Books Read 2024

 


 January 2024

Portrait of A Marriage - Nigel Nicholson (NF)

The Crowded Street - Winifred Holtby (Virago)

The Lacuna - Barbara Kingsolver

Slightly Foxed - No.80. Winter 2023 (Subscription Christmas present)

House Arrest: Pandemic Diaries - Alan Bennett (Christmas present) (NF)

The English Farmhouse - Geoffrey Grigson (NF) (Christmas present)


February 2024

Dear Dodie: the life of Dodie Smith - Valerie Grove (NF)

So Much To Tell - Valerie Grove (NF)

The Blank Wall -  Elizabeth Sanxay Holding (PERSEPHONE)

Where I was Young: Memories of London Childhoods - (Ed) Valerie Jenkins (NF)

Godmersham Park - Gill Hornby

Little Boy Lost - Marghanita Laski (PERSEPHONE)

An Expert in Murder - Nicola Upson (Book 1 in the Josephine Tey series)

Anderby Wold - Winifred Holtby (Virago)

Maeve Brennan: Homesick at the New Yorker - An Irish Writer in Exile. - Angela Bourke (NF)

Erasure - Percival Everett

Angel with Two Faces - Nicola Upson (Book 2 in the Josephine Tey series).


March 2024

The Road to Little Dribbling - Bill Bryson (NF)

The Friendly Ones - Philip Hensher

Then - Julie Myerson

The Land of Green Ginger - Winifred Holtby (Virago)

Homeland - Barbara Kingsolver (Short stories)

Our Endless Numbered Days - Claire Fuller (Kindle)

Miss Benson's Beetle - Rachel Joyce (Kindle)

Linden Rise - Richmal Crompton (Kindle)

The Grandmothers - Sally Vickery (Kindle)

Westover - Richmal Crompton (Kindle)

Leadon Hill - Richmal Crompton (Kindle)

Weatherley Parade - Richmal Crompton (Kindle)

Spam Tomorrow - Verily Anderson (Kindle)


April 2024

The Sealed Letter - Emma Donoghue

Wilfred and Eileen - Jonathan Smith (Persephone)

A Monkey Among Crocodiles; the Disastrous Life of Mrs. Georgina Weldon - Brian Thompson (NF)

Sleepyhead - Mark Billingham (1st in the Tom Thorne series)

Up With the Lark: My life on the land - Joan Bomford (NF)


May 2024

The Bee Sting - Paul Murray

Fidelity - Susan Glaspell (Persephone)

Dreams From My Mother - Dame Elizabeth Anionwu (NF) (70th b'day present from Ann)

A Countryman's Lot: Tales From the Dales - Max Hardcastle (NF)

Scaredy Cat - Mark Billingham (2nd in Tom Thorne series)

Staring at Lakes -  Michael Harding (NF)

Provincial Daughter - R. M. Dashwood (Virago)

Lean Fall Stand - Jon McGregor


June 2024

Aunties War: The BBC During the Second World War - Edward Stourton (NF)

The Ministry of Utmost Happiness - Arundhati Roy

Doreen - Barbara Noble (Persephone)

Lazybones - Mark Billingham (3rd in Tom Thorne series)

The Luck of A Countryman: Tales from the Dales - Max Hardcastle (NF)

Slough House - Mick Herron

Real Tigers - Mick Herron

Slow Horses - Mick Herron

Spook Street - Mick Herron

Joe Country - Mick Herron

Bad Actors - Mick Herron

London Rules - Mick Herron

JULY 2024

Dead Lions - Mick Herron

Crazy - Jane Feaver

The Sea Sisters - Lucy Clarke

Vain Shadow - Jane Hervey (PERSEPHONE)

Miss Wilmott's Ghosts - Sandra Lawrence (NF)

This Country Life - Max Hardcastle (NF)

The Gardener - Sally Vickers

The Raging Storm - Ann Cleeves

The Burning Girl - Mark Billingham (4th in Tom Thorne series)

Tom Lake - Ann Patchett

Ravilious & Co: The Pattern of Friendship - Andy Friend

Hostages to Fortune - Elizabeth Cambridge (Persephone) This was a re-read!

AUGUST 2024


My Antonia - Willa Cather (Virago)

Lifeless - Mark Billingham (5th in Tom Thorne series)

Buried - Mark Billingham (6th in Tom Thorne series)

A Field Full of Butterflies: Memories of A Romany Childhood - Rosemary Penfold

Brook Evans - Susan Glaspell (Persephone)

Death Message - Mark Billingham (7th in Tom Thorne series)

Bond Street Story - Norman Collins

A Favourite of the Gods- Sybille Bedford (Virago)

Death at the Sign of the Rook - Kate Atkinson (6th in the Jackson Brodie series).

The Truth According to Us - Annie Barrows

The Years - Annie Ernaux (NF)

SEPTEMBER 2024


Bloodline - Mark Billingham (8th in Tom Thorne series)

From the Dead - Mark Billingham (9th in Tom Thorne series)

Good as Dead - Mark Billingham (10th in Tom Thorne series)

Went to London, Took My Dog - Nina Stibbe (Kindle)

Unseen - Ray Jacobsen (Kindle)

Red Sky in Morning - Paul Lynch (Kindle)

A Long Walk to Wimbledon - H.R.F Keating (Kindle)

Queen Lucia - E.F. Benson (Kindle)

Timecode of A Face - Ruth Ozeki (NF) (Kindle)

Woodston - The Biography of an English Farm - John Lewis Stempel (NF) (Kindle)

The Dying Hours - Mark Billingham (Kindle) (11th on Tom Thorne series)

A Memoir of My Former Self - Hilary Mantel (NF) (Kindle)

Hanging With the Elephant - Michael Harding (NF) Kindle)

The Day She Disappeared - Christabel Kent 

The Viper - Christabel Kent (Kindle)

French Braid - Anne Tyler


OCTOBER 2024

Prophet Song - Paul Lynch

The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle - Stuart Turton

The Last Devil to Die - Richard Osman

Yours Cheerfully - A. J. Pearce

Whatever Happened to Margo? - Margaret Durrell

Five Windows - D.E. Stevenson (reread)


NOVEMBER 2024

Corner Shop - Babita Sharma (NF)

Life Between the Tides; in search of rock pools and other adventures along the shore - Adam Nicholson (NF)

Beneath the Bones - Mark Billingham (12th in Tom Thorne series)

Fear in the Sunlight - Nicola Upson

Sweet Caress - William Boyd

The Way Things Are - E. M. Delafield - (Virago)

Any Human Heart - William Boyd.

Harriet - Elizabeth Jenkins. (Persephone)


DECEMBER 2024

Love Like Blood - Mark Billingham (13th in Tom Thorne series)

Consequences - E. M. Delafield (Persephone)

Days of Abandonment - Elena Ferrante

The Killing Habit- Mark Billingham (14th in Tom Thorne series)




      


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