main character Kurt Wallander you stick with it because you want to see how he solves ...

It is easy to get stuck in a grove but if you are enjoying it then a little bit more of what you like should do no harm. For that reason it ...

The similarity between Mankell and Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo is the commitment to detail police procedure down to a level that sometimes se...