France's reading 2025

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A very quick round up of just some of what I've read since last clocking in properly:

 

Gabriel's Moon by William Boyd is vintage Boyd, this story about a reluctant spy in the early 1960s iss an absolute gem.

 

Raising Hare by Chloe Dalton  Chloe Dalton found a very young leveret and raised it without much hope it would survive. It did and I found the book fascinating, in particular because she took great care to raise Hare as a wild animal in great contrast to my own family where my mother raised a badger from a few hours old who most definitely became a house badger and a pet.

 

Sadly it seems from the ending that The Shadows of Men by Abir Mukherjee is going to be the last in the series, this one was just s good as the previous ones

 

We Solve Murders by Richard Osman is sadly just not as good as his his Thursday Murder Club books but still readable.

 

 Out of Time by Jodi Taylor is the sixth in her Time Police series and like the rest very funny.

 

The Last Word by Elly Griffiths is frankly unmemorable.

 

For all those who were worried about Ben Aaronovitch running out of steam, the good news is that in Stone and Sky, Peter Grant's latest outing; he most definitely hasn't.