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Books read


2023
January
Iris Murdoch - The Unicorn
William Hussey - Hideous Beauty
Adam Kay - Undoctored
Rae Wynn - The Salt Path
Iain Reid - We Spread
Lizzy Stewart - Alison
Pip Williams- The Dictionary of Lost Words

February
Tom Allen- Too Much
Deborah Jenkins - Braver *
James Runcie - Tell Me Good Things*
Sally Spencer - The Final Beat of the Drum
Saskia Sarginson - Seven Months of Summer
LJ Ross - Dark Skies
Sam Blake - Remember My Name

March
LJ Ross- Seven Bridges
Frederick Backman - A Man Called Ove
Louise Doughty - Apple Tree Yard
Robert Harris - Enigma

April
Ann Cleeves - The Seagull
Erica James - Paradise House
Ward - Happiness Through The Seasons
L J Ross - The Hermitage

April
Frank absurd - The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Bernard O’Keefe - Private Lessons *
Bernard Tickner -A Scratch in the Soil

May
Erica James - Paradise House *
Ian Gittings - Desert Island Discs
Anna Sophie - The Couple at the Table

June
Stephen King- Elevation
Katherine May - Enchantment
Marcia Willetts- Echoes of the Dance
Bernard Tickner - A Sctatch In The Soil

July
Sarah Pearse - The Retreat
Elizabeth Strout - Lucy By The Sea
Irene Nemirovsky - All Our Worldy Goods
Carol Kirkwood - The Hotel on the Riviera
Heidi Swain - The Booklovers Retreat
Andrew Miller - The Optimists

August
Peter James - Dead If You Don’t
Ross Greenwood- Death on Cromer Beach *
Tristan Gooley - How To Read A Tree
Victoria Hislop - One August Night
Elly Griffiths - Dying Fall
LJ Ross - Borderlands
Rachel Joyce- Maureen Fry and The Angel of the North.
Patricia Highsmith - The Boy Who Followed Ripley
Max Decharne - Kings Road
Oliver Soden - The Lives of Noel Coward
David Lagercrantz - Fall of a man in Wilmslow Alan Turing

September
Araminta Hall - Imperfect Women
Stevie Smith - Novel on Yellow Paper
Jane Claire Bradley - Dear Neighbour
Fiona O’Brien - The Flatshare
Araminta Hall - Imperfect Women
Sally Rooney - Conversations With Friends






2022
January
Ann Cleeves - The Heron’s Cry
Hazel Prior- Away With The Penguins
Rose Tremain- The Road Home
Susan Hill - The Albatross
Amanda Owen - Tales From The Farm
Unwind Your Mind- Emma WhispersRed
Will Young- To be a gay man
Sally Vickers - The Gardener
Hunter Davies - The Heath

February
Emma Mitchell- The Wild Remedy
Lucy Diamond- The Beach Cafe
LJ Ross - Sycamore Gap
Joy Ellis - Crime On The Fens
Mike Hollow - The Pimlico Murder *
Sarah Moss - The Fell

March
Jo Baker - The Body Lies
Vicky Beeching - The Undivided
Ki Du Waal - The Trick to Time

April
Long Litt Woon - The Way Through The Woods *
Clare Pooley - The Authenticity Project
Helen MacDonald - H is for Hawk
Neil Bartlett- Address Book
Marietta Lindstein - The Cult on Fog Island *
Adam Kay - This Is Going To Hurt

May
Claudia Carroll - The Women of Primrose Square
LJ Ross- Angel
LJ Ross - Heavenfield
LJ Ross - High Force
Matt Haig - Midnight Library
Amelia Henry - The Art of Loving You
William Hussey - Hideous Beauty

JUNE
Beth O’Leary - The Road Trip
Hannah Martell - The Life of Pi
Fiona Barton - The Child
Jeannette Winterson - Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
Simon Edge- Anyone For Edmund?

JULY
LJ Ross- Cragside
Richard Cole’s - The Madness of Grief
John Lewis-Stempel -The Running Hare
Alan Bennett - House Arrest
John Preston- TheDig

August
Joanna Cannon - A Tidy Ending
Norman Scott - Accidental Icon
Susan Wilkins - The Informant
Taylor Jenkins Reid - The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Han Suyin. - A Many-Splendoured Thing

September
Intubated in hospital.

October
No concentration.

November
Adam Kay - This Is Going To Hurt
TimPears - In a Land Of Plenty
Susanna Clarke - Piranesi
Ruth Jones - Love Untold

December
Rachel Joyce - Miss Benson’s Beetle

2021
January
Barbara Vine - Dark Adapted Eye
Barbara Vine- The Chimney Sweeper’s Son
Susan Hill - Vows of Silence
Raynor Winn - The Wild Silence

February
Ann Patchett- Bel Canto
Sue Grafton - T is for Trespass
Patricia Cornwell- Trace
Elizabeth George-What came before
Alan Hollinghurst - The Sparsholt Affair *

March
Ann Granger - Call The Dead Again
Kathleen Windsor - Forever Amber
Ambrose Parry - The Way of All Flesh
Kathryn Croft - Behind Closed Doors
Mari Hannah - Settled Blood

April
EM Forster - Maurice
Martin Davies - The Conjuror’s Bird
Caroline Maclean - Circles and Squares
Robert Bryndza- Nine Elms*
C J Cooper- The Book Club*
Patricia Cornwell- Predator

May
Alan Bennett- The Uncommon Reader
Daphne DuMaurier - Frenchman’s Creek
AA Milne - Winnie The Pooh
Thomas Keneally - Schindler’s Ark

JUNE
Jan Morris- Conundrum *
Denis Theriault - The Peculiar Life of a Lonely Postman*
Jasper Rees - Victoria Wood
Alessandro Barrico- Silk*
LJ Ross - The Infirmary

July
Susan Hill - A Change for the Better *
LJ Ross - Ryan’s Christmas *
Ann Cleeves- The Darkest Evening

August
BP Walter - The Dinner Guest
Peter James - Need You Dead*
Delia Owens - Where The Crawdads Sing
Fanny Blake - The Long Way Home
Craig Revel Horwood - Dances and Dreams on Diamond Street
Peter James - I Follow You*
Sarah Winman - Still Life
Agatha Christie- Greenshaw’s Folly
Rose Tremain - Letter To Sister Benedicta

September
Cathy Lake -The Country Village Summer Fete*
Sarah Crossan - Here is The Beehive
Sonali Deraniyagala - Wave *
Juliet Nicholason - Frostquake

October
Nicola Upson The Death of Lucy Kyte*
Nicola Upson- Two For Sorrow*

November
Freya Sampson - The Last Library *
Beth O’Leary - The Flatshare*
Victoria Hislop - Those WhoAre Loved
Emily Barr - Things To Do Before The End Of The World

December
Erica Fischer - Aimee and Jaguar
Beth Morley - Saving Missy *

2022
January
Mary Wesley- An imaginative experience
Mary Wesley- Part of the Furniture
Hazel Prior- Away With The Penguins
Rose Tremain- The Road Home



2020

January
Lara Dearman - Dark Sky Island
Elly Griffiths - The Blood Card
Susan Hill- The Comforts of Home
Anne Cleese’s - Hidden Depths
Clare Horacio - The Light in the Dark.

February
Patricia Highsmith - small g
Ragnar Jonasson - White Out
Melissa Harrison - All Among The Barley
Raynor Winn - The Salt Path
Patricia Highsmith - Found in the Street
Mari Hannah - The Scandal
Mari Hannah - The Insider

March
Susan Hill - Black Sheep
Susan Hill- Strange Meeting
Susan Hill - From The Heart
Libby Page- The 24 hour Cafe

April
Patrick Gale - The Facts of Life
Lara Maiklem - Mudlarking
Janet Evanovich - Tricky Twenty Two
Robert Goddard - Set in Stone

May
Jennings Mankell - The White Lioness
Alan Cumming- Not My Father’s Son
Anthony Horowitz- The Sentence is Death
Linda LaPlante - Good Friday
Heather Morris- The Tattooist of Auschwitz
Peter May - Coffin Road

JUNE

Lois Austen Leigh - The Incredible Crime
Christy Lefteri - The Beekeeper of Aleppo
Patricia Cornwell - Post Mortimer
Patricia Cornwell- Body of Evidence

July
Patricia Cornwell- All That Remains
Patricia Cornwell- Cruel and Unusual
Melissa Harrison - All Among The Barley

August
TM Logan. - Lies
Patricia Cornwell- Unnatural Exposure
Nikki Gerrard - Missing Persons
Beth O’Leary - The Switch
Chris Packham - Fingers in the Sparkle Jar
Claudia Carrol - The Secrets of Primrose Square

