Cath 'n' Kindle Book Reviews

  I have mixed feelings about this. Banville isn't an author I've read before…I therefore haven't read any of the preceding boo...

  This had the potential to be the perfect beach/fireside read. (Despite the loathsome present-tense narrative.)  But it failed miserably.  ...

The author teaches English, apparently. God help her pupils. Not once did she give a human being in the story the correct subjective prono...

  Reading this novel is like buying a house: you know the minute you step through the front door when a house is the one you have to buy. ...

If you love GBBO, you'll love the story of Mrs Quinn, who, unbeknownst to her husband, enters a television cooking contest and does real...

  You know within the first few pages of a book whether or not you are going to like a new-to-you author. Despite the present-tense narrati...

  The Chamber was my first introduction to this author, which has a good but slightly 'stodgy' plot, and I found the characters dif...

  What a ride! I thoroughly enjoyed this. It focuses on the ridiculous, draconian American anti-abortion laws and how the legislators' ...

  I couldn't help thinking, three quarters of the way into my reading year, that something was missing. Then I realised, it must be Lein...

  This is certainly a gripping psychological thriller as the blurb promises, and yes, a page turner, told in alternate POVs (the two main pr...

  I've eaten breakfast for many years watching Louise on the BBC Breakfast sofa, and she was always one of my favourite presenters: gen...

  Susie Dent is a logophile, so it was no surprise to come across a treasure trove of unusual words, along with a cracking plot: an excellen...

  Oh my giddy aunt. My first introduction to this author was A Broken Reality , and what stood out for me was the way he could turn a book ...

  This is quite a pacy thriller. Two murders, and trying to solve them are two parties: one, a pair of detectives, the other, a fledgling re...

  I discovered when I started to read this that it's a relatively short book…about two thirds the length of your average thriller. By t...

  I'm six books into Marsh's masterpieces, and this is the third in the Princess Island series. It's always an immense pleasure ...

  Up until the last few pages, I'd made up my mind that I was quite enjoying this: it's a little bit chokka with explanations about...

  What a page turner. Fraught with emotion and tension, this was superbly written. All the usual crime whos, whys and hows are answered at t...

  It's always an immense pleasure to catch up with widower Jake and his policewoman friend, Dani. He's a retired reporter, but his i...

  This wasn't my cup of tea. I dislike present-tense narrative intensely. It destroys nearly every good book and it doesn't work her...

  Not having read anything by this author, it probably took me no more than a handful of pages to ask myself, WHY have I not I read anything...

  While this calls itself a murder mystery, the actual murder investigation (of a university professor, which is just for starters) plays se...

  I wonder how many people are old enough (one of whom would be me!) to remember the very dark, rather lurid, psychological horror film ...

  I just didn't want this to end. The narrator's voice is very, very engaging: a little cynical, very witty and all round jolly good...

  This is Clarke's second book after 'And Then There's Margaret', which I thoroughly enjoyed, once I'd ignored the '...

  Believe it or not, this is my debut Coben, and now I'm wondering why I haven't picked him up before. Gosh, what a page turner. And...