Books read 2015 - 2022

FROM NOVEMBER 2015 (when I first started blogging!)

Irma Voth - Miriam Toews


My Brilliant Friend - Elena Ferrante

The Story of a New Name - Elena Ferrante

The Glorious Heresies - Lisa McInerney

The End of Vandalism - Tom Drury

Night Waking - Sarah Moss

Bodies of Light - Sarah Moss

Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay - Elena Ferrante

The Story of the Lost Child - Elena Ferrante

The Heart Goes Last - Margaret Atwood (Kindle)

Exposure - Helen Dunmore

Every Eye - Isobel English (Persephone)

There Were No Windows - Norah Hoult (Persephone)

The Centre of the Bed - Joan Bakewell (NF)

Signs for Lost Children - Sarah Moss

Under a Silent Moon - Elizabeth Haynes

Into the Darkest Corner - Elizabeth Haynes

The Family on Paradise Pier - Dermot Bolger

The Hummingbird - Kati Hiekkapelto

Joy and Josephine - Monica Dickens

The Winds of Heaven - Monica Dickens (Perspehone)

The Shell Seekers - Rosamund Pilcher

The Happy Prisoner - Monica Dickens

One of the Family - Monica Dickens

In the Morning I'll be Gone - Adrian McKinty

Rain Dogs - Adrian McKinty

I Hear the Sirens in the Street - Adrian McKinty

Emma and Kate - Monica Dickens

Closed at Dusk - Monica Dickens

Last Year When I was Young - Monica Dickens

The Fancy - Monica Dickens

No More Meadows - Monica Dickens

Thursday Afternoons - Monica Dickens

Thin Air - Ann Cleeves

Meadowland: the Private Life of an English Field - John Lewis-Stempel (NF)

Three Houses (NF) - Angela Thirkell

Burnt Diaries (NF) - Emma Tennant

In a Fish Bone Church - Catherine Chidgey

The Shadows in the Street - Susan Hill

My Father's House (NF) - Miranda Seymour

The Bend for Home (NF) - Dermot Healy

Martin John - Anakana Schofield

The Museum of You - Carys Bray

A Song for Issy Bradley - Carys Bray

Malarky - Anakana Schofield

The Running Hare (NF)- John Lewis-Stempel

Six Facets of Light (NF) - Ann Wroe

The Power of the Dog - Thomas Savage

My Name is Lucy Barton - Elizabeth Strout

Nobody is Ever Lost - Catherine Lacey

Vinegar Girl - Anne Tyler

Rebel Footprints (NF) - David Rosenberg

Dreamstreets: A Journey through Britain's Village Utopias (NF) - Jacqueline Yallop

The Outrun - Amy Liptrott

The House at the Edge of the World - Julia Rochester

The Woman who Walked into the Sea - Mark Douglas-Home

The Railwayman's Wife - Ashley Hay

Emerald Square - Lar Redmond (NF)

Accidents in the Home - Tessa Hadley

In the Woods - Tana French

Iris and Ruby - Rosie Thomas

The Gardens of the Dead - William Broderick

A New View of the Irish Language - (Eds) Caoilfhionn Nic Phaiden & Sean O' Cearnaigh (NF)

By Night Unstarred - Patrick Kavanagh

Sligo: Land of Yeat's Desire - John Cowell (NF)

An Unconsidered People: The Irish in London - Catherine Dunne (NF)

The Lives of Women - Christine Dwyer Hickey

Grace Williams Says it Loud - Emma Henderson

Tea at Four o Clock - Janet McNeil

The Small Widow - Janet McNeil

Hawthorn and Child - Keith Ridgeway

Oh Dear, Silvia - Dawn French

Revenge of the Tide - Elizabeth Haynes

The Likeness - Tana French

Advice for Strays - Justine Kilkerr

Holy Orders - Benjamin Black

Even the Dead - Benjamin Black

Faithful Place - Tana French

Tidal Zone - Sarah Moss

Gun Street Girl - Adrian McKinty

Nightingale Wood - Stella Gibbons

Westwood - Stella Gibbons

The Plot: A Biography of My Father's English Acre - Madeleine Bunting (NF)

The New Moon with the Old - Dodie Smith

A Question of Identity - Susan Hill

The Soul of Discretion - Susan Hill

The Sixth Lamentation - William Broderick

The Matchmaker - Stella Gibbons

The Betrayal of Trust - Susan Hill

Birders: Tales of a Tribe (NF) - Mark Cocker

The Burning Boys - John Fuller

Freedom - Jonathan Franzen

Barkskins - Annie Proulx

The Dark Circle - Linda Grant

Days without End - Sebastian Barry

Elizabeth Jane Howard: a Dangerous Innocence (NF) - Artemis Cooper

Daddy's Gone a Hunting - Penelope Mortimer (Persephone)

Keeping on, Keeping On - Alan Bennett (NF)

TOTAL from November 2015 to December 31st 2016 = 97 books read



 JANUARY 2017

Long Live Great Bardfield - Tirzah Garwood (Persephone)

The Godwits Fly - Robin Hyde (Persephone)

A Harp in Lowndes Square - Rachel Ferguson (Furrowed Middlebrow)

FEBRUARY 2017


Love, Nina - Nina Stibbe


The Fledgling -  Frances Faviell  (Furrowed Middlebrow)

