Review Index

Books featured are indexed by author surname. The links will take you directly to the review or article associated with it. Key to Abbreviations:

  • RC = Review Copy, O = Own copy, L = Library *= on my shelves from a previous year
  • F = Fiction, NF = Non-fiction, Tr = Translated, YA = Young Adult, Ch = Children’s, Gr = Graphic novel, P = Poetry, SNB = Review for Shiny New Books.
  • The year is the year I read the book, not the year of publication.
  • Updated to 28 February 2021.

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Authors  A

AARONOVITCH, Ben

ABBOTT, Megan

ABRAHAM, Thomas – Polio: The Odyssey of Eradication – RC NF (7/10) 2019

ABOULELA, Leila – Bird Summons RC F (9/10) 2020

ACIOLI, Socorro – The Head of the Saint – RC YATr 2014 SNB

ACKROYD, Peter

ADAMS, Douglas – The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – RC F (9/10) 2017 re-read SNB

ADEBAYO, Ayọ̀bámi– Stay With Me – O F (8/10) 2018

ADICHIE, Chimamanda Ngozi – Half of a Yellow Sun – O F 2011

AICKMAN, Robert

  • Dark Entries – RC F 2016 SNB
  • Cold Hand in Mine – RC F 2016 SNB
  • Five Fascinating Facts – Article for SNB

AKERSTROM, Lola A – Lagom – RC NF (5/10) 2017

ALBERTINE, Viv – To Throw Away Unopened – RC NF (10/10) 2018 SNB

ALLINGHAM, Margery – Look to the Lady – RC F (9/10) 2015

ALMOND, David – The True Tale of the Monster Billy Dean – RC F (6.5/10) 2011

ALVAREZ, Julia – How the Garcia Girls Lost their Accents – O* F (7/10) 2017

AMBLER, Eric

AMES, Jonathan

AMIS, Kingsley – Lucky Jim – O* F (8.5/10) 2017

AMIS, Martin – Money – O* F (9/10) 2015

ANDERS, Charlie Jane

ANDREA, Jean-Baptiste – A Hundred Million Years and a Day – RC (7.5/10) 2020

ANDREWS, Julie

ARANGO, Sacha – The Truth and Other Lies – RC F (8/10) 2015

ARCHER, Jodie and JOCKER, Matthew L – The Bestseller Code – O NF (9/10) 2017 SNB

ARDEN, Katherine – The Bear and the Nightingale – O F (9/10) 2017 SNB

ARMSTRONG, Karen – A Short History of Myth – O NF (8/10) 2010

ARNOTT, Jake

ATKINSON, Kate

ATWOOD, Margaret

AUSTEN, Jane and GRAHAME-SMITH, Seth – Pride and Prejudice and Zombies – O F (6.5/10) 2009

AUSTER, Paul

AYME, Marcel – The Man Who Could Walk Through Walls O* F Tr (9/10) 2020

AZZOPARDI, Trezza – The Tip of My Tongue – O* F (8/10) 2019

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Authors  B

BAGLEY, Desmond – Running Blind – RC F (9/10) 2017 re-read SNB

BAILEY, Bill – Bill Bailey’s Guide to Happiness – O (9/10) 2020

BAINBRIDGE, Beryl

BAINES, Elizabeth – Astral Travel – RC* F (8.5/10) 2021

BAKER, Frank – Miss Hargreaves – O F 2009

BAKER, Tim – Fever City – RC F (10/10) 2016 SNB

BAKER, Tom – The Boy Who Kicked Pigs – O F 2009

BAKKER, Gerbrand – The Twin – O* F (9/10) 2015

BALL, James – The System – RC NF (7/10) 2020

BALLARD, JG

BANKOVSKIS, Paul – 18 – RC FTr (7/10) 2018

BANKS, Iain

BANKS, Lynne Reid – Tiger, Tiger – O FCh (8/10) 2009

BANNAN, Sarah – Weightless – O* F (10/10) 2018

BARBA, Andres – Such Small Hands – RC FTr (9/10) 2017

BARBAL, Maria – Stone in a Landslide – RC FTr (9/10) 2010

BARBERY, Muriel

BARBER, Lynn

BARKER, Nicola

BARLOW, Toby

BARNES, Julian – The Only Story – O* F (9/10) 2019

BARNETT, Laura – The Versions of Us – O F (9/10) 2015

BARREAU, Nicolas – The Secret Paris Cinema Club – RC F (7.5/10) 2014

BARRY, Kevin – Beatlebone – O* F (7.5/10) 2017

BARTLETT, Neil

BATES, HE

BAUME, Sara – Spill Simmer Falter Wither – O F (8/10) 2016

BEALE, Susan – The Good Guy – RC F (9/10) 2016

BEARD, Richard – The Day That Went Missing – O NF (10/10) 2017

BEATON, MC

BEAUMONT, Sebastian – The Juggler – RC F (10/10)

BEAUVAIS, Clementine – In Paris With You – RC YA (9/10) 2018

BECK, Ian

BECKETT, Andy – When the Lights Went Out: Britain in the Seventies – RC NF 2009

BELLOS, David – The Novel of the Century – RC NF (8/10) 2016 SNB

BENJAMIN, Chloe – The Immortalists – RC F (8.5/10)

BENSON, Peter – Isabel’s Skin – RC F (8/10) 2013

BERG, Mattias – The Carrier – RC FTr (6.5/10) 2019

BERGEN, Andrez – Small Change – RC FTr (8/10) 2015

BERGIN, Virginia – The Rain – RC YA (9/10) 2014

BERNARD, Jay – Surge – RC P (8/10) 2020

BERNERS-LEE, Mike

BERNHARD, Thomas – Woodcutters – O FTr (6.5/10) 2013

BERKMAN, Marcus – Set Phasers to Stun – O NF (8.5/10) 2016

BERTHON, Simon – Woman of State – RC F (7.5/10) 2018

BIBLE, Michael – Sophia – RC F 2015 SNB

BESSON, Philippe – Lie With Me – O (10/10) 2019

BILSTON, Brian – You Took the Last Bus Home – O P (10/10) 2016

BINDING, Tim – The Champion – RC F (9/10) 2011

BINET, Laurent – HHhH – RC F (6.5/10) 2012

BINGHAM, Charlotte – MI5 and Me – O NF (10/10) 2019

BIRCH, Carol – Jamrach’s Menagerie – O F (8.5/10) 2011

BISSELL, Norman – Barnhill – L F (7.5/10) 2019

BLACK, Cara – Murder in Pigalle – RC F (7/10) 2014

BLACK, Sue – All That Remains – RC NF (8.5/10) 2018

BLACKMAN, Andrew – A Virtual Love – RC F (8/10) 2013

BLACKMAN, Malorie – Ckoud Busting – O FCh (10/10) 2009

BLANC, Raymond – A Taste of My Life – O F 2009

BLOCK Lawrence – Burglars Can’t Be Choosers (Bernie Rhodenbarr 1) – O*F (7/10) 2013

BLUME, Judy – Forever – O* YA (7/10) 2017

BOAST, Will – Daphne – RC F (9/10) 2018 SNB

BOLANO, Roberto

BOLLEN, Christopher

BOLT, Ranjit – A Lion was Learning to Ski – RC P 2015 SNB

BONFIGLIOLI, Kyril

BORJLIND, Cilla and Rolf

  • Spring Tide (Ronning and Stilton 1)– RC FTr (10/10) 2015
  • Third Voice (Ronning and Stilton 2)- RC F (9/10) 2015

BORODIN, Leonid – The Year of Miracle and Grief – RC FTr (8/10) 2013

BOTTINI, Oliver – The Dance of Death (Black Forest Investigations #3 – RC Tr (6.5/10) 2019

BOULLE, Pierre – Desperate Games – RC FTr (7.5/10) 2014 SNB

BOURDOUXHE, Madeleine

BOURLAND, Barbara – Fake Like Me – RC (8/10) 2019

BOYCE, Frank Cottrell – Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Flies Again – RC Ch (6.5/10) 2011

BOYD, William – Waiting for Sunrise – RC F (8.5/10) 2013

BOYLE, Frankie – My S**t Life So Far – NF (3/10) 2010

BOYNE, John – Boy in the Striped Pyjamas – O F 2008

BOYTCHEV, Oggy – The Unbeliever – RC F (9/10) 2018 SNB

BRAITHWAITE, Oyinkan – My Sister, the Serial Killer – O* (9/10) 2020

BRAND, Russell – Trickster’s Tales: The Pied Piper of Hamelin – O Ch (10/10) 2014

BRANDRETH, Gyles – Breaking the Code: Westminster Diaries – O*NF 2015

BRAUTIGAN, Richard

BRETT, Harry aka William Sutton – Time to Win – RC F (8/10) 2017

BROOK, Rhidian – The Aftermath – RC F (8/10) 2014 SNB

BROOKMYRE, Chris(topher)

BROOKNER, Anita – The Rules of Engagement – O*F (6.5/10) 2011

BROOKS, Kevin

BROOMFIELD, Mark – Every Breath You Take – RC NF (6.5/10) 2019

BRUCE, Alastair – Wall of Days – RC F (8/10) 2011

BUCHAN, John – The 39 Steps – O* F (7.5/10) 2012

BUKOWSKI, Charles – Post Office – O* F (7.5/10) 2018

BULGAKOV, Mikhail – The Fatal Eggs – O FTr 2011

BULLOUGH, Tom – Konstantin – RC F (9/10) 2012

BURGESS, Anthony

BURTON, Jessie – The Miniaturist – O 2015

BUSH, Penelope – Alice in Time – O YA (6.5/10) 2010

BUTCHER, Jim

  • Storm Front (Dresden Files 1) – O* F (8/10) 2010
  • Fool Moon (Dresden Files 2) – O* F (8.5/10) 2010

BUTLER, Octavia E – Fledgling – O* F (6.5/10) 2010

BYATT, AS – Ragnarok – O F (8.5/10) 2014

BYRNE, Ben – Fire Flowers – RC F (9/10) 2015 SNB

BYRNE, David – How Music Works – O NF (10/10) 2016

BYTHELL, Shaun

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Authors C

CAIN, James M

CALDWELL, Ian – The Fifth Gospel – RC F (6.5/10) 2015

CALLAGHAN, Helen – Dear Amy – RC F (6/10) 2016

CALVINO, Italo – If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller – O*F (DNF) 2015

