Stories By Jem Bloomfield
Crime Fiction
The Scarpetta Factor by Patricia Cornwell
August 5, 2026She’s developed an enjoyable way of beginning novels in the middle of a story, letting her...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Democracy: 1,000 Years in Pursuit of British Liberty by Peter Kellner
August 1, 2026Magna Carta, that legendary document which is so frequently referred to in discussions of freedom, and...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Waiting for the Etonians by Nick Cohen
July 26, 2026Nick Cohen is undoubtedly one of Britain’s finest living polemicists, and Waiting for the Etonians will...
Mystery
The Roar of the Butterflies by Reginald Hill
July 20, 2026Hill has written far fewer books about the black Luton lathe operator turned PI, but The...
Fiction Reviews
Scarpetta by Patricia Cornwell
July 17, 2026There are flashes of wit – the description of the morgue as a “deconstruction site”, for...
Fiction Reviews
Agincourt by Bernard Cornwell
July 17, 2026Much more serious, though, is the book’s take on the medieval world as a whole. Alongside...
Fiction Reviews
A Most Wanted Man by John Le Carré
July 9, 2026The violent and crude final pages of the book force us to scrutinise our feelings over...
Crime Fiction
The Right Side of the Tracks
June 26, 2026Detective fiction revels in the possibilities offered by railway travel, but it also expresses some anxiety...
Crime Fiction
Lots in a Name
June 19, 2026Rather more subtle is Hercule Poirot, whose name contains elements of both “Hercules”, the classical hero,...
Crime Fiction
Gentlemen and Players
June 13, 2026Yet it is the amateur, the eccentric and the outsider who plays the hero in the...