Stuart : A Life Backwards - Alexander Masters (NF)


Every Eye - Isobel English (Persephone) (a re-read)


Don't Die in Autumn - Eric Dempsey (NF)


Somewhere Towards the End - Diana Athill (NF)


Estuary: out from London to the Sea - Rachel Lichenstein (NF)


MARCH 2017


A Brush with Nature - Richard Mabey (NF)


The Dogs of Littlefield - Suzanne Berne


My Salinger Year - Joanna Rakoff (NF)


A Line Made by Walking  - Sara Baume


The Three of Us: A Family Story - Julia Blackburn (NF)


Man at the Helm - Nina Stibbe


Wild Food - John Lewis-Stempel (NF)


Common Ground - Rob Cowen (NF)

APRIL 2017

The Blackbird Singularity - Matt Wiven


A Footman for the Peacock - Rachel Ferguson

Evenfield - Rachel Ferguson

We Have Always Lived in the Castle - Shirley Jackson

The Rivers of London - David Aaronovitch

The Mad Lomasneys - Frank O Connor

The Secret Place - Tana French

Bewildering Cares - Winifred Peck

MAY 2017


No News at Throat Lake - Lawrence Donegan (NF)


Miss Mole - E.H. Young

Dadland - Keggie Carew (NF)


All We Shall Know - Donal Ryan


JUNE 2017

Making Conversation - Christine Longford (Persephone)

 The Fortnight in September - J.C. Sherriff
(Persephone)


The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair - Joel Dicker


The Wood for the Trees: The Long View of Nature from a Small Wood - Richard Fortey (NF)

Marnie - Winston Graham

A Life Discarded: 148 Diaries Found in a Skip (NF) - Alexander Masters

Bag Eye at the Wheel - Colin Grant

Summer of my Amazing Luck - Miriam Toews

The Girl on the Train - Paula Hawkins (I know; I'm very late to this party!)

About Time: Ageing Disgracefully - Irma Kurtz (NF)

How to be Both - Ali Smith

JULY 2017

Turned out nice again (NF) - Richard Mabey

Kerracher Man (NF) - Eric Macleod

This Must be the Place- Maggie O Farrell

A World of Love - Elizabeth Bowen

The Ballad of Lee Cotton - Christopher Wilson

Spilling the Beans (NF) Clarissa Dickson-Wright

Blood Ties - Jennifer Lash

Abide with Me - Elizabeth Strout ( re read)

Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine - Gail Honeyman (Kindle)


AUGUST 2017

The Little Girls - Elizabeth Bowen

Amy and Isabelle - Elizabeth Strout (Kindle)

Bertie, May and Mrs. Fish. - Xandra Bingley

Round Ireland in Low Gear - Eric Newby (NF)

The Ladies of Llangollen - Elizabeth Mavot (NF)

In My House - Alex Hourston - (Kindle)

According to Yes - Dawn French

The Girl who Saved the King of Sweden - Jonas Jonassen

A Death at the Palace - M.H. Bayliss

Place of the Heart - Steinunn Sigurdardottir

Burial Rites - Hannah Kent

SEPTEMBER 2017

Reader for Hire - Raymond Jean

Landskipping - Anna Pavord - (NF)

Love of Country: A Hebridean Journey - Madeleine Bunting (NF)

Timepiece: A Dublin Memoir - John Banville (NF)

The Long Drop - Denise Mina

Anything is Possible - Elizabeth Strout

The Wolf Pit - Will Cohu

Walk the Lines: London Underground, Overground - Mark Mason (NF)

Molly Keane: A Life - Sally Phipps (NF)

OCTOBER 2017

Augustown - Kei Miller

Midwinter - Fiona Melrose

A Life of My Own - Claire Tomalin (NF)

The Last London - Iain Sinclair (NF)

Moon Over Soho - David Aaaronovitch

The Nakano Thrift Shop - Hiromi Kawakami

Land of Plenty - Journey through the Fields and Food of Modern Britain - Charlie Pye-Smith (NF)

Just Off for a Walk - Stephen Reynolds (NF)

The Light Between Oceans - M. L. Steadman

Whispers Underground - Ben Aaronovitch

Broken Homes - Ben Aaronovitch

NOVEMBER 2017

Foxglove Summer - Ben Aaronovitch

The Hanging Tree - Ben Aaronovitch

At the Edge: Walking the Atlantic Coast of Ireland and Scotland - Joseph Murphy (NF)

The Weather House - Nan Shepherd

New Finnish Grammar - Diego Marani

Nora Webster - Colm Toibin

DECEMBER 2017

Smile - Roddy Doyle

All the Birds Singing - Evie Wyld

Salvage the Bones - Jessamyn Ward

The Gift of Reading - Robert McFarlane (NF)

The King of the Badgers - Philip Hensher (re-read)

Rumer Godden: A Storyteller's Life - Ann Chisholm (NF)

TOTAL for 2017 = 92 books read

JANUARY 2018

James Ravilious: A Life - Robin Ravilious (NF)

Greenbanks - Dorothy Whipple (Persephone)

