A collective of bibliophiles talking about books. Book Fox (vulpes libris): small bibliovorous mammal of overactive imagination and uncommonly large bookshop expenses. Habitat: anywhere the rustle of pages can be heard.
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Aaronovitch, Ben: Rivers of London. Body Work (review by Kate)
Ackland, Valentine: The Akeing Heart (review by Kate)
Ackroyd, Peter: Hawksmoor (review by Hilary)
Adams, Danny: Lest Camelot Fall (review by Holly)
Adichie, Chimimanda Ngozi: Americanah (review by Simon)
Aesop: The Astronomer (review by Jackie)
Addison-Allen, Sarah: Garden Spells (review by Nikki)
Adrian, Chris: The Great Night (Review by Sam Ruddock)
Adrian, Matt: The Mincing Mockingbird Guide to Troubled Birds (review by Hilary)
Aitken-Smith, Trent: The Tattoo Dictionary (review by Holly)
Alain-Fournier: Le Grand Meaulnes (review by Moira)
Albertine, Viv: Clothes Clothes Clothes Music Music Music Boys Boys Boys (review by Hilary)
Alderman, Naomi: The Lessons (review by Sam Ruddock)
Alexander, Elliott: The Smart-Ass Works (review by Rosy)
Alexander, Lynne: The Sister (review by Kate)
Alexander, Marguerite: Grievance (review by Nikki)
Alexander, Robert: The Kitchen Boy (review by Jackie)
Alexander, Tasha: A Poisoned Season (review by Jackie)
Alexander, Tasha: Elizabeth: The Golden Age (review by Jackie)
Alleyne, Susanne: A Treasury of Regrets (review by Jackie)
Allnatt, Judith: A Mile of River (review by Anne)
Altenberg, Karin: Island of Wings (review by Anne)
Anderson, M T: The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing – Traitor to the Nation – Volume I (review by Trilby)
Anonymous of Canterbury: Chronicon Anonymi Cantuariensis 1346-1365 (review by Hilary)
Ansary, Tamim: Games without Rules (review by Kate)
Armitage, Simon: Seeing Stars (review by Sam Ruddock)
Armstrong, Isobel: Victorian Glassworlds (review by Moira)
Ascroft, Dianne: Hitler and Mars Bars (review by Moira)
Ashley, Phillipa: Decent Exposure (review by Moira)
Ashley, Phillipa: Miranda’s Mount (review by Moira, Ticky and Hilary)
Ashley, Phillipa: Wish You Were Here (review by Moira)
Ashworth, Elizabeth: An Honourable Estate (review by Hilary)
Ashworth, Elizabeth: The de Lacy Inheritance (review by Hilary)
Ashworth, Jenn: Cold Light (review by Rosy)
Aslam, Nadeem: Maps for Lost Lovers (review by Jackie)
Athill, Diana: Somewhere Towards the End (review by Rosy)
Athill, Diana: Somewhere Towards the End (review by Simon)
Atkinson, Kate: Started Early, Took My Dog (review by Nikki)
Atwood, Margaret: MaddAddam (review by Kate)
Atwood, Margaret: Oryx and Crake (review by Kate)
Atwood, Margaret: The Year of the Flood (review by Kate)
Audeguy, Stéphane: The Theory of Clouds (review by Jackie)
Auerbach, Jeffery A.:The Great Exhibition of 1891 (review by Jackie)
Austin, Alex: The Red Album of Asbury Park (review by Jay Benedict)
Aymé, Marcel: The Man Who Walked Through Walls (review by Kate)
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Babchenko, Arkady: One Soldier’s War in Chechnya (review by Mary)
Bagshawe, Louise: Passion (review by Moira)
Bainbridge, Beryl: Master Georgie (review by Sam)
Baines, Elizabeth: The Birth Machine (review by Lisa)
Baines, Elizabeth: Too Many Magpies (mini-review by Lisa)
Baines, Paul & Rogers, Pat: Edmund Curll, Bookseller (review by Leen)
Baker, Dorothy, Young Man With a Horn (review by Simon)
Baker, Jo: Longbourn (review by Hilary)
Baker, Stephen: How to Live with a Neurotic Dog (review by Moira)
Baldwin, James: Giovanni’s Room (review by Kate)
Ballard, J G: High Rise (review by Hilary)
Bannister, Jo: Brodie Farrell Mysteries (review by Jackie)
Banville, John: Ancient Light (review by Hilary)
Banville, John et al.: Imagined Lives. Portraits of Unknown People (review by Hilary)
Barbery, Muriel: The Elegance of the Hedgehog (review by Trilby)
Barcelo, Elia: Heart of Tango (review by Anne)
Barclay, Linwood: Too Close to Home (review by Anne)
Barker, Pat: Life Class (review by Nikki)
Barnes, Rosy: Sadomasochism for Accountants (guest review by Anne Brooke)
Barnes, Simon: How to Be Wild (review by Leena)
Barr, Emily: The Sisterhood (review by Anne)
Barr, Kevin: There Are Little Kingdoms (review by Kate)
Barry, Sebastian:The Secret Scripture (review by Nikki)
Bayley, Robin: The Mango Orchard (review by Sam Ruddock)
Baskin, Leonard & Hughes, Ted: Under the North Star (review by Ariadne)
Bazes, Terry Richard: Lizard World (review by Kate)
Beauman, Ned: Boxer, Beetle (review by Anne)
Beauman, Ned: The Teleportation Accident (review by Kate)
Beckwith, Lillian: The Hills is Lonely (review by Colin)
Bedford, Sybille: Quicksands: A Memoir (review by Leena)
Beecroft, Alex: False Colors (review by Anne)
Bell, David N: What Nuns Read (review by Hilary)
Bell, Mary Hayley: Whistle Down the Wind (review by Moira)
Benioff, David: City of Thieves (movie review by Lisa)
Bennett, Alan: The Uncommon Reader (review by Leena)
Bennett, Arnold: A Man from the North (review by Colin)
Bennett, Arnold: The Card (review by Kate)
Bennett, Arnold: Lord Raingo (review by Colin)
Bentley, Phyllis: The Brontës (review by Hilary)
Berkoff, Steven: Diary of a Juvenile Delinquent (review by Moira)
Besant, Walter: Armorel of Lyonesse (review by Hilary)
Best, Geoffrey: Churchill, A Study in Greatness (review by Anne)
Binchy, Maeve: The Return Journey (review by Anne)
Binding, Tim: Island Madness (review by Sharon)
Bingham, Charlotte:The Wind Off the Sea (review by Jackie)
Bioy Casares, Adolfo: Asleep in the Sun (review by Simon)
Birchall, Diana: Mrs Darcy’s Dilemma (review by Leena)
Birkett, Jennifer: Margaret Storm Jameson: A Life (review by Kate)
Blackie, Sharon: The Long Delirious Burning Blue (review by Moira)
Blackwell, Elise: The Unnatural History of Cypress Parish (review by Jackie)
Blair, Cherie: Speaking for Myself (Review by Jackie)
Blake, William: The Sick Rose from Songs of Innocence and Experience (RosyB)
Blake, William: The Chimney Sweeper from Songs of Innocence and Experience (RosyB
Blanchard, Ken and Johnson, Spencer: The One Minute Manager (review/discussion by John and Kirsty)
Blanchard, Kenneth, Oncken, William Jr and Burrow, Hal: The One Minute Manager Meets the Monkey (review by Kirsty)
Blyton, Enid: The Ring O’ Bells Mystery (review by Moira)
Bohjalian, Chris: The Double Bind (review by Anne)
Bonner, Kal: Climbing a Ladder Backwards (review by Anne)
Bostridge, Ian: Schubert’s Winter Journey. Anatomy of an Obsession (review by Hilary)
Boulay-Goldsmith, Charlotte, and Hyde Laura: Topsy-Turvy Tales (review by Kate)
Bowron, Edgar Peters and others: Best in Show (review by Jackie)
Boyne, John: The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (review by Nikki)
Boyne, Walter J: Dawn over Kitty Hawk (review by Jackie)
Bradbury, Ray: The Illustrated Man (review by Jackie)
Bradley, Simon: St Pancras Station (review by Moira)
Bramah, Ernest, Max Carrados stories (review by Kate)
Bravi, Adrian N: The Combover (review by Kate)
Breen, Susan: The Fiction Class (review by Nikki)
Brewer, John: The Pleasures of the Imagination (review by Kate)
Bridge, Ann: Illyrian Spring (review by Kate)
Brocket, Jane: Cherry Cake and Ginger Beer (review by Lisa)
Bronte, Anne: Agnes Grey (review by Hilary)
Bronte, Charlotte: Tales of Angria (review by Kate)
Bronte, Charlotte: Shirley (review by Kate)
Brontë, Emily: Wuthering Heights (review by Moira)
Brooke, Anne: The Bones of Summer (review by Moira)
Brooke, Anne: A Dangerous Man (review by Lisa)
Brooks, Geraldine: The People of the Book(review by Nikki)
Brooks, Kevin: The Road of the Dead(review by Eve)
Brooks, Roy: Brothel in Pimlico (review by Hilary)
Brown, Craig: One on One. 101 True Encounters (review by Hilary)
Browne, Clare etc. (eds): English Medieval Embroidery. Opus Anglicanum (review by Hilary)
Brunton, Mary: Self Control and Discipline (review by Leena)
Brzezinski, Matthew: Red Moon Rising (review by Michael)
Bryson, Bill. A Walk in the Woods (review by Jackie)
Buchan, Ursula: A Green and Pleasant Land (review by Kate)
Buckingham, Will: The Descent of the Lyre (review by Kate)
Bulwer-Lytton, Edward (the bad writing contest)
Burleigh, Nina: Mirage (review by Jackie)
Burman, Carina: The Streets of Babylon (review by Lisa)
Butlin, Ron: Belonging (review by Lisa)
Butlin, Ron: Vivaldi and the Number 3 (review by Anne)
Butterfield, Jeremy: Damp Squid (review by Moira)
Buxton, Nicholas: Tantalus and the Pelican: Exploring Monastic Spirituality Today (review by Anne)
Byatt, A.S.: The Children’s Book (review by Nikki)
Byrne, Trevor: Ghosts and Lightning (review by Lisa)
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Cabot, Meg: Queen of Babble (review by Anne)
Cadbury, Deborah: Seven Wonders of the Industrial World (review by Moira)
Cadbury, Deborah: The Space Race (review by Michael)
Calasso, Roberto: La Folie Baudelaire (review by Hilary)
Calcutt, David: Shadow Bringer and Crowboy (review by Eve)
Campbell, Gordon: Bible – The Story of the King James Version (review by Moira)
Campbell, Jack: Lost Fleet: Dauntless (review by Lisa)
Camus, Albert: L’étranger/ The Stranger (1942) (review by Mary)
Capote, Truman: Other Voices, Other Rooms (review by Trilby)
Carey, Peter: His Illegal Self (review by Jackie)
Carey, Peter: Oscar and Lucinda (review by Jackie)
Carle, Eric: The Very Hungry Caterpillar (review by Lisa).
