Stories By Jem Bloomfield
Non-Fiction Reviews
Waiting for the Etonians by Nick Cohen
April 1, 2025Nick Cohen is undoubtedly one of Britain’s finest living polemicists, and Waiting for the Etonians will...
Fiction Reviews
The Roar of the Butterflies by Reginald Hill
March 26, 2025Hill has written far fewer books about the black Luton lathe operator turned PI, but The...
Fiction Reviews
Scarpetta by Patricia Cornwell
March 23, 2025There are flashes of wit – the description of the morgue as a “deconstruction site”, for...
Military
Agincourt by Bernard Cornwell
March 23, 2025Much 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
March 14, 2025The violent and crude final pages of the book force us to scrutinise our feelings over...
Fiction Reviews
The Right Side of the Tracks
March 1, 2025Detective fiction revels in the possibilities offered by railway travel, but it also expresses some anxiety...
Fiction Reviews
Lots in a Name
February 22, 2025Rather more subtle is Hercule Poirot, whose name contains elements of both “Hercules”, the classical hero,...
Fiction Reviews
Gentlemen and Players
February 15, 2025Yet it is the amateur, the eccentric and the outsider who plays the hero in the...
Fiction Reviews
The Solution to History
February 10, 2025These days the historical mystery buff can choose from works featuring Owen Archer, Prioress Eleanor, Petroc...
Fiction Reviews
Who Didn’t Do It?
February 5, 2025The “golden age” of detective fiction, which began roughly with Christie’s The Mysterious Affair at Styles,...




