Hilarious. About The Premier League and with real people in it. Made me shout with laughter. Someone said the critics didn’t like this. I told them I don’t read critics I read books. To be this funny may seem easy but it is desperately difficult. I was at first surprised and then delighted. Not sure if you have to be a Football (Soccer) fan to enjoy it or not, but as a fan of both it and him I was really happy.

A book of short stories with an air of underlying anxiety about them. Manhattan malaise. Either everyone is unhappy with someone they are with or anxious about their previous lover, and they have frequently just undergone some kind of nervous collapse. I liked them though.

I found a signed first edition of one of his I haven’t read. It’s an odd bird. A romantic spy story set in Berlin. It’s like he’s still learning his trade and trying on this genre. It’s not really comfortable to him, so really to me the book is of interest in a novelist exploring himself.

A wonderful, original, hilarious, and brilliant book. I really enjoyed it. I think you’ll like it very much indeed… And she is married to the wonderful Thomas Perry, whose books I have been binging on. A must read.

I got lucky and found a Jane Whitefield Novel I hadn’t read! Actually I think it’s my favourite. Someone has set up pretending to be Jane and hiding people, or in fact milking them, having set them up. Really gripping.

I found another at an airport. This one about people pretending to be Jane Whitefield without bothering to keep them alive. They too pursue Jane as she tries to hide an innocent plastic surgeon. Gripping as ever. The Jane Whitefield books are: Vanishing Act Dance for the Dead Shadow Woman The Face Changers Blood Money Runner Poison Flower A String of Beads

I found a signed first edition at The Iliad Bookshop (www.iliadbooks.com) and though I have read it I began to read it again because it starts so grippingly and continues so. Love it.

Another I hadn’t read. Again from Iliad, which has a massive collection of great books. This one is about The Butchers Boy, hiding in the UK, he is recognized, with violent results. Most enjoyable.

Tom kindly sent me this as I could find no trace of it on my reading file. But just at the end I realized I had read it, and the thrilling chase and climax in the mountains was very familiar, but for some reason I had forgotten to note it down.