Carlo, Philip: The Ice Man (review by Jay and Moira)
Carr, E H: What is History? (review by Michael Ng)
Carr, Richard: Veteran MPs and Conservative Politics (review by Kate)
Carrington, Leonora: The Hearing Trumpet (review by Kate)
Carson, Annette: Richard III – The Maligned King (review by Moira)
Carter, Jimmy: Always a Reckoning (review by Jackie)
Castro, Fidel with Ramonet, Ignacio: Fidel Castro: Biografía a dos voces (Part I – review by Kirsty)
Castro, Fidel with Ramonet, Ignacio: Fidel Castro: Biografía a dos voces (Part II – review by Kirsty)
Castro, Fidel with Ramonet, Ignacio: Fidel Castro: Biografia a dos voces (Part III – review by Kirsty)
Cave, Nick: The Death of Bunny Munro (review by Lisa)
Cezair-Thompson, Margaret: The Pirate’s Daughter (review by Nikki)
Chadwick, Elizabeth: A Place Beyond Courage, The Greatest Knight, The Scarlet Lion (review by Moira)
Charney, Noah: The Art Thief (review by Jackie)
Cheska, Anna: Drop Dead Gorgeous (review by Anne)
Chester, Len: Bugle Boy (review by Leena)
Chester, Lewis: Tooth and Claw: The Inside Story of the Spitting Image (review by Rosy)
Cheuse, Alan: To Catch the Lightning (review by Lisa)
Chiacos, Elias: Mountain Drive – Santa Barbara’s First Bohemian Community (review by Moira)
Claire, Regi: Fighting It (review by Lisa)
Clare, Cassandra: The Mortal Instruments (review by Holly)
Clark, Stuart:The Sun Kings (review by Jackie)
Clark, Taylor: Starbucked (review by Jackie)
Clarke, Austin: Collected Poems (review by Michael C)
Clarke, Norma: Queen of the Wits – A life of Laetitia Pilkington (review by Hilary)
Clayton, Stephen: The art of being dead (review by Lisa)
Claus, Hugo: The Sorrow of Belgium (review by Trilby)
Cleave, Chris: The Other Hand (review by Anne)
Cobbett, William: Rural Rides (review by Hilary)
Coben, Harlan: Caught (review by Anne)
Cockburn, Linda: Living the Good Life (review by Mary)
Coetzee, J M: Summertime (Review by Sam Ruddock)
Cohen-Portheim, Paul: The Spirit of London (review by Hilary)
Collini, Stefan: Common Reading: Critics, Historians, Publics (review by Leena)
Collins: Collins English Dictionary (review by Kate)
Collins, B.R. : The Traitor Game (review by Eve)
Collins, Suzanne: The Hunger Games (review by Sam Ruddock)
Collins, Suzanne: Catching Fire (review by Sam Ruddock)
Collins, Warwick: Gents (review by Rosy)
Colman, Penny: Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B Anthony: A Friendship that Changed the World (review by Susan)
Comyns, Barbara: Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead (review by Simon)
Cone, Libby: War on the Margins (review by Lisa)
Conley, Susan: Drama Queen (review by Sam Tonge)
Connell, Rebecca: The Art of Losing (review by Moira)
Connolly, Cyril: Enemies of Promise (review by Hilary)
Conradi, Peter: The Survival of Royalty (review by Kate)
Cooke, Rachel: Her Brilliant Career (review by Hilary)
Cookman, Lesley: Libby Sarjeant mysteries(review by Jackie)
Cooper, Susan: Ghost Hawk (review by Kate)
Copeland, B Jack: Turing – Pioneer of the Information Age (review by Moira)
Couper, Heather: The Universe: A Three-Dimensional Study – Pop-up Book (review by Lisa)
Crane, Megan: I Love the 80s(review by Anne)
Crebbin, June: The Booktime Book of Fantastic First Poems (review by Lisa).
Crispin, Edmund: Swan Song. A Gervase Fen Mystery (review by Hilary)
Crystal, David: txtng – the gr8 db8 (review by Moira)
Crystal, David and Hilary: Wordsmiths and Warriors (review by Moira)
Cunningham, Michael: The Hours (review by Sam Ruddock)
Cuno, James: Who Owns Antiquity? (review by Jackie)
Czerkawska, Catherine: The Curiosity Cabinet (review by Hilary)
Czerkawska, Catherine: Ice Dancing (review by Hilary)
Czerkawska, Catherine: The Jewel (review by Hilary)
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Dahl, Sophie: Playing With the Grown-Ups (review by Nikki)
Dallas, Gregor: Metro Stop Paris (review by Jackie)
Dante Alighieri: The Divine Comedy, translated by Dorothy L Sayers (review by Hilary)
Danziger, Danny: Museum – Behind the Scenes at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (review by Jackie)
Darling, Frank Fraser: Island Farm, Island Years (review by Kate)
Darwin, Emma: A Secret Alchemy (joint review by Lisa, Moira and Jackie)
Darwin, Emma: The Mathematics of Love (review by Jackie)
Dave, Laura: The Divorce Party (review by Lisa)
Davies, Peter Ho: The Welsh Girl (review by Nikki)
Davies, Stevie: Into Suez (review by Lisa)
Davies, Stevie: Kith and Kin (review by Lisa)
Davies, Stevie: The Eyrie (review by Lisa)
Davis, Linda: A Cartoonist’s Life (review by Jackie)
Dawson, J: The Great Lover (review by Anne)
Deamer, Dulcie: The Queen of Bohemia (review by Trilby)
Dean, Rebecca: The Golden Prince (review by Nikki)
DeGrasse Tyson, Dr Neil: The Pluto Files (review by Jackie)
De La Hoya, Oscar: American Son(review by Jackie)
Delaney, Frank: Tipperary (review by Jackie)
de Waal, Edmund: The Hare With Amber Eyes (review by Hilary)
deWitt, Patrick: The Sisters Brothers (review by Sharon)
DeWoskin, Rachel: Repeat After Me (review by Lisa)
Dickens, Charles: Bleak House (review by Nikki)
Dickens, Charles: A Christmas Carol (review by Jackie)
Dickens, Charles, The Old Curiosity Shop (review by Kate)
Dickinson, Miranda: Fairytale of New York (review by Moira)
Dillon, Lucy: Lost Dogs and Lonely Hearts (review by Moira)
Diski, Jenny: On Trying to Keep Still (review by Trilby)
Divry, Sophie: The Library of Unrequited Love (review by Hilary)
Donaldson, Julia: The Gruffalo Sound Book (review by Lisa)
Donovan, Gerard: Julius Winsome (review by Tom Vowler)
Dontsova, Daria: Lampa razyskivaet Alladina/Lamp seeks Aladdin (review by Kirsty)
Dowd, Siobhan: Bog Child (review by Eve)
Dowling, Clare: Just the Three of Us (guest review by Samantha Tonge)
