It’s a strange business to be looking at some of the big books that press for attention at this time of year. A historical thriller about the pursuit of the regicides of Charles I by Robert Harris, a man who has written thrillers about the great Roman orator Cicero, about algorithms and Munich, about the Dreyfus affair and the Lord knows what. Then in a different category, there is the new novel by Kamila Shamsie, the London-based Pakistani-born novelist who is followed by multitudes but who is only incidentally a popular novelist. Her last novel, Home Fire, reviewed in Quadrant,…
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