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London Rules (Slough House book 5) by Mick Herron (book review).
In the build-up in ‘London Rules’ by Mick Herron, you could also miss the significance of Roddy Ho being nearly run over by…
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Spook Street (Slough House book 4) by Mick Herron (book review).
Unusual for a ‘Slough House’ thriller, Jackson Lamb is missing from the first third of this book, ‘Spook Street’. Instead, a car bomb…
August 2025
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Real Tigers (Slough House book 3) by Mick Herron (book review).
Unravelling the opening sequence of the third ‘Slough House’ book, ‘Real Tigers’, involves many threads, with the first one not making sense until…
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Dead Lions (Slough House thrillers book 2) by Mick Herron (book review).
An ex-streetwalker, Richard Bough, aka Dickie Bow, spots a Russian spook in London and pursues him out to Oxford; along the way, the…
July 2025
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Slow Horses (Slough House Thrillers book 1) by Mick Herron (book review).
I’ve seen the ‘Slow Horses’ TV series on DVD and thought it was about time I looked at the books, especially as they…
May 2025
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The Prisoner: I Am Not a Number, I’m Just Very, Very Confused (spy-fy TV retrospective).
Here’s the first episode of The Prisoner for you. Imagine James Bond quits MI6, goes on holiday to clear his head, and wakes…