CAMILLERI, Andrea – August Heat – RC F (8/10) 2010

CAMPBELL, Niamh – This Happy – RC F (6/10) 2020

CAMUS, Albert – The Plague – O* FTr (6/10) 2016

CANNON, Joanna

CANTER, Jon

CANTOR, Rachel – A Highly Unlikely Scenario – RC F (7/10) 2014

CAPUS, Alex – A Price to Pay  RC FTr 2015 SNB

CAREW, Mark – The Book of Alexander – RC F 2018 SNB

CAREY, Peter – Oscar and Lucinda – O*F (9/10) 2012

CARILLO, Charles – My Ride With Gus – O F (10/10) 2007

CARLOTTO, Massimo – The Goodbye Kiss – O* FTr (8.5/10) 2018

CARLSON, Kristina – Mr Darwin’s Gardener – RC FTr (8/10) 2021

CARRIGER, Gail – Soulless – O* F (8/10) 2015

CARROLL, Dr A and VREEMAN, Dr R – Don’t Swallow Your Gum: and Other Medical Myths Debunked – O NF (6.5/10) 2009

CARROLL, Leavis – Alice in Brexitland – RC F (7/10) 2017

CARROLL, Lewis – Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – O*Ch 2011

CARTER, Angela – The Bloody Chamber – O* F (8.5/10) 2010

CARTWRIGHT, Justin – Lion Heart – RC F (6/10) 2013

CASARES, Adolfo Bioy and OCAMPO Silvina – Where There’s Love, There’s Hate – O* FTr (7.5/10) 2015

CAST, PC and Kristin – Marked – O YA 2009

CHABON, Michael – The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay – O* F (7.5.10) 2019

CHAMBERS, Becky

CHANDLER, Raymond – The High Window – O F (8.5/10) 2017

CHATFIELD, Tom – This is Gomorrah – RC F (7.5/10) 2019

CHBOSKY, Stephen – The Perks of Being a Wallflower – O YA (10/10)

CHEEK, Mavis – Dog Days – PS F (9/10) 2016

CHEKHOV, Anton

CHEVALIER, Tracy

CHILD, Lee – Killing Floor (Jack Reacher 1) – O F (8.5/10) 2012

CHOWN, Marcus

CHRISTOPHER, John – The Death of Grass – O F (10/10) 2010

CHURCH, Elizabeth J – The Atomic Weight of Love – RC F (8.5/10) 2016 SNB

CIMENT, Jill – Heroic Measures – RC F (8/10) 2015

CLANCHY, Kate

CLARKE, Arthur C – Childhood’s End – RC F (8/10) 2017

CLARKE, Susanna – Piranesi – RC F (11/10) 2020

CLAUDEL, Philippe – Parfums RC NF 2014 SNB

CLEEVES, Ann – Raven Black (Shetland 1) – O F (9/10) 2012

CLEMENTS MS – The Third Magpie – RC (7/10) 2020

CLINE, Emma – The Girls RC F (8/10) 2016 SNB

COBURN, Dr Cassandra – Enough – RC NF (9/10)

COE, Jonathan

COLEMAN, Nick – The Train in the Night – RC NF (10/10) 2019

COLLINS, Harry –Are We All Scientific Experts Now? – RC NF (6/10) 2014

COLLINS, Stephen – The Gigantic Beard That Was Evil – O* FGr (10/10) 2014

COLLINS, Sophie – Biographic Audrey – L (5/10) 2019

COLLINS, Warwick – The Sonnets – RC F 2008

COLLINS, Wilkie – The Moonstone – O F (8/10) 2010

COMPTON-BURNETT, Ivy – Pastors and Masters – RC F (6.5/10) 2010

COMYNS, Barbara – The Vet’s Daughter – O F (9/10) 2014

CONNELL, DJ – Sherry Cracker Gets Normal – RC F (6.5/10) 2011

CONNELL, Evan S

CONNELLY, Michael – Lost Light – O F 2008

CONNOLLY, John – He – RC F (9/10) 2018 SNB

CONRAN, Terence – My Life in Design – RC NF (9.5/10) 2016

COOK, Robin – Outbreak – O F (7/10) 2017

COOPER, Jilly

  • Riders – O*F (8/10) 2012
  • Polo – O*F (8/10) 2015

COOVER, Robert – Briar Rose and Spanking the Maid – RC F (7.5/10) 2011

COPELAND. Stewart – Strange Things Happen – RC NF 2009

COPPERWAITE, Paul – Pop Charts – O NF 2010

COREN, Alan – 69 for 1 – O NF 2008

COSTELLO, Mary – Academy Street – O* (10/10) 2020

COX, Tom – Help the Witch – L F (9/10) 2019

CRACE, Jim

CRACKNELL, Linda – Call of the Undertow – RC F (9/10) 2014

CRAIG, Amanda – The Lie of the Land – RC F (9/10) 2017 SNB  – Q and A with Amanda Craig – 2017

CRASKE, Darren – The Equivoque Principle – RC F 2009

CRAYTHORNE, SE – How You See Me – RC F (8/10) 2015

CREWS, Harry – A Feast of Snakes – O*F (9/10) 2008

CROWLEY, John – Little Big – O*F (DNF) re-read 2015

CROWLEY, Kieran – Hack – RC F (10/10) 2015

CULLEN, Helen – The Lost Letter of William Woolf – O* F (9/10)

CUMMING, Charles – The Trinity Six – RC F (8.5/10) 2011

CURRIE, Ron – God is Dead – O F 2008

CUSK, Rachel – The Bradshaw Variations – RC F (6.5/10) 2009

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Authors  D

DABOS, Christelle

DAHLQUIST, GW – The Glass Books Trilogy – O* F (8/10) 2012

D’ANDREA, Luca – Sanctuary – RC FTr (8/10) 2019

DARD, Frédéric

DARE, Abi – The Girl with the Louding Voice – RC (8/10) 2020

DARLINGTON, Joe – Quiz Night – O F 2021

DARTNELL, Lewis – The Knowledge: How to rebuild our world after an apocalypse O NF 2015 SNB

DASGUPTA, Rana – Solo – RC F 2009

DAVIDSDOTTIR, Vilborg – On the Cold Coasts – RC FTr (8/10) 2012

DAVIES, Carys– West – O F (10/10) 2019

DAVIES, Deborah Kay

DAVIS-GOFF, Sarah – Last Ones Left Alive – RC F (6.5/10) 2019

DAWSON, Jill

DAWSON, Juno – Meat Market – F, YA (8.5/10) 2020

DEAVER, Jeffrey – Carte Blanche (James Bond) – O F (7.5/10) 2011

De BODARD, Aliette – House of Shattered Wings – O F (8.5/10) 2015

De BOTTON, Alain – The Course of Love – RC F (10/10) 2016

DEFOE, Gideon

De HERIZ, Enrique – The Manual of Darkness O* FTr (10/10) 2020

De KERANGAL, Maylis – Mend the Living – RC FTr (9/10) 2016

DELACOURT, Gregoire

DELAFIELD, EM – The Diary of a Provincial Lady – O*F (10/10) 2013

DELANEY, JP

DeLILLO, Don – Zero K – RC F (6.5/10) 2016

DELIUS, Friedrich Christian – Portrait of the Mother as a Young Woman – RC FTr (8.5/10) 2010

DELL, Christopher – Mythology – RC NF (7/10) 2015 SNB

DELLA FEMINA, Jerry – From Those Wonderful Folks Who Gave You Pearl Harbor – RC NF

DePALMA, Brian with Susan Lehman – Are Snakes Necessary? – RC (7.5/10) 2020

DEPP, Daniel – Lower’s Town – RC F 2009

DESPENTES, Virginie

De VIGAN, Delphine – No and Me – O* FTr (9.5/10) 2016

DEVON, Joseph – Probability Angels – RC F 2009

DeWITT, Helen – Lightning Rods – RC F (10/10) 2012

DEWITT, Patrick

DIDIERLAURENT, Jean-Paul – The Reader on the 6.27 – O FTr (9.5/10) 2016

DINSHAW, Minoo – Outlandish Knight – RC NF 2017

DISKI, Jenny – The Sixties – O (8.5/10) 2020

DOCTOROW, Cory – Makers – RC F (8/10) 2009

DOCX, Edward – The Devil’s Garden – RC F (8.5/10) 2012

DOGAR, Sharon – Annexed – RC YA (6.5/10) 2011

DOLAN, Naoise – Exciting Times – RC (9/10) 2020

DOMINGUEZ, Carlos Maria – The Paper House – O*F (7/10) 2012

DONLEAVY, JP – The Woman Who Liked Clean Rest Rooms – O* F (6/10) 2015

DONOGHUE, Emma – Frog Music – RC F (6.5/10) 2014

DONWOOD, Stanley

DOUGHTY, Louise – Apple Tree Yard – O* F (9/10) 2017

DOWNING, David – Jack of Spies – RC F (6.5/10) 2014

DOYLE, Arthur Conan – The Lost World – RC F (9/10) 2017

DOYLE, Roddy

DRURY, Tom – The End of Vandalism – O* F (10/10) 2015

DUGUID, Sarah – Look at Me – RC F (8.5/10) 2016

DUNMORE, Helen – Inside the Wave – L P (9/10) 2019

DUNANT, Sarah

DUNN, Nell – Poor Cow – O* F (10/10) 2018

DUNN, Mark – Ella Minnow Pea – O*F (8/10) 2010 re-read

DUNNETT, Dorothy – The Game of Kings (Lymond 1) – O*F (9/10) 2013

DUNSANY, Lord – The King of Elfland’s Daughter – O* F (DNF) 2015

DUNTHORNE, Joe

DYER, Geoff – Broadsword Calling Danny Boy On Where Eagles Dare – O NF (9.5/10) 2018 SNB

