The short answer is… no! I could end this column after that sentence because, to me, guilty pleasures in reading don’t make sense. A book…
pcuddihy12th March 2021
Something To Answer For is a strange and unusual book with a confusing narrative – or maybe that’s just a confusing narrator – which makes…
pcuddihy19th December 2019
Chris Dolan is a man of many writing talents. He has written several novels, including the first two books in a crime series featuring Glasgow…
pcuddihy18th December 2019
The first ever winner of the Booker Prize Award. Since the Booker Prize began in 1969, a total of 55 novels have won the prestigious…
pcuddihy14th November 2019
I feel like this a confessional rather than a review… Bless me, Father, for I have sinned. I have read a Jeffrey Archer novel. The…
pcuddihy17th October 2019
I am a sucker for books about books, so much so that I once wrote one myself, charting my year of trying to fall in…
pcuddihy10th October 2019
Can I do justice to a 1,000-page, one-sentence novel in a short review over a few paragraphs?... Of course I can’t, but I’ll try and…
pcuddihy7th October 2019
The Wolf Trial is billed as ‘Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose meets Bret Easton Ellis' American Psycho in a brilliant historical epic’. To…
pcuddihy13th April 2016
Whenever someone says to me, ‘Wait ‘til I tell you about the dream I had last night,’ my heart sinks. It really does. I can…
pcuddihy26th December 2015