September
Libby Page - The Lido
Raynor Wynn - The Salt Path
Anne Glenconnor - Lady In Waiting
Marina Lewycka -The Good, The Bad And The Little Bit Stupid
Patricia Highsmith - The Blunderer
Sally Rooney - Normal People
Marcia Willett - Amy Wingate’s Diary
LJ Ross - Holy Island
LJ Ross - Sycamore Gap

October
Robert Brindza - The Girl in the Ice
Evie Wyld - The Bass Rock
Helen Macdonald- H is for Hawk
Simon Barnes - Rewild Yourself
Marcia Willett - Echoes of the Dance
Robert Bryndza - Dark Water
Robert Bryndza - Last Breath
JM Gregson - For Sale With Corpse

November
LJ Ross - Heavenfield
Adam Kay - ‘Twas The Nightshift Before Christmas
LJ Ross- Cragside
Peter James- Dead Man’s Time
Heidi Parks - Three Perfect Liars
Peter James - Dead At First Sight
Peter James - Need You Dead

December
Jennings Mankell- Before The Frost
Karen Swan - Christmas in the Snow
















2019
January
Mary Wesley - Jumping The Queue
Mary Wesley - The Camomile Lawn
Harnessing Peacocks
The Vacillations of Poppy Carew
February
Mary Wesley - Not That Sort of Girl
Second Fiddle
A Sensible Life
A Dubious Legacy
March
Anita Brookner - Hotel du Lac
A Misalliance
A Friend From England
Lewis Percy
April
Robert Goddard - In Pale Battalions
Tom Sharpe - Ancestral Vices
Vintage Stuff

May
Colin Forbes - Precipice
John Mortimer - Paradise Postponed
Victoria Hislop - The Island

June
Ian McEwan - Enduring Love
Sue Townsend- Adrian Mole Mass Destruction

July
Daphne Du Maurer - My Cousin Rachel
Stan Barstow - A Raging Calm

August
Susan Hill-A Question of Identity
Lavinia Greenlaw - In The City of Love’s Sleep
Stephanie Butland - The Woman in the Photograph
Naomi Alderman- The Lesson

September
Mary Wesley - Part of The Furniture
Jane Austen - Emma
Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice

October
CLare Morral - Astonishing Splashes of Colour
Ian McEwan - On Chesil Beach
Edmund White - The Farewell Symphony
Val McDermid- How The Dead Speak

November
Ann Granger- The Murderer’s Apprentice
Collection of stories, At The Hampstead Ladies’ Pond
Zoe Ferraris - Kingdom of Strangers 8

December
Penelope Fitzgerald- The Bookshop




2018

JANUARY
Martina Navratilova- Being Myself 7
Carl Fraser - A Perfect Obsession 9
Kjell Erickson- The Cruel Stars of the Night 8
Ann Granger - Beneath These Stones 9

FEBRUARY
Taichi Yamaha- Strangers 5
Susan Hill- The Various Haunts of Men 10
Susan Hill - The Pure in Heart 10
Susan Hill- The Risk of Darkness 10
Susan Hill- The Vows of Silence 10

MARCH
Susan Hill- The Shadows In The Street 10
Lloyd Jones - Mister Pip 6
Paula Hawkins - Into the Water 6
Sue Townsend- Adrian Mole and The Weapons of Mass Destruction 6

APRIL
Susan Hill - The Betrayal of Trust 10
Susan Hill - A Question of Identity 10
Susan Hill - The Soul of Discretion 10

2017

JANUARY
Julie Wassmer- Murder on Sea 8
May Sarton - Bridge of Years 7
Andrew Marr - Head of State 6
Ian McEwan - Enduring Love 7
Marina Lewycka - We Are All Made of Glue 7
David Mitchell - Black Swan Green 7

FEBRUARY
Rose Tremain - The Gustav Sonata 10
Helen Dunmore - The Siege 7
Michael Cunningham- The Hours 6
Rebecca Whitney - The Liar's Chair 7
Minestrone Walters - Fox Evil 6
Kjell Eriksson - The Cruel Stars of the Night 9
Elizabeth George - Well Schooled in Murder 10
Elizabeth George- A Great Deliverance 8
Elizabeth George - Payment In Blood 7


MARCH
Andrew Taylor The Judgement of Strangers 10
Catherine Aird - Passing Strange 8
Different Class - Joanne Harris 9
Susan Hill - A Question of Identity 10

APRIL
Elizabeth George- For The Sake of Elena 8

MAY
E M Forster - Where Angels Fear To Tread 6
Patricia Cornwell - Post Mortimer 7
Susan Hill - The Pure in Heart 8