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Authors  E

EAVES, Will – Murmur – L F (9/10) 2019

ECLAIR, Jenny – Moving – O F (9/10) 2016

ECO, Umberto – The Name of the Rose – O* F 2019 re-read

EDELSTEIN, Jean Hannah – This Really Isn’t About You – L NF (9.5/10) 2019

EDRIC, Robert – The Devil’s Beat – RC F (7.5/10) 2012

EDUGYAN, Esi – Washington Black – RC F (9/10) 2018 SNB

EDWARDS, Patrick – Echo Cycle RC (8/10) 2020

ELLIS, Janet – How It Was – RC (9/10) 2020

ELLMANN, Lucy – Mimi – O* F (9/10) 2019

ELSIR, Amir Tag – Telepathy – O FTr (7/10) 2018

EMERY, Chris – Depth Charge – RC Poetry 2020

EMMICH, Val – The Reminders – RC F (9/10) 2017

EMRE, Merve – What’s Your Type – RC NF (6.5/10) 2018

ENDERS, Guilia – Gut – O NF (8/10) 2015

ERPENBECK, Jenny – The End of Days – O FTr (6.5/10) 2015

ESPOSITO, Chloe

  • Mad – RC F (8.5/10) 2017
  • Bad – RC F (6.5/10) 2018

EUGENIDES, Jeffrey – The Virgin Suicides – O* F (8.5/10) 2015

EVARISTO, Bernardine – Mr Loverman – RC F (10/10) 2013

EXTENCE, Gavin

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Authors F

FAGEN, Donald – Eminent Hipsters – O* NF (8.5/10) 2018

FAIRFAX, John – Summary Justice – RC F (9/10) 2018

FALCONER, Ian – Olivia (in Latin) – O Ch? 2014

FALLADA, Hans – Alone in Berlin – RC FTr (6.5/10) 2011

FANNING, Arnold Thomas – Mind on Fire – L NF (8/10) 2019

FARJEON, Eleanor – Martin Pippin in the Daisy-Field – O*Ch (2014)

FARNDALE, Nigel – The Blasphemer – RC F (9/10) 2010

FAULKS, Sebastian – Pistache – O*NF 2013

FENOLLERA, Natalie Sanmartin – The Awakening of Miss Prim – O FTr (8.5/10) 2015

FERGUSON, Rachel– The Brontes Went to Woolworths – O* F (6/10) 2018

FERRANTE, Elena

FERRARIS, Zoe – City of Veils O F (9/10) 2012

FERRIS, Joshua – To Rise Again at a Decent Hour – RC F (DNF) 2014

FFORDE, Jasper

FIELDING, Karen – American Sycamore – RC F (10/10) 2014 SNB

FILER, Nathan – The Shock of the Fall – O* NF (7.5/10) 2016

FIORATO, Marina

FISHER, Carrie

FISHER, Clare – All the Good Things – RC F (8.5/10) 2017

FISHWICK, Michael – The White Hare – RC YA (9/10) 2017

FITZGERALD, F Scott – The Great Gatsby – O*F (10/10) 2013

FITZGERALD, Penelope

FITZHARRIS, Lindsey – The Butchering Art – O NF (8.5/10) 2018

FLANERY, Patrick – Fallen Land – RC F (9/10) 2013

FLETCHER, Carrie Hope – All I Know Now – RC NF (8/10) 2015 SNB

FLETCHER, Susan – Corrag – RC F (7/10) 2010

FLINTOFF, John-Paul – What if the Queen Should Die? – RC F (8.5/10) 2015

FLYNN, Gillian – Gone Girl – O F 2013

FODEN, Giles – Turbulence – RC F 2009

FORBES, Michelle – Edith and Oliver – RC F (8/10) 2017

FORD, Ford Madox – The Good Soldier – O*F (8/10) 2012

FORMAN, Gayle

  • If I Stay – O FYA 2009
  • I Was Here – RC YA 2015 SNB

FORSTER, Julia – What a Way To Go – O* F (7/10) 2018

FORSTER, Margaret – Georgy Girl – O*F (8.5/10) 2013

FORTES, Susanna – Waiting for Robert Capa – RC FTr (9/10) 2012

FOWLER, Christopher – The Book of Forgotten Authors – O NF (8/10) 2017 SNB

FOWLER, Karen Joy – We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves – O F (7.5/10) 2014

FOX, Chloe – Vogue Essentials: The Little Black Dress – RC NF 2018

FRANZOSINI, Edgardo – The Animal Gazer – O (8/10) 2019

FREDERICKS, LR – Farundell – RC F (6.5/10) 2011

FREEDLAND, Jonathan – The 3rd Woman – RC F (8/10) 2016

FREEMAN, Laura – The Reading Cure – RC NF (9/10) 2018

FRENCH, Dawn – Oh Dear Silvia – RC F (8/10) 2013

FRENCH, Tana

FREW, Peggy – Hope Farm – RC F (8/10) 2016 SNB

FUCHS, Thomas – Digby’s Hollywood Adventure – RC F (8.5/10)

FUENTES, Carlos – Vlad – O* FTr (7.5/10) 2020

FUENTES, Eugenio – The Pianist’s Hands – O FTr 2009

FUKUDA, Andrew Xia – Crossing – O YA (9/10) 2017

FULLER, Claire

FUNDER, Anna – Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall – O NF (7/10) 2012
FUNKE, Cornelia – The Thief Lord – O Ch 2009
FURNISS, Clare – The Year of the Rat – RC F 2014 SNB
FURST, Alan – A Hero in France – RC, F (8/10) 2016 SNB
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Authors  G

GAIMAN, Neil

GALE, Patrick

GALLAGHER, Winifred – It’s in the Bag: What Purses Reveal and Conceal – O NF (6.5/10) 2011

GALLENZI, Alessandro – Bestseller – RC F (6/10) 2010

GALLICO, Paul – The Small Miracle – O F 2012

GALLOWAY, Steven – The Confabulist – RC F 2014 SNB

GANGEMI, Kenneth – Olt – O* F (9/10) 2019

GARDNER, John – Grendel – O*F (8/10) 2008

GARDNER, Sally

GARNER, Alan

GARNER, Helen – The Spare Room – RC F 2009

GARNETT, David – A Man in the Zoo and Lady Into Fox – O F 2013

GARNIER, Pascal

GATISS, Mark – Dr Who: The Last of the Gadarene – O*F (6/10) 2013

GAULD, Tom

GAVALDA, Anna – Billie – O* FTr (8.5/10) 2018

GIBSON, Jasper – A Bright Moon for Fools – RC F 2014 SNB

GIBSON, William – Agency – RC F 2021

GILBERT, Zoe – Folk – RC F (9/10) 2019

GIORDANO, Mario

GLADWELL, Malcolm – The Tipping Point – O NF (9/10)2009

GLANCY, Robert – Terms and Conditions – RC F (8/10) 2014

GLEESON, SinéadConstellations – RC (10/10) 2020

GOLDACRE, Ben – Bad Science – O NF 2009

GOLDING, William

GOLDMAN, William – The Princess Bride – O*F 2017

GOLDSWORTHY, Vesna

GOMPERTZ, Will

GOODMAN, David A – The Autobiography of James T Kirk – RC F (8/10) 2015 SNB

GORNALL, Louise – Under Rose-Tainted Skies – RC YA (9/10) 2016

GOSLING, Sam – Snoop: What Your Stuff Says About You – O NF (6.5/10) 2012

GOUDGE, Elizabeth – The Little White Horse – O* Ch (6/10) 2015

GOVINDEN, Niven – Diary of a Film – RC F (9/10) 2021

GRAHAM, Winston

GREEN, Henry – Party Going – O F (8.5/10) 2012

GREEN, John – Paper Towns – O* YA (8/10) 2015

GREEN, Linda – The Last Thing She Told Me – RC F (7.75/10) 2018

GREEN, Sally

  • Half Bad – RC YA (9/10)) 2014
  • Half Wild – O YA (8.5/10) 2015 SNB
  • Half Lost – RC YA (9/10) 2016

GREENE, Graham

GREENGRASS, Jessie – Sight – RC F (7/10) 2018

GREENLAW, Lavinia

GREER, Andrew Sean – Less – O* F (9/10) 2019

GREG, Wioletta – Swallowing Mercury – O* FTr (8.5/10) 2020

GREMILLON, Helene – The Confidant – RC FTr (8/10) 2013

GREY, Zane – Riders of the Purple Sage – RC F (10/10) 2010

GRIFFITHS, Neil – Saving Caravaggio – O F 2008

GRIFFITHS, Niall – The Dreams of Max and Ronnie – O F (7/10) 2010

GRIMBERT, Philippe – Secret – O FTr (9/10) 2014

GRIMWOOD, John – Moskva – O* (9/10) 2017

GRINDROD, John – Outskirts – RC NF (9/10) 2018

GROSSI, Pietro – Fists – RC F 2009GRUEN, Sara – Water for Elephants – O F 2006

GRUSHIN, Olga – The Concert Ticket (aka The Line) – O* F (9.5/10) 2010

GUEVARA, Canek Sanchez – 33 Revolutions – PS FTr (10/10) 2016

GUNARATNE, Guy – In Our Mad and Furious City – RC F (9.5/10) 2018

GUO, Xiaolu

GUTCHEON, Beth – Gossip – O*F 2013 SNB

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Authors H

HAGHENBECK – Bitter Drink – RC F (6.5/10) 2013

HAIG, Matt

HAIGH, Matthew – Death Magazine RC P (9/10) 2020

HALE, Shannon – Austenland – O F (7/10) 2017

HALL, Araminta – Everything and Nothing – RC F (6.5/10) 2011

HALL, Louisa – Trinity – L F (9/10) 2019

HALL, Sarah – How to Paint a Dead Man – RC F 2009

HAMID, Mohsin – Exit West – RC (7.5/10) 2018

HAMILTON, Laurell K – Guilty Pleasures – O*F (6.5/10) 2013

HAMILTON, Patrick – Hangover Square – O*F (10/10) 2014

HAMMER, Chris – Silver RC (8.5/10) 2020

HAMMETT, Dashiell – The Maltese Falcon – O* F (8/10) 2016

HAMPTON-HALL, Hollis – Comes the Night – RC F (10/10) 2011

HANDLER, Daniel

HANNAH, Sophie

HARDING, Georgina – The Spy Game – O F (8/10) 2009

HARDING, Mike – Strange Lights Over Bexleyheath – L P (7.5/10)2019

HARDY, Thomas

HARFORD, Tim – Messy – O NF (9/10) 2016

HARDING, Mike – Strange Lights Over Bexleyheath – L P (8.5/10) 2019

HARKAWAY, Nick – Tigerman – RC F 2014 SNB

HARKNESS, Deborah – A Discovery of Witches – RC* F (7/10) 2019

HARPER, Jane

HARPER, Nick – Marshall: The Book of Loud – RC NF (5/10) 2016

HARRIS, Charlaine

HARRIS, Joanne

HARRIS, Robert – Archangel – O (8.5/10) 2020

HARRISON, Michelle – The Thirteen Treasures – O FYA (7/10) 2009

HARRISON, Phil – The Age of Static – RC (9/10) 2020

HARSTAD, Johan – Buzz Aldrin, What Happened to You in All the Confusion? – RC FTr (8.5/10) 2011

HART-DAVIS, Adam – Pavlov’s Dog and 49 Other Experiments that Revolutionised Psychology – RC NF (7.5/10) 2018

HARUF, Kent – Our Souls at Night – O* F (10/10) 2018

HASLETT, Adam – Union Atlantic – RC F (7/10) 2010

HATOUM, Milton – Orphans of Eldorado – RC FTr (7/10) 2010

HAWKING, Jane – Travelling to Infinity – RC NF (7.5/10) 2015

HAWKINS, Paula – The Girl on the Train – O F (6/10) 2016

HAWKSLEY, Lucinda> – Lizzie Siddal: The Tragedy of a Pre-Raphaelite Supermodel – O NF 2009

HAYES, Alfred

HAYNES, Natalie

HAYSOM, Mark – Love, Love Me Do – RC F (8.5/10) 2014

HAZEN, Robert M – Symphony in C – RC NF (6.5/10) 2019

HEABERLIN, Julia – Black Eyed Susans – RC F 2015

HEANEY, Seamus – Beowulf – O*F (7/10) 2008

HEARN, Lian – Across the Nightingale Floor – O FYA (9/10) 2009

HEILIG, Heidi – The Girl from Everywhere – RC F (9/10) 2016

HELLER, Zoe – Notes on a Scandal – O* F (8.5/10) 2019 re-read

HENDERSON, Emma – The Valentine House – RC F 2017 SNB

HENDERSON, Paul J – The Last of the Bowmans – RC F (8/10) 2016 SNB

HENDRIX, Grady

HEPWORTH, David – The Rock & Roll A Level  – O NF (8.5/10) 2021

HERBERT, Frank – Dune – O* (re-read) (8/10) 2020

HERON, Liz – The Hourglass – RC F (8.5/10) 2019

HERRERA, Yuri – Signs Preceding the End of the World – O* FTr (10/10) 2021

HERRON, Mick

HESSE, Herman

HESSE, Monica – Stray – RC YA (9/10) 2013

HESSION, Ronan – Leonard and Hungry Paul – O F (10/10) 2020

HEWITT, Seán – Tongues of Fire – RC P (10/10) 2020

HIATT, Brian – A Portrait of Bowie – RC NF (8/10) 2016

HIGGERSON, James – The Almost Lizard – RC F (8/10) 2013

HIGGS, John – William Blake Now – O NF (10/10) 2019

HIGSON, Charlie

HILL, Antonio – The Summer of Dead Toys – RC FTr (6.5/10) 2012

HILL, Susan

HILL, Will – After the Fire – O YA (8/10) 2019

HINES, Barry – A Kestrel for a Knave – F (10/10) 2020

HIRAIDE, Takashi – The Guest Cat – O* F (6/10) 2021

HITCHENS, Christopher – Mortality – O NF (9/10) 2014

HOBAN, Russell

HOCKING, Ian – Déjà vu – RC F (6/10) 2015

HOFFMAN, Alice

HOFFMAN, ETA

HOGAN, Ruth– The Keeper of Lost Things – RC F (6.5/10) 2016

HOLLAND, Michael I Ate Sunshine for Breakfast – RC 2020

HOLT, Anne – 1222 – O* FTr (6.5/10) 2016

HONEYMAN, Gail – Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine – O* (6.5/10) 2018

HONEYWELL, Antonia – The Ship – O F (8.5/10) 2015

HOOPER, Emma – Etta and Otto and Russell and James – RC F (9/10) 2015 SNB

HORN, Dara – The World to Come – O* F (6.5/10) 2014

HORNBY, Gill – The Hive O F (6.5/10) 2014

HORNBY, Nick

HORNUNG, EW – Raffles: The Amateur Cracksman – O*F 2013

HOROWITZ, Anthony – The House of Silk – O*F (8.5/10) 2013

HORWOOD, William – Hyddenworld – RC F (7.5/10) 2010

HOUM, Nicolai – The Gradual Disappearance of Jane Ashland – RC FTr (7/10) 2018

HRBEK, Greg – Not on Fire, But Burning – RC F (8.5/10) 2015 SNB

HUDSON, Kerry – Tony Hogan Bought Me and Ice-Cream Float Before He Stole My Ma – O F (9/10) 2019

HUGHES, Michael

HUGHES, Psiche – Beryl Bainbridge: Artist, Writer, Friend – RC NF (10/10) 2012

HUNT, Samantha – The Invention of Everything Else – O F (9/10) 2009

HUNTER, Cara

HUNTER, Megan

HUSTVEDT, Siri – The Blindfold – O* F (8.5/10) 2019

HUTCHINSON, Dave – Europe in Autumn – O F (10/10) 2016

HUXLEY, Aldous – Brave New World – O*F (9/10) 2011

HWANG, Sun-Mi – The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly – O FTr (9/10) 2016

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Authors I J K

IDLE, Eric – Always Look on the Bright Side of Life – RC NF (8/10) 2018

IGNATIUS, David – The Director – RC F (6.5/10) 2014

INCE, Robin and MAINS, Johnny – Dead Funny – RC F (8.5/10) 2018

INGE, Denise – A Tour of Bones – RC NF (9/10) 2016

INGELMAN-SUNDBERG, Catharina – The Little Old Woman Who Broke All the Rules – RC FTr (8/10) 2014

INKWRIGHT, Fez

IRONMONGER, John – The Coincidence Authority – O F (7.5/10) 2013

ISHIGURO, Kazuo

IVEY, Eowyn

JACKSON, Mick – The Widow’s Tale – RC F (8/10) 2014

JACKSON, Shirley

JACOBS, Gerald – Pomeranski – RC (8.5/10) 2020

JAIN, Locklann – Things That Art – RC 2019

JAKUBOWSKI, Maxim – Following the Detectives: Real Locations in Crime Fiction – RC NF (6.5/10) 2010

JAMES, Clive

JAMES, PD – Death Comes to Pemberley – RC F (9/10) 2011

JAMESON, Hanna – The Last – RC F (7.5/10) 2019

JANSSON, Tove – Finn Family Moomintroll – RC FCh 2017

JAPRISOT, Sebastien

JARVIS, DC (MD) – Folk Medicine – O* NF 2017

JAUHAR, Sandeep – Heart: A History – O NF (7/10) 2019

JENNINGS, Luke – Codename Villanelle – O F (8/10) 2019

JENSEN, Liz

JOHN DB – Star of the North – RC F (10/10) 2018

JOHNCOCK, Benjamin – The Last Pilot – The Last Pilot – PS F (10/10) 2015

JOHNSON, Alan – This Boy – O NF (10/10) 2014

JOHNSON, Catherine – Blade and Bone – O YA (8/10) 2016

JOHNSON, Christine – Claire de Lune – RC YA (6.5/10) 2010

JOHNSON, Denis

JOHNSON, Rachel – Winter Games – RC F (7.5/10) 2012

JOHNSTON, Jennifer

JOINSON, Suzanne – A Lady Cyclist’s Guide to Kashgar – RC F (8/10) 2013

JONASSON, Jonas – The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared – O FTr (8.5/10) 2013

JONASSON, Ragnar – Winterkill – F (8.5/10) 2021

JONES, Cynan – The Dig

JONES, James – From Here to Eternity – RC F (DNF) 2013

JONES, Lloyd – Mister Pip – O* F (7.5/10) 2011

JONES, Russell Celyn – The Ninth Wave – O F 2010

JOPSON, Marty – The Science of Food – RC NF (8/10) 2017

JORDAN, Toni

JOSEPH, Manu – Miss Laila, Armed and Dangerous – RC F (9/10) 2018

JOYCE, Rachel

KALANITHI, Paul – When Breath Becomes Air – O* NF (10/10) 2018

KALFUS, Ken – Equilateral – O* F (8.5/10) 2017

KANDASAMY, Meena – Exquisite Cadavers – RC (8/10) 2020

KARINTHY, Ferenc – Metropole – O* FTr (7/10) 2021

KASTNER, Erich – The Parent Trap – O FTr (9.5/10) 2015

KATE, Lauren – Fallen – RC YA (5.5/10) 2010

KAUFMAN, Andrew – The Tiny Wife – RC F (9/10) 2011

KAVANAGH, Dan aka Julian Barnes – Duffy – O* F (9/10) 2019

KAWAGUCHI, Toshikazu – Before the Coffee Gets Cold – NG FTr (6.5/10) 2019

KAWAKAMI, Hiromi – The Nakano Thrift Shop – RC FTr (10/10) 2016

KAWAMURA, Genki – If Cats Disappeared From the World – RC FTr (10/10) 2018

KAY, Adam

KAY, Francesca – The Translation of the Bones – O* F (8.5/10) 2017

KAYE, Laura – English Animals – RC F (8.5/10) 2017

KEHLMANN, Daniel – You Should Have Left – RC FTr (7.5/10) 2017

KENEALLY, Thomas – The Widow and Her Hero – O*F 2013

KENT, Jasper – Twelve (Danilov Quintet 1) – RC F (7.5/10) 2011

KENT, Kathleen – The Heretic’s Daughter – RC F (7/10) 2009

KEYES, Daniel – Flowers for Algernon – O* F (10/10) 2017 re-read

KIELY, Orla – A Life in Pattern – RC NF 2018

KIERNAN, Olivia – Too Close to Breath

KING, Laurie R – The Beekeeper’s Apprentice (Mary Russell 1) – O F (9/10) 2012

KING, Stephen

KIRINO, Natsuo – The Goddess Chronicle – O FTr (9/10) 2014

KLAUSSMANN, Liza – Tigers in Red Weather – RC F (10/10) 2013

KLEIN, Stefan – We Are All Stardust – O NF (7.5/10) 2016

KNAUSGAARD, Linda Bostrum – The Helios Disaster – RC FTr (8.5/10) 2015

KNOX, Joseph

  • Sirens – RC F (10/10) 2016
  • The Smiling Man – RC F (10/10) 2018
  • The Sleepwalker – RC F (9/10) 2019

