list of books reviewed (most recent at top)
Red Dust by Ma Jian
The Warden by Anthony Trollope
What Was Lost by Catherine O’Flynn
Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
The Case of the Missing Books by Ian Sansom
Mrs Shakespeare: The Complete Works by Robert Nye
Property by Valerie Martin
The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett
The Tree of Man by Patrick White
The House of Sleep by Jonathan Coe
The Memory Keeper’s Daughter by Kim Edwards
Morality Play by Barry Unsworth
On Becoming a Fairy Godmother by Sara Maitland
The Interpretation of Murderby Jed Rubenfeld
Keeping Mum: A Wartime Childhood by Brian Thompson
The Book of Fathers by Miklos Vamos
Walking Ollie by Stephen Foster>
The Highest Tide by Jim Lynch
A Woman in Berlin by Anonymous
The Promise of Happiness by Justin Cartright
Love in Idleness by Charlotte Mendelson
Leonardo da Vinci: The Flights of the Mind by Charles Nicholl
Lighthousekeeping by Jeanette Winterson
We need to talk about Kevin by Lionel Shriver
Gods in Alabama by Joshilyn Jackson
The Bones in the Womb by Patricia Tyrrell
The Sex Life of My Aunt by Mavis Cheek
The
Time Traveller’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
Blessings by Anna Quindlen
The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
The King is Dead by Jim Lewis
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper
Lee
Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
The Used Women’s Book Club by Paul Bryers
The Five People you meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
Fingersmith
by Sarah Waters
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
by Alexander McCall Smith
The Great Indoors by Sabine Durrant
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
Adama by Turki Al-Hamadt
Voyageurs by Margaret Elphinstone
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
Brick Lane by Monica Ali
The Idea of Perfection by Kate
Grenville
Baltasar and Blimunda by José Saramago
Bel Canto by Anne Patchett
The Dark Room by Rachel Seiffert
K-Pax by Gene Brewer
Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver
Paperback Raita by William Rhode
Carter Beats the Devil by Glen David
Gold
The Necropolis Railway by Andrew Martin
The Future Homemakers of America by Laurie Grahami
Peace like a River by Lief Enger
A Child's Book of True Crime by Chloe Hooper
The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
Juno and Juliet by Julian Gough
Miss Garnet's Angel by Salley Vickers
English Passengers by Matthew Kneale
Desert Flower by Waris Dirie and Cathleen Miller
Death and the Penguin by Andrey Kurkov
Surface Tension by Russell Celyn Jones
The Haunt by A.L. Barker
Only Pretending by Sophia Watson
La Prisonniere by Malika Oufkir and Michele Fitoussi
The Inn at Lake Devine by Elinor Lipman
Life and Death in Eden by Trevor Lummis
The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
The Lie of the Land by Sam North
When They Lay Bare by Andrew Greig
Underground by Tobias Hill
Tulip Fever by Deborh Moggach
Trumpet by Jackie Kay
England, England by Julian Barnes
The Prayer of the Bone by Paul Bryers
Identity by Milan Kundera
Daughter of the River by Hong Ying
Crucifix Lane by Kate Mosse
Telling Liddy by Anne Fine
Man or Mango by Lucy Ellman
The Magician's Wife by Brian Moore
Enduring Love by Ian McEwan
The Weight of Water by Anita Shreve
Intimate Letters by Bel Mooney
The Drowner by Robert Drewe
The Magic Flute by Alan Spence
The Beach by Alex Garland
Family Life by Elizabeth Luard
Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels
The Web of Belonging by Stevie Davies
The Gift of Stones by Jim Crace
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Egg Woman by Linda D. Cirino
The Woman Who Walked Into Doors by Roddy Doyle
The Year's Midnight by Alex Benzie
Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernières
I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
The Famished Road by Ben Okri
The Kitchen God's Wife by Amy Tan
Ladder of Years by Anne Tyler
Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson
Notes from a Small Islandby Bill Bryson
The Pyramid by Ismail Kadare
Time and Tide by Edna O'Brien
Regeneration and The Eye in the Door by Pat Barker
The Riders by Tim Winton
Perfume by Patrick Suskind
Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
Beloved by Toni Morrison
The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye by A.S. Byatt
The Marriage of Time and Convenience by Robert Winder
The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood
A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth
