Poor old Guy. He is all set to get the chance to parachute into Italy and fight for freedom but cracks his knee and then gets pushed to one ...

This book picks up straight from where The Valley of Bones left off. There is a slight joke at the start with Jenkins being mistaken for an...

Things start to go quickly in mainland continental Europe with Hitler marching the Brits out of France. Jenkins hears that his brother-in-la...

What are the signs of a good bookshop? Location I guess comes into it but it’s all about what is inside. Ambience, feeling an aura of mutual...

Just as Powell sets his war years rolling the conclusion of the Sword of Honour trilogy see Guy Crouchback in much the same circumstances as...

There is a moment when Jenkins gets leave and he steps back into the world that has become familiar in the past six volumes. The link is the...

The training drags on but as you would expect with Powell sooner or later the figures from the past reappear and instead of anyone from the ...

Despite the mauling Dance to the Music of Time received in the Sunday Times at the weekend I am determined to press on and finish the series...

This is an interesting story for a couple of reasons. The first is that unlike most of the Tolstoy that I have come across the main characte...

There is a scene towards the end of the book that turns out to be the climax of the hunt for the missing child. The three mysterious men who...

Just as the lovers come out and admit their love for each other and Masha manages to get her man to marry her the problems start. They move ...

This volume contains not just The Cossacks but two other stories. I have read the Death of Ivan Ilyich before but not Happy Ever After . T...

If you come up with a coherent argument, and that’s an if, then it is always going to get attention attacking great authors. So it is no dou...

One of the things you can do in cathedrals and churches is light candles. Walking round the crypt last weekend in Canterbury cathedral I not...

The brother is hunting the sister and she is hunting their child. Chapters alternate with their progress with both begging for food and work...