KOCH, Herman – The Dinner – O FTr (7.5/10) 2013

KONDO, Marie – The Life-changing Magic of Tidying – O NF (6/10) 2016

KRAMER, Richard – These Things Happen – RC F (9/10) 2014

KRASNOSTEIN, Sarah – The Trauma Cleaner – O NF (9/10) 2019

KUNDERA, Milan – The Unbearable Lightness of Being – O F (6.5/10) 2021

KUNIAL, Zaffir – Us – L P (8.5/10) 2019

KUNZRU, Hari

KURKOV, Andrey – The Gardener from Ochakov – O* FTr (9/10) 2019

KWANG, Sun-Mi – The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly – O FTr (9/10) 2016

KWOK, Jean – Girl in Translation – RC F (7.5/10) 2011
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Authors  L

LA FARGE, Paul – Luminous Airplanes – RC F (7.5/10) 2012

LAGERLOF, Selma – The Wonderful Adventure of Nils Holgersson – RC Ch (9/10) 2016

LAHIRI, Jhumpa – The Clothing of Books NF (7.5/10) 2020

LAIRD, Nick – Modern Gods – L F (7/10) 2019

LAKE, Nick – The Secret Ministry of Frost – O YA (8/10) 2009

LANDERS, Brian – Awakening of Spies – RC (8.5/10) 2020

LARKIN, Philip – The Less Deceived P 2020

LARSEN, Reif – The Selected Works of TS Spivet – O F (10/10) 2009

LARSON, Erik – The Devil in the White City – O NF (8/10) 2018

LASKI, Marganita – Little Boy Lost – O* F (8/10) 2010

LAURAIN, Antoine

LAUTNER, Robert – The Road to Reckoning (F1; A)

LAWRENSON, Deborah – Songs of Blue and Gold – RC F (9/10)

Le CARRE, John

LEHMANN, Rosamond – Invitation to the Waltz – O*F (8.5/10) 2012

LEIGH, Mike – Abigail’s Party – RC Pl 2017

LELIC, Simon – Rupture – RC F (8/10) 2010

LELORD, Francis – Hector and the Search for Happiness – O FTr (8/10) 2010

LEMAITRE, Pierre

LENAHAN, John – Shadowmagic – RC Ch 2009

LEONARD, Elmore – Glitz – O*F (8.5/10) 2013

LERNET-HOLENIA, Alexander – I was Jack Mortimer – O* FTr (7.5/10) 2021

LESLIE, VH – Bodies of Water – RC F (8.5/10) 2016

LESSER, Frank – Sad Monsters: Growling on the Outside, Crying on the Inside – RC F (7.5/10) 2013

LETTS, Elizabeth – Finding Dorothy – RC F (8/10) 2019

LEVER, James – Me Cheeta – O F 2009

LEVY, Deborah

LEWIS Bee – Liminal – RC F 2018

LEWIS, Gwynneth

LEYSHON, Nell – The Colour of Milk – RC F (9/10) 2012

LI, Lilian – Number One Chinese Restaurant – RC F (9/10) 2019

LIA, Simone – Fluffy – O FGr (9/10) 2017

LICHTAROWICZ, Paula – The First Book of Calamity Leek – RC F (8.5/10) 2013

LINDQVIST, John Ajvide – Let the Right One In – O F (10/10) 2009

LITTLER, Richard – Discovering Scarfolk – O F (10/10) 2014

LIVELY, Penelope – Family Album – O* F (6.5/10) 2015

LOBE, Max – A Long Way From Douala – RC FTr (9/10) 2021

LOE, Erlend – Lazy Days – O FTr (7/10) 2014

LOGAN, Michael – Apocalypse Cow – RC F (7/10) 2012

LONDON, Joan – The Good Parents – RC F (8/10) 2010

LOTTO, Beau – Deviate – O NF (7.5/10) 2017

LOUATAH, Sabri – Savages: The Wedding – RC FTr (8/10) 2018

LOVECRAFT, HP – The Colour Out of Space – RC F (8.5/10) 2011

LOWRY, Elizabeth – The Bellini Madonna – O F 2009

LUCARELLI, Carlo – Almost Blue – O FTr (7/10) 2010

LUCKHURST, Roger (Ed) – Science Fiction: A Literary History – RC NF 2017

LUKAS, Michael David – The Oracle of Stamboul – RC F (6.5/10) 2011

LUKAVIC, Amy – Daughters Unto Demons – RC YA (9/10) 2015

LUPTON, Rosamund – Three Hours – RC 2019

LYNCH, PK – Armadillo – RC F (9/10) 2016

LYNDSEY, Anna – Girl in the Dark – O NF (8.5/10) 2016

LYON, Annabel – The Golden Mean – O* F (9/10) 2018

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Authors  M

MAAS, Jane – Mad Women – RC NF (7.5/10) 2013

MACALLISTER, Greer – The Magician’s Lie – RC F (9/10) 2017

MACFARLANE, Seth – A Million Ways to Die in the West – O F (6.5/10) 2014

MACGABHANN, Time – Call Him Mine – RC F (8/10) 2019

MACINNES, Colin – Absolute Beginners – O*F (8.5/10) 2013

MACKENZIE, Ian – Feast Days – F (8.5/10) 2020

MACKESY, Charlie – The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse – O (10/10) 2019

MACKINTOSH, Clare – I See You – O F (10/10) 2016

MADELEY, Richard – Some Day I’ll Find You – RC F (7.5/10) 2013

MAGNAN, Pierre – Death in the Truffle Wood – O FTr (8.5/10) 2018

MAGRS, Paul

MAINE, David – The Flood – O*F (9/10) 2018

MAITLAND, Barry – Spider Trap – O F 2009

MAITLIS, Emily – Airhead L NF (9/10) 2019

MAKINE, Andrei – A Life’s Music – O FTr 2009

MALLON, Michael – The Disciple – RC F (8/10) 2021

MALVALDI, Marco – Game For Five – O* FTR (9/10) 2021

MANCHETTE, Jean-Patrick – Fatale – O* FTr (10/10) 2020

MANDEL, Emily St John

MANGAN, Lucy – Bookworm: A Memoir of Childhood Reading – O NF 2019

MANGAN, Christine – Tangerine – RC F (7.5/10) 2018

MANGUEL, Alberto – Stevenson Under the Palm Trees – O FTr (6/10)

MANKELL, Henning – When the Snow Fell – RC FYA 2009

MANNIX, Kathryn – With the End In Mind – O NF (9/10) 2018

MARCUS, Ben – The Flame Alphabet – O F (6/10) 2012

MARCUS, Greil

  • The History of Rock ‘n’ Roll in Ten Songs – RC NF (9/10) 2015
  • Real Life Rock – RC NF (8/10) 2015

MARIANI, Scott – The Nemesis Program – RC F (5/10) 2014

MARKHAM, Robert (aka Kingsley Amis) – Colonel Sun – O* F (6.5/10) 2017

MARSH, Henry – Do No Harm – O NF (10/10) 2014

MARSHALL, Michael – The Intruders – O F (7/10) 2014

MARTELL, Owen – Intermission – RC F (6/10) 2013

MARTIN, Steve

MARTINEZ, Augustin – Village of the Lost Girls – RC FTr (DNF) 2019

MASCARENHAS, Kate – The Psychology of Time Travel – RC F (9/10) 2018

MASON, Nick – Inside Out: A Personal History of Pink Floyd O NF 2008

MATAR, Hisham – In the Country of Men – OF (8.5/10) 2011

MATAYOSHI, Naoki – Spark

MATHESON, Richard – I am Legend – O*F (9/10) 2011

MAY, Stephen – Wake Up Happy Every Day – O* F (9.5/10) 2017

MAYFIELD, Kate – The Undertaker’s Daughter – RC NF (9/10) 2014

MAYO, Jonathan – The Assassination of JFK: Minute by Minute – RC NF 2013

MAZETTI, Katarina – Benny and Shrimp – RC F (10/10) 2009

MCBAIN, Ed

McBEE, Thomas Page – Amateur – L NF (8/10) 2019

McCANN, Colum – Thirteen Ways of Looking – O F (9/10) 2016

McCARTHY, Cormac – The Road – O F (10/10) 2009

McCAUGHREAN, Geraldine – The Death Defying Pepper Roux – RC YA (9/10)

McCLEEN, Grace – The Land of Decoration – RC F (8/10) 2012

McCOOK, Sophie – Thinkless – RC F (7.5/10) 2014

McCREIGHT, Kimberley – Reconstructing Amelia – RC F (7/10) 2013

McDERMID, Val – Northanger Abbey – RC F 2014

McDONAGH, Martine

McEWAN, Ian

McGLASSON, Claire – The Rapture F (9/10) 2020

McINERNY, Lisa

McKEOWN, JC – A Cabinet of Ancient Medical Curiosities – RC NF (8/10) 2017

McNISH, Cliff – Savannah Grey – O YA (8.5/10) 2010

McNISH, Hollie – Plum – L P (9/10) 2019

McPHERSON, Conor – The Weir – O F 2013

McVEIGH, Jennifer – The Fever Tree – RC F (9/10) 2012

MEDVEI, Cornelius – Caroline: A Mystery – RC F (9/10) 2012

MEEK, Joe – The Heart Broke In – RC F (9/10) 2012

MELAMED, Jennie – Gather the Daughters – RC F (8/10) 2017

MELVILLE, Herman – Moby Dick – O F (7/10) 2011

MENO, Joe – The Great Perhaps – O F (7.5/10) 2010

MERLE, Robert – The Brethren – RC F (DNF) 2014

METALIOUS, Grace – Peyton Place – O*F (10/10) 2010

METZL, Jamie – Hacking Darwin – RC NF (10/10) 2019

MEYER, Stephanie – Twilight – O YA 2009MIDDLETON, Stanley – Holiday – O* F (6.5/10) 2018