Doyle, Roddy: The Woman who Walked into Doors (review by Mary)
Dudley, Nikki: Ellipsis (review by Sam Ruddock)
Dugan, Sally: Baroness Orczy’s The Scarlet Pimpernel (review by Kate)
Duffy, Eamon: The Voices of Morebath. (review by Hilary)
Dunant, Sarah: Sacred Hearts (review by Hilary)
Dunmore, Helen: Ingo (review by Lisa)
Dunn, Suzannah: The Confession of Katherine Howard (review by Anne)
Duras, Marguerite: La pluie d’été/Summer Rain (review by Leena)
Duras, Marguerite: Le ravissement de Lol V. Stein/The Ravishing of Lol Stein (review by Leena)
Durrell, Gerald: The Drunken Forest (review by Michelle Lewis})
Durst, Sarah Beth: Ice (review by Nikki)
Dyer, Geoff: The Missing of the Somme (review by Hilary)
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Eagleman, David: Sum (review by Lisa)
Eagleman, David: Sum: the audiobook (review by Lisa)
Ebook Week: Ebooks Saved My Life (article by Anne)
Eckstein, Sue: The Cloths of Heaven (review by Rosy)
Eddison, E R: The Worm Ourobouros (review by Kate)
Edgeworth, Maria: Helen (review by Leena)
Edmonds, David and Eidinow, John: Bobby Fischer goes to War (guest review by Ken Owen)
Edwards, Martin: The Golden Age of Murder (review by Simon)
Ehrenreich, Barbara: Smile Or Die (review by Hilary)
Eliot, T S: The Wasteland (review by Rosy)
Elgin, Lauren: Flâneuse (review by Hilary)
Enright, Anne (ed.): The Granta Book of Irish Short Stories (review by Kate)
Erpenbeck, Jenny, The End of Days (trans) (review by Kate)
Esquivel, Laura: Like Water For Chocolate (review by Kate)
Eugenides, Jeffrey: Middlesex (review by Sam Ruddock)
ed Eyre, Sarah & Page, Ra: The New Uncanny: Tales of Unease (review by Anne)
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Faber, Michel: The Crimson Petal and The White (review by Moira)
Faber, Toby: Stradivarius. Five Violins, One Cello and a Genius (review by Hilary)
Falkner, John Meade: The Nebuly Coat (review by Hilary)
Fante, John: Ask the Dust (review by Jenn)
Farmer, D C: The 400lb Gorilla (review by Kate)
Faulks, Sebastian:Charlotte Gray (review by Jackie)
Feaver, William: Pitmen Painters – The Ashington Group 1934-1984. (Review by Hilary)
Federle, Tim: Tequila Mockingbird. Cocktails with a literary twist (review by Hilary)
Fellowes, Julian: Past Imperfect (review by Anne)
Fénéon, Félix: Novels in Three Lines (guest review by Alex Pheby)
Fenton, KaIte: Picking Up (review by Anne)
Fenwick, Eliza: Secresy; or, the Ruin on the Rock (review by Leena)
Fenwick, Liz: A Cornish Affair (review by Moira)
Fenwick, Liz: The Cornish House (review by Moira)
Fenwick, Liz: The Returning Tide (review by Moira)
Fenwick, Liz: Under a Cornish Sky (reveiw by Moira)
Ferguson, Rachel: Celebrated Sequels (review by Kate)
Fforde, Jasper: Shades of Grey (review by Sharon)
Fforde, Jasper: The Eyre Affair (review by Sharon)
Fforde, Katie: Restoring Grace (review by Kirsty)
Finch, Charles: A Beautiful Blue Death (review by Jackie)
Firbank, Ronald: Inclinations (review by Kate)
Fischer, Tibor: Good to be God (review by Lisa).
Fisher, Colin: A Republic of Wolves, A City of Ghosts (review by Hilary)
Fitch, Stona: Give and Take (review by Lisa)
Fitch, Stona: Senseless (review by Lisa)
Fitzgerald, Edward: The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (review by Hilary)
Fitzgerald, Helen: Dead Lovely (review by Rosy)
Flock, Elizabeth: Everything Must Go (review by Mary)
Flynn, Katie: A Mistletoe Kiss (review by Nikki)
Foer, Jonathan Safran: Eating Animals (review by Sam Ruddock)
Frankham-Allen, Andy: Seeker (review by Anne)
Franklin, Miles: My Brilliant Career (review by Emily)
Freely, Maureen: Enlightenment (review by Ariadne)
Freely, Maureen:The Other Rebecca (review by Leena)
Freeman, Castle: All That I Have (review by Lisa)
French, Tana: The Likeness (review by Lisa)
French, Nicci: Complicit (review by Anne)
Frere, Richard: Maxwell’s Ghost. An Epilogue to Gavin Maxwell’s Camusfearna (review by Hilary)
Friedman, Richard Elliott and Dolansky, Shawna : The Bible Now (review by Moira)
Fromkin, David: The King and the Cowboy (review by Jackie)
Fullerton, Jean: A Glimpse at Happiness (review by Moira)
Furstenberg, Francois: In the Name of the Father (review by Ken Owen)
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Gage, Beverly: The Day Wall Street Exploded (review by Moira)
Gaiman, Neil and Russell, P Craig: Coraline (review by Sharon)
Gaiman, Neil: Sandman (0verview by Kari Maaren)
Gale, Patrick: A Sweet Obscurity (review by Lisa)
Gale, Patrick: Rough Music (review by Nikki)
Galgut, Damon: In a Strange Room (review by Sam)
Galgut, Damon: The Impostor (review by Anne)
Galloway, Janice: All Made Up (review by Hilary)
Gamble, Tom: Amazir (review by Moira and Jay)
Garber, Marjorie: Sex and Real Estate: Why We Love Houses (review by Jackie)
Gardner, Antony: Fox (review by Kate)
Gardner, Dan: Risk (review by Moira)
Gardner, Katy: Hidden (review by Anne)
Garfield, Simon: Just My Type (review by Hilary)
Garmonsway, G N (ed): The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (review by Moira)
Garner, Alan: Boneland (review by Kate)
Garner, Alan: Strandloper (review by Kate)
Garner, Helen: The Spare Room (review by Rosy)
Garnett, Eve: The Family from One Street (review by Colin)
Garnett, David: Lady Into Fox (review by Hilary)
Gaskell, Elizabeth: Gothic Tales (review by Leena)
Gaspard, Lynn (ed.): Don’t Panic, I’m Islamic (review by Kate)
Gebbie, Vanessa: Words from a glass bubble (review by Anne)
Gessler, J E and Kotar, S L: Riverboat – The Evolution of a Television Series (review by Moira)
Gessler, J E and Kotar, S L: The Steamboat Era (review by Moira)
Gerrard Peter, The Guv’Nor (mini-review by Lisa)
Getty, J Arch and Naumov, Oleg V: The Road to Terror (review by Kirsty)
Gibbons, Stella: Westwood (review by Hilary)
Gillard, Linda: Star Gazing (review by Lisa).