Because of the Lockwoods - Dorothy Whipple

High Wages - Dorothy Whipple

Illumination Nights - Alice Hoffman

Blackbird House - Alice Hoffman

A Map of the World - Jane Hamilton

FEBRUARY 2018

Grief is the Thing with Feather - Max Porter

A Manual for Cleaning Women - Lucia Berlin

MARCH 2018

A Week in December- Sebastian Faulks

Scottsboro - Ellen Feldman

On the Marshes: A Journey into England's Waterways - Carol Donaldson (NF)

The Excellent Lombards - Jane Hamilton

Nothing But Grass - Will Cohu

The Giant of Aberdeen County - Tiffany Baker


APRIL 2018

A Winter Away - Elizabeth Fair

Native Heath - Elizabeth Fair

Beatrice - Noelle Harrison

Fair and Tender Ladies - Lee Smith

Seaview House - Elizabeth Fair

The Mingham Air - Elizabeth Fair

When the Floods Came - Clare Morrall

Some Luck - Jane Smiley (1st in a trilogy called 'The Last Hundred Years')

MAY 2018

Early Warning - Jane Smiley (2nd in trilogy)

Golden Age - Jane Smiley (3rd in trilogy)

The Last of the Lockwoods - Clare Morrall

Simon ; the genius in my basement - Alex Masters (NF)

Spring Tide -  Cilla and Rolf Borjlind

JUNE 2018

Dark Places - Gillian Flynn

Sharp Objects - Gillian Flynn

The Light Years - Elizabeth Jane Howard (Book 1 of 'The Cazalet Chronicle')

Marking Time - Elizabeth Jane Howard (Book 2 of The Cazalet Chronicle')

Confusion - Elizabeth Jane Howard (Book 3 of 'The Cazelet Chronicle')

Casting Off - Elizabeth Jane Howard (Book 4 of 'The Cazelet Chronicle')

All Change - Elizabeth Jane Howard (Book 5 of 'The Cazalet Chronicle')

The Balkan Trilogy - Olivia Manning

JULY 2018

A Dance to the Music of Time: 12 Volumes - Anthony Powell

A Question of Upbringing
A Buyer's Market
The Acceptance World
At Lady Molly's
Cassanova's Chinese Restaurant
The Kingly Ones
The Valley of Bones
The Soldier's Art
The Military Philosphers
Books Do Furnish A Room
Temporary Kings
Hearing Secret Harmonies

The Lives of Stella Bain - Anita Shreve

Please Mr.Postman - Alan Johnson (NF)

Helpless - Barbara Gowdy

Claxron: Field Notes from a Small Planet - Mark Cocker (NF)

The Girl on the Wall: One Life's Rich Tapestry - Jean Baggott (NF) (K)

Ablutions - Patrick De Witt (K)

Elizabeth is Missing - Emma Healey (K)

Brampton Wick - Elizabeth Fair (K)

Anny: A Life of Anne Thackeray - Henrietta Garnett

Brendan Behan's Island: An Irish Sketch Book - Paul Hogarth and Brendan Behan (NF)

London Particulars: Memoirs of An Edwardian Boyhood (NF) -  C. H. Rolph

A Bit on the Side - William Trevor (SS)

The Hill Bachelors - William Trevor (SS)

The Life and Crimes of Agatha Christie - Charles Osborne (NF)

AUGUST 2018

The Last September - Elizabeth Bowen

The Mulberry Empire - Phillip Hensher

Winter's Bone - Daniel Woodrell

Cold Earth - Ann Cleeves

Hester and Harriet - Hilary Spiers (K)

The Greenhouse - Audur Ava Olafsdottir (K)

The Cove - Ron Rash (K)

An Event in Autumn - Henning Mankell (K)

We are all Completely Beside Ourselves - Karen Joy Fowler (K)

Daybreak - Viktor Arnar Ingolfsson (K)

Human Remains - Elizabeth Haynes (K)

A Place Near Heaven: A Year in West Cork - Damien Wright (NF)

The Green Road into the Trees: A Walk Through England - Hugh Thomson (K) (NF)

The Man Who Went into the West: A Life of R.S. Thomas - Byron Rogers (K) (NF)

The Return - Hakan Nesser (K)

The Last Will - Lisa Marklund

Burned - Thomas Enger

My Name is Leon - Kit De Waal

The Invisible Ones - Stef Penney

SEPTEMBER 2018

The Echo Maker - Richard Powers

Things We Set on Fire - Deborah Reed (K)

The Tottenham Outrage - M. H. Baylis

Black Day at the Bosphorus Cafe - M. H. Baylis

Unspoken - Luke Allnut (NF) (K)

The Lie of the Land - Amanda Craig

Reservoir 13 - Jon McGregor

The Friendly Ones - Philip Hensher

Dashing for the Post: The Letters of Patrick Leigh-Fermor (NF)

From a Low and Quiet Sea - Donal Ryan

Whistle in the Dark - Emma Healey

All the Good Things - Claire Fisher

OCTOBER 2018

Dashing for the Post: The  Letters of Patrick Leigh-Fermor (NF)

The Paper Lovers - Gerard Woodward

Clock Dance - Anne Tyler

The Trick to Time - Kit De Waal

Respectable - Lynsey Hanley (NF)

A Time of Gifts - Patrick Leigh-Fermor (NF)