MILLAR, Louise – Accidents Happen – O F (8.5/10) 2014

MILLAR, Martin – The Good Fairies of New York – O F (8/10) 2011

MILLER, AD – Snowdrops – O*F (7.5/10) 2011

MILLER, Andrew – Pure – RC F (9/10) 2011

MILLER, Andy – The Year of Reading Dangerously – O* NG (8/10) 2015

MILLER, William – Gloucester Crescent – O* NF 2019

MILLET, Lydia – A Children’s Bible RC F (8.5/10) 2020

MILLS, Magnus

MILNE, AA– The Red House Mystery – O* F (6.75/10) 2018

MINGARELLI, Hubert – A Meal in Winter – O* Tr (10/10) 2019

MINIER, Bernard – Don’t Turn Out the Light – PS FTr (8.5/10) 2016

MIODOWNIK, Mark

MIRALLES, Francesc – Wabi-Sabi – O* FTr (8.5/10) 2018

MITFORD, Nancy

MOLE, Tom – The Secret Life of Books – O NF (9/10) 2020

MOOR, Jessica – Keeper RC F (9/10) 2020

MOORE, Christopher – Fool – RC F (7.5/10) 2010

MORAN, Caitlin – How to Build a Girl – O F (6.5/10) 2014

MORAN, Joe – Armchair Nation – O* NF (9/10) 201

MORANDINI, Claudio – Snow, Dog, Foot – O FTr (10/10) 2020

MORGAN, Ann – Beside Myself – O F (9.5/10) 2016

MORLEY, Paul – The Age of Bowie – O NF (8.5/10) 2016

MORPURGO, Michael – The Mozart Question – O*Ch (9/10) 2010

MORRIS, Desmond – The Lives of the Surrealists – O NF (9/10) 2018

MORRIS Katharine Faw – Young God – O F (10/10) 2015

MORRISON, Blake – Shingle Street – L P (10/10) 2019

MORRISSEY

MORTIMER, Penelope – The Pumpkin Eater – O*F (7/10) 2013

MORTIMER, Roger and Charlie – Dear Lupin: Letters to a Wayward Son – O* F (9/10) 2015

MOSHFEGH, Otessa – My Year of Rest and Relaxation – L F (7/10) 2019

MOSLEY, Michael – The Fast Diet (with Mimi Spencer) – O NF 2013

MOSLEY, Walter – Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned – O F (10/10) 2008

MOSS, Eloise – Night Raiders RC NF (6.5/10) 2020

MOSS, Sarah

MOUNT, Harry – Amo, Amas, Amat… and All That – O NF (7/10) 2010

MOZLEY, Fiona – Elmet – RC F (10/10) 2018

MULHAUSER, Thomas – Sweetgirl – RC F (9.5/10) 2016

MULLEN, Thomas – The Many Deaths of the Firefly Brothers – RC F (8/10) 2010

MURAKAMI, Haruki

MURATA, Sayaka – Convenience Store Woman – O FTr (9/10) 2018

MURDOCH, Iris

MYERS, Benjamin – Under the Rock – RC NF 2019

MYERSON, Julie – Then – L F (7.5/10) 2019

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Authors  N

NABB, Magdalen – Death in Springtime – O F (7/10) 2010

NADEL, Jennifer – Pretty Thing – RC F (7.5/10) 2015

NEMIROVSKY, Irene

NESBIT, TaraShea – The Wives of Los Alamos – RC F (8.5/10) 2014

NESBO, Jo – The Snowman – O FTr (7.5/10) 2011

NESS, Patrick

NEWBY, Eric – A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush – O NF (8/10) 2016

NEWLEY, Alexander – Unaccompanied Minor – RC NF 2017

NG, Celeste – Little Fires Everywhere O* (8/10) 2020

NICHOLLS, David – One Day – O F (9/10) 2014

NICHOLLS, Sally

NICHOLS, Beverley – Crazy Pavements – O* F (8/10) 2017

NIFFENEGGER, Audrey – Her Fearful Symmetry – O F (7.5/10) 2010

NOBBS, David – Obstacles to Young Love – RC F (7/10) 2010

NOEL, Alyson – Evermore – RC YA (5.5/10) 2010

NOON, Jeff

NORFOLK, Lawrence – John Saturnall’s Feast – O* F (9/10) 2016 re-read

NORS, Dorthe – Mirror, Shoulder, Signal – O FTr (9/10) 2017

NORTH, Claire – The End of the Day – RC F 2017

NORTON, Graham – A Keeper – RC F (8.5/10) 2018

NORWICH, William – Learning to Drive – O* F (10/10) 2017

NOSAKA, Akiyuki – The Cake Tree in the Ruins – F, SS, Tr (9/10) 2020

NOTHUMB, Amelie

NUNEZ, Sigrid

NUTT, Joe – The Point of Poetry – RC NF (8.5/10) 2019

NUTTING, Alissa – Made for Love – RC F (6/10) 2021

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Authors  O

OBAMA, Michelle – Becoming RC NF (8.5/10) 2020

O’BARR, James – The Crow – RC Gr (8.5/10) 2011

O’BRIEN, Darcy – A Way of Life, Like Any Other – O* F (9/10) 2016

O’BRIEN, Edna

O’CONNELL, Mark

O’DONNELL, Peter

O’FARRELL, Maggie – I am, I am, I am – O* NF (10/10) 2018

OFFILL, Jenny – Dept of Speculation – O* F (10/10) 2017

OGAWA, Yoko

OLAFSSON, Bragi – The Pets – RC F 2008

OLIVER, Lauren – Panic – RC F 2014

OLMI, Veronique – Beside the Sea – RC FTr (8/10) 2010

O’NAN, Stewart – Last Night at the Lobster – O* F (9.5/10) 2017

O’NEILL, Louise

O’PORTER, Dawn – The Cows – RC F (8/10) 2017

ORANGE, Tommy – There There – RC F (10/10) 2019

ORWELL, George – 1984 – O F 2008

OSBORNE, John – Look Back in Anger – RC Pl 2015

OSMAN, Mat – The Ruins RC F (9/10) 2020

OSMAN, RIchard – The Thursday Murder Club – RC F (10/10) 2020

OSWALD, Alice – Falling Awake – L P (DNF) 2019

OWEN, Paul Tudor – The Weighing of the Heart – RC (8/10) F 2019

OYEYEMI, Helen – White is for Witching – RC F 2009

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Authors P Q

PACHICO, Julianne – The Lucky Ones – RC F (10/10) 2017

PALACIO, RJ – Wonder – RC Ch (8/10) 2012

PALING, Chris – Newton’s Swing – O*F (9.5/10) 2012

PARETSKY, Sarah – Indemnity Only – O F (7/10) 2010

PARKS, Tim– Where I’m Reading From – RC NF 2015

PARR, Martin – Boring Postcards – O NF (10/10) 2009

PATTERSON, Glenn – Gull – O* F (8.5/10) 2017

PAULL, Laline

PAVER, Michelle

PAVONE, Chris – The Travelers – RC F (9/10) 2016

PEAKE, Mervyn – Mr Pye – O* F (6.5/10) 2017

PEARSON, Allison

PEARSON, Laura – Missing Pieces – RC F (7/10) 2018

PEMBERTON, Max – Trust Me, I’m a (Junior) Doctor – O NF 2009

PENMAN, Ian – It Gets Me Home, This Curving Track – O* (10/10) 2020

PENNEY, Stef – Under a Pole Star – RC F (8.5/10) 2016

PERCY, Benjamin – Red Moon – O F (7.5/10) 2013

PERKINS, Sue – Spectacles – O NF (9/10) 2015

PERRIN, Valerie – Fresh Water for Flowers – RC FTr (10/10) 2020

PERRY, Grayson – Playing to the Gallery – O NF 2014

PHILLIPS, Marie

PHILPOTT, Derek and Dave – Dear Mr Pop Star – RC NF (8/10) 2018

PICKETT, Rex – Sideways – O (7.5/10)2019

PINBOROUGH, Sarah – Behind Her Eyes – RC F (7.5/10) 2017

PINOL, Albert Sanchez – Cold Skin – O* FTr (9.5/10) 2019

PITCHER, Annabel – Silence is Goldfish – O YA (6.5/10) 2016

PLAMPIN, Matthew – Illumination – RC F (7.5/10) 2013

PLATH, Sylvia – The Bell Jar – O F (9/10) 2014

PLENZDORF, Ulrich – The New Sorrows of Young Werther – O FTr (8/10) 2017

POE, Edgar Allan – The Raven (Pop-up – engineered by David Pelham and Christopher Wormell) – O P (10/10) 2016

POPE, Dudley – Ramage – O F (8.5/10) 2017

PORTAS, Mary – Shopgirl – O* NF (9/10) 2016

PORTER, Henry

PORTER, Max

PORTIS, Charles – True Grit – O* F (10/10) 2011

POWELL, Anthony

POWELL, Jim – Trading Futures – RC F (8/10) 2016

POWELL, Julie – Julie and Julia – O NF (6.5/10) 2010

PRATT, Non – Unboxed – O YA (8/10) 2016

PRESTON, John – The Dig – O F (10/10) 2008

PREVIN, Andre – No Minor Chords – O* NF (10/10) 2019 Re-read

PRIEST, Christopher

PRIESTLEY, Chris – The Dead of Winter – O Ch (8.5/10) 2010

PROFIJT, Jutta – Morgue Drawer Next Door – RC FTr (8.5/10) 2012

PROULX, (E) Annie – The Shipping News – O F (10/10) 2008

PROUST, Marcel – Swann’s Way (adapted by Stephane Heuet) – RC GrTr (6.5/10) 2016

PULLEY, Natasha

PULLMAN, Philip

PUNKE, Michael – The Revenant – O* F (9/10) 2016

PUNTI, Jordi – Lost Luggage – RC FTr (8.5/10) 2013

PYM, Barbara – Quartet in Autumn – O*F (8.5/10) 2013

QUEENAN, Joe – Closing Time – O F 2009

QUENEAU, Raymond – Zazie in the Metro – O FTr (7/10) 2011

QUICK, Matthew – The Silver Linings Playbook – O* F (10/10) 2017

Quizzes
– The Shiny Advent Quiz (Dec-14)
– The Return of the Shiny Advent Quiz (Dec-16)
– Back to School –