Gissing, George: New Grub Street (review by Moira)
Glancey, Jonathan: Lost Buildings. Demolished, Destroyed, Imagined, Reborn (review by Hilary)
Glass, Lisa: Prince Rupert’s Teardrop (review by Leena)
Goddard, Robert: Long Time Coming (review by Anne)
Goldman, William: Adventures in the Screen Trade (review by Hilary)
Gordon-Cumming, Jane: A Proper Family Christmas (review by Anne)
Gorn, Elliott J: Dillinger’s Wild Ride (review by Jay Benedict)
Goscinny and Sempé: Histoires Inédites du Petit Nicolas (review by Kirsty)
Gourevitch, Philip (ed): The Paris Review Interviews, vol II(review by Trilby)
Grahame-Smith, Seth: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (review by Lisa)
Grant, Thomas: Jeremy Hutchinson’s Case Histories (review by Hilary)
Gray, Keith: Ostrich Boys (review by Eve)
Green, Jane: Girl Friday (review by Anne)
Green, Jane: Spellbound (review by Anne)
Green, Michael: The Art of Coarse Acting. 50th Anniversary Edition (review by Hilary)
Gregory, Philippa: The Favoured Child (review by Nikki)
Gregory, Philippa: The Other Queen (review by Anne)
Greig, Andrew: In Another Light (review by Nikki)
Greig, Charlotte: A Girl’s Guide to Modern European Philosophy (review by Nikki)
Grenier, Roger: The Difficulty of Being a Dog (review by Leena)
Gribbin, John and Mary: Flower Hunters (review by Moira)
Grimbert, Philippe: Secret (review by Eve)
Grossman, Vasily: Everything Flows (review by Robert Chandler)
Guarino, Deborah: Is Your Mama A Llama? (review by Lisa)
Guilliatt, Richard and Hohnen, Peter: The Wolf (review by Michael Ng)
H
Haag, Michael: The Durrells of Corfu (review by Kate)
Haggith, Mandy: The Last Bear (review by Mary)
Haig, Matt: The Radleys (review by Lisa)
Halfon, Eduardo: The Polish Boxer (Translated by Ollie Brock, Thomas Bunstead, Lisa Dillman, Daniel Hahn, and Anne McLean) (reviewed by Sam Ruddock)
Hall, Ian: Fisherground – Living the Dream (reviewed by Moira)
Hall, Lee: The Pitmen Painters (Play review by Hilary)
Hambly, Barbara: Patriot Hearts (review by Jackie)
Hannah, Sophie: The Other Half Lives (review by Anne)
Hannah, Sophie: The Point of Rescue (guest review by Charlotte Duckworth)
Hannah, Sophie:The Book of Everybody’s Secrets (review by Jackie)
Hanbury, Elizabeth: The Paradise Will (review by Kirsty)
Hardinge, Frances: Verdigris Deep (review by Eve)
Hardy, Thomas: Jude the Obscure (review by Rosy and Lisa)
Harkaway, Nick: The Gone-Away World (review by Moira)
Harkup, Kathryn: A is for Arsenic (review by Kate)
Harman, Claire: Jane’s Fame. How Jane Austen conquered the world (review by Hilary)
Harman, Claire: Sylvia Townsend Warner – a Biography (review by Hilary)
Harper, M J: The History of Britain Revealed (review by Moira)
Harris, Alexandra: Romantic Moderns (review by Hilary)
Harris, E Lynn: In My Father’s House (review by Anne)
Harris, Jane: Gillespie and I (review by Nikki)
Harris, M G: The Joshua Files – Invisible City (review by Eve)
Harrison, Michelle: The Thirteen Treasures (review by Eve)
Hartman, Rachel: Seraphina (review by Kate)
Haughton, Chris: Oh No, GEORGE! (review by Lisa)
Hay, Donna: The Two Mrs Robinsons (review by Anne)
Haynes’ Owners Workshop Manual CB400/4 (review by Michael)
Healey, Emma: Elizabeth is Missing (review by Simon)
Heaney, Seamus: District and Circle (review by Jackie)
Hegarty, John: Hegarty on Advertising (review by Hilary)
Hemingway, Ernest: The Old Man and the Sea (review by Jackie)
Henderson, Caspar: The Book of Barely Imagined Beings (review by Hilary)
Henderson, J. A.: Bunker 10 (review by Eve)
Henderson, J A: Colony (review by Eve)
Henderson, J. A.: Crash (review by Eve)
Herbert, George: Poems (review by Hilary)
Heyer, Georgette: The Grandy Sophy and Venetia (review by Emma)
Heyer, Georgette: The Talisman Ring (review by Kate)
Hicks, Carola: Girl in a Green Gown. The History and Mystery of the Arnolfini Portrait (review by Hilary)
Himmelstrup, Kaj: The Children of Tonacatecutli (review by Kate)
Hiraide, Takashi: The Guest Cat (review by Simon)
Hird, Laura: Nail and Other Stories (review by Jenn)
Hirvonen, Elina: When I Forgot (review by Leena)
Hobb, Robin: Assassin’s Apprentice (review by Sharon)
Høeg, Peter: Borderliners (review by Rosy)
Hoffman, Alice: The Story Sisters (review by Anne)
Holahan, Evelyn: The Akeing Heart (review by Kate)
Hollis, Matthew: Now All Roads Lead to France (review by Hilary)
Holloway, Richard: Between the Monster and the Saint (review by Mary)
Holtby, Winifred: Letters to a Friend (review by Kate)
Hooper, Chloe: The Tall Man: Death and Life on Palm Island (review by Sam)
Hore, Rachel: The Glass Painter’s Daughter (review by Moira)
Horn, Pamela: Life as a Victorian Lady (review by Ariadne)
Horowitz, Anthony: The House of Silk (review by Anne)
Horspool, David: The English Rebel: One Thousand Years of Troublemaking, from the Normans to the Nineties (review by Hilary)
Horspool, David: Why Alfred Burned the Cakes (review by Moira)
Houston, Keith: Shady Characters (review by Hilary)
Howell, Katherine: Cold Justice (review by Lisa).
