Roger Wood's Biblioblog

 I picked this up by chance in my local library - and what a treat it turned out to be!   I recently lost a week trying to cme to terms with...

  I can never resist a Pelican blue.   This appears to have been published in 1963 when its author was 89.   That can't be right, surel...

 A major novel from 1973, The Honorary Consul  is Greene at his very best.   On the Argentinian border with Patagonia, Charley Fortnum, a ma...

 I have long been a devotee of these British Library anthologies of forgotten writing of the weird.   Many of them are reviewed elsewhere on...

 Anthony Price won the CWA Silver Dagger for his debut, The Labyrinth Makers  (reviewed here earlier this year).   He won the Gold Dagger fo...

 Wolff (1914-91) was an American author who only wrote four books, of which In Flanders Field (1958) was by far the most important internati...

 I have reviewed three other Davidson novels on this blog: The Sun Chemist  and Kolymsky Heights  in 2019 and The Chelsea Murders  in 2022. ...

 I've reviewed two DeLillo novels previously on this blog, Running Dog  in 2015 and Libra  in May this year.    The Silence  is nothing ...

 This is one of the later Lew Archer novels.   Archer is middleaged, methodical.   He is, basically, Paul Newman in his prime.   Newman play...

  Requiem for a Dream  takes us straight into the rotting heart of New York in the disaster years when heroin ruined everything.   Harry Gol...