Slow Horses

Unfinished business in Berlin: The Secret Hours, by Mick Herron, reviewed

9 September 2023 9:00 am

How it all began: Di Taverner, Service legend David Cartwright and the rest of the Slow Horses make themselves known to the reader in an origin story disguised as a follow-up

Snafu at Slough House: Bad Actors, by Mick Herron, reviewed

14 May 2022 9:00 am

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

6 February 2021 9:00 am

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

6 February 2016 9:00 am

Most spy novels have a comfortable air of familiarity. We readers can take moles in our stride. We have grown…