I love this site, I became quite addicted to it at one time but have dipped in and out since...... I had a tendency to hoard books so this site gave me a real incentive to release some of those books to a new audience and I got the opportunity to read a much wider range of books through book rings and trades. I have reached my ambition to fit my book stack inside my bookcase instead of spilling out in all directions and am grateful to bookcrossing for the help with that!! I now read and release and minimise the to be read pile! I’ve found time to join a local book club and am loving reading regularly again.

Always happy to trade books so if you see something you'd like to read on my "available" shelf please let me know.

Catches of my wild releases:-
No Safe Place by Richard North Patterson caught at the Railway Station Staff Office in Wickford, Essex in June 2005
Certain Prey by John Sandford caught at the Thomas Kemble pub in Rettendon, Essex in February 2006
The Sweetest Taboo by Carole Matthews caught at the Blackwater Medical Centre in Maldon, Essex in November 2006
Dr Death by Jonathan Kellerman caught on the ATM machine at the RBS office in East London in December 2006

Wild releases caught by me:-
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruig Zufon caught in the Little Book of Furniture Shop in Spitalfields, East London in November 2005
The Journal of Antonio Montoya by Rick Collignon caught in Starbucks at Freeport in 2008
The Year of the Gadfly by Jennifer Miller caught at a Little Free Library in Scotland Street, Edinburgh in May 2018


Book list of 2024:-
Still Life by Sarah Winman
The Last Devil To Die by Richard Osman
Skinners Festival by Quintin Jardine
Eleven Liars by Robert Gold
The Trees by Percival Everett
Skin by Mo Hayder
The Prisoner of Heaven by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The Secret by Lee Child
Belshazzar’s Daughter by Barbara Nadel
Ten Seconds by Robert Gold
No Way Back by J B Turner
The Binding Room by Nadine Matheson

My book list for 2023:-
Smoke Gets In Your Eyes by Caitlin Doughty
Strangers by Paul Finch
The Darkest Evening by Ann Cleeves
The Understudy by BA Paris, Clare Mackintosh, Holly Brown, Sophie Hannah
Senseless by Ed James
Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz
The Stepney Doorstep Society by Kate Thompson
Exit Music by Ian Rankin
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time by Mark Haddon
Bones of the Lost by Kathy Reichs
No Plan B by Lee and Andrew Child
The Moth Catcher by Ann Cleeves
A Brush With Death by Quintin Jardine
Cop Town by Karin Slaughter
More Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin
Children of the Revolution by Peter Robinson
Say it with Poison by Ann Grainger
The Mausoleum by David Mark
Hour of the Bees by Lindsay Eagar
The Night She Disappeared by Lisa Jewell
Trace by Patricia Cornwell
The Hypnotists Love Story by Liane Moriarty
Moonflower Murders by Anthony Horowitz
The Island by Victoria Hislop
The Lantern Men by Elly Griffiths
Perfect Love by Elizabeth Buchan
Death In Profile by Guy Fraser-Sampson
Wild by Kristin Hannah
A Place of Execution by Val McDermid
Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
Before The Storm by Alex Gray
Murder in Steeple Martin by Lesley Cookman
Cross Justice by James Patterson
Ambush by James Patterson
I Will Find You by Harlan Coben
Between You and Me by Lisa Hall
The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
Long Road to Mercy by David Baldacci
Con Law by Mark Gimenez
The One Plus One by JoJo Moyes
The Good Daughter by Karin Slaughter
Harbour Street by Ann Cleeves
Scrublands by Chris Hammer
The Keeper of Stories by Sally Page
Die For Me by Karen Rose
Body Language by AK Turner
Life Sentence by AK Turner
Kill the Father by Sandrone Dazieri
The Librarian by Sally Vickers
Case Sensitive by AK Turner
Shadows by Paul Finch
Where The Devil Can’t Go by Anya Lipska
A Year in the Chateau by Sarah Long
A Painted House by John Grisham
The Good Daughter by Michelle Frances
Lilly by Rose Tremain
Dangerous Women by Hope Adams
Alone by Lisa Gardner
Thunder Bay by Douglas Skelton
Black Market by James Patterson
The Invisible Women’s Club by Helen Paris
The Postscript Murders by Elly Griffiths
A Game of Lies by Clare Mackintosh

My reading list for 2022:-
Seventy-two Virgins by Boris Johnson
The Dressmaker’s Gift by Fiona Valpy
The Chalk Pit by Elly Griffiths
Burial of Ghosts by Ann Cleeves
Game Over by Quintin Jardine
A Commonplace Killing by Sian Busby
If You Knew Her by Emily Elgar
Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin
The Heron’s Cry by Ann Cleeves
Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman
Lullabies for Little Criminals by Heather O’Neill
The Confessions of Frannie Langton by Sara Collins
The Psychopath Test by Jon Ronson
Knife Edge by Simon Mayo
Gone West by Carola Dunn
Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Less Dead by Denise Mina
Age Is Just A Number by Charles Eugster
The Last Widow by Karin Slaughter
A Three Dog Problem by SJ Bennett
Talking to the Dead by Harry Bringham
Better Off Dead by Lee Child and Andrew Child
Breathe by Dominick Donald
The Corpse Bridge by Stephen Booth
Battle Abbey and the Websters by Roy Pryce
Further Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin
Cry Wolf by Hans Rosenfeldt
Never Seen Again by Paul Finch
The Cutting Season by M W Craven
Winchelsea by Alex Preston
One Eye Open by Paul Finch
Dead Man’s Grave by Neil Lancaster
Love, Marriage by Monica Ali
The Lightless Years by Gulwali Passarlay
The Jigsaw Man by Nadine Matheson
The Echo Man by Sam Holland
The Mermaid’s Scream by Kate Ellis
The Interpretation of Murder by Jed Rubenfeld
The Case of the Murdered Muckraker by Carola Dunn
The Dark Hours by Michael Connelly
The Wife Between Us by Greer Hendricks & Sarah Pekkanen
East of Hounslow by Khurrum Rahman
Dark Sacred Night by Michael Connelly
Twelve Secrets by Robert Gold
The Case of the Murdered Muckraker by Carola Dunn
Stolen by Paul Finch
The Blood Card by Elly Griffiths
Thursday Legends by Quintin Jardine
Cold As The Grave by James Oswald
The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes
The Locked Room by Elly Griffiths
Bad Actors by Mick Herron
The Blood Tide by Neil Lancaster
The Vanishing Box by Elly Griffiths
Die Laughing by Carola Dunn
The Silent Girl by Tess Gerritsen
Kick Back by Val McDermid
Kiss of Death by Paul Finch
Just Ignore Him by Alan Davies
Murder Before Evensong by Reverend Richard Cole’s
The Last Party by Clare MacIntosh
The Night Watch by Neil Lancaster
The Bullet That Missed by Richard Osman
Murder on Port Meadow by Annie Dalton and Maria Dalton
The Rising Tide by Ann Cleeves
One Way Street by Trevor Wood
The Murder Wall by Mari Hannah
The Murders at Fleat House by Lucinda Riley
The Therapist by B A Paris


I suspect 2021 is gonna be another big year for reading given we’re starting it in another lockdown so as I’ve rather enjoyed keeping tabs on my reading list, here we go with the 2021 list:-

Joe Country by Mick Herron
Regeneration by Pat Barker
Where The Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
The Puppet Show by M W Craven
Home Stretch by Graham Norton
The Eye in the Door by Pat Barker
The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman
Black Summer by M W Craven
The Mourning Wedding by Carola Dunn
The Thirst by Jo Nesbo
The Ghost Road by Pat Barker
The Shape of Darkness by Laura Purcell
The First Time Lauren Pailing Died by Alyson Rudd
The Secret Fear by Solomon Carter
The Hollow Man by Oliver Harris
Skinners Rules by Quintin Jardine
Mistletoe and Murder by Carola Dunn
Grimm up North by David J Gatward
The Curator by M W Craven
Three Hours by Rosamund Lipton
By The Pricking of My Thumb not Agatha Christie
Dead In The Water Birthday Carola Dunn
Abducted by T R Ragan
Slough House by Mick Herron
The Cold Cold Ground by Adrian Mckinty
I Hear The Sirens In The Street by Adrian Mckinty
Mrs Death Misses Death by Salena Godden
The Bloody Tower by Carola Dunn
Police At The Station & They Don’t Look Friendly by Adrian McKinty
The Boy at the Back of the Class by Onjali Q Rauf
Anthem for Doomed Youth by Carola Dunn
Oranges and Lemons by Christopher Fowler
The Never Game by Jeffrey Deaver
A Time of Mourning by Christobel Kent
Death of a Ghost by Marjery Allingham
White Corridor by Christopher Fowler
Hostage by Clare Mackintosh
Many Different Kinds of Love, A Story of Life, Death and the NHS by Michael Rosen
The Mystery of the Jewelled Moth by Katherine Woodfine
Never Somewhere Else by Alex Gray
Dead Ground by M W Craven
Dark Winter by David Mark
Born in a Burial Gown by M W Craven
Murder’s a Swine by Nap Lombard
Rivers of London by Ben Aaronovitch
To Davy Jones Below by Carola Dunn
Dark Winter by David Mark
Wild Chamber by Christopher Fowler
The Man Who Died Twice by Richard Osman
The Whistler by John Grisham
The Red House by A A Milne
Agatha Raisin and Kissing Christmas Goodbye by M C Beaton
The Diddakoi by Rumer Godden
Summer House with Swimming Pool by Herman Koch
Fall of a Philanderer by Carola Dunn
State Secrets by Quintin Jardine
The Seafront Tea Rooms by Vanessa Greene
Cold Earth by Ann Cleeves
Sheer Folly by Carola Dunn
Sorrow Bound by David Mark
Sealand by Dylan Taylor-Lehman


Thought I’d like to keep a list of books I read whilst we live through the Coronavirus lockdown, there are likely to be quite a few and it’s a good way to clear the bookshelves of some physical books that have been on the TBR shelf for a long time...... some I’m enjoying more than others, some have been taking up undeserved shelf space!! Books read in 2020:-

The Sword of God by Mark Dawson
Salvation Row by Mark Dawson
Wife in the North by Judith O’Reilly
London Calling by Sara Sheridan
Sleeper 13 by Rob Sinclair
Dead Men’s Bones by James Oswald
The Bookseller of Kabul by Asne Seierstad
Pulse by Felix Francis
The Museum of Broken Promises by Elizabeth Buchan
Boris by Andrew Gimson
I See You by Clare Mackintosh
The Hartlepool Monkey by Sean Longley
Men Without Women by Ernest Hemingway
Not a Games Person by Julie Myerson
Control by Hugh Montgomery
The Long Call by Ann Cleeves
The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
Roundabout by Mel Wright
Holding by Graham Norton
Speaking in Bones by Kathy Reichs
Old Baggage by Lissa Evans
Case Histories by Kate Atkinson
Blue Moon by Lee Child
Girl Woman Other by Bernadine Evaristo
The Watchmakers Daughter by C J Archer
How To Be Autistic by Charlotte Amelia Poe
The Cipher by Isobel Maldonado
Only The Innocent by Rachel Abbott
The Man on the Street by Trevor Wood
High Five by Janet Evanovich
Murder On The Flying Scotsman by Carola Dunn
Deep Shelter by Olive Harris
The Black Echo by Michael Connelly
Dearly Devoted Dexter by Jeff Lindsay
Girl in Trouble by Stacy Claflin
The Winter Garden by Carola Dunn
The Gunpowder Plot by Carola Dunn
The Girl with the Louding Voice by Abi Dare
Gallows Court by Martin Edwards


Books I’ve read in 2018:-
Zealots Bones by DC Mann
Frozen Grave by Lee Week’s
The Midnight Line by Lee Child
Farewell My Lovely by Raymond Chandler
The Well of Ice by Andrea Carter
Black Water Lillies by Michel Bussi
The Victoria Vanishes by Christopher Fowler
Slow Tide by Christopher Fowler
Slow Horses by Mick Herron
Dead Lions by Mick Herron
The Mangle Street Murders by M.R.C. Kasasian
Real Tigers by Mick Herron
Dark Winter by David Mark
Girl Zero by AA Dhand
Black Widow. By Chris Brookmyre
Streets of Darkness by AA Dhand
Conspiracy of Death by JD Rob
Full Dark House by Christopher Fowler
The Ice Princess by Camilla Lackberg
When The Music’s Over by Peter Robinson
The Girl Before by Anthony Capella
N is for Noose by Sue Grafton
Ghost Riders travels with American Nomads but Richard Grant
Breaking Cover by Stella Rimington
Killing Hour by Andrew Gross


Books I've read in 2015:-
The Silent Tide by Rachel Hore
A Place of Secrets by Rachel Hore

Books I've read in 2013:-
The Boy in The Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne
Do Not Pass Go by Tim Moore

Books I've read in 2011:-
For Tibet with Love by Isabel Losada
Cleo by Helen Brown
This Book Will Save Your Life by A M Homes
The Reading Group by Elizabeth Noble
Divas Don't Knit by Gil McNeil
Needles and Pins by Gil McNeil


Books I've read in 2009:-
The Gum Thief by Douglas Coupland - bookring
Housewife Up by Alison Penton Harper
The Chocolate Lovers' Club by Carole Matthews
The Reluctant Landlady by Bernadette Strachan
Housewife on Top by Alison Penton Harper
London Underground by Stephen Smith
Fly Away Peter by Stevie Morgan
Starter for Ten by David Nicholls
War Horse by Michael Morpurgo