JUNE
Ruth Rendell - A Guilty Thing Surprised 8
Elizabeth Haynes - NeverAlone 9
Anna de Jäger - A Cold Death in Amsterdam 6

JULY
Sarah Waters - The Paying Guests 10
Elizabeth Haynes - Revenge of the Tide 8
Deborah Moggach - Heartbreak Hotel 7
Emily Barr - Treacherous Strand 8
Andrea Carter - The Sleeper 8

AUGUST
Lois Austen-Leigh - The Incredible Crime 6
David Haag - The Durrells of Corfu 4

September
Elizabeth George- Payment in Blood 7
Ann Granger -A Word After Dying 8
Edna O’Brien - House of Splendid Isolation 5

OCTOBER
Kate Morton - The Secret Keeper 8
Marina Lewyka - Various Pets Alive and Dead 9

NOVEMBER
Andrew Taylor- Bleeding Heart Square 10
Hannah Rothschild- The Improbability of Love 1
Val McDermid - Vanishing Point 10
Ruth Rendell - A Demon in my View 10

DECEMBER
Susan Hill - The Service of Clouds 7
Peter Robinson - Friend of the Devil 9
Joanna Trollope- A Passionate Man 8
Andrea Carter - Death at Whitewater Church 7
Alexander McCall Smith- My Italian Bulldozer 6

2016

JANUARY
Armistead Maupin - The Days of Anna Madrigal 9
JK Rowling - The Cuckoo's Calling 6
Sheila Hancock - Miss Carter's War 9

FEBRUARY
Julia Darling - Crocodile Soup 6
Rachel Joyce - The Lovesong of Queenie Hennessey 10
Andrew Taylor - Call The Dying 10

MARCH
Donna Leon - The Anonymous Venetion 7
Andrew Taylor - The Four Last Things 7
Andrew Taylor - The Office of the Dead 7

APRIL
Anne Cleeves - Too Good To Be True 6
P D James - Death Comes To Pemberley 6

MAY
Susan Hill - The Soul of Discretion 9
J M Gregson - The Fox in the Forest 9
Susan Hill - A Breach of Security 8
Susan Hill- The Vows of Silence 8
SJ Watson- Second Life 9
Ruth Rendell - Girl Next Door 10

JUNE
Joanna Trollope- Marrying The Mistress 8
Joanna Trollope- Brother and Sister 7
J M Gregson - For Sale With Corpse 8
Elly Griffiths - Crossing Places 8
Alison Bruce - Cambridge Blue 10
Nicci Gerard - The Twilight Hour 7

JULY
Colette Snowden - The Secret To Not drowning 6
Barbara Erskine - Midnight is a Lonely Place 8
Ann Granger - Risking It All 5
Ann Granger - Call The Dead Again 7
Alan Hollinghurst - The Swimming Pool Library 8
Patrick Gale - Pictures at an Exhibition 5
Anne Tyler - Vinegar Girl 7
Ruth Rendell _ Dark Adapted Eye 8
Anne Tyler - Morgan's Passing 6

AUGUST
Maureen Lee - Nothing Lasts For Ever 7
Ruth Rendell - A Gulity Thing Surprised 7
Alexander McaCall Smith - The Perils of Morning Coffee 5
Liane Moriaty - Big Little Lies 4
Elizabeth Wilson - War Damage 8

SEPTEMBER
Susan Hill -The Various Haunts of Men 9
Susan Hill- The Pure in Heart 9
Michael Bracewell -The Conclave 8
Anne Tyler - A Spool of Blue Thread 7
Susan Hill - The Vows of Silence 9
Marcia Willetts - Amy Wingates Journal 6


OCTOBER
Rosie Alison - The Very Thought of You 10
Barbara Nadel - Belshazzar's Daughter 7
Guillermo Martinez - The Book of Murder 7
Hisham Matar - In The Country of Men 6
Susan Hill - Mrs de Winter 8

NOVEMBER
Siri Hustvedt - The Sorrows Of an American 6
Rose Tremain - The Cupboard 6
Philip Brown - Mr Whiskers 6
Tom Sharpe - Ancestral Vices 8
Elly Griffiths- The Janus Stone 7
Tom Sharpe - Vintage Stuff 6

DECEMBER
Reginald Hill - The Woodcutter 9
Franchise Sagan - Bonjour Tristesse - 6
David Lodge - Therapy 6
Elly. Griffiths - House at Seas End 9
Ann Granger- Asking For Trouble 8

2015

JANUARY
Stella Gibbons - Cold Comfort Farm 7
Sarah Payne - A Dark Dividing 6
Aravind Adiga - The White Tiger 6

FEBRUARY
Iain Banks - Stonemouth 6
Mal Peet - Tamar 8
Fiona Mountain - Bloodline 7

MARCH
John Connoly - The Room of Lost Things 4
Michael Cunningham - a home at the end of the world 9
Adrienne Dines - The Jigsaw Maker 7
Andrea Camilleri - The Shape of Water 8

APRIL
Sue Grafton - R is for Ricochet - 7

MAY
Anna Hope - Wake 9

JUNE
Colm Toibin - Norah Webster 7
MC Beaton - The Quiche of Death 6

JULY
David Nicholls - Us

AUGUST
Linda Grant - The Clothes on Their Backs 7

SEPTEMBER
Brooklyn - Colm Toibin 8

OCTOBER
Daphne DuMaurier - My cousin Rachel 9
Louise Dean - The Old Romantic 6
Salley Vickers - Miss Garnets's Angel 8

NOVEMBER
Patrick Gale - Friendly Fire 10
John Lanchester-Capital 10

DECEMBER
Val McDermid - Stranded
Susan Hill - The Small Hand

2014

JANUARY
Anita Brookner - Latecomers 6
WJ Burley - Wycliffe and Death in Stanley Street 8
Nicholas Evans - The Horse Whisperer 8
Jules Verne - Around The World in Eighty Days 7
Maeve Binchy - Whitethorn Woods 6
John Connolly - The Book of Lost Things 6

FEBRUARY
Maeve Binchy - Quentins 7
Margaret Forster - The Seduction of Mrs Pendlebury 8

MARCH
Amy Tan - The Joy Luck Club 6
Katie Ward - Girl Reading 7

APRIL
Helen Fielding- Bridget Jones's Diary 6
Neville Shute - A Town Like Alice 10
Joanna Trollope - A Village Affair 8
James Bowen - A Street Cat Named Bob 6


MAY
Kate Grenville - The Secret River 10 *

JUNE
Ruth Rendell - The New Girlfriend 7
Nell Leyshon - The Colour of Milk 7

JULY
Ruth Rendell - The Keys to the Street 8
Ian McEwan - Enduring Love 9 *

AUGUST
Jane Gardham - Old Filth 8
Candida Clark - A House of Light 6

SEPTEMBER
Rachel Joyce - The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry 10 *
William Boyd - Fascination 6
M R Hall - The Coroner 9 *

OCTOBER
John Irving - The Hotel New Hampshire 6
Kate Grenville - Kate Thornhill 6

NOVEMBER
Paul O'Grady - Still Standing 7
Linda Grant - We Had It So Good 6
Mary Ann Shaffer/Annie Barrows - The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society 7

DECEMBER
John Williams - Stoner 10
Donna Leon - Drawing Conclusions 7


2013

JANUARY
Clare Chambers - Learning To Swim 9
Ali Smith - The Accidental 7
Stephen Fry - Mrs Fry's Diary 7

FEBRUARY
Agatha Christie - Sparkling Cyanide 8
Linda Grant - Still Here 7
Stella Duffy - State of Happiness 9
Jane Gardam - The Man in the Wooden Hat 8

MARCH
Roma Tearne- Brixton Beach 7
PD James - The Murder Room 9

APRIL
Jane Gardeam - The Flight Of The Maidens 6
Lindsey Davis - Alexandria 6
Jon McGregor - If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things 7

MAY
Jeanette Winterson - Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal 9
Peter Robinson - Past Reason Hated (Inspector Banks novel) 9
Jane Robinson - Bluestockings 8
Kathy Reichs - Spider Bones 6

JUNE
Jeffrey Deaver - The Broken Window 7
John Steinbeck - Cannery Row 10
Val McDermid - Trick of the dark 9

JULY
Patrick Gale - Pictures From an Exhibition 7
Anita Shreve - Body Surfing 5

AUGUST
Elizabeth George - A Suitable Vengeance 6
Katherine Forrest - Sleeping Bones 6
Katherine Forrest - Hancock Park 6
Will Davenport - The Painter 6
Margaret Atwood - Surfacing 6