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Authors  R

RACHEL, Daniel – Don’t Look Back in Anger – RC NF (7.5/10) 2019

RACHMAN, Tom

RAISIN, Ross – God’s Own Country – O F (9/10) 2011

RANFURLY, Countess of – To War with Whitaker – O* NF (8.5/10) 2017

RANKIN, Ian – Hide and Seek – O F 2008

RANKIN-GEE, Rosa – The Last Kings of Sark – RC F (6/10) 2013

RANSOME, Arthur – Old Peter’s Russian Tales – O FCh 2009

RASH, Ron – The Cove – RC F (9/10) 2012

RASKIN, Ellen – The Westing Game – O* Ch (7/10) 2015

RATTLE, Alison

  • The Madness – F YA 2014
  • V for Violet – RC YA (8/10) 2016

RAUSING, Sigrid – Mayhem – O NF (6/10) 2018

RAYMOND, Midge – My Last Continent – RC F (10/10) 2016

REASON, Peter and GILLESPIE, Sarah – On Presence – RC NF 2019

REED, Kirsten – The Ice Age – O F (7.5/10) 2011

REES, Celia – Witch Child – O FYA (10/10) 2009

REEVE, Philip – Here Lies Arthur – O FYA (10/10) 2009

REGER, Rob and GRUNER, Jessica – Emily the Strange: Lost Days – O YA (9/10) 2010

REID, Taylor Jenkins – Daisy Jones and The Six – RC F (10/10) 2019

REMARQUE, Erich Maria – All Quiet on the Western Front – O FTr (10/10) 2014

RENTZENBRINK, Cathy – The Last Act of Love – RC F (10/10) 2016

REPILA, Ivan – The Boy Who Stole Attila’s Horse – RC FTr (7.5/10) 2015

RHODES, Dan

RHODES, James – Instrumental – O NF (10/10) 2015 SNB

RICE, Eva – The Misinterpretation of Tara Jupp – RC F (8/10) 2012

RICHARDS, Justin – Doctor Who: Dreams of Empire – O*F 2013

RIDGWAY, Keith – Hawthorn and Child – O F (8.5/10) 2013

ROBB, JD – Naked in Death – O* F (5.5/10) 2015

ROBERTS, Adam

ROBERTS, Bethan

ROBINSON, Ray

RODRIGUEZ FOWLER, Yara – The Stubborn Archivist – RC (9/10) 2019

ROGERS, Jane

ROHMER, Sax – Emperor Fu Manchu – RC F (8.5/10) 2015

ROONEY, Jennie – Red Joan – O* F (8.5/10) 2019

ROONEY, Sally – Conversations With Friends – RC F 2017

ROSOFF, Meg

ROSS, Ian – Beached in Calabria – RC NF (7.5/10) 2019

ROWLING, JK – The Casual Vacancy – O F (6/10) 2012

ROYLE, Nicholas – Ornithology – RC F (9/10) 2017 SNB

ROYLE, Nicholas (Prof)

RUFFLES, Lydia – The Taste of Blue Light – RC YA (8/10) 2017

RUNDELL, Katherine – Why You Should Read Children’s Books… – O NF (10/10) 2019

RUSHDIE, Salman – Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights – RC F (8.5/10) 2015

RUSSELL, Helen – The Year of Living Danishly – O* NF (9/10) 2016

RYAN, Donal

RYCROFT, William – All Quiet on the West End Front – O NF 2018

Reading Lists
– Austenish – A reading list of Austen-inspired fiction (July-17) SNB
– Never Mind the World Cup, Let’s Read Around Brazil! (July-14) SNB
– South of the River: A Reading List (June-16) SNB

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Authors S

SABATO, Ernesto – The Tunnel – RC FTr (6.5/10) 2011

SACKVILLE, Amy – The Still Point – O* F (9/10) 2010

SAFIER, David – Apocalypse Next Tuesday – RC FTr (7/10) 2014

SAKI – Complete Short Stories – O F 2014

SALIH, Tayeb – Season of Migration to the North – O F (6/10) 2015

SALTER, James – All That Is – RC F (7/10) 2013

SALWAY, Sarah – Something Beginning With – O F 2009

SANCHEZ GUEVARA, Canek – 33 Revolutions – RC FTr 10/10 2016 SNB

SANDS, Philippe – East West Street – O NF (7.5/10) 2019

SARAMAGO, Jose – Blindness – O FTr 2008

SARRAZIN, Albertine – Astragal – O* FTr (7/10) 2019

SAUNDERS, George

SAVAGE, Sam – The Cry of the Sloth – O F (8/10) 2010

SAVAGE, Thomas – The Power of the Dog – RC F (9/10) 2016 SNB

SCALES, Helen

SCARFE, Gerald – Long Drawn Out Trip – O (9/10) 2019

SCHALANSKY, Judith – The Giraffe’s Neck – RC FTr (7.5/10) 2014

SCHIMMELPFENNIG, Roland – One Clear Ice-cold January Morning at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century – RC FTr (8.5/10) 2018

SCHONBERG, Harold C – The Great Conductors – O F 2013

SCHUMACHER, Julie – Dear Committee Members – RC F (8/10) 2014

SEARLE, Nicholas – A Fatal Game – RC F (8.5/10) 2019

SEDARIS, David – Me Talk Pretty One Day – O F (6.5/10) 2013

SEDGWICK, Marcus

SEGNIT, Nat – Pub Walks in Underhill Country – RC F (9/10) 2014

SELZNICK, Brian – The Invention of Hugo Cabret – O FCh (9/10)

SELVON, Sam – The Lonely Londoners – O* F (10/10) 2020

SEMPEL, Sandra – The Atlas of Disease – RC NF 2018

SEMPLE, Maria – Today Will Be Different – RC F (7.5/10) 2016

SETIAWAN, Erick – Of Bees and Mist – RC F (7/10) 2010

SEYMOUR, Gerald – Harry’s Game – O F (9/10) 2014

SHAPTON, Leanne – Important Artifacts and Personal Property… – O* F (6.5/10) 2010

SHARMA, Akhil – Family Life – O* F (9/10) 2016

SHATNER, William – Up Till Now: The Autobiography (with David Fisher) – O NF (8.5/10) 2012

SHAW, Ali

SHAW, William

SHEERS, Owen

  • White Ravens – OF 2010
  • I Saw a Man – RC F (8.5/10) 2015 SNB

SHERIFF, RC – The Hopkins Manuscript – O* F (10/10) 2011

SHIEL, MP – The Purple Cloud – O F (7/10) 2018

SIMENON, Georges

SIMMONDS, Kathryn – Love and Fallout – RC F (8.5/10) 2014

SIMSION, Graeme – The Rosie Project – RC F (9/10) 2013

SINGH, Sunny – Hotel Arcadia – RC F (10/10) 2015 SNB

SIODMAK, Curt – Donovan’s Brain – O* F (10/10) 2010

SJÖWALL, Maj and WAHLÖÖ, Per – Roseanna (Martin Beck 1) – O* FTr (7.5/10) 2011

SLIMANI, Leila

SMAILES, Caroline – Like Bees to Honey – O F (10/10) 2011

SMIL, Vaclav – Numbers Don’t Lie – RC NF (8/10) 2020

SMILEY, Jane – The Strays of Paris – RC F (7/10) 2021

SMITH, Alexis M – Glaciers – O*F (10/10) 2013

SMITH, Andrew – Grasshopper Jungle – O* F (10/10) 2015

SMITH LJ – Vampire Diaries – O YA 2009

SMITH, Paul Robert – Up a Tree in the Park at Night with a Hedgehog – O F (4.5/10) 2008

SMITH, Tom Rob – Child 44 – O F (6/10) 2009

SMITH, Zadie – N-W – RC F (8/10) 2012

SMYTHE, James

SOLOMONS, Natasha – The Novel in the Viola – RC F (9/10) 2011

SOLSTAD, Dag – Professor Andersen’s Night – RC FTr (6/10) 2012

SPAIN, Jo

SPARK, Muriel

SPECTOR, Tim

SPUFFORD, Francis

  • Golden Hill RC F (10/10) 2016 SNB
  • Light Perpetual – RC F 2021

ST AUBYN, Edward

STEPHENSON, Neil – Snow Crash – O F (8.5/10) 2018

STEVENSON, Noelle et al – Lumberjanes I and II – O YAGr (7.5/10) 2016

STEVENSON, Robert Louis

STEWART, Paul and RIDDELL, Chris – Hugo Pepper – O* Ch (9/10) 2010

STIASTNY, Terry

STIBBE, Nina

STITCH, Guillermo – Lake of Urine – RC (8/10) 2020

ST JOHN, Lauren – Dead Man’s Cove – O*Ch 2010

STOCK, Francine – Man-Made Fibre – O F (8.5/10) 2014

STOKER, Dacre (with Ian Holt) – Dracula – the Undead – O F (4/10) 2009

STORR, Catherine – Marianne Dreams – O* Ch (10/10) 2012 re-read

STRAUB, Emma – Laura Lamont’s Life in Pictures – RC F (7.5/10) 2012

STUART, Julia

STRUGATSKY, Boris & Arkady – Monday Begins on Saturday – F (9.5/10)  2021

SUGGS – That Close – O* NF (9/10) 2017

SUSANN, Jacqueline – Valley of the Dolls – O*F (8/10) 2011

SUTCLIFFE, William – The Wall – O* YA (10/10) 2017

SUTHERLAND, Krystal – Our Chemical Hearts – RC YA (8/10) 2016 SNB

SUTTON, Henry

SWALLOW, James – Nomad – RC F (8/10) 2017

SWIFT, Graham – Mothering Sunday – O* F (9/10) 2018

SZERB, Antal – The Pendragon Legend – O FTr 2014

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Authors T

TANIZAKI, Junichiro – A Cat, A Man, and Two Women – O FTr (9/10) 2021

TASCHEN – 1000 Extraordinary Objects – O F 2013

TARTT, Donna – The Goldfinch – O F (9/10) 2014

TAWADA, Yoko – The Last Children of Tokyo – O F (7.5/10) 2020

TAYLOR, DJ – At the Chime of a City Clock – RC F (7/10) 2010

TAYLOR, Elizabeth

TAYLOR, Sam – The Island at the End of the World – RC F 2008

TAYLOR, Sara – The Lauras – RC F 2017

TEARNE, Roma

TELLER, Astro – Exegesis – O*F (5.5/10) 2011

TEODORESCU, Bogdan – The Sleeping Car Murders – RC FTr (8/10) 2020

TERRIN, Peter – Monte Carlo – O FTr (10/10) 2017

TEULE, Jean – The Suicide Shop – O FTr (8.5/10) 2014

TEY, Josephine – Daughter of Time – O F 2009

THACKER, William – Lingua Franca – RC F (9/10) 2016

THERIAULT, Denis

THEROUX, Marcel – Far North – RC F 2009

THIEN, Madeleine – Do Not Say We Have Nothing – O FTr (DNF) 2019

THIRLWELL, Adam – Lurid and Cute – RC F (DNF) 2015

THOMAS, Joe

THOMAS, Scarlett – Oligarchy – F (7/10) 2020

THOMAS, Trevor Mark – The Bothy – RC F (10/10) 2019

THOMPSON, Derek – Hit Makers – RC NF (8/10) 2017

THOMPSON, Jim – The Killer Inside Me – O*F (10/10) 2012

THORN, Becky – School Dinners – O NF 2008

THORN, Tracey

THORNTON, Nicki – The Last Chance Hotel – O FCh (9/10) 2018

THORNTON, Rosy – Hearts and Minds – RC F 2008

THURBER, James – My Life and Hard Times – O F 2012

THUY, Kim – Man – O* FTr (9/10) 2016

THYNNE, Jane

TIDHAR, Lavie – The Bookman – RC F (6.5/10) 2010

TOLKIEN, JRR

TOMASZEWSKI, Tom – The Eleventh Letter – RC F (7.5/10) 2016

TOMINE, Adrian – Killing and Dying – O Gr (7.5/10) 2018

TOOLE, John Kennedy – A Confederacy of Dunces – O F 2008

TORDAY, Paul

TOWLES, Amor

TOWNSEND, Sue

TOYNE, Simon – Solomon Creed – RC F (9/10) 2016

TREMAIN, Rose – The Gustav Sonata – O F (9/10) 2018

TREMAYNE, SK – The Ice Twins – RC F (9/10) 2015 SNB

TRILLIN, Calvin

TROLLOPE, Joana – Friday Nights – O F (6/10) 2009

TSUSHIMA, Yuko – Territory of Light – RC FTr (8.5/10) 2018 SNB

TUGWELL, Jem – Dishonoured – RC F (6/10) 2021

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Authors U V

UNSWORTH, Emma Jane – Animals – O F (8/10) 2015

VAN de LAAR, Arnold – Under the Knife – RC NFTr (6.5/10) 2018

VANDERMEER, Jeff

VAN MEERSBERGEN, Jan – Tomorrow Pamplona – RC FTr (8/10) 2011

VARGAS, Fred

VARIOUS – The Ladybird Expert Books, Vols 1-3  SNB

VARVELLO, Elena – Can You Hear Me? – RC FTr (10/10) 2017 SNB

VAUGHAN, Sarah – Anatomy of a Scandal – O F (9/10) 2018

VAUGHN, S.K. – Across the Void – RC SF (5/10) 2019

VERDAY, Jessica – The Hollow – RC YA (6/10) 2010

VERHULST, Dimitri

VICHI, Marco – Death and the Olive Grove – RC F (8/10) 2012

VICK, Frances – Chinaski RC F 2015 SNB  Author Q&A

VICKERS, Salley – The Cleaner of Chartres – O*F (10/10) 2013

VICHI, Marco – Death and the Olive Grove – RC F (8/10) 2012

VILLANI, Cedric – Birth of a Theorem – RC F (8/10) 2015

VINTEN, Alice – On the Line – RC NF (9/10) 2019

VISKIC, Emma – Resurrection Bay – RC F (7/10) 2017

VIZZINI, Ned – It’s Kind of Funny Story – O YA 2014

VLAUTIN, Willy – Don’t Skip Out On Me – RC F (9/10) 2018

VOLTAIRE – Candide – O*F 2011

VON DROSTE-HULSHOFF, Annette – The Jew’s Beech – O FTr 2013

VONNEGUT, Kurt – Slaughterhouse 5 – O*F (8.5/10) 2013

VON SCHIRACH, Ferdinand – The Collini Case – RC FTr (8.5/10) 2012

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Authors  W

WADHAMS, Peter – A Farewell to Ice – RC NF (7/10) 2016

WADMAN, Meredith – The Vaccine Race – O NF (7/10) 2018

WAITE, Urban – The Terror of Living – RC F (9/10) 2011

WALDO, Jen

WALLACH, Tommy – We All Liked Up – RC YA (7.5/10) 2015

WALLIAMS, David – Mr Stink – F Ch (8/10) 2013

WALSH, Helen – Once Upon a Time in England – RC F 2009

WALLIS, Rupert – All Sorts of Possible – RC YA (8/10) 2015 SNB

WALTER, Natasha – A Quiet Life – RC F (7/10) 2016

WANG, Weike – Chemistry – O* F (8/10) 2018

WARD, Rachel – Numbers – O YA (9/10) 2009

WARE, Guy – The Faculty of Indifference – RC F 2019

WARE, Ruth – The Woman in Cabin 10 – RC F (8.5/10) 2016

WARNER, Marina – Once Upon a Time – O* NF (10/10) 2018

WASSERMANN, Jakob – The First Wife – RC FTr (7.5/10) 2012

WATERS, Sarah

WATKINS, Claire Vaye – Gold Fame Citrus – RC F (8.5/10) 2016

WATSON, Christie – The Language of Kindness – O NF 2018

WATSON, Winfred – Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day – O* F (10/10) 2008

WATSON, SJ – Before I Go to Sleep – O F (9/10) 2011

WAUGH, Evelyn – Vile Bodies – O* F (6.5/10) 2018

WEINER, Matthew – Heather, the Totality – O F (9/10) 2017

WEIR, Andy

WELBY, Venetia – Mother of Darkness – RC F (7.5/10) 2017 SNB

WELLS, HG – The Time Machine – RC F (7/10) 2017 re-read

WELSH, Louise

WENER, Louise – Different for Girls: My True-Life Adventures in Pop – RC NF (9/10) 2010

WESTABY, Stephen – Fragile Lives – RC NF (8.5/10) 2017

WESTON, Gabriel

WESTOVER, Tara – Educated – RC NF (8.5/10) 2018

WESTWOOD, Chris – Ministry of Pandemonium – RC YA (8.5/10) 2011

WEYMOUTH, Adam – Kings of the Yukon – RC NF 2018

WHEATLEY, Dennis – The Forbidden Territory – RC F (7.5/10) 2016

WHIPPLE, Dorothy – Greenbanks – RC F (9/10) 2011

WHITAKER, Chris

WHITE, TH – Darkness in Pemberley – O F (6.5/10) 2017

WHYMAN, Matt 

WIGGLESWORTH, Gary – The Book-Lover’s Quiz Book – RC NF (8.5/10) 2020

WILCKEN, Hugo – The Reflection – RC F (8/10) 2015 SNB

WILES, Will

WILLIAMS, Ian – The Lady Doctor – RC GR (9/10) 2019

WILLIAMS, Robert – Into the Trees – RC F 2014 SNB

WILLIAMSON, Heidi– The Print Museum – L P (8.5/10) 2019

WILSON, Edward – The Envoy – O F (8/10) 2011

WILSON, Kevin – The Family Fang – RC F (9/10) 2011

WINMAN, Sarah

WINTERSON, Jeanette

WINTON, Tim – That Eye The Sky – O F 2014

WISEMAN, Dr Richard – The Luck Factor – O* NF (6.5/10) 2011

WOLITZER, Meg – Belzhar – RC YA 2014

WOOD, Maryrose – The Poison Diaries – O F 2010

WOOD, Ramsey – Kalila and Dimna : Fables of Friendship and Betrayal – RC F 2013

WOODRELL, Daniel

WOODWARD, Bob – Wired – O NF –

WOOLF, Virginia – Mrs Dalloway – O* F (7.5/10) 2017

WYNDHAM, John – Chocky – O F (9/10) 2017

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Authors  X Y Z

YANIGIHARA, Hanya – A Little Life – O F (7/10) 2015

YATES, Alexander – The Winter Place – RC YA (8/10) 2015 SNB

YATES, Kit – The Maths of Life and Death – RC NF (8.5/10) 2020

YOON, Nicola – Everything, Everything – O* YA (8/10) 2017

YOUNG, Natalie – Season to Taste or How to Eat Your Husband – RC F (8/10) 2014

YOUNG, Rusty – Marching Powder – O NF 2009

YOUNGSON, Anne – Meet Me At the Museum – RC F (9/10) 2018

YUKNAVITCH, Lidia –

ZAID, Gabriel – So Many Books – O F 2011

ZAMBRA, Alejandro – Multiple Choice – O FTr (6/10) 2016

ZAMYATIN, Yevgeny – We – O*F 2013

ZAPPA, Frank – The Real Frank Zappa Book – O*F (9/10) 2012

ZIERVOGEL, Meike

ZIMMERMAN, Carla –Lonely Planet – The USA Book: A Journey Through America – RC NF (8/10) 2010

ZINK, Nell – The Wallcreeper – O* F (6.5/10) 2017

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Two reviews – a dystopian debut and an Irish crime thriller