2013-12-26

Keeping the world away – Margaret Forster

The Ship Who Sang – Anne McCaffrey

The Midas Box – Mariah Mundi

Balthasar’s Odyssey – Amin Malouf

 Liars and Saints – Maile Meloy

The Red Necklace – Sally Gardner

Have the Men Had Enough? – Margaret Forster

Standing in the Rainbow – Fannie Flagg

The Separation – Christopher Priest

Julius – Daphne du Maurier

Animal Dreams – Barbara Kingsolver

Five quarters of the orange – Joanne Harris

The lady and the Unicorn – Tracey Chevalier

Mrs Kimble – Jennifer Haigh

Human Croquet – Kate Atkinson

Saints of Big Harbour – Lynn Coady

A Map of the World – Jane Hamilton

The Master Butchers Singing Club - Louise Erdrich

My Cleaner – Maggie Gee

Zabelle – Nancy Kircorian

Home Rule – Claire Boylan

The Septembers of Shiraz – Dalia Sofer

The Short History of a Prince – Jane Hamilton

Beloved Stranger – Claire Boylan

The Blessing – Nancy Mitford

Jennie – Paul Gallico

The Year of our War – Stephen Swainston

Beloved – Toni Morrison

The Abomination – Paul Golding

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle – Barbara Kingsolver

Morgan’s Passing – Anne Tyler

Human Voices – Penelope Fitzgerald

A Fraction of the Whole – Steve Toltz

The Flamboya Tree – Clara Olink Kelly

Hang a Thousand Trees with Ribbons – Ann Rinaldi

A Change of Climate – Hilary Mantel

Virgin of the Rodeo – Sarah Bird

Storm Front – Jim Butcher

Folly – Susan Minot

After Moses – Karen Mockler

The Knife of Never Letting Go – Patrick Ness

The Greengage Summer – Rumer Godden – a re-read

True Murder – Yaba Badoe

So Brave, Young, and Handsome - Leif Enger

The Observations – Jane Harris

North Gladiola – James Wilcox

Modern Baptists – James Wilcox

Miss Undine's Living Room - James Wilcox

Mutiny on the Bounty – John Boyne

Lorenzo da Ponte – Rodney Bolt

Mr Cassini – Lloyd Jones

We are now beginning our Descent – James Meek

A Thousand Splendid Suns – Khaled Hosseini

The Half Life of Stars – Louise Wener

People of the Book – Geraldine Brooks

Three Day Road – Joseph Boydon

My Sister My Love – Joyce Carol Oates

The Song Before it is Sung – Justin Cartwright

The Parasites – Daphne du Maurier

That Old Ace in the Hole – Annie Proulx

Memories of my Melancholy Whores – Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The Known World – Edward P Jones

The Stories of Eva Luna – Isabel Allende

The Heat of the Day – Elizabeth Bowen

The Greatest Man in Cedar Hole – Stephanie Doyon

Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands – Jorge Amado

The People’s Act of Love – James Meek

Robbing the Bees – Holly Bishop

The Song of the World – Jean Gionno

The Falls - Joyce Carole Oates

Stephen's Light - E M Almedingen

Shuttlecock - Graham Swift

Good Behaviour - Molly Keane

Of bees and mist - Erick Setiawan

Kavalier and Clay - Michael Chabon

The Chocolate War plus Beyond the Chocolate War - Robert Cormier

Their finest hour and a half - Lisa Evans

The pirate's daughter - Margaret Cezair-Thompson

Neverwhere - Neil Gaiman

Hostage London - Geoffrey Household

The Last Family in England - Matt Haig

Take a Look At Me Now - Anita Notaro

The Weight of the Sun - Andrew Humphries

Tulip Fever - Deborah Moggach

The World Below - Sue Miller

The Pond - Robert Murphy

Daughter of Fortune - Isabel Allende

The Story of Edward Sawtelle - David Roblewski

Dirt Music - Tim Winton

Rosewater and Soda Bread - Marsha Mehran

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Space Captain Smith - Toby Frost

The Children's Book - A S Byatt

Guernica - Dave Boling

Alone in Berlin - Hans Fallada

All quiet on the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque

The Wilding - Maria McCann

Breath - Tim Winton

In the Place of Fallen Leaves - Tim Pears

Last Train from Liguria - Christine Dwyer Hickey

Colour Bar - Susan Williams

The Monsters of Templeton - Lauren Groff

Florence and Giles - John Harding

Tamar - Mal Peet

Provincial Daughter - R M Dashwood

Arrow - R J Anderson

Crimson Rooms - Catherine McMahon

The Lies of Locke Lamora - Scott Lynch

The Ballad of Trenchmouth Taggart - Glen Taylor

Never the Bride - Paul Magrs

The Battle for Christobel - Margaret Forster

Grange House - Sarah Blake

The Good Husband of Zebra Drive - Alexander McCall Smith

The Final Reminder - Lydia Flem

Mozart's Ghost - Julia Cameron

Dona Nicanora's Hat Shop - Kirstan Hawkins

A Foreign Field - Ben MacIntyre

The Midnight Palace - Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Duende - Jason Webster