SEPTEMBER
Hillary Jordan - Mudbound 6
Lynda LaPlante - Above Suspicion 10

OCTOBER
Will Self - Dr Mukti 5
Maggie O'Farrell - The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox 8
Anita Shreve - Resistance 5
Donna Leon - The Girl of his Dreams 7
Sj Watson - Before I Go to Sleep 8

NOVEMBER
Alan Bennett - Smut 9
Wendy Perriam - Born of Woman 8
Caitlin Moran - How To Be a Woman 5

DECEMBER
Henning Mankell - Wallender Faceless Killers 9
Geraldine Brooks - People of the Book 6
Joanna Hershon - The Outside of August 6

2012

JANUARY
Wendy Perriam - Fifty-Minute Hour 8
Emma Donoghue - Room 4

FEBRUARY
Shelley Silas - 12 days 8
Sheila Hancock- Just Me 8
Elizabeth Taylor - Angel 8

MARCH
John Canter - Worth 6
Rose Tremain - Sadler's Birthday 7
Markus Zusak - The Book Thief 8

APRIL
Rosie Thomas - Every Woman Knows a Secret 8
Kate Lord Brown - The Beauty Chorus 10
David Zsalay- Spring 5
Janette Jenkins - Angel of Brooklyn 5

MAY
Nicola Hodgkinson - Life With The lid Off 5
Kathleen Winter - Annabel 6
Terry Ronald - Becoming Nancy 9
Jane Rusbridge - The Devil's Music 9

JUNE
Carole Cadwalladr The Family Tree 7
Sarah Allerton - Making Shore 7

JULY
Laurie Graham - Mr Starlight 8
Lisa Genova - Still Alice 9

AUGUST
Wendy Perriam The Stillness The Dancing 6

SEPTEMBER


OCTOBER
Will Davenport - The Painter 6

NOVEMBER
Vicki Wickham - Dancing With Demons 7

DECEMBER
Joseph O'Connor Ghost Light 6









2011

JANUARY
Gillian Tindall - Give Them All My Love 4
Armistead Maupin - Mary Ann in Autumn 10
William Boyd - The new Confessions 7

FEBRUARY
David Roberts - A ~Grave Man 7
Marghanita Laski - Little Boy Lost 10

MARCH
Penelope Lively - Passing On 7
Richard yates - Revolutionary Road 7

APRIL
Dave Boling - Guernica 6

MAY
David Nicholls - One Day 8

JUNE
Sarah Blake - The Postmistress 6
Frank Muir and Denis Norden - Take My Word For It

JULY
Clare Francis - A Dark Devotion 7
Susan Hill - The Man In The Picture 8


AUGUST
Susan Lewis - The Choice 7
Stella Duffy - State of Happiness 9

SEPTEMBER
Blake Morrison - The Last Weekend 9
Clare Morrall - The Man Who Disappeared 7

OCTOBER
Joan Bakewell - All The Nice Girls 8

NOVEMBER
Anne Michaels - Fugitive Pieces 7
Mark Haddon - A Spot of Bother 9

DECEMBER
Kathryn Stockett - The Help 6
Alan Hollinghurst - The Stranger's Child 9


2010

JANUARY
Mark Mills - The Information Officer 8
RD Wingfield - Night Frost 9

FEBRUARY
Nancy Huston - Fault Lines 7
Sarah Kennedy - Charlotte's Friends 6
beryl Kingston - Neptune's Daughter 8 Transita

MARCH
Sheila Hancock - The Two of Us 9
Rosie Thomas - The Potter's House 6
Nick Hornby - About a Boy 6
Rupert Everett - Red Carpets and Other Banana Skins 4
Lynn Barber - An Education 6

APRIL
John Banville - The Infinities 6
Elizabeth Jeffrey - The Thirteenth Child 6
Andrew Taylor - Waiting for The End of The World 6
Rachel Cusk - Arlington Park 9
Penelope Fitzgerald - The Blue Flower 7

MAY
Jonathan Smith - Night Windows 9
Lisa See - Snowflower and the Secret Fan 10

JUNE
PD James - The Lighthouse 9


JULY
Stella Duffy - The Room of Lost Things 8
Philip Marsden - The Main Cages 6
Abraham Vergese - Cutting For Stone 6

AUGUST
Rohinton Mistry Family Matters 7

SEPTEMBER
Ben Elton - The First Casualy 7

OCTOBER
Melvyn Bragg - For Want of a Nail - 5
Catherine Heath - The Lady On The Burning Deck 7

