A

ACHEBE, Chinua: No Longer at Ease

ACKROYD, Peter: The Fall of Troy

ADAMS, Poppy: The Behaviour of Moths

ADICHIE, Chimamanda Ngozi: Half of a Yellow Sun

ALAIN-FOURNIER: Le Grand Meaulnes

ALCOTT, Louisa May: Little Women

ALISON, Rosie: The Very Thought of You

ALLEN, Sarah Addison: Garden Spells

ALLINGHAM, Margery: Tiger in the Smoke

ARNOTT, Paul: Is Anybody Up There?

ARTHERN, Michael: Mountains on the Moon

ATHILL, Diana: Somewhere Towards the End

ATKINSON, Kate:

• One Good Turn
• When Will There Be Good News?

AUSTEN, Jane: Pride and Prejudice

AUSTER, Paul:

• The Book of Illusions
• Invisible
• Man in the Dark
• Travels in the Scriptorium

B

BALDACCI, David: The Christmas Train

BAKER, John: King of the Streets

BARBERY, Muriel: The Gourmet

BARR, Niall: Flodden

BARRY, Sebastian: The Secret Scripture

BEATON, M C:

• Agatha Raisin and the Haunted House
• Death of a Gossip

BECKETT, Andy: When the Lights Went Out: Britain in the Seventies

BENNETT, Alan:

• The Uncommon Reader
• Four Stories

BENNETT, Vanora: Portrait of an Unknown Woman

BINCHY, Maeve: The Builders

BOLITHO, Janie:

• Betrayed in Cornwall
• Snapped in Cornwall

BOLTON, S J:

• Awakening
• Blood Harvest
• Sacrifice

BRAGG, Melvyn: Remember Me

BRANDRETH, Giles: Oscar Wilde and the Candlelight Murders

BRAUN, Lilian Jackson: The Cat Who Could Read Backwards

BRETT, Simon:

• Blotto, Twinks and the Ex-King’s Daughter
• The Body on the Beach
• Murder in the Museum
• The Stabbing in the Stables

BRITTNEY, Lynn: Christine Kringle

BRODRICK, William: The Gardens of the Dead

BRONTE, Emily: Wuthering Heights

BROOKMYRE, Christopher: Quite Ugly One Morning

BURLEY, W J: Wycliffe and the Last Rites

BURNETT, Frances Hodgson: The Secret Garden

C

CADE, Jared: Agatha Christie and the Eleven Missing Days

CAMILLERI, Andrea: Excursion to Tindari

CAREY, Peter: Theft

CATHER, Willa: A Lost Lady

 

CECIL, Henry: Much in Evidence

CEDER, Camilla: Frozen Moment

CHRISTIE, Agatha

• An Autobiography
• The ABC Murders
• The Body in the Library
• By the Pricking of My Thumbs
• A Caribbean Mystery
• The Clocks
• The Crooked House
• Curtain: Poirot’s Last Case
• Dead Man’s Folly
• Death in the Clouds
• Death on the Nile
• Dumb Witness
• Elephants Can Remember
• Evil Under the Sun
• 4.50 from Paddington
• Hercule Poirot’s Christmas
• The Hollow
• The Hound of Death (short stories)
• The Man in the Brown Suit
• The Mirror Crack’d from Side to Side
• Murder is Easy
• The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
• Murder on the Orient Express
• The Mysterious Affair at Styles
• The Mystery of the Blue Train
• The Pale Horse
• Passenger to Frankfurt
• Peril at End House
• The Secret Adversary (Tommy & Tuppence)
• Taken at the Flood
• They Came to Baghdad
• The Thirteen Problems (short stories)
• Why Didn’t They Ask Evans?

CLARK, Susanna: The Ladies of Grace Adieu

CLEEVES, Ann: Raven Black

COE, Jonathan: The Rain Before It Falls

COELHO, Paul: The Alchemist

COHEN, Morton N: Lewis Carroll: a biography

COLLINS, Wilkie: The Moonstone

CRAIG, Angela: Hearts and Minds

CUSK, Rachel:

• Arlington Park
• The Bradshaw Variations

D

DANA, Maggie: Beachcombing

DAVIDSON, Andrew: The Gargoyle

DELANEY, Frank: The Matchmaker of Kenmare

DELILLO, Dan: White Noise

DEXTER, Colin: The Silent World of Nicholas Quinn

DICKENS, Charles:

• The Holly-Tree Inn
• The Mystery of Edwin Drood

DICKINSON, Peter: The Ropemaker

DILLARD, Annie: The Maytrees

DISKI, Jenny: On Trying to Keep Still

DOUGHTY, Louise: Whatever You Love

DRABBLE, Margaret: A Summer Bird-Cage

DU MAURIER, Daphne:

• The Breaking Point: short stories
• Castle Dor
• The Flight of the Falcon
• The House on the Strand
• Rebecca and see also here
• The Rebecca Notebook and Other Memories

DUNN, Suzannah: The Sixth Wife

E

EDWARDS,Martin:

• The Arsenic Labyrinth
• The Cipher Garden
• The Coffin Trail
• The Hanging Wood
• The Serpent Pool
• Take My Breath Away

ENQUIST, Anna: A Leap

ERSKINE, Barbara: The Warrior’s Princess

EWAN, Chris: The Good Thief’s Guide to Amsterdam

F

FAULKS, Sebastian: Faulks on Fiction

FIENNES, William: The Music Room

FINE, Anne: All Bones and Lies

FIORATA, Marina: The Madonna of the Almonds

FODEN, Giles: Turbulence

FORSTER, Margaret:

• Daphne
• Keeping the World Away

FRANKLIN, Ariana: Mistress of the Art of Death

FRASER, Antonia: A Splash of Red

FREESE, Mathias: Down to a Sunless Sea

FRENCH, Nicci: Losing You

FULLERTON, Jackie: Revenge Served Cold

FYFIELD, Francis: The Art of Drowning

G

GAPPAH, Petina: An Elegy for Easterly

GARDAM, Jane:

• Going into a Dark House
• Old Filth
• The Sidmouth Letters

GARDNER, Erle Stanley:

• The Case of the Lame Canary
• The Case of the Substitute Face

GARNER, Alan: The Owl Service

GARNER, Helen: The Spare Room

GASKELL, Elizabeth: Cranford see also here, here and here

GEE, Maggie: My Cleaner

GERAS, Adele: Made in Heaven

GIBBONS, Stella: Westwood

GIONO, Jean: The Man Who Planted Trees

GILBERT, Elizabeth: Eat, Pray, Love see also here and here and here

GILBERT, Michael: After the Fine Weather

GILLARD, Linda:

• House of Silence
• Star Gazing

GOLDACRE, Ben: Bad Science

GRAHAM, Caroline: Faithful Unto Death

GRAHAM, Eliza: Playing with the Moon

GRANT, Linda: The Clothes on their Backs

GREEN, Anna Katherine: X, Y, Z

GRIFFITHS, Elly:

• The Crossing Places
• The House at Seas End
• The Janus Stone

GROVE,Valerie: Dear Dodie

GUINEY, Sue: Tangled Roots

H

HAHN, Daniel: Poetic Lives:Shelley

HARDY, Thomas:

• A Pair of Blue Eyes
• The Woodlanders
• Wessex Tales

HARRIS, Joane: Chocolat

HARRIS, Robert: Pompeii

HERRIOT, James: Cat Stories

HEYER, Georgette:

• Detection Unlimited
• Friday’s Child

HILL, Reginald:

• A Clubbable Woman
• The Death of Dalziel
• Exit Lines

HILL, Susan:

• The Beacon
• Howards End is on the Landing
• The Man in the Picture
• The Small Hand
• The Vows of Silence

HILL, Tobias: The Hidden

HOFFMAN, Alice: Practical Magic

HOLMS, Joyce:

• Missing Link
• Payment Deferred

HONORE, Carl: In Praise of Slow

HUGO, Victor: Les Miserables

HUNTER, Alan:

• Gently by the Shore
• Gently Does It

I

IZNER, Claude: Murder on the Eiffel Tower

J

JACKSON, Mick: The Widow’s Tale

JACKSON, Shirley: We Have Always Lived in the Castle

JAKOBSEN, Dorte Hummelshøj: The Cosy Knave

JAMES, Emmett: Admit One

JAMES, Henry: The Turn of the Screw

JAMES, P D:

• The Private Patient by P D James
• An Unsuitable Job for a Woman

JARDINE, Quintin: Fallen Gods

JOHNSTON, Jennifer:

• The Illusionist
• Two Moons

K

KEATING, H R F: A Detective at Death’s Door

KENNEDY, Emma: The Tent, the Bucket and Me

KINGSOLVER, Barbara: The Poisonwood Bible

L

LAWRENCE, D H:

• Sons and Lovers
• The Man Who Died

LAWSON, Mary: Crow Lake

LEE, Hermione: Body Parts: Essays on Life-Writing

LEE, Laurie: Cider with Rosie

LEEGANT, Joan: Wherever You Go

LEHMANN, Rosamond: The Weather in the Streets

LELORD, Francois: Hector and the Search for Happiness

LEMBACH, Marti: Daniel Isn’t Talking

L’ENGLE, Madeleine: A Wrinkle in Time

LEON, Donna:

• Doctored Evidence
• Drawing Conclusions
• Wilful Behaviour

LEVY, Andrea:

• The Long Song
• Small Island

LEWYCKA, Marina: Two Caravans

LEWIS, C S: Letters to Malcom

LIVELY, Penelope:

• Consequences
• The Photograph

LONG, James: Ferney

LYNCH, Jim: The Highest Tide

M

MacKAY, John: Heartland

McBAIN, Ed: Cop Hater

McCALL SMITH, Alexander:

• The Careful Use of Compliments
• The Comfort of Saturdays
• The Right Attitude to Rain
• The Sunday Philosophy Club

McCARTHY, Tom: Remainder

McCRACKEN, Elizabeth: The Giant’s House

McDERMID, Val: Cleanskin

McEWAN, Ian: Atonement

MACINTYRE, Ben: Operation Mincemeat

McMAHON, Katherine: The Rose of Sebastopol

McPHERSON, Catriona:

• The Burry Man’s Day
• Dandy Gilver and the Proper Treatment of Bloodstains

MADDEN, Deirdre: Molly Fox’s Birthday

MAITLAND, Karen: Company of Liars

MANKELL,  Henning: Faceless Killers

MANNING, Olivia

• The Great Fortune
• The Spoilt City

MANTEL, Hilary:

• Giving Up the Ghost: a Memoir
• Ink in the Blood
• Wolf Hall

MARNHAM, Patrick: Wild Mary

MASS OBSERVATION WRITERS: Our Longest Days

MATTESON, John: Eden’s Outcasts: the story of Louisa May Alcott and her father

MAUGHAM, Somerset:

• Cakes and Ale
• The Moon and Sixpence
• The Painted Veil

MAWER, Simon: The Fall

MEDIEVAL MURDERS: King Arthur’s Bones

MERCER, Jeremy: Books, Baguettes and Bedbugs

MEYER, Deon:

• Blood Safari
• Thirteen Hours

MORAN, Michelle: Nefertiti

MORTIMER, Peter: 100 Days on Holy Island: a Writer’s Exile

MORTON, Kate:

• The House at Riverton
• The Forgotten Garden

MOSTERT, Natasha: Season of the Witch

MUNRO, Alice: The View from Castle Rock

MURDOCH, Iris:

• The Bell
• A Severed Head

N

NEEL, Janet: Ticket to Ride

NEMIROVSKY, Irene:

• Fire in the Blood
• Suite Française

NICHOLSON, Harry: Tom Fleck: a Novel of Cleveland and Flodden

NICOLSON, Juliet: The Perfect Summer: Dancing into Shadow in 1911

O

OATES, Joyce Carol:

• Blonde
• The Gravedigger’s Daughter – see also here and here
• Solstice

O’HAGAN, Andrew: Be Near Me

OLSSON, Linda: Astrid and Veronika

ORCZY, Baroness: The Scarlet Pimpernel

P

PANTER-DOWNES, Mollie:

• Good Evening, Mrs Craven
• One Fine Day

PATCHETT, Ann: The Magician’s Assistant

PEARL, Matthew: The Poe Shadow

PEARTREE, Cecilia: Crime in the Community

PERRY, Anne: A Christmas Visitor

PILCHER, Rosamunde: The End of Summer

POLLOCK, John: Wilberforce

PORTIS, Charles: True Grit

PROULX, Annie: The Shipping News

PULLMAN, Philip:

• Northern Lights
• The Subtle Knife
• The Amber Spyglass

Q

QIU, Xiaolong: A Loyal Character Dancer

QUINDLEN, Anna: Blessings

R

RABAN, Jonathan: Surveillance

RANKIN, Ian:

• Black and Blue
• The Black Book
• The Complaints
• A Cool Head
• Doors Open
• Exit Music
• The Falls – see also here
• Fleshmarket Close
• A Good Hanging & other stories
• The Hanging Garden
• Hide and Seek
• The Impossible Dead
• Knots and Crosses
• Let it Bleed
• Mortal Causes
• The Naming of the Dead
• A Question of Blood
• Rebus’s Scotland
• Resurrection Men
• Set In Darkness – see also here

REEVE, Philip: Here Lies Arthur

RENDELL, Ruth:

• The Crocodile Bird
• A Judgement in Stone
• Murder Being Once Done
• Not in the Flesh (audio book)
• Portobello
• Tigerlily’s Orchids

ROBERTS, Michèle: Fair Exchange

ROBERTSON, James: The Testament of Gideon Mack

ROBINSON, Peter:

• All the Colours of Darkness
• Cold is the Grave
• Not Safe After Dark and other works (short stories)
• Strange Affair

ROBSON, Eric: The Border Line

ROE, Sue: The Private Lives of the Impressionists

ROWLING, J K: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

S

SACKVILLE-WEST, Vita: All Passion Spent

SANSOM, C J :

• Heartstone
• Revelation
• Winter in Madrid

SCOTT, Sir Walter: Ivanhoe – see also here

SHAW, Catherine: The Riddle of the River

SHREVE, Anita:

• Body Surfing
• A Change in Altitude
• Testimony

SIMENON, Georges:

• Lock 14
• My Friend Maigret
• The Friend of Madame Maigret
• The Hotel Majestic
• The Madman of Bergerac
• Maigret in Court
• The Man on the Boulevard

SIMMONS, Dan: Drood

SLATER, Nigel: Toast

SMITH, Dodie: I Capture the Castle

SPARK, Muriel: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

STEGNER, Wallace:

• Angle of Repose
• Crossing to Safety

STEVENSON, Robert Louis: Tales of Terror

STOCKETT, Kathryn: The Help

STOKER, Bram: Dracula

STOTT, Rebecca: Ghostwalk

SUMMERSCALE, Kate: The Suspicions of Mr Whicher

SÜSKIND, Patrick: Perfume: the story of a murderer

T

TABER, Gladys & WESTER, Barbara: Stillmeadow and Sugarbridge

TARTT, Donna: The Secret History

TEY, Josephine: The Franchise Affair

THORNTON, Rosy:

• Hearts and Minds
• The Tapestry of Love

TINNISWOOD, Adrian: The Verneys

TODD, Barbara Euphan: Mr Blossom’s Shop

TOMALIN, Claire: Jane Austen

TORDAY, Paul:

• Breakfast at the Hotel Deja Vu
• The Girl on the Landing
• Salmon Fishing in the Yemen

TWAIN, Mark:

• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – see also here
• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

TYLER, Anne: Digging to America

U

UPSON, Nicola: An Expert in Murder

V

VARGAS, Fred: Seeking Whom He May Devour

VICKERS, Salley: Where Three Roads Meet

VINE, Barbara:

• The Birthday Present
• A Dark-Adapted Eye
• A Fatal Inversion
• The House of Stairs

W

WADDELL, Dan: The Blood Detective

WALLACE, Edgar: The Clue of the Twisted Candle

WALTERS, Minette: The Tinder Box

WATERS, Sarah: The Little Stranger

WATTS, Douglas: Death of a Chief

WEBB, Mary: Gone to Earth

WELSH, Louise: Naming the Bones

WENTWORTH, Patricia: The Brading Collection

WILLIAMS, Shirley: Climbing the Bookshelves (autobiography)

WINSPEAR, Jacqueline:

• Among the Mad
• Messenger of Truth
• Pardonable Lies

WODEHOUSE, P G,

• Something Fresh
• Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves

WOODRUFF, William – The Road to Nab End

WOOLF, Virginia: Death of a Moth and other essays – see also here

WRIGHT, Austin: Tony and Susan

WYNDHAM, John:

• Chocky
• The Chrysalids

Y

YORKE, Margaret:

• Dead in the Morning
• Intimate Kill

YOUNG, Angela: Speaking of Love

Z

ZELTSERMAN, Dave: Pariah

ZOUROUDI, Anne: The Doctor of Thessaly

ZUSAK, Markus: The Book Thief