Field Service by Robert Edric (Doubleday)

THIS riveting story is about the First World War, not the actual conflict but the sobering aftermath.

The central character is Captain James Read who is based in Morlancourt, France in 1920.

His unit has been tasked with the identification and burial of the many corpses still scattered around the fields and battle grounds of Normandy.

Life After Life by Kate Atkinson (Doubleday) by Patrick O'Connor   THE BBC's adaptation of Kate Atkinson's Jackson Brodie series of novels, featuring Jason Isaacs as the former police inspector turned private investigator and set in Edinburgh, is one of my favourite TV crime dramas. But Atkinson is superbly adept at other genres, as demonstrated […]

The Man Who Forget His Wife by John O'Farrell (Doubleday)

by Patrick O'Connor

VAUGHAN'S 'bizarre reawakening' occurs on a London underground station.

He has lost his memory and ends up in hospital when he lingers for several days before somebody (his best friend Gary) turns up to identify him.