NOVEMBER
Pat Barker - Life Class 8
Allan Sillitoe - The Loneliness Of The Long-Distance Runner 7
Michael Curtin - The League Against Christmas
Kenneth Wesley - Somewhere Over The Rainbow 4
Audrey Niffenegger - Her Fearful Symmetry 6
Derek Jarman - Kicking The Pricks 6
Clare Mulley - The Woman Who saved The Children 7
Susie Vereka - Pond Lane and Paris 8

DECEMBER
Sally Vickers - The Other Side of You. 10
Ken Follett - Eyue of The Needle 9
Jennifer Worth - Call in the Midwife 7
William Golding - Lord of The Flies 2
Gregory Hall - A Cement of Blood 9

2009

JANUARY
John Boyne - The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas 9
Costa Book Awards - The Finalists 6
Irene Nemirovsky - David Golder - 9
J M Coetzee - Elizabeth Costello 6

FEBRUARY
Haruki Murakami - South of The Border West of The Sun 7
Nikki French - Secret Smile 9
Ann Pilling - Black Harvest 8
Ann Pilling - The Year of The Worm 7
Jason F Wright - Christmas Jars 4
Tessa Barclay - The Final Discord 5
Gish Jen - Who's Irish? 6

MARCH
Maureen Lipman - Something To Fall Back On 7
Roald Dahl - Matilda 9
Georgia Hale - Without Consent 8
Doris Lessing - The Grandmothers 5

APRIL
Diana Athill - Yesterday Morning 9
Anne Robinson - Memoirs of an Unfit Mother 7
Tony Parsons - The Family Way 2
Alexander McCall Smith- The Kalahari Typing School For Men - 6

MAY
Victoria Clayton - Past Mischief 7
Rose Tremain - How I found Her - 6
Elie Wiesel - Night - 7


JUNE
Julian Clary - Murder Most Fab 8
Carol Birch - Little Sister 7
Michael Innes - Appleby and Honeybath 6
Mark Obmascik - The Big Year 6
Maggie O'Farrell - The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox 8

JULY
Jeanette Winterson - Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit 9
Anita Shreve - A Wedding in December 9
Gerald Seymour - A Line in the Sand 9
Ian McEwan - Chesil Beach 6
Val McDermid - A Darker Domain 9

AUGUST
Edwina Currie - A Woman's Place 6
Nicola Upson - Angel With Two Faces 7

SEPTEMBER
Donna Leon - Aqua Alta 9
M C Beaton - Death of an Addict 7
Nicola Upson - An Expert In Murder 8

OCTOBER
Deric Longden - I'm a Stranger Here Myself 6
Arthur Golden - Memoirs of a Geisha 5
R D Wingfield - A Touch of Frost 8

NOVEMBER
Minette Walters - The Ice House 8
Gabriel Garcia Marquez - Love in The Time of Cholera 6
Julie Walters - That's Another Story


DECEMBER
Fiona Mountain - Bloodline 7
Stevie Davies - Kith and Kin 7
Pamela Stephenson - Billy 6
Barry Hines - Kestrel For a Knave 7


2008

JANUARY
Xinran - Sky Burial 9
Diana Wynne Jones - Charmed Life 8
Tricia Wastvedt - The River 7
Charles Bukowski - Women 6
Elizabeth Taylor - Angel 8
David Gutterson - Snow fell on Cedars 6
FEBRUARY
Lisa See - Snow Flower and the Secret Fan 10
Celia Brayfield - Wild Weekend 7
Barbara Kingsolver - Poisonwood Bible 2
Laurie Graham - The Unfortunates 7
MARCH
Therese Szymanski - It's All Smoke and Mirrors 6
John Irving - A Prayer For Owen Meany 6
Juliet Greenwood - Elissa's Castle 6 Transita
Sue Moorcroft - Uphill All The Way 8 Transita
Arabella weir - Does My Bum Look Big in This? 6
Tamara Lee - Queen's Flight 8

APRIL
Sarah Dunant - Mapping The Edge 6
Khaled Hosseini - The Kite Runner 9
David Williams - Poison Farm 10
Linda Gillard - Star Gazing 7

MAY
PD James - Innocent Blood 8
Elizabeth Taylor - A View of The Harbour 8
Armistead maupin - Michael Tolliver Lives 9

JUNE
Tom Holt - Barking 6
Patricia Cornwell- Body of Evidence 8
Sidney Sheldon - Tell Me Your Dreams 2(first and last book by this author)

