A Common Reader is . . .

. . . written by Tom Cunliffe, of East Sussex, England (to read more about me see my About page).

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Review: The Unit – Ninni Holmqvist

I have been a great fan of Kazuo Ishiguro’s books ever since The Remains of the Day right up to his latest  book of four stories, Nocturnes.  One of his more intriguing books was Never Let Me Go, about a boarding school in which cloned children were raised to become organ donors (turned into a [...]

Review: Shadow – Karin Alvtegen

Discovering Scandinavian crime novels can be quite an eye-opener, once you get past Girl With a Dragon Tattoo.  There are just so many fine writers out there whose complex plotting and characterisation is the equal of any of more well-known English-speaking authors.

Shadow, by Karin Alvtegen is an example of a book that only a [...]

Review: The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo – Stieg Larsson

I enjoy reading the occasional thriller/crime novel and with The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo being so highly reviewed I thought I would give it a try (especially having watched the BBC series “Wallander” based on novels by another Swedish writer, Henning Mankell).

Many readers will already know that the author, Stieg Larsoon,  delivered the [...]