2010-09-30

The Mermaids Singing by Val McDermid       Read it and loved it 

Pretty Little Things by Jilliane Hoffman  read it, pretty good

The Fabric Of Sin by Phil Rickman

Beyond Black by Hilary Mantel           Read it really enjoyed it

The Little Friend by Donna Tartt

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Attwood

Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger        Read it, loved first 2/3, hated last 1/3

The Collector by John Fowles     

Alias Grace by Margaret Attwood

The Cater Street Hangman by Anne Perry

Borrowed Time by Robert Goddard

I Am Madame X by Gioia Dilberto

Something Might Happen by Julie Myerson

Jonathan Livingstone Seagull by Richard Bach

The Edible Woman by Margaret Attwood

Jonathan Strange And Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke      read it, loved it

The Road Home by Rose Tremain    read it, was ok

The American Boy by Andrew Taylor   liked this one

The Ressurectionist by James Bradley

Arthur And George by Julian Barnes

The Crossroads by Niccolo Ammaniti

Nine Men Dancing by Kate Sedley

The Red Tent by Anita Diamant

A Gathering Light by Jennifer Donnelly 

Think Of A Numb3r by John Verdon

Steal You Away by Niccolo Ammaniti

Collected Ghost Stories by M R James

Make Death Love Me by Ruth Rendell   read it, it was OK

Scarecrow by Michael Connelly 

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

The Raw Shark Texts by Steven Hall

The Servants Of Twilight by Leigh Nichols

The Angel Makers by Jessica Gregson

Happenstance by Carol Shields

Beside The Sea by Veronique Olmi

The Evangelist by Clare George

Felidae On The Road by Akif Pirincci

Charles Manson: Coming Down Fast by Simon Wells

Plucking The Apple by Elizabeth Palmer  read it, bit dull, not my cup of tea

Blackland by Belinda Bauer

Mary Reilly by Valerie Martin

The Girls by Lori Lansens

The Woman In White by Wilkie Collins    was OK, quite longwinded I thought

Last Orders by Graham Swift

Testimony by Anita Shreve

Chocolat by Joanne Harris

The Other Hand by Chris Cleave

Under The Skin by Michael Faber

The Observations by Jane Harris 

Hide And Seek by Clare Sambrook

The Seymour Tapes by Tim Lott     read it, OK nothing special 

A Perfect Arrangement by Suzanne Berne

In The Heart Of The Sea by Nathaniel Philbrook

Restraint Of Beasts by Magnus Mills

Fingersmith by Sarah Waters

Miss Smilla's Feeling For Snow by Peter Hoeg 

Broken Skin by Stuart MacBride

Becoming Strangers by Louise Dean     read it, loved it

The Piano Teacher by Janice Lee

The Lollipop Shoes by Joanne Harris

Engleby by Sebastian Faulks

He Who Fears The Wolf by Karin Fossum

A Week In December by Sebastian Faulks           really boring, abandoned

Skin by Mo Hayder

English Passengers by Matthew Kneale 

The Known World by Edward Jones

Out by Natsuo Kirino

Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn

Mr Phillips by John Lanchester    read it, loved it

The Angel Maker by Stefan Brijs  read it, amazing book

The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett   read it, silly and quite funny

The Narcissist's Daughter by Craig Holden

The Dante Trap by Arnaud Delalande

The Parrot's Theorem by Denis Guedj

Gone by Mo Hayder

The Girl On The Landing by Paul Torday

The Point Of Rescue by Sophie Hannah   read it, really liked it

The Last Temptation by Val McDermid   read it, brilliant as ever

Beneath The Bleeding by Val McDermid  read it, great read

The Taking by Dean Koontz

Spencer's List by Lissa Evans

The Analyst by John Katzenbach

A Place Of Execution by Val Mc Dermid    read it, brilliant as ever

Never The Bride by Paul Magrs  read it, wonderful, will look for the rest of the series now

Cold Granite by Stuart MacBride

Galileo's Daughter by Dava Sobel

The Sculptress by Minette Walters

The Crying Tree by Naseem Rakha

The Information Officer by Mark Mills

I Capture The Castle by Dodie Smith

A Darker Domain by Val McDermid    read it, excellent as always

Oscar Wilde And The Candlelight Murders by Gyles    Brandreth

This Perfect World by Suzanne Bugler  read it, pretty good

Gravity by Tess Gerritson

The Executor by Jesse Kellerman  read it, liked the first half,  disappointing ending

Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami

Bleed For Me by Michael Robotham   read it, great thriller, will get the rest of the series now

Rough Music by Patrick Gale

Auntie Mame by Patrick Dennis

Ravens by George Dawes Green

The Wild by Esther Freud

Passing On by Penelope Lively  read it, a bit old-fashioned

A Quiet Drink by Deborah Moggach read it, really enjoyed it, a little dated though

Balthazar Jones And The Tower Of London Zoo by Julia Stuart     read it, funny and moving, I enjoyed it

The Cothes On Their Backs by Linda Grant

The Romantic by Barbara Gowdy

Flight Of The Storks by Jean-Christophe Grange

A Place Of Secrets by Rachel Hore

The Mistress Of Spices by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

The Locust Farm by Jeremy Dronfield

The Distant Echo by Val McDermid

Final Demand by Deborah Moggach  read it, I like her books

The Well And The Mine by Gin Phillips

The Good Thief by Hannah Tinti

The Red House Mystery by A A Milne    read it, very good I enjoyed it

Red Dog by Louis de Bernieres

The Undrowned Child by Michelle Lovric

The Death Of Vishnu by Manil Suri     read it, enjoyed it

The Making Of Henry by Howard Jacobson   started it, didn't feel it, I'll try again one day

The Secret Life Of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

The Einstein Girl by Philip Sington

The Evil Seed by Joanne Harris

Hunting Unicorns by Bella Pollen

The Night Following by Morag Joss  read it. brilliant, will look out for more of her

The Battle For Christabel by Margaret Forster

Room by Emma Donoghoe

Trick Of The Dark by Val McDermid

The Anniversary Man by R J Ellory

A Quiet Belief In Angels by R J Ellory

The Blind Man Of Seville by Robert Wilson

Misfortune by Wesley Stace

The Face by Phil Whitaker  read it, was ok

A Metropolitan Murder by Lee Jackson    read it, was ok

The Sex Life Of My Aunt by Mavis Cheek    read it, pretty good

Towards The End Of The Morning by Michael Frayn

The Mourning Vessels by Peter Luther

The Athenian Murders by Jose Carlos Somoza

The Sin Eater by Alice Thomas Ellis                                                       

Oystercatchers by Susan Fletcher

The Flood by Maggie Gee

The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield

John The Revelator by Peter Murphy

Monster Love by Carol Topolski

The Earth Hums In B Flat by Mari Strachan    read it, brilliant, loved it 

Broken Verses by Kamila Shamsie

The Cellist Of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway

Guardianwork by Ian Carpenter  read it, very funny

The Fiend In Human by John MacLachlan Gray   read it, dragged, didn't finish it

Letters To eBay by Art Farkas  read it, hilarious

Eating People Is Wrong by Malcolm Bradbury

Chapel Street by Sam North

Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons  read it, loved it, very amusing

Second Honeymoon by Joanna Trollope

Shadow by Karin Alvtegen

Pig Island by Mo Hayder

Halfhead by Stuart MacBride

Marrying The Mistress by Joanna Trollope

Sleep, Pale Sister by Joanne Harris

Sunstroke by Jonathan Kellerman

Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde and other stories by Robert Louis Stevenson

The Outcast by Sadie Jones

Mr Toppit by Charles Elton      read it, very good, original

Miss Webster And Cherif by Patricia Duncker   read it, sweet book I enjoyed it

The Case Of The Missing Books by Ian Sansom

The Understudy by David Nicholls

84 Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff

Light Years by Maggie Gee

The Fifth Child by Doris Lessing   read it, great writing but very harrowing             

Little Green Man by Simon Armitage

Helpless by Barbara Gowdy  read it - ok, didn't deliver all it promised

The Girls He Adored by Jonathan Nasaw

The Dinner Party by Gordon Houghton

First Light by Peter Akroyd

The Used Women's Book Club by Paul Bryers  read it, didn't finish it, boring

The Yellow Wallpaper And Other Writings by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Mother's Boys by Margaret Forster