JUNE
Daphne du Maurier - Jamaica Inn 9

JULY
Sarah Waters - Tipping The Velvet 9

AUGUST
Alan Bennett - The Uncommon Reader 9
Andrew Taylor - An Old School Tie 8

SEPTEMBER
Sally Beauman - The Landscape of Love 7
Karin Kallmaker - Car Pool 7

OCTOBER
Sandi Toksvig - Flying Under Bridges 9
Margaret Atwood - Cats Eye 9
Kate Chopin - A Pair of Silk Stockings 6

NOVEMBER
Rosamunde Pilcher - The Shell Seekers 8
Elizabeth Taylor - The Devastating Boys 7
Margaret Atwood - The Edible Woman 6
Margaret Atwood - Surfacing 6
Andrew Taylor - Caroline Miniscule 6

DECEMBER
Nora Roberts - Blue Dahlia 9
Judith Holder - Grumpy Old Women 7
Women etc - Previews






2007
Ben Elton - Past Mortem
Deborah Crombie - All Shall Be Well
Deborah Crombie - Mourn Not Your Dead
Elizabeth Palmer - The Stainless Angel
Colin Dexter - Last Bus To Woodstock
Joan Barfoot - Plain Jane
Anne Bennett - Till The Sun Shines Through
Zoe Heller - Notes On A Scandal
Armistead Maupin - The Night Listener
Ruth Rendell - A Sleeping Life
Rhona Cameron - 1979
Jane Gordon-Cumming
Sandi Toksvig - Vanished Into Air
Elizabeth Von Arnim - The Enchanted April
Barbara Comyns - Our Spoons Came From Woolworths
Elizabeth Taylor - A Wreath of Roses
Liz Jensen - War Crimes For The Home
Rosie Thomas - Moon Island
Wendy Perriam - Absinthe For Elevenses 8
20 Linda Gillard - Emotional Geology 10
Susie Vereker - Pond Lane and Paris 8
Fiona Shaw - The picture She Took 9
Jon Canter - Seeds Of Greatness 7
Stella Duffy - Parallel Lies 8
Julian Clary - A Young Man's Passage 8
Mark Mills - The Whaleboat House 10
Charlotte Greig - A Girl's Guide To Modern European Philosophy 6
Linda Olsson - Astrid and Veronika 9
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Half of a Yellow Sun 9
30 Susan Fletcher - Eve Green 7
Margaret Forster - Diary of an Ordinary Woman 8
Louis de Bernieres - Birds Without Wings 2
Paul Burston - Star People 6
Manda Scott - Hen's Teeth 8
Kathleen Rowntree - Outside Looking In 7
John Mortimer - Clinging To The Wreckage 6
Jack Kerouac - On The Road 6
Karen Joy Fowler - The Jane Austen Book Club 2
Irene Nemirovsky - Suite Francais 10
40 Annie Proulx - Brokeback Mountain 8
William Newton - The two Pound Tram 5
Galaxy Craze (!) - By The Shore 5
Mark Mills - The Savage Garden 7
Elizabeth Edmondson = The Frozen Lake 6
Margaret Drabble - The Peppered Moth 6
Esther Freud - Hideous Kinky 5
47 Eva Rice - The Lost Art Of Keeping Secrets - 8

2006
Penelope Lively - The Photograph
Veronic Stallwood - Oxford Mourning
Tracey Chevalier - Falling Angels
Manda Scott- Stronger Than Death
Jonathan Kellerman - Flesh and Blood
Guillermo Martinez - The Oxford Murders
Andrea Newman - Three Into two Won't Go

Ben Elton - Dead Famous
Elizabeth Taylor - Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont
Alan Hollinghurst - The Line of Beauty
Valerie Martin - Property
Robert Goddard - Into The Blue
Elizabeth Taylor - Palladian
Michael Innes - The Gay Phoenix
Nigel Slater - Toast
Naomi Alderman - Disobedience
Asne Seierstad - The Bookseller Of Kabul
Charlotte Bingham - The Wind Off The Sea.
Sandi Toksvig - Flying Under Bridges
Meera Syal- Anita and Me
David Nicholls - Starter For Ten

2005
Julie Myerson - Something Might Happen
John Donogue - Shakespeare my Butt!
Jose Carlos Somoza - The Art of Murder
Joseph O'Connor - The Salesman
Sue Townsend - The Cappuccino Years
Meera Syall - Life isn't all ha ha hee hee.
William Sutcliffe - Are You Experienced?
PD James - The Murder Room
Janet Street Porter - Baggage


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