Howell, Simmone: Everything Beautiful (review by SamRuddock)
Hughes, Ted and Godwin, Fay: Elmet (review by Moira)
Humble, Nicola: Culinary Pleasures (review by Kate)
Humble, Nicola: The Feminine Middlebrow Novel (review by Simon)
Humphreys, Helen: The Frozen Thames (review by Trilby)
Humphreys, Joe: Foul Play: What’s Wrong with Sport (review by Mary)
Hurston, Zora Neale: Their Eyes Were Watching God (review by Moira)
Huxley, Aldous: Crome Yellow (review by Simon)
Huxley, Aldous: The Genius and the Goddess (review by Simon)
Hwang Sok-yong, Princess Bari (review by Kate)
Hyde, Laura, and Boulay-Goldsmith, Charlotte: Topsy-Turvy Tales (review by Kate)
Hyland, M. J: How The Light Gets In (review by Lisa)
Hyland, M. J: This Is How (review by Lisa)
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Imlach, Gary: My Father and other Working Class Heroes (review by Ken Owen)
Irwin, Margaret: Still She Wished For Company (review by Hilary)
Isherwood, Christopher: Mr. Norris Changes Trains (review by Simon)
Ishiguro, Kazuo: Never Let Me Go (review by Mary)
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Jääskeläinen, Pasi Ilmari: The Rabbbit Back Literature Society (review by Kate & Leena)
Jackson, Kate: Mean and Lowly Things (review by Jackie)
Jackson, Mick: Bears of England (review by Sam Ruddock)
Jackson, Mick: The Widow’s Tale (review by Sam Ruddock)
Jackson, Shirley: We Have Always Lived in the Castle (review by Colin)
Jacobson, Howard: The Finkler Question (review by Sam Ruddock)
Jafry, Nasim Marie: The State of Me (review by Lisa)
Jahren, Hope: Lab Girl (review by Kate)
James, John: Votan and other Novels (review by Colin)
James, Oliver: Affluenza (review by Trilby)
James, P.D.: Death Comes to Pemberley (review by Anne)
James, Thomas: Letters to a Stranger (guest review by Joseph Spece)
Tove Jansson, Sculptor’s Daughter (review by Kate)
Jansson, Tove: The Summer Book (review by Leena)
Jenkins, Elizabeth: The Tortoise and the Hare (review by Hilary)
Jenkins, Herbert: Patricia Brent, Spinster (review by Simon)
Jenkins, Nigel: Blue and O for a gun (review by Lisa)
Jewell, Lisa: 31 Dream Street (review by Anne)
Jian, Ma: Red Dust (Review by Sam Ruddock)
Joannides, Paul: The Guide to Getting it On (review by Rosy)
Johnston, Linda O: Nothing to Fear but Ferrets (review by Jackie)
Johnstone, Doug: Hit & Run (review by Lisa)
Johnstone, Doug: The Ossians (review by Lisa)
Jones, Edward P: The Known World (review by Mary)
Jones, Robert: Alfred Wallis, Artist and Mariner (review by Hilary)
Jones, Wendy Grayson Perry: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Girl (review by Hilary)
Judd, Peter Haring (ed.): The Akeing Heart (review by Kate)
Judt, Tony: The Memory Chalet (review by Hilary)
July, Miranda: It Chooses You (review by Lisa)
July, Miranda: No One Belongs Here More Than You (review by Trilby and Jenn)
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Kamoche, Ken N: A Fragile Hope (review by Anne)
Kanno, Aya: Requiem of the Rose King (review by Lucy)
Kavenna, Joanna: Inglorious (review by Leena)
Keegan, Claire: Walk the Blue Fields (review by Kate)
Kelly, Ian: Casanova (review by Anne)
Kelsey, Linda: The Secret Lives of Sisters (guest review by Samantha Tonge)
Kemp, Jonathan: London Triptych (review by Anne)
Kendall, Tim (Editor): The Poetry of the First World War (review by Moira)
Keneally, Thomas: The People’s Train (review by Anne)
Kennedy, Margaret: Jane Austen (review by Hilary)
Kennedy, Margaret: Troy Chimneys (review by Hilary)
Kennedy, Peter: Fishermen’s Tales (review by Kate)
Kent, Trilby: Medina Hill (review by Eve)
Kent, Trilby: Smoke Portrait (review by Anne and Lisa)
Kent, Trilby: Silent Noon (review by Holly)
Kevles, Bettyann Holtzmann: Almost Heaven (review by Jackie)
Killen, Chris: The Bird Room (review by Anne)
Kipling, Rudyard: Stalky & Co (review by Hilary)
Kita, Bronia:The Swansong of Wilbur McCrum (review by Jackie)
Klinkenborg, Verlyn: Timothy; or, Notes of an Abject Reptile (review by Jackie)
Kloester, Jennifer: Georgette Heyer. Biography of a Best-Seller (review by Kate)
Knight, Gavin: The Swordfish and the Star (review by Hilary)
Knowles, Elizabeth (Ed.): The Little Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs (review by Moira)
Koa Wing, Sandra: Our Longest Days (review by Moira)
Koenig, Rhoda: The New Devil’s Dictionary (review by Lisa)
Kollontai, Alexandra: Communism and the Family (review by Kirsty)
Kollontai, Alexandra: Red Love (review by Kirsty)
Korr, Chuck and Close, Marvin: More Than Just a Game (review by Ken Owen)
Kotar, S L and Gessler, J E: Riverboat – The Evolution of a Television Series (review by Moira)
Kotar, S L and Gessler, J E: The Steamboat Era (review by Moira)
Krauss, Nicole: The History of Love (review by Sam Ruddock)
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Lace, Kate: The Chalet Girl(review by Moira)
Lace, Kate: The Trophy Girl (review by Kirsty)
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Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi di: The Leopard (review by Hilary)
Landman, Tanya: Mondays are Murder (review by Lisa)
Langton, Jerry: Rat – How the World’s most Notorious Rodent Clawed its Way to the Top (review by Jackie)
Lansens, Lori The Girls (review by Jackie)
Lanyon, Peter: Soaring Flight. Peter Lanyon’s Gliding Paintings (review by Hilary)
Lear, Linda:Beatrix Potter:A Life in Nature (review by Jackie)
Law, Catherine – A Season of Leaves (review by Lisa)
Lee Jing-Jing: If I Could Tell You (review by Kate)
Leigh, J S: Preston Cotton Martyrs – The millworkers who shocked a nation (review by Moira)
Leighton, Isabel (ed.): The Aspirin Age (review by Colin)
Lejeune, Anthony: The Gentlemen’s Clubs of London (review by Kate)
Lelord, Francois: Hector and the Search for Happiness (review by RosyB)
Leon, Donna and Pianara, Roberta: A Taste of Venice: At Table With Brunetti (review by Hilary)