Something Borrowed - Paul Magrs

The Last Warner Woman - Kei Miller

Lost Nation - Jeffrey Lent

Island Magic - Elizabeth Goudge

Sunday the Rabbi stayed home - Harry Kemelman

Monday the Rabbi took off - Harry Kemelman

Thursday the Rabbi walked out - Harry Kemelman

Reading in the Dark - Seamus Deane

Fine Feathers and other stories - E F Benson 

**Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons

As meat loves salt - Maria McCann

The Island Walkers - John Bemrose

Crusoe's daughter - Jane Gardam

The Pangs of Love - Jane Gardam

Waiting for Columbus - Thomas Trofimuk

Libby Purves - Passing Go

The Winter Ghosts - Kate Mosse

The Mist in the Mirror - Susan Hill

Liza's England - Pat Barker

After the Fire, a Still Small Voice - Evie Wyld

Mr Chartwell - Rebecca Hunt

I still dream about you - Fanny Flagg

Pelagia and the White Bulldog - Boris Akunin

Mr Dixon Disappears - Ian Sansom

Faith Fox - Jane Gardam

Their eyes were watching God - Zora Neale Hurston

The Marrowbone Marble Company - Glenn Taylor

The Invisible ones - Steph Penny

The Circus of Ghosts - Barbara Ewing

The Prince of Mist - Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Annie Dunne - Sebastian Barry

Family Romance - John Lanchester

Fanny by Gaslight - Michael Sadlier

22 Britania Road - Amanda Hodgkinson

Harbor - Lorraine Adams

Jubilee - Eliza Graham

The Small Book - Zina Rohan

The Killables - Gemma Malley

Christmas at Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons 

The Weekend - Bernhard Schlink

Rabbit Stew and a penny or two - Maggie Smith Bendell

Mrs Tim of the Regiment - D E Stevenson

Bageye at the Wheel - Colin  Grant

The End of Everything - Megan Abbott

Fluke - James Herbert

The Promise of Rain - Donna Milner

Mother London - Michael Moorcock

The Poison Garden - Sarah Singleton

Zeiton - Dave Eggers

Wartime Women Ed Dorothy Sheringham

The Return of Capt. John Emmett - Elizabeth Speller

Angel of Brooklyn - Janette Jenkins

Claire Marvel - John Burnham Shwartz

The Native Commissioner - Shaun Johnson 

X-Isle Steve Augarde 

The Somnambulist - Essie Fox

Nocturnes Kazuo Ishiguro

The Strange Fate of Kitty Easton - Elizabeth Easton

Little Gods - Anna Richards

History of a Pleasure Seeker - Richard Mason

Faith Fox - Jane Gardam

The Art of Fielding - Chad Harbach

Shadow of the Banyan - Vaddey Ratner

Wonder Girls - Catherine Jones 

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter - Carson McCullers 

Let The Right One In - John Advide Lindqvist

Travels with Farley - Claire Mowat

The Secret Rooms - Catherine Bailey

Rockbound - Frank Parker Day 

Annabel - Kathleen Winter

Tallgrass - Sandra Dallas

Around the world with Auntie Mame - Patrick Dennis

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Soli - Colum McCann

Beautiful Bodies - Laura Shaine Cunningham

The Philosopher's House - Joan Marysmith

Pontoon - Garrison Keillor

A Parachute in the Lime Tree - Annemarie Neary

Once on a Moonless Night - Dai Sijie 

Little Red Rooster - Greg Matthews

Cold - John Smolens

The West Window - John S Hall 

Waltzing Through Flaws - Paula Sharp 

Wish You Were Here - Graham Swift

The Famished Road - Ben Okri

Scapegallows - Carol Birch

House Of the Hanged - Mark Mills

Tortoise by Candlelight - Nina Bawden

The Lord of Misrule - Jaimy Gordon

The Food Taster - Peter Elbling

South Riding Winifred Holtby

The Playmaker - Thomas Keneally

The Blackwater Lightship - Colm Toibin

The Night of the Burning - Linda Press Wulf  

Lost and Found - Tom Winter

Half Blood Blues - Esi Edugyan

Billy - Albert French

Dear Mr Bigelow - Frances Woodsford

Our Spoons came from Woolworths - Barbara Comyns

Ishq and Mushq - Priya Basil

The Weather in the Streets - Rosamond Lehmann

All Passion Spent - Vita Sackville-West

The Taste of Apple Seeds - Katharina Hagena

The Essential Mary Webb - Martin Armstrong

Mr Weston's Good Wine -T F Powys 

The Light Between Oceans - M L Steadman

Wise Children - Angela Carter

Dancing with EVa - Alan Judd

Patterns in the Sand - Sally Goldenbaum

The Claude Glass - Tom Gullough

The Falconer's Malteser - Anthony Horowitz 

Hoot - Carl Hiaasen

*Postcards from Nomansland - Aidan Chambers

Trieste - Dasa Drnchic

Cape Breton Road - D R Macdonald

Names on a map - Benjamin Alire Saenz

The Dangers of Proximal Alphabets - Cathleen Alcott

The Greatcoat - Helen Dunmore

The River King - Alice Hoffman

Added Dec 13 / Jan 14

The Kitchen House - Kathleen Grissom

Carry Me Home - Terri Wiltshire

Perfect - Rachel Joyce

The Flight of the Maidens - Jane Gardam

Cuckoo - Julia Crouch

Some Girls, Some Hats, and Hitler - Trudi Kantner

Monsieur le Commandant - Romain Slocombe

The Trout Opera - Matthew Condon

The Death of Bees - Lisa O'Donnell

White Corridor - Christopher Fowler

Ten Second Staircase - Christopher Fowler

Wakening - Derek John

Added Feb/March '14

The Last Brother - Nathacha Appanah

Noah Barleywater Runs Away - John Boyne 

Confessions of a failed Southern Lady - Florence King

The Lollipop Shoes - Joanne Harris

In Pursuit - R E Kemp

The Story of a Marriage - Andrew Sean Greer

Cryers Hill - Kitty Aldridge

Gap Creek - Robert Morgan

Illumination Night - Alice Hoffman

In Bloom - Matthew Crow

Twelve Years a Slave - Solomon Northup

Boy's Life - Robert R McCammon

Back Home - Michelle Magorian

The Bean Trees - Barbara Kingsolver

 

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