Any Human Face

[I'm bringing back this review in support of author Charles Lambert's new novel A View from the Tower] Christopher Moore should write a gay James Bond. Or maybe I should. Film rights would be snapped up in a jiffy. Stick around, kids, I’m tossing out million-dollar ideas like condoms at a Pride P......more

I feel a bit awkward about giving low ratings to books by Goodreads authors... sorry if anything I say offends. My opinion appears to definitely be a minority one, so perhaps you shouldn't pay too much attention to it :) Any Human Face opens with a line from Marilynne Robinson's The Gilead: Any human......more

Very much enjoyed this complex and beautifully written book. Some reviews have called it an Italian gay thriller. Yes, it is...but it has far greater depths and understanding of the human state than that implies. Intricate murky worlds of crime, and some wonderful, almost Dickensian, grotesques revo......more

For me, this was more about love and friendship than a thriller, though the mystery around the photographs is gripping. At first I found the time shifts a little dislocating, but once the threads weave themselves together and the narrative begins to gel I couldn't put it down. Charles Lambert's writ......more

I read it all in one go, so perfect was the construction of the narrative and the unfolding of the characters over the decades. One of the main themes about the ubiquity, but at the same time, the curious power that visual images retain is impressively well done. And the portrait of the thoroughly n......more