October Books 5) The Tartan Sell, by Jonathan Gash

[nwhyte]

My regular reader will be glad to know that I'm taking a break from Lovejoy at present, but I am well behind with book-blogging so here is one I finished a week or so ago. Actually it is rather a nice story, Lovejoy being much more like the lovable rogue played by Ian McShane on TV than the duplicitous psychopath of the earlier books. Here he falls

Comments

[ceemage]

Interesting - is Lovejoy, like Bond, much more of a hard-nose in the books than in TV/film? (Pre-Daniel Craig, that is.)

[nwhyte]

Absolutely; shags almost every woman he meets and happily thumps any man or woman who annoys him. Also completely obsessed with antiques to the point of psychological disorder.

[ceemage]

Ulp. Just hope that this "the characters are always more complex and unsympathetic in the book" rule of thumb doesn't apply to my current reading choice - Elisabeth Beresford's The Wombles.