Having not read a novel for a while I was keen to start Sebastian Faulks' Human Traces. I've read most of his other novels and found it to be another Tardis - for the uninitiated , the Tardis is Dr Who's time travelling machine - pick up the book for five minutes and step back in to your life an hour and a half later blinking in the light and wondering how you are going to explain your flagrant disregard for the list of jobs you were supposed to do that afternoon.
I don't know what else to say about Faulks' novels; he is a master of his genre - historically based novels - if you haven't read one, I'd start where most people do: with Birdsong, the first world war bombshell.