Venus Flaring by Suzannah Dunn

The Butcher Boy by Patrick McCabe

Mystic River by Dennis Lehane

What Alice Forgot by Liane Fogarty

The Street Philosopher by Matthew Plampin

Three To See The King by Magnus Mills

England, England by Julian Barnes     read it, enjoyed it

Hidden Depths by Ann Cleeves

Mr Mee by Andrew Crumey

Travels With Charley by John Steinbeck

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder

The Shadow Of The Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon 

Beware Of Pity by Stefan Zweig

Mistress Of The Art Of Death by Ariana Franklin   read it, really enjoyed it, will get the series now

The News Where You Are by Catherine O'Flynn    read it, really enjoyed it

Sacrifice by S J Bolton   read it, it was OK

Patrick Parker's Progress by Mavis Cheek

Fragrant Harbour by John Lanchester

A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggars    started it, nothing special, abandoned

Amenable Women by Mavis Cheek     read it, excellent, I love her writing

My Lover's Lover by Maggie O'Farrell    

Natural Flights Of The Human Mind by Clare Morrall

Keeping The World Away by Margaret Forster

In The Country Of Men by Hisham Matar

The Redbreast by Jo Nesbo

The Creeper by Tania Carver

A Moment Of Silence by Anna Dean

The Book Of Fires by Jane Borodale

The Swan Thieves by Elizabeth Kostova

The Unit by Ninnni Holmqvist       read it, really good

The Burning Wire by Jeffery Deaver

Dog Days by Mavis Cheek

Twisted Wing by Ruth Newman

Looking For The Possible Dance by A L Kennedy

Dark Fire  by C J Sansom      read it, just as good as the first one, look forward to the next in the series

Losing Larry by Elizabeth Pewsey

Tamburlaine Must Die by Louise Welsh    read it, so-so

The Drowning Girl by Margaret Leroy

Titus Groan by Mervyn Peake     started it, hated it, abandoned 

The Circle by Peter Lovesey

Revelation by C J Sansom     read it, probably my least favourite of the series but still very good

I Love The 80s by Megan Crane  read it, nothing much to it, boring

A Capital Crime by Laura Wilson

The Tainted Relic by The Medieval Murderers

The Ninth Life Of Louis Drax by Liz Jensen

The Sanctuary Seeker by Bernard Knight

The Particular Sadness Of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender  read it, it was OK

A Dubious Legacy by Mary Wesley, started it, not my cup of tea

Mrs Fytton's Country Life by Mavis Cheek

Cover The Mirrors by Faye L Booth    read it, was ok

Night Visitor by Gillian White

Out Of Breath by Julie Myerson  read it, a bit disappointing

A Rare Interest In Corpses by Ann Granger  read it, great historical romp

Blood Harvest by S J Bolton  read it, don't think she's for me

Fortune Like The Moon by Alys Clare

The Lute Player by Norah Lofts

The Last 10 Seconds by Simon Kernick

Skinner's Ghosts by Quintin Jardine

Wolves Eat Dogs by Martin Cruz Smith

Good To A Fault by Marina Endicott

Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively

City Of The Mind by Penelope Lively      read it, very clever, more "literary" than I've read for a while

Family Album by Penelope Lively   

The Silver Linings Play Book by Matthew Quick    read it, a bit sentimental for me

Watch Me Disapear by Jill Dawson 

Brixton Beach by Roma Tearne

The Timewaster Letters by Robin Cooper   read it, lighthearted and amusing

Shut Eye by Adam Baron

Two Caravans by Marina Lewycka

Plan B by Emily Barr

The Rector's Wife  by Joanna Trollope     started it, a bit dull, she's not for me

The Bed I Made by Lucie Whitehouse 

The Fig Eater by Jody Shields

The Priest by Gerard O'Donovan

The Land Of Spices by Kate O'Brien

Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier      audio book, it was ok

Jamaica Inn by Daphne Du Maurier

Frenchman's Creek by Daphne Du Maurier

My Cousin Rachel by Daphne Du Maurier    read it, very good

The Good Mother by Sue Miller

Year Of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks   read it, really good

Protection by Claire Allen

My Sister Lives On The Mantelpiece by Annabel      read it, pretty good

A Saucerful Of Secrets by Jane Yardley       read it, was OK

Watchers by The Pool by Margaret Reinhold

Daybreak by Belva Plain

The Inspector And Silence by Hakan Nesser

Garnethill by Dernise Mina

Something Borrowed by Paul Magrs      read it, 2nd in the series, very good

Death In Bordeaux by Allan Massie

The Death Maze by Ariana Franklin     read it, 2nd in the series, great story

Island Of Lost Girls by Jennifer McMahon

The Dying Light by Alison Joseph

Home by Manju Kapur

The Fraud by Barbara Ewing

Harbour by John Ajvide Lindqvist

Funeral Music by Morag Joss

31 Bond Street by Ellen Horan

Markham Thorpe by Giles Waterfield

Last Rituals by Yrsa Sigurdardottir

Fear Itself by Jonathan Nasaw      read it, poor

The Seas by Samantha Hunt          read it, really don't know what to make of it!

Miracle Cure by Harlan Coben

The Meaning Of Everything by Simon Winchester

The Passage by Justin Cronin      listened on audio - absolutely amazing, looking forward to the next episode

Instruments Of Darkness by Imogen Robertson

Rupture by Simon Lelic

Falling Man by Don DeLillo

The Death Instinct by Jed Rubenfeld

The Pawn by Steven James

The Prince Of Mist by Carlos Ruiz Zafon       read it with my son, it was OK

Toast by Nigel Slater

The Prestige by Christoper Priest

When I Was Five I Killed Myself by Howard Buten   read it, a compelling but very uncomfortable read

Thursday The Rabbi Walked Out by Harry Kemelman  read it, pretty good, will read more of this series

The Skeleton In The Closet by M C Beaton   read it, enjoyable and easy read

The Wordsmith's Tale by Stephen Edden

Undone by Michael Kimball   read it, OK, nothing special

By Permission Of Heaven (the story of the great fire of London) by Adrian Tinniswood

The Library Of Shadows by Mikkel Birkegaard

The Elected Member by Bernice Rubens

The Looking Glass Wars by Frank Beddor   read it, very entertaining, I'll get the series now

Sulphuric Acid by Amelie Nothomb

Lasting Damage by Sophie Hannah

The Devil's Acre by Matthew Plampin

Mother's Milk by Edward St Aubyn

The Mother In Law by Eve Makis   read it, average, not my cup of tea

A Patchwork Planet by Anne Tyler    read it, pretty good, not the most exciting story but I do like her writing

More Twisted by Jeffery Deaver

Woman With A Birthmark by Hakan Nesser

Him Her Him Again The End Of Him by Patricia Marx      read it, not quite what I expected, just average

Three Men In A Boat by Jerome K Jerome

The Peculiar Memories Of Thomas Penman by Bruce Robinson

My Godawful Life by Sunny McCreary 

The Four Last Things by Andrew Taylor

The Diary Of A Provincial Lady by E M Delafield

The Story Of Mr Sommer by Patrick Suskind

In The Kitchen by Monica Ali

The Lure by Bill Napier

Four Meals by Meir Shalev

Tokyo Cancelled by Rana Dasgupta

The Food Chain by Geoff Nicholson     read it, what a strange book

One Hand Clapping by Lise Leroux

The Distant Sound by Gert Jonke

The Surgeon Of Crowthorne by Simon Winchester

Porphyria's Lover by Maggie Power        read it, disappointing

Diana: The Ghost Biography by Emma Tennant and Hilary Bailey      read it, ok a bit silly

The Invisible Circus by Jennifer Egan

A Dangerous Woman by Mary McGarry Morris

English, August by Upamanyu Chatterjee

Malcolm by James Purdy

Millstone by Margaret Drabble

The Pursuit Of Happiness by Douglas Kennedy

Bird by Jane Adams

Jack Maggs by Peter Carey

The Last Of The Crazy People by Timothy Findley

The Marriage Of Time And Convenience by Robert Winder     read it, forgettable

Patrick Robinson: A Tale Of Adventure by Brian Hennigan

The Great English Nude by Simon Mason

Nectar From A Stone by Jane Guill

The Paraffin Child by Stephen Blanchard

The L-Shaped Room by Lynne Reid Banks

The Brainstorm by Jenny Turner

The Mermaid And The Drunks by Ben Richards

Into The Silent Land by Paul Broks

Of Love And Other Demons by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

We Have Aways Lived In The Castle by Shirley Jackson

You Kant Make It Up (strange ideas from history's great philiosophers) by Gary Hayden

Sovereign by C J Sansom     read it, 3rd in the series and the best so far

Brooklyn by Colm Toibin

Mr Chartwell by Rebecca Hunt      read it, very clever, I liked it

Cuckoo by Julia Crouch      read it, pretty good

Tony And Susan by Austin Wright

Night Waking by Sarah Moss

Christmas At Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons    read some of the stories, lovely

Crippen by John Boyne    read it, loved it, I like his easygoing style

Miss Pettigrew Lives For A Day by Winifred Watson    read it, gorgeous little book, great fun!

The Serial Killers - A Study In The Psychology Of Violence by Colin Wilson and Donald Seaman

The Castle In The Pyrenees by Jostein Gaarder

In Other Rooms, Other Wonders by Daniyal Mueenuddin

The Cry Of The Sloth by Sam Savage

I Have A Bream by John O'Farrell

Mister Candid by Jules Hardy

Death At The Priory (Love, Sex And Murder In Victorian England) by James Ruddick

Shadow Dance by Angela Carter

The Wreckage by Michael Robotham

Before I Go To Sleep by S J Watson

The Suspect by Michael Robotham

The Night Ferry by Michael Robotham

Oryx And Crake by Margaret Attwood

Alone In Berlin by Hans Fallada

Last Man In Tower by Aravind Adiga 

Snow Drops by A D Miller

City Of Bones by Michael Connelly

The Poet by Michael Connelly

Night Road by Kristin Hannah

Silent Mercy by Linda Fairstein

The Sleeping Doll by Jeffrey Deaver

The Genesis Secret by Tom Knox

On The Way To The Wedding by Jo Riddett

Henrietta's War by Joyce Dennys

The Retribution by Val McDermid       read it, great as always

The People's Act Of Love by James Meek

The Wedding Wallah by Farahad Zana

Eleanor Rigby by Douglas Coupland

The Grim Reaper by Bernard Knight

The Vice Society by James McCreet

Miss Garnett's Angel by Sally Vickers

The Return Of Captain John Emmett by Elizabeth Speller

Bee Season by Myla Goldberg

This Time Of Dying by Reina James

The Flowers Of The Field by Sarah Harrison

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The Unseen by Katherine Webb

The Saltmarsh Murders by Gladys Mitchell      abandoned, she's just not for me  

The Last Family In England by Matt Haig

The Postmistress by Sarah Blake

The Optimists by Andrew Miller

Come Away, Death by Gladys Mitchell

Wise Children by Angela Carter

If Nobody Speaks Of Remarkable Things by Jon McGregor

The Glass Room by Simon Mawer

The Good Terrorist by Doris Lessing

A Room Swept White by Sophie Hannah

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The Blackpool Highflyer by Andrew Martin

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Anno Dracula by Kim Newman

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The Reaper by Steven Dunne

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Ardour by Lily Prior

The Last Dickens by Matthew Pearl

The Sealed Letter by Emma Donoghue

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The Necropolis Railway by Andrew Martin

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UV by Serge Joncour

Dry by Austen Burroughs

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The Mistress's Revenge by Tamara Cohen

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The Donor by Helen Fitzgerald

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Racists by Kunal Basu

Sex Crimes by Jenefer Shute

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The Photograph by Penelope Lively 

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The Island At The End Of The World by Sam Taylor

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The Story Of You by Julie Myerson

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The Echo Maker by Richard Powers

Heartstone by C J Sansom       read it, very exciting,  hope he writes some more!

these are all audio:

A Strange Disappeance by Anna Katharine Green

Adam Bede by George Eliot

Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis

Brewster's Millions by George Barr McCutcheon

Can You Forgive Her by Anthony Trollope

Collected Lovecraft by H P Lovecraft

Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell          not her best, but very funny in places

Crome Yellow by Aldous Huxley        read it, really liked it

East Lynne by Mrs Henry Wood

Emma by Jane Austen

Evelina by Fanny  Burney

He Knew He Was Right by Anthony Trollope

Helen's Babies by John Habberton

Hushed Up: A Mystery Of London by William L Queux

In The Year Of Jubilee by George Gissing

Initials Only by Anna Katharine Green

John Halifax, Gentleman by Dinah Craik

Lady Audley's Secret by Mary Elizabeth Braddon

Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell   read it, brilliant

Middlemarch by George Eliot       read it, went on for ever!

Missing Page Thirteen by Anna Katharine Green

Molly Make Believe by Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

Mrs Warren's Profession by George Bernard Shaw

New Grub Street by George Gissing

Night And Day by Virginia Woolf

Nightmare Abbey by Thomas Love Peacock

North And South by Elizabeth Gaskell

Notes From The Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Officer 666 by Barton Wood Currie

Olive by Dinah Craik

Queen Lucia by E F Benson

Reuben Sachs by Amy Levy

Ruth by Elizabeth Gaskell

Sylvia's Lovers by Elizabeth Gaskell

The Age Of Innocence by Elizabeth Wharton

The Chronicles Of Clovis by Saki

The Dark House by George Manville Fenn

The Dead by James Joyce        read it, amazing!! (and I don't usually like short stories)

The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim

The Haunted Bookshop by Christopher Morley

The Indiscreet Letter by Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

The Just And The Unjust by Vaughan Kester

The Lifted Veil by George Eliot      read it, she's just too heavy for me

The Lodger by Marie Belloc Lowndes    started really well, then ground to a halt, shame

The Paradise Mystery by J S Fletcher

The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell

The Sorrows Of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The Trees Of Pride by G K Chesterton

The Warden by Anthony Trollope

The Woman In The Alcove by Anna Katharine Green

Therese Raquin by Emile Zola      read it, loved it, oh the drama!

Three Thousand Dollars by Anna Katharine Green

Understood Betsy by Dorothy Canfield Fisher

X Y Z, A Detective Story by Anna Katharine Green

The Worm Ouroboros by E R Eddison

The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow by Irving Washington

The Man Who Was Thursday by G K Chesterton

 Greener Than You Think by Ward Moore

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The Buried Circle by Jennii Mills

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My Cleaner by Maggie Gee

The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson

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Pure by Andrew Miller

The Dud Avocado by Elaine Dundy

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Bonjour Tristesse by Francoise Sagan

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I Am The Messenger by Markus Zusack

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The Dark Room by Rachel Seiffert

Mrs Kimble by Jennifer Haigh

Even The Dogs by John McGregor

Still Waters by Camilla Noli

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Dancing With Minnie The Twig by Mogue Doyle

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The Radleys by Matt Haig

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The Moving Toyshop by Edmund Crispin       started, was very dull, abandoned

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The Whitechapel Conspiracy by Anne Perry 

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A Land More Kind Than Home by Wiley Cash

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Hearts And Minds by Amanda Craig

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Heft by Liz Moore

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Alys, Always by Harriet Lane

I, Lucifer by Glen Duncan

Orlando by Virginia Woolf

Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov      read it, was such hard work!

Ragtime by E L Doctorow

Sorry by Zoran Drvenkar

The Age Of Innocence by Edith Wharton

The Black Spider by Jeremias Gotthelf

The Crimson Rooms by Katharine McMahon

The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim

The Gods Of Gotham by Lindsay Faye

Lifeboat by Charlotte Rogan

The Long Glasgow Kiss by Craig Russell

The Story Of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski

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Remarkable Creatures by Tracy Chevalier

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Coming Up For Air by George Orwell

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The Juniper Tree by Barbara Comyns

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The Reader by Bernhard Schlink

The Beekeeper's Apprentice by Laurie R King

The Railway Detective by Edward Marston

Down And Out In Paris And London by George Orwell

The Stand-In by Deborah Moggach

Engleby by Sebastian Faulks

The British Museum Is Falling Down by David Lodge

Satan: A Biography by P G Maxwell-Stuart

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Tideline  by Penny Hancock

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The Greatcoat by Helen Dunmore

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Transmission by Hari Kunzru        read it, enjoyed this one, will read him again

North And South by Elizabeth Gaskell

The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien      read it, what a strange book, liked it

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Dominion by C J Sansom         read it, excellent although not as good as Shardlake   

The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out The Window And Diappeared by Jonas Jonasson    read it, patchy but pretty good

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Mr Golightly's Holiday by Salley Vickers

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The Children's Book by A S Byatt

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High Rising by Angela Thirkell

The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen

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Bilgewater by Jane Gardam

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Lady Susan by Jane Austen 

Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

A Pair Of Silk Stockings by Kate Chopin

The Watsons by Jane Austen     read it, great fun, shame it's unfinished

The Parvenue by Mary Shelley       read it, was ok

The Half-Brothers  by Elizabeth Gaskell      read it, very sad short story

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The Class by Hermann Ungar 

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The Somnambulist by Essie Fox

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The Plague by Albert Camus

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Gods Behaving Badly by Marie Phillips 

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