Leonard, Stephen Pax: The Polar North (review by Kate)
Lessing, Doris: The Golden Notebook (review by Sam Ruddock)
Lette, Kathy: How to Kill your Husband (review by Lisa)
Levi, Carlo: Christ Stopped at Eboli (review by Hilary)
Lewis, Michael: The Blind Side (review by Ken Owen)
Lewycka, Marina: Strawberry Fields (aka Two Caravans)(review by Jackie)
Liss, David: The Coffee Trader (review by Jackie)
Lister-Kaye, John: Nature’s Child: Encounters with Wonders of the Natural World (review by Leena)
Lively, Penelope: Moon Tiger (review by Nikki)
Lively, Penelope: Passing On (review by Kate)
Lloyd, Saci: The Carbon Diairies 2015 (review by Eve)
Lodge, David: Author, Author (review by Audrey)
Lodge, David: Therapy (review by Mary)
Loeb, Jeph and Sale, Tim: The Long Halloween (almost-a-review by Kirsty)
London, Clare: Freeman (review by Anne)
Long, James: Ferney (review by Simon)
Long, Richard: Time And Space (review by Hilary)
Loos, Anita: No Mother to Guide Her (review by Leena)
Lorca, Federico García: Selected Poems (review by Hilary)
Lovett, Charlie: The Bookman’s Tale (review by Hilary)
Lynas, Mark: Six Degrees (review by Mary)
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Ma, Jian: Red Dust (Review by Sam Ruddock)
Mabey, Richard: Dreams of the Good Life. Flora Thompson and the Creation of Lark Rise to Candleford (review by Hilary)
MacAhmlaigh, Donall: An Irish Navvy (review by Michael)
MacDougall, Ian: Voices of Scottish Librarians (review by Colin)
MacNeice, Louis: An Autumn Journal (review by Michael)
Maconie, Stuart: Pies and Prejudice (review by Hilary)
Maddison, Isobel: Beyond the German Garden (review by Kate)
Makine, Andrei: Human Love (review by Anne)
Makine, Andrei: The Woman who Waited (review by Jackie)
Maitland, Sara: A Book of Silence (review by Hilary)
Maitland, Sara: Moss Witch and Other Stories (review by Kate)
Malik, Ayisha: Sofia Khan is NOT Obliged (review by Kate)
Mallock, W H: Every Man His Own Poet (review by Kate)
Mansell, Jill: Good at Games (review by Kirsty)
Mansfield, Katherine: Something Childish (review by Simon)
Mantel, Hilary: Wolf Hall (review by Nikki)
Maron, Margaret: Deborah Knott Mysteries (review by Jackie)
Marquis, Don: archy & mehitabel (review by Hilary)
Martin, Andrew: The Necropolis Railway (review by Hilary)
Martin, Sandra: Adolphe Valette – A French Impressionist in Manchester (review by Moira)
Maruyama, Chihiro, and Kamigaki, Hiro: Pierre, the Maze Detective (reviewed by Lucy)
Marx, Karl and Engels, Freidrich: The Communist Manifesto (review by Kirsty)
Maskalyk, James. Six Months in Sudan (review by Lisa)
Maslen, Elizabeth: Life in the Writings of Storm Jameson (review by Kate)
Mason, Richard: History of a Pleasure Seeker (review by Anne)
Mason, Richard: The Lighted Rooms (review by Anne)
Maugham, W. Somerset: The Painted Veil (review by Jackie)
Max, D.T.: The Family That Couldn’t Sleep (review by Leena)
Maxtone Graham, Ysenda: Mr. Tibbits’s Catholic School (review by Simon)
Maxwell, Gavin: God Protect Me From My Friends and The Ten Pains of Death (review by Hilary)
Mayor, F M The Rector’s Daughter (review by Hilary)
McCaffrey, Todd: Dragonholder (review by Kate)
McCall Smith, Alexander: The Number 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency (review by Lisa)
McCann, Maria: The Wilding (review by Anne)
McCarthy, Cormac: All The Pretty Horses (review by Dylan)
McCluskey, Kirsty Jane: The Royal Confessor (review by Moira)
McCormack, Mike: Short Fiction 3 (mini-review by Lisa)
McCrum, Mark: Going Dutch in Beijing (review by Lisa)
McDonald, Henry: Gunsmoke and Mirrors (review by Michael)
McEwan, Ian: On Chesil Beach (review by Trilby)
McGowan, Anthony: The Knife that Killed Me (review by Eve)
McGregor, Jon: Even The Dogs (review by Sam Ruddock)
McGregor, Jon: This Isn’t The Sort Of Thing That Happens To Someone Like You (review by Sam Ruddock)
McIntyre, Vonda: The Moon and the Sun (review by Kate)
McKendrick, Scot et al.: Royal Manuscripts. The Genius of Illumination (review by Hilary)
McLean, Lenny: The Guv’Nor (mini-review by Lisa)
McMaster, Rhyll: Feather Man (review by Lisa)
Mead, Rebecca: The Road to Middlemarch. My Life With George Eliot (review by Hilary)
Mérimée, Prosper: Carmen (review by Moira)
Merle, Robert: Death Is My Trade/La mort est mon métier (review by Mary)
Metaxas, Eric: Amazing Grace (review by Kate)
Mieville, China : Un Lun Dun (review by Sharon)
Miles, Barry: Hippie (review by Jackie)
Miles, Kathryn:Adventures With Ari (review by Jackie)
Miller, Andrew:Pure (review by Anne)
Miller, Kei: A Light Song of Light (review by Sam Ruddock)
Miller, Rebecca: The Private Lives of Pippa Lee (review by Nikki)
Milne, A.A.: The Red House Mystery (review by Simon)
Miscione, Lisa: Angel Fire (review by Lisa)
Mistry, Rohinton: A Fine Balance (review by Jackie)
Mitchell, David: Black Swan Green (review by Nikki)
Mitchell, David: The Bone Clocks (review by Kate)
Mitchell, David: The Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet (review by Kate)
Mitchell, L G: Lord Melbourne:1779 – 1848 (review by Moira)
Mitford, Nancy: A Talent to Annoy (review by Kate)
Mitford, Nancy: Love in a Cold Climate/The Pursuit of Love (review by Sharon)
Mittelmark, Howard and Newman, Sandra: How not to Write a Novel (review by Hilary)
Mok, D K: The Other Tree (review by Kate)
Monbiot, George: Heat – How we can stop the planet from burning (review by Mary)
Montefiore, Santa: The Italian Matchmaker (review by Moira)
Montgomery: L.M.: Anne of Green Gables (review by Simon)
Moorcroft, Sue: Uphill All the Way (review by Leena)
Moorcroft, Sue: Dream a Little Dream (review by Moira)
Moore, Alan and Gibbons, Dave: Watchmen (review by Kari Maaren)
Morais, Richard C: Buddhaland Brooklyn (review by Kate)
Moriarty, Jaclyn: Becoming Bindy Mackenzie (review by Emily)
Moriarty, Jaclyn: Finding Cassie Crazy (review by Leena)
Morpurgo, Michael: Alone on a Wide, Wide Sea (review by Eve).
Morrall, Clare: The Man Who Disappeared (review by Anne)
Morris, Jan: Ciao, Carpaccio! (review by Hilary)
Morris, R. N.: A Vengeful Longing (review by Emily)
Morris, W. F.: Bretherton Khaki or Field Grey? (review by Colin)
Morrissey, Donna: Sylvanus Now (review by Mary)
Morton, J B: Beachcomber (review by Hilary)
Morton, Kate: The House At Riverton (review by Hilary)
Moyes, Jojo: The Last Letter from Your Lover (review by Jay Benedict)
Mullan, John: What matters in Jane Austen? Twenty crucial puzzles solved (review by Hilary)
Murdoch, Iris: The Black Prince (Review by Sam Ruddock)
Murakami, Haruki: Sputnik Sweetheart (Review by Sam Ruddock)
Murakami, Haruki: 1Q84 (Book One and Book Two) (Review by Sam Ruddock)
Murakami, Haruki: 1Q84 (Book Three) (Review by Sam Ruddock
Murray, Pail: Skippy Dies (review by Nikki)
Myerson, Julie: The Story of You (review by Kate)
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Nadeau, Jean-Benoît and Barlow, Julie: Sixty Million Frenchmen Can’t Be Wrong (review by Hilary)
Némirovsky, Irène: Suite Française (review by Mary)
Nersesian, Arthur: Chinese Takeout (review by Jackie)
Ness, Patrick: A Monster Calls (review by Sam Ruddock)
Ness, Patrick: The Knife of Never Letting Go (review by Sam Ruddock)
Ness, Patrick: The Ask and The Answer (review by Sam Ruddock)
Ness, Patrick: Monsters of Men (review by Sam Ruddock)
Neruda, Pablo: Confieso que he vivido / Memoirs (review by Kirsty)
Nevin, Charles: Lancashire – Where Women Die of Love (review by Moira)
Newman, Sandra and Mittelmark, Howard: How Not to Write a Novel (review by Hilary)
Nicholl, Charles: The Lodger: Shakespeare on Silver Street (review by Hilary)
Nicholl, Charles: Traces Remain (review by Hilary)
Nicholls, Sally: Ways to Live Forever (review by Leena)
Nicholson, Norman: Wednesday Early Closing (review by David Boyd)
Nicholson, Adam: The Gentry (review by Kate)
Niffenegger, Audrey: Her Fearful Symmetry (review by Anne)
Niffenegger, Audrey: The Time Traveler’s Wife (review by Mary)
Nothdurft, William and Smith, Josh: The Lost Dinosaurs of Egypt (review by Jackie)
Nothomb, Amélie: Sulphuric Acid AND The Life of Hunger (review by Leena)
Novik, Naomi: Temeraire (review by Kate)
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Obama, Barack: Dreams From My Father (review by Mary)
O’Brien, Anne: Devil’s Consort (review by Anne)
O’Brien, Edna: Returning (review by Kate)
O’Brien, Flann: The Best of Myles. (review by Hilary)
O’Brien, Ronan: Confessions of a Fallen Angel (review by Nikki)
O’Connor: A Life of Your Own (review by Kate)
O’Connor, Frank: My Oedipus Complex and Other Stories (review by Kate)
O’Connor, Joseph: Ghost Light (review by Sam Ruddock)
O’Cuneen, Pamela: Hummingbirds in my Hair (review by Kate)
Ó hEithir, Breandán: Over the Bar (review by Michael)
O’Faolain, Nuala: Are You Somebody? (review by Mary)
O’Flynn, Catherine: What Was Lost (review by Leena)
O’Flynn, Catherine (Editor): Roads Ahead (review by RosyB)
O’Grady, Paul: At My Mother’s Knee… And Other Low Joints (review by Nikki)
Ommanney, Richard: Jerome’s Angel (review by Moira)
O’Reilly, Sally: Dark Aemilia (review by Holly as Guest)
Orwell, George: Keep the Aspidistra Flying (review by Sam)
Orwell, George: The Road to Wigan Pier (review by Hilary)
Orwell, George: Collected Letters, Essays and Journalism (review by Kate)
Osmond, Hazel: The First Time I Saw Your Face (review by Hilary)
Osmond, Hazel: Who’s Afraid of Mr Wolfe? (review by Hilary)
Oyeyemi, Helen: White is for Witching (review by Nikki)
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Padua, Sydney: The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage (review by Hilary)
Page, Sophie: To Marry a Prince (review by Anne)
Palliser, Charles: The Quincunx (review by Sam)
Parke, Iain: Heavy Duty People (review by Lisa)
Parkes, Nii Ayikwei: Tail of the Blue Bird (review by Sam)
Parody Party (ed. Leonard Russell) (review by Kate)
Pasternak, Boris: Doctor Zhivago (non-review by Lisa)
Paton, Alan: Cry, The Beloved Country (guest review by Caoimhe McCutcheon)
Pattillo, Beth: Jane Austen Ruined My Life (review by Anne)
Pearl, Matthew: The Last Dickens (review by Jackie)
Pears, Iain: An Instance of the Fingerpost (review by Emma)
Pelham, David: The Universe: A Three-Dimensional Study – Pop-up Book (review by Lisa)
Penman, Sharon Kay: The Sunne in Splendor (review by Jackie)
Pennac, Daniel: Better Than Life (review by Simon)
Penzler, Otto (Ed.): Death Sentences (review by Hilary)
Perring, Nik: I Met a Roman Last Night, What Did You Do? (review by Moira)
Perring, Nik: Not So Perfect Stories (review by Anne)
Petherbridge, Edward: Slim Chances and Unscheduled Appearances (review by Moira)
Petrone, Justin: Mission Estonia (review by Kate)
Pheby, Alex: Grace (review by Lisa).
Philip, Gillian (interview by Kate)
Phillips, Marie: Gods Behaving Badly (review by Leena)
Phillips, Tom: A Humument. A Treated Victorian Novel (review by Hilary)
Picardie, Justine: Daphne (review by Nikki)
Picoult, Jodi: Songs of the Humpback Whale (review by Lisa)
Pienkowski, Jan: The First Christmas (review by Moira)
Pienkowski, Jan and Walser, David: Nut Cracker (review by Moira)
Pienkowski, Jan and Walser, David: The Thousand Nights and One Night (review by Moira)
Pinfold, Levi: Black Dog (review by Lisa)
Pinnock, Jonathan: Mrs Darcy versus the Aliens (review by Lisa)
Pisani, Elizabeth: The Wisdom of Whores (review by Rosy)
Plaidy, Jean: The Heart of the Lion (Review by Nