List of book reviews since I started to write about books in April 2007, in alphabetical order by author. Clicking on the titles will take you to my reviews. My aim is to write something about each book even if it’s just a few lines, so some of the posts are less detailed than others.
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ACHEBE, Chinua: No Longer at Ease
ACKROYD, Peter: The Fall of Troy
ADAMS, Poppy: The Behaviour of Moths
ADAMS, Richard: The Day Gone By: an Autobiography
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
ARMSTRONG, Terri: Standing Water
ARNOTT, Paul: Is Anybody Up There?
ARTHERN, Michael: Mountains on the Moon
ATHILL, Diana: Somewhere Towards the End
ATKINSON, Kate:
AUSTEN, Jane: Pride and Prejudice
AUSTER, Paul:
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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:
BECKETT, Andy: When the Lights Went Out: Britain in the Seventies
BENNETT, Alan:
BENNETT, Vanora: Portrait of an Unknown Woman
BINCHY, Maeve: The Builders
BOLITHO, Janie:
BOLTON, S J:
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
- The Hanging in the Hotel
- Murder in the Museum
- The Stabbing in the Stables
BRITTAIN, Vera: Testament of Youth
BRITTNEY, Lynn: Christine Kringle
BRODRICK, William:
BRONTE, Anne: Agnes Grey
BRONTE, Emily: Wuthering Heights
BROOKMYRE, Christopher: Quite Ugly One Morning
BURKE, Bob: The Third Pig Detective Agency
BURLEY, W J:
BURNETT, Frances Hodgson: The Secret Garden
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CADE, Jared: Agatha Christie and the Eleven Missing Days
CAIN, Susan: Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking
CAMILLERI, Andrea: Excursion to Tindari
CAREY, Peter: Theft
CATHER, Willa: A Lost Lady
CECIL, Henry: Much in Evidence
CEDER, Camilla: Frozen Moment
CHANG, Jung: Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China see also this post
CHRISTIE, Agatha
- The ABC Murders
- After the Funeral
- At Bertram’s Hotel (Miss Marple)
- An Autobiography
- The Body in the Library
- By the Pricking of My Thumbs
- Cards on the Table
- A Caribbean Mystery
- Cat Among the Pigeons
- 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
- Endless Night
- Evil Under the Sun
- 4.50 from Paddington
- Hercule Poirot’s Christmas
- Hickory Dickory Dock
- The Hollow
- The Hound of Death (short stories)
- The Labours of Hercules
- Lord Edgware Dies
- The Man in the Brown Suit
- The Mirror Crack’d from Side to Side
- Mrs McGinty’s Dead
- Murder in the Mews (Poirot 4 short stories)
- Murder is Easy
- The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
- The Murder on the Links
- Murder on the Orient Express
- The Mysterious Affair at Styles
- The Mystery of the Blue Train
- One, Two Buckle My Shoe
- The Pale Horse
- Passenger to Frankfurt
- Peril at End House
- Postern of Fate
- The Secret Adversary (Tommy & Tuppence)
- Sleeping Murder: Miss Marple’s Last Case
- Taken at the Flood
- They Came to Baghdad
- The Thirteen Problems (short stories)
- Why Didn’t They Ask Evans?
CLAPP, Susannah: A Card from Angela Carter
CLARK, Susanna: The Ladies of Grace Adieu
CLEEVES, Ann:
Shetland Series:
- Raven Black (Shetland series 1)
- White Nights (Shetland series 2)
- Red Bones (Shetland series 3)
- Blue Lightning (Shetland series 4)
- Dead Water (Shetland series 5)
Vera Stanhope series:
- Silent Voices (Vera 4)
- The Glass Room (Vera 5)
COE, Jonathan: The Rain Before It Falls
COELHO, Paul: The Alchemist
COHEN, Morton N: Lewis Carroll: a biography
COLLINS, Wilkie:
CONNELLY, Victoria: A Weekend with Mr Darcy
CRAIG, Angela: Hearts and Minds
CUMMINGS, Susan: Adventures of a One-Breasted Woman
CUSK, Rachel:
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DANA, Maggie: Beachcombing
DAVIDSON, Andrew: The Gargoyle
DEAKIN, Roger: Wildwood: a Journey Through Trees
DELANEY, Frank: The Matchmaker of Kenmare
DELILLO, Dan: White Noise
DEXTER, Colin: The Silent World of Nicholas Quinn
DICKENS, Charles:
DICKINSON, Peter: The Ropemaker
DILLARD, Annie: The Maytrees
DINES, Adrienne: The Jigsaw Maker
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
- My Cousin Rachel
- The Parasites
- Rebecca and see also here
- The Rebecca Notebook and Other Memories
DUNN, Carola:
- Death at Wentwater Court (Daisy Dalrymple 1)
- The Winter Garden Mystery (Daisy Dalrymple 2)
- Requiem for a Mezzo (Daisy Darylmple 3)
DUNN, Suzannah: The Sixth Wife
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EDWARDS, Martin:
The Lake District Mystery series:
- The Coffin Trail
- The Cipher Garden
- The Arsenic Labyrinth
- The Serpent Pool
- The Hanging Wood
- The Frozen Shroud
Other books:
- Guilty Consciences (short story collection edited by Martin Edwards)
- Take My Breath Away (a legal mystery featuring lawyer turned writer Nic Gabriel)
ENQUIST, Anna: A Leap
ERSKINE, Barbara:
EWAN, Chris: The Good Thief’s Guide to Amsterdam
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FALCONER, Julius: A Fearful Madness
FAULKS, Sebastian: Faulks on Fiction
FERMOR, Patrick Leigh: A Time of Gifts
FIENNES, William: The Music Room
FINE, Anne: All Bones and Lies
FIORATA, Marina: The Madonna of the Almonds
FODEN, Giles: Turbulence
FORSTER, Margaret:
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
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GAPPAH, Petina: An Elegy for Easterly
GARDAM, Jane:
GARDNER, Erle Stanley:
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
GILBERT, Elizabeth: Eat, Pray, Love see also here and here and here
GILBERT, Michael: After the Fine Weather
GILLARD, Linda:
GIONO, Jean: The Man Who Planted Trees
GOLDACRE, Ben: Bad Science
GORING, Rosemary: After Flodden
GRAFTON, Sue: A is for Alibi
GRAHAM, Caroline: Faithful Unto Death
GRAHAM, Eliza: Playing with the Moon
GRANT, Linda: The Clothes on their Backs
GREEN, Anna Katherine: X, Y, Z
GREENE, Graham: The End of the Affair
GRENVILLE, Kate:
GRIFFITHS, Elly:
GROVE,Valerie: Dear Dodie
GUINEY, Sue: Tangled Roots
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HAHN, Daniel: Poetic Lives:Shelley
HALL, M R:
HARDY, Thomas:
HARRIS, Jane: Gillespie and I
HARRIS, Joane:
HARRIS, Robert:
HERRIOT, James: Cat Stories
HEYER, Georgette:
HILL, Reginald:
HILL, Susan:
HILL, Tobias: The Hidden
HOFFMAN, Alice: Practical Magic
HOLMS, Joyce:
HONORE, Carl: In Praise of Slow
HOROWITZ, Anthony: The House of Silk
HUGO, Victor: Les Miserables
HUNTER, Alan:
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INNES, Michael: Death at the President’s Lodging
IZNER, Claude: Murder on the Eiffel Tower
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JACKSON, Mick: The Widow’s Tale
JACKSON, Shirley: We Have Always Lived in the Castle
JAKOBSEN, Dorte Hummelshøj:
JAMES, Emmett: Admit One
JAMES, Henry: The Turn of the Screw
JAMES, P D:
JAMES, Peter: Dead Simple
JARDINE, Quintin: Fallen Gods
JOHNSTON, Jennifer:
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KEATING, H R F: A Detective at Death’s Door
KENNEDY, Emma: The Tent, the Bucket and Me
KILLEEN, Richard: A Short History of Scotland
KINGSOLVER, Barbara:
KNIGHT, Alanna: The Inspector’s Daughter
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LASKI, Marghanita:
LAWRENCE, D H:
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
LENG, Flavia: Daphne du Maurier: a Daughter’s Memoir
L’ENGLE, Madeleine: A Wrinkle in Time
LEON, Donna:
LEVY, Andrea:
LEWYCKA, Marina: Two Caravans
LEWIS, C S: Letters to Malcom
LIVELY, Penelope:
LODGE, David: Deaf Sentence
LONG, James: Ferney
LYNCH, Jim: The Highest Tide
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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:
MACINTYRE, Ben: Operation Mincemeat
MACLEAN, Shona: The Redemption of Alexander Seaton
McMAHON, Katharine:
McPHERSON, Catriona:
- After the Armistice Ball
- The Burry Man’s Day
- Dandy Gilver and the Proper Treatment of Bloodstains
- Dandy Gilver and an Unsuitable Day for a Murder
MADDEN, Deirdre: Molly Fox’s Birthday
MAITLAND, Karen: Company of Liars
MANKELL, Henning: Faceless Killers
MANNING, Olivia
MANTEL, Hilary:
- Bring Up the Bodies
- Giving Up the Ghost: a Memoir
- Ink in the Blood
- A Place of Greater Safety
- Wolf Hall
MARNHAM, Patrick: Wild Mary
MARSH, Ngaio: A Man Lay Dead
MASS OBSERVATION WRITERS: Our Longest Days
MATTESON, John: Eden’s Outcasts: the story of Louisa May Alcott and her father
MAUGHAM, Somerset:
MAWER, Simon: The Fall
MAY, Peter: The Blackhouse (Lewis Trilogy 1)
MEDIEVAL MURDERS: King Arthur’s Bones
MERCER, Jeremy: Books, Baguettes and Bedbugs
MEYER, Deon:
MORAN, Michelle: Nefertiti
MORTIMER, Peter: 100 Days on Holy Island: a Writer’s Exile
MORTON, Kate:
MOSTERT, Natasha: Season of the Witch
MUNRO, Alice: The View from Castle Rock
MURDOCH, Iris:
MURPHY, Dervla: Full Tilt: Dunkirk to Delhi by Bicycle
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NEEL, Janet: Ticket to Ride
NEMIROVSKY, Irene:
NICHOLSON, Harry: Tom Fleck: a Novel of Cleveland and Flodden
NICOLSON, Juliet: The Perfect Summer: Dancing into Shadow in 1911
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OATES, Joyce Carol:
- Blonde
- The Gravedigger’s Daughter – see also here and here
- Solstice
O’CONNOR, Denis:
O’FARRELL, Maggie: The Hand That First Held Mine
O’HAGAN, Andrew: Be Near Me
OLSSON, Linda: Astrid and Veronika
ORCZY, Baroness:
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PANTER-DOWNES, Mollie:
PARRY, Robert: The Arrow Chest
PATCHETT, Ann: The Magician’s Assistant
PAVER, Michelle: Dark Matter: a Ghost Story
PAVONE, Chris: The Expats
PEARL, Matthew: The Poe Shadow
PEARTREE, Cecilia: Crime in the Community
PERRY, Anne: A Christmas Visitor
PICARDIE, Justine: Daphne
PILCHER, Rosamunde: The End of Summer
POLLOCK, John: Wilberforce
PORTIS, Charles: True Grit
PROULX, Annie: The Shipping News
PULLMAN, Philip:
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QIU, Xiaolong:
QUINDLEN, Anna: Blessings
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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
- Standing in Another Man’s Grave
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
- Bad Boy (Inspector Banks 19)
- Before the Poison
- Cold is the Grave
- The Hanging Valley (Inspector Banks 4)
- 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
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SACKVILLE-WEST, Vita: All Passion Spent
SANSOM, C J :
SASSOON, Siegfried: Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man
SCOTT, Sir Walter: Ivanhoe – see also here
SHAW, Catherine: The Riddle of the River
SHREVE, Anita:
SIMENON, Georges:
- Lock 14
- My Friend Maigret
- The Friend of Madame Maigret
- The Hotel Majestic
- The Madman of Bergerac
- Maigret and the Ghost
- 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
STABENOW, Dana: A Cold Day for Murder
STEGNER, Wallace:
STEVENSON, Robert Louis: Tales of Terror
STOCKETT, Kathryn: The Help
STOKER, Bram: Dracula
STOTT, Rebecca: Ghostwalk
STUART, Julia: Balthazar Jones and the Tower of London Zoo
SUMMERSCALE, Kate: The Suspicions of Mr Whicher
SÜSKIND, Patrick: Perfume: the story of a murderer
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TABER, Gladys & WESTER, Barbara: Stillmeadow and Sugarbridge
TARTT, Donna: The Secret History
TAYLOR, Andrew:
- The Four Last Things (Roth Trilogy 1)
- The Judgement of Strangers (Roth Trilogy 2)
- The Sleeping Policeman (William Dougal 7)
TEY, Josephine: The Franchise Affair
THORNTON, Rosy:
TINNISWOOD, Adrian: The Verneys
TODD, Barbara Euphan: Mr Blossom’s Shop
TOLKIEN, J R R: The Hobbit
TOMALIN, Claire: Jane Austen
TORDAY, Paul:
TWAIN, Mark:
TYLER, Anne: Digging to America
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UPSON, Nicola:
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VARGAS, Fred:
VICKERS, Salley: Where Three Roads Meet
VINE, Barbara:
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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:
WENTWORTH, Patricia: The Brading Collection
WILLIAMS, Shirley: Climbing the Bookshelves (autobiography)
WINSPEAR, Jacqueline:
WODEHOUSE, P G,
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:
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YORKE, Margaret:
YOUNG, Angela: Speaking of Love
YOUNG, Suzanne: Murder by Yew
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ZELTSERMAN, Dave: Pariah
ZOUROUDI, Anne:
ZUSAK, Markus: The Book Thief