Out of the Woods: The Armchair Guide to Trees  - Will Cohu (NF)

The English Village: History and Tradition - Martin Wainwright (NF)

The Short Life and Long Times of Mrs. Beeton - Kathryn Hughes (NF)

NOVEMBER 2018

Lethal White - Robert Galbraith

The Clock Maker's Daughter - Kate Morton

Transcription - Kate Atkinson

The G File - Hakan Nesser

DECEMBER 2018

Cotter's England - Christina Stead (An original green Virago edition; I haven't read one of these for ages)

The Great Western Beach: A Memoir of a Cornish Childhood Between the Wars - Emma Smith (NF)

As Green as Grass: Growing Up Before, During and After the Second World War - Emma Smith (NF)

The Salt Path - Rayner Winn (NF)

Greengates - R.C. Sherriff (Persephone)

A Sky Full of Birds: In Search of Britain's Great Bird Gatherings - Matt Merritt (NF)

TOTAL BOOKS READ - 2018 = 113

JANUARY 2019

Where Poppies Blow: The British Soldier, Nature and the Great War - John Lewis - Stempel (NF) Present from eldest grandson's girlfriend at Christmas.

Lies Sleeping - Ben Aaronovitch  (No.7 in 'The Rivers of London series).

Anthony Powell - Hilary Spurling (NF) Present from eldest grandson at Christmas.

The Seagull - Ann Cleeves

The House in the Country - Joyce Playfair  (Perspehone)

Style Me Vintage Accessories: A Guide to Collectable Hats, Gloves, Bags, Shoes, Costume Jewellery and More - Naomi Thompson and Liz Tregenza. (NF)

FEBRUARY 2019

Basil Street Blues - Michael Holroyd (NF)

Princes in the Land - Joanna Cannan (Persephone)

The Dun Cow Rib: A Very Natural Childhood - John Lister-Kaye (NF) Christmas present from OH

Molly Fox's Birthday - Deirdre Madden

Oliver, Loving - Stephan Merril Block

MARCH 2019

Lady Rose and Mrs. Memmary - Rose Ferguson (Persephone)

The Corner: A Year in the Life of a Inner-City Neighbourhood - David Simon and Edward Burns

Ghost Wall - Sarah Moss

Bricks and Mortar - Helen Ashton (Persephone)

The Woman who Kept Everything - Jane Gilley (Kindle)

The Kindness of Place - Damien Enright (NF)

Hidden Nature: A Voyage of Discovery - Alys Fowler (NF) Birthday present

Bookworm: A Memoir of Childhood Reading - Lucy Mangan (NF) Birthday present

APRIL 2019

Manhattan Transfer - John Dos Passos

An Imaginative Experience - Mary Wesley

The Mark and the Void - Paul Murray

Winter Break - Bernard MacLaverty

Wilding - Isabella Tree (NF) (Kindle)

Three Things about Elsie - Joanne Cannon

MAY 2019

Song of the Rolling Earth: a Highland Odyssey - Sir John Lister Kay (NF) Birthday present

A Sensible Life - Mary Wesley

Alive, Alive, O - Diana Athill (NF)

The Camomile Lawn - Mary Wesley

Wildings: The Secret Garden of Eileen Soper - Duff Hart-Davies (NF)

Cold Earth - Sarah Moss

Go, Went, Gone - Jenny Erpenbeck

A Green and Pleasant Land: How England's Gardeners Fought the Second World War - Ursula Buchan (NF)

JUNE 2019

Underland - Robert Macfarlane (NF)

To the River - Olivia Laing (NF)

The Ice Princess - Camilla Lackberg

The Lost Boy - Camilla Lackberg

Wild Fire - Ann Cleeves

The Durrells of Corfu - Michael Haag (NF) (Present from Vix of Vintage Vixen)

The Buried Angels - Camilla Lackberg

Diamond Street: The Hidden World of Hatton Garden (NF) - Rachel Lichenstein

JULY 2019

The Heart's Invisible Furies - John Boyne

Care of Wooden Floors - Will Wiles

At the Water's Edge: a walk in the wild - John Lister Kaye (NF) (Birthday present)

Go Set a Watchman - Harper Lee (gave up; it didn't grip me in any way)

One Green Field - Edward Thomas - (NF)

Let Us Now Praise Famous Gardens - Vita Sackville West (NF)

Invitation to the Waltz - Rosamond Lehmann - (Virago collection)

The Weather  in the Streets - Rosamond Lehmann (Virago collection)

A Note in Music - Rosamond Lehmann (Virago collection)

AUGUST 2019

Homicide - David Simon (NF)

The Crocodile by the Door - Selina Guinness (NF)

When the Children Came Home - Julie Summers (NF)

American Smoke: Journey's to the End of the Light - Iain Sinclair (NF)

Mikman - Anna Burns

We Need New Names - NoViolet Bulawayo

The Sleeping and The Dead- Ann Cleeves

Between the Assassinations - Aravind Adiga

A Tale for the Time Being - Ruth Ozeki

SEPTEMBER 2019

The Illustrated Shepherd's Life - W. H. Hudson (NF) First published in 1910!

Big Sky - Kate Atkinson

All the Ugly and Wonderful Things - Bryn Greenwood

Expectation - Ann Hope

OCTOBER 2019 - looks like Fashion month!

Homesick: Why I Live in a Shed - Catrina Davies (NF)

Erte Fashion - Erte (NF)

Coco Chanel: The Legend and the Life - Justine Picardie (NF) 

Vogue Fashion: 100 Years of Style by Decade and Designer - Linda Watson (NF)

The New House - Lettice Cooper (VMC)

NOVEMBER 2019

Fashion Makers and Fashion Shapers - Anne-Celine Jaeger (NF)

The Librarian - Sally Vickers

Reckless Daughter: A Portrait of Joni Mitchell - David Yaffe (NF)

Staring at Lakes: A Memoir - Michael Harding (NF)

All Among the Barley - Melissa Harrison

A House Full of Daughters - Juliet Nicholson (NF)

The Wych Elm - Tana French

DECEMBER 2019

Olive, Again - Elizabeth Strout

Dear Mrs. Bird - A.J. Pearce

Once upon a River - Diane Setterfield

The Style Source Book: Visual Directory of Fabrics, Wallpapers, Paints, Flooring and Tiles.  - Judith Miller (NF)

Fidelity - Susan Glaspell (Persephone)

Groundwork: Writings on Places and People - Tim Dee (NF) Christmas Present

Total for 2019 = 81 books

JANUARY 2020

On Chapel Sands - Laura Cumming (NF)

Mary Ann Sate, Imbecile - Alice Jolly

Why Women Read Fiction: The Story of our Lives - Helen Taylor (NF) Xmas present

Hovel in the Hills - Elizabeth West (NF)

Timesong: In Search of Doggerland - Julia Blackburn (NF)

The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone - Olivia Laing (NF) Xmas present

Outskirts: Living life on the edge of the Green belt - John Grindrod (NF) Xmas present

Elisabeth's Lists: A Family Story - Lulah Ellender (NF)

The Century Girls: The Final Word from the Women Who've Lived the Past One Hundred Years of British History - Tessa Dunlop (NF)

FEBRUARY 2020

Beyond the Regions of Kindness - Alice Jolly

What the Eye Doesn't See - Alice Jolly

Home - Sarah Stovell

Guard Your Daughters - Diane Tutton (Perspehone - Christmas present from OH)

National Provincial - Lettice Cooper (Persephone - present to myself!)

The Taxi Driver's Daughter - Julia Darling

MARCH 2020

Car Boot Collectibles - Marshall Cavendish

The Mirror and the Light - Hilary Mantel

The Comforts of Home - Susan Hill (Book 9 in the Simon Serailler series)

Motherwell - Deborah Orr (NF)

APRIL 2020

Square Haunting: Five women, freedom and London between the wars. Francesca Wade (NF)

Fenny - Lettice Cooper  (Virago collection)

The Reader on the 6.27 - Jean-Paul Didierlaurent

Being Emily - Anne Donovan

The Long Cry - Ann Cleeves

The Past - Tessa Hadley

The Hand that Trembles - Kjell Eriksson

MAY 2020

22 Britannia Road - Amanda Hodgkinson

Spilt Milk - Amanda Hodgkinson

Ironopolis - Glen James Brown (Kindle)

CRIME FEST

The Other Woman - Laura Wilson

The Darkest Day - Hakan Nesser

In the Darkness - Karin Fossum

Don't Look Back - Karin Fossum

The Undesired - Yrsa Sigurdardottir

Victory Square - Olen Steinhauer

The Blood Spilt - Asa Larsson

The Savage Altar - Asa Larsson

Why Did You Lie? - Yrsa Sigurdardottir

The Silence of the Sea - Yrsa Sigurdardottir

The Root of Evil - Hakan Nesser

Burned - Thomas Enger

Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow - Peter Hoeg

Family Roundabout - Richmal Crompton (Persephone)

Quartet - Richmal Crompton (Kindle)

JUNE 2020

Caitlin: Life with Dylan Thomas - Caitlin Thomas and Geoffrey Tremlett (NF)

The Village - Marghanita Laski (Persephone)

Housebound - Winifred Peck (Persephone)

Miss Buncle's Book - D.E. Stevenson (Persephone)

The Hill Station - J. G. Farrell

The Siege of Krishnapur - J.G. Farrell

The Spare Room - Helen Garner

The Hours of the Night - Sue Gee

Thin Air - Sue Gee

The Taxi Queue - Janet Davey

Earth and Heaven - Sue Gee

The Princess of Burundi - Kjell Eriksson (Kindle)

From here, you can't see Paris: Seasons of a French Village and its restaurant - Michael Sanders (NF)

I Feel Bad about my Neck - Nora Ephron (NF)

JULY 2020

The  Year of Reading Dangerously -Andy Miller (NF)

Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray

Canvey Island - James Runcie

Sea Room - Adam Nicolson (NF)

Over the Hills and Far Away: An English Odyssey - Candida Lycett-Green (NF)

McCarthy's Bar - Pete McCarthy (NF)

The Grass Arena - John Healy (NF)

AUGUST 2020

Brendan Behan's Island: An Irish Sketchbook - Brendan Behan and Paul Hogarth (Re-read) (NF)

Running for the Hills - Horatio Clare (NF)

Durango - John B. Keane

Smell of Summer Grass: Pursuing Happiness at Perch Hill - Adam Nicholson (NF) (K)

Island on the Edge - Anne Cholawo (NF) (K)

The Rebel Angels - Book 1 of The Cornish Trilogy - Robertson Davies

The Islandman - Tomas O'Crohan (K) NF)

Kilvert's Diary - Vol 1 1870 -1871 - Francis Kilvert

Kilvert's Diary  - Vol 2 1871 - 1874 - Francis Kilvert

Kilvert's Diary -  Vol 3 1874 - 1879  - Francis Kilvert (NF)

The Dutch House - Ann Patchett - (K)

The Patron Saint of Liars - Ann Patchett (K)

Midnight in Havana - Peggy Blair (K)

Magpie Murders - Anthony Horowitz (K)

SEPTEMBER 2020

Where the Crawdads Sing - Delia Owens

The White Road: A Pilgrimage of Sorts  - Edmund De Waal (NF)

Troubled Blood - Robert Galbraith (5th in Cormoran Strike series) (Kindle)

OCTOBER 2020

Beechcombings: The Narrative of Trees - Richard Mabey (NF)

The Magician's Assistant - Ann Patchett (Kindle)

Run - Ann Patchett

The Countryside Year  - Steve Barnett (NF)

Making Gardens: A Celebration of Gardens and Gardening in England and Wales - National Gardens Scheme (NF)

Bel Canto - Ann Patchett

Winter: An Anthology For the Changing Seasons - Melissa Harrison (ed) (NF)

Truth and Beauty: a Friendship - Ann Patchett (NF)

NOVEMBER 2020

Country Dance - Margiad Evans (Kindle)

Nightingale Point - Luan Goldie (Kindle)

A Time to Dance, a Time to Weep - Rumer Godden (NF)

Redhead by the Side of the Road - Ann Tyler (Kindle)

Commonwealth - Ann Patchett

The Faraday Girls - Monica McInerney

The Coroner's Lunch - Colin Cotterill

I Know this Much is True - Wally Lamb

Vertigo - W. G Sebald (NF)

What Remains - Tim Weaver

Breakfast with the Nikolides - Rumer Godden

The Mysteries of Glass - Sue Gee

DECEMBER 2020

Jack - Marilynne Robinson  (Kindle)

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead - Olga Tokarczuk (Kindle)

Thrifty Ways for Modern Days - (Ed) Martin Lewis (NF)

Do Not Pass Go: From the Old Kent Road to Mayfair - Tim Moore (NF)

Beryl Bainbridge: Love by All Sorts of Means: A Biography - Brendan King (NF)

Antonia White: A Life - Jane Dunn (NF)

The Wild Silence - Raynor Winn (NF)

The Narrow Land - Christine Dwyer-Hickey

TOTAL for 2020 - 109


JANUARY 2021

Summerwater - Sarah Moss (Christmas present)

The Golden Thread: How Fabric Changed History - Kassia St. Clair (NF)

Gertrude Jekyll - Sally Festing (NF)

Young Anne - Dorothy Whipple (Persephone)

The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters - G.W. Dahlquist

FEBRUARY 2021

Narrowboat Nomads: Living the Dream on the English Waterways - Steve Haywood (NF)

Strands: A Year of Discoveries on the Beach - Jean Sprackland (Kindle) - (NF)

Skint Estate - Cash Carroway (Kindle) (NF)

Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times - Katherine May (Kindle) (NF)

Mudlarking: Lost and Found on the River Thames - Lara Maiklem (Kindle) (NF)

To Love and Be Wise - Josephine Tey (Kindle)

The Franchise Affair - Josephine Tey

Tiger in the Smoke - Margery Allingham

The Loving Husband - Christobel Kent

Brat Farrar - Josephine Tey

MARCH 2021

Threads of Life: A History of the World Through the Eye of A Needle - Clare Hunter (NF)

Thirty Three Teeth - Colin Cotterill

Disco for the Departed - Colin Cotterill

The Book of Colour - Julia Blackburn

Oxford Blue - Veronica Stallwood

Oxford Menace - Veronica Stallwood

Bottle in the Smoke - Angus Wilson

Late Call - Angus Wilson (re-read)

The Middle Age of Mrs. Eliot - Angus Wilson (re-read)

APRIL 2021

Wash This Blood From My Hand - Fred Vargas

Love Songs from a Shallow Grave - Colin Cotterill

A Spell of Winter - Helen Dunmore

Exposure - Helen Dunmore (Re-read)

Talking to the Dead - Helen Dunmore

Your Blue Eyed Boy - Helen Dunmore (Re-read)

The Siege - Helen Dunmore

How Many Camels Are There in Holland: Dementia; Ma and Me - Phyllida Law (NF)

The Provincial Lady in London - E. M. Delafield

The Provincial Lady in America - E. M. Delafield

Rising Ground: A Search for the Spirit of Place - Philip Marsden (NF)

The Ghost Riders of Ordebec - Fred Vargas

A Climate of Fear - Fred Vargas

This Poison Will Remain - Fred Vargas

MAY 2021

Clean - Michele Kirsch (NF) (Kindle)

Lowborn - Kerry Hudson (NF) (Kindle)

What the Grown Ups Were Doing - Michele Hanson (NF)

Dregs (William Wisting Mystery 1) - Jorn Lier Horst (Kindle)

After the Party - Cressida Connolly

A Very Private Life: An Autobiography in Diaries and Letters -  Barbara Pym (NF) (Kindle)

Some Tame Gazelle - Barbara Pym

Excellent Women - Barbara Pym

Jane and Prudence - Barbara Pym

A Glass of Blessings - Barbara Pym

Exile - Denise Mina

The Chalk Circle Man - Fred Vargas

Less than Angels  -  Barbara Pym

No Fond Return of Love - Barbara Pym

JUNE 2021

The Good; the Bad and the Little Bit Stupid - Marina Lewycka

The Pursuit of Love - Nancy Mitford

A Revolution of the Sun - Tim Pears

The Beggar and the Hare - Tuomas Kyro

All Quiet on the Orient Express - Magnus Mills

Death Deserved - Jorn Lier Horst and Thomas Enger

Snow Blind - Ragnar Jonasson

Everything Under - Daisy Johnson

Modern Nature - Derek Jarman (NF)

An Uncertain Place - Fred Vargas

JULY 2021

Nomadland - Jessica Bruder (NF)

The Shepherd's Life: A Tale of the Lake District - James Rebanks (NF)

Wild Harvest - Hope L. Bourne (NF)

The Accordionist - Fred Vargas

This Golden Fleece: A Journey Through Britain's Knitted History - Esther Rutter (NF)

The Stubborn Light of Things - Melissa Harrison (NF)

Tomb With A View: The stories and glories of graveyards - Peter Ross (NF)

This Night's Foul Work - Fred Vargas

Rain -  Four walks in English Weather - Melissa Harrison (NF)

The Authenticity Project - Claire Pooley

Educated - Tara Westover (NF)

AUGUST 2021

Spring; An Anthology - (Ed) Melissa Harrison (NF)

Birdcage Walk - Helen Dunmore

East West Street - Philippe Sands (NF)

Childhood, Youth, Dependency: The Copenhagen Trilogy - Tove Ditlevsen (NF)

Rummage: A History of the things we have REUSED, RECYCLED and REFUSED to let go - Emily Cockayne (NF)

Tennis Whites and Teacakes - John Betjeman (NF)

SEPTEMBER 2021

Little Siberia - Anitti Tuomainen

Fallen Skies - Phillipa Gregory

Red Dust - A Path Through China - Ma Jian (NF)

We are not in the World - Conor O Callaghan

Strange Flowers - Donal Ryan

1222 - Ann Holt

Conviction - Denise Mina

To See Every Bird on Earth: A Father,  a Son and a Lifelong Obsession - Dan Koeppel (NF)

OCTOBER 2021

The Sandman - Lars Keppler

The Big Year - Mark Obmascik (NF)

The Sixteen Trees of the Somme - Lars Mytting

March Violets - Philip Kerr Book - Book 1 of the Berlin Noir Trilogy

Jenny Wren - E.H. Young (Virago Modern Classic)

The Adventures of Miss Barbara Pym - Paula Byrne (NF)

The Less Dead - Denise Mina

Sissinghurst: An Unfinished History - Adam Nicolson (NF)

NOVEMBER  2021

A Willing Victim - Laura Wilson

This Birding Life  - Stephen Moss

Five Windows - D.E. Stevenson

The House on the Cliff - D.E. Stevenson

A Good Year for Blossom: Women Writer's of The Guardian Country Diary (ed) Martin Wainwright (NF)

The Taming of the Queen - Phillipa Gregory

Enid J Wilson's Country Diary - Enid Wilson (NF)

The Day of the Lie - William Broderick

DECEMBER 2021

Absolute Friends - John Le Carre

Unsettled Ground - Claire Fuller

The Book of Form and Emptiness - Ruth Ozeki

Swimming Lessons - Claire Fuller

All Over Creation - Ruth Ozeki

The Juniper  Tree - Barbara Comyns

Mr. Fox - Barbara Comyns

TOTAL = 110 

JANUARY 2022

Where Memories Go - Sally Magnusson (NF)

The Crow Girl - Erik Axl Sund (gave up - horribly sadistic acts/torture/sexual abuse)

Oh William! - Elizabeth Strout

Our Kind of Traitor - John Le Carre

Agent Running in The Field - John Le Carre

Spy Capital of Britain: Bedford - Stephen Bunker (NF)

FEBRUARY 2022

The Runner - Stephen Leather

Cider with Rosie - Laurie Lee (re-read) (NF)

As I Walked out One Midsummer's Morning - Laurie Lee (NF)

A Moment of War - Laurie Lee (NF)

Mrs. Miniver - Jan Struther (Kindle)

Small Pleasures - Clare Chambers (Kindle)

Landscape in Sunlight - Elizabeth Fair (Kindle)

The Tuscan Child - Rhys Bowen

MARCH 2022

A Death in Vienna - Frank Tallis

The Diary of a Young Naturalist - Dara McAnulty (NF) Cannot believe a then 14 year old wrote this book. It's absolutely marvellous.

Windswept; Why Women Walk - Annabel Abbs (NF - Christmas present)

Crow Country - Mark Cocker (NF)

Big Girl Small Town - Michelle Gallen

I am an Island - Tamsin Calidas (NF)

The Bee Keeper of Aleppo - Christy Lefteri

APRIL 2022

My Garden World - Monty Don (NF)

Academy Street - Mary Costello (Re-read)

Hunter - Lars Keppler

Redemption - Jussi Adler-Olssen

The Guts - Roddy Doyle

A Whispered Name - William Broderick

Miss Plum and Miss Penny - Dorothy Evelyn Smith (FMB)

The Late Mrs.Prioleau - Monica Tindall (FMB)

Burial of Ghosts - Ann Cleeves

A Most Wanted Man - John Le Carre

The Constant Gardener - John Le Carre

MAY 2022

Memories - Lucy M. Boston (NF)

Hector and the Search for Happiness - Francois Lelord

The Gravedigger's Daughter - Joyce Carol Oates

The Housekeeper's Tale: the women who really ran the English Country House - Tessa Boase (NF)

The Red House - Mark Haddon

Shuggie Bain - Douglas Stuart

Empty Cradles - Margaret Humphreys - (NF)

JUNE 2022

Smoke and Ashes - Abir Mukherjee

Early Days - Miss Read (NF)

Beth Chatto's Garden Notebook - Beth Chatto - (NF)

Hidden Depths - Ann Cleeves

Darktown - Thomas Mullen

The Homemaker - Dorothy Canfield-Fisher (PERSEPHONE)

JULY 2022

Hostages to Fortune - Elizabeth Cambridge (PERSEPHONE)

Tea with Mr. Rochester - Frances Towers (PERSEPHONE)

A Morbid Taste for Bones - Ellis Peters (Brother Cadfael series)

One Corpse too Many - Ellis Peters (Brother Cadfael series)

Monks Hood - Ellis Peters (Brother Cadfael series)

AUGUST 2022

Unnatural Causes: The Life and Many Deaths of Britain's Top Forensic Pathologist - Dr. Richard Shepherd (NF)

Stanley and Elsie - Nicola Upson

Threads: the Delicate Life of John Craske - Julia Blackburn (NF)

Women Talking - Miriam Toews

An Irish Navvy: The Diary of an Exile - Donall MacAmlaigh (NF)

The Bedside Book of the Garden - Dr. D. G. Hessayon (NF)

Nourishment - Gerald Woodward

Corduroy - Adrian Bell (NF)

Silver Ley - Adrian Bell (NF)

The Cherry Tree - Adrian Bell (NF)

SEPTEMBER 2022

Tea by the Nursery Fire: A Children's Nanny at the Turn of the Century - Noel Streatfeild (NF)

The Looking Glass War - John Le Carre

Fierce Attachments - Vivian Gornick (NF)

Lessons in Chemistry - Bonnie Garmus

Coasting - Jonathan Raban (NF)

The Kingdom By the Sea - Paul Theroux (NF)

A Gentleman in Moscow - Amor Towles

The Handmade Home: A Love Story Set in Concrete - Geraldine Bedell (NF)

William: An Englishman - Cicely Hamilton (Perspehone)

OCTOBER 2022

Alas, Poor Lady - Rachael Ferguson (PERSEPHONE)

Greenery Street - Denis Mackail (PERSEPHONE)

Wandering Ireland's Wild Atlantic Way: From Banba's Cave to World's End. - Peter Clements (NF)

Seeking Whom He May Devour - Fred Vargas

Have Mercy on Us All - Fed Vargas

The Three Evangelists - Freed Vargas

The Searcher - Tanya French (Kindle)

Eight Months on Ghazzah Street - Hilary Mantel

William - E.H. Young - (VIRAGO)

Learning to Read - Hilary Mantel (Short Stories)

Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape - Cal Flynn (NF)

NOVEMBER 2022

Two for Sorrow - Nicola Upson

Sorry for the Dead - Nicola Upson

Klara and the Sun - Kazuo Ishiguro

I Used to Live Here Once: The Haunted Life of Jean Rhys - Miranda Seymour (NF)

My Year of Meats - Ruth Ozeki

Breathe - Dominick Donald

Shrines of Gaiety - Kate Atkinson

The Benefit of Hindsight - Susan Hill

The End of Vandalism - Tom Drury

Hunts in Dreams - Tom Drury

Pacific - Tom Drury

DECEMBER 2022

A Question of Identity - Susan Hill

A Change of Circumstances - Susan Hill

Future Popes of Ireland - Darragh Martin

The Phone Box at the Edge of the World - Laura Imai Messina

Close Relations - Deborah Moggach

These Foolish Things - Deborah Moggach

Seesaw - Deborah Moggach

The Ink Black Heart - Robert Galbraith Christmas present

ANNUAL TOTAL - 98
















3 comments:

  1. What a lot of books. What I especially like is that I have hardly heard of any of these but will be checking them out. I am only acquainted with three of your authors, Harper Lee, Margaret Atwood, and Anne Tyler. So I now have a long list of new reads to try. Thank you.

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    1. Hello Susan,

      I have only just seen your comment as I have been away. I will indeed check out Tee Bee Dee's. Thank you!

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  2. You might enjoy TEE BEE DEE's Bookoholics group. We were on EONS till it went belly up but now there is a large group here that talks books. I know they will be interested in your list. http://teebeedee.ning.com/

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