Slow Horses
Snafu at Slough House: Bad Actors, by Mick Herron, reviewed
Reviewers who make fancy claims for genre novels tend to sound like needy show-offs or hard-of-thinking dolts. So be it:…
A toxic atmosphere: Slough House, by Mick Herron, reviewed
Mick Herron has been called ‘the John le Carré of his generation’ by the crime writer Val McDermid, and in…
If you read one spy novel this year, read Real Tigers
Most spy novels have a comfortable air of familiarity. We readers can take moles in our stride. We have grown…
