Ian Rankin Strip Jack, The Black Book, Mortal Causes and Let It Bleed, Black and Blue, The Hanging Garden, Dead SoulsI was really impressed with this series and will make a point of reading the newer instalments. The stories are vivid and pacy and pleasingly gritty, the characters (including the city itself) compelling and convincingly drawn ( Read more... )

Well I haven't quite kept up my resolution to record all the books I read as I read them. This is what I've read since the du Maurier frenzy:

Ryu Murakami In the Miso Soup, Piercing

The first of these was a brilliant, surreal and darkly involving page-turner. Everyone should read it, unless they are very squeamish. It's a kind of Heart of ( Read more... )

du More-ierWell I thought there were two more novels to read, My Cousin Rachel and Castle Dor, then just a book a book of short stories I plan to leave for another time. My Cousin Rachel was very good, a really gripping thriller and possibly the most feminist of her novels. Once again she uses the device of an unreliable and largely ( Read more... )

Jamaica Inn, Rebecca, Frenchman's Creek and Parasites.

My experience of rereading Rebecca (the only novel of du Maurier's I have read before) was very similar to what nisaba described:

It was intersting re-reading Rebecca again recently, not having read it since I was in my early 20s. Then, I felt so sorry for the main character, really empathised ( Read more... )

Like ivory_goddess I have decided to record all the books I read this year. I read a great deal - even more now I'm an idle invalid - so I suspect that I will record rather than review most of them.

One of my Christmas gifts to myself was a boxed set of Daphne du Maurier novels. I started with the cheerlessly titled I'll never be young again. It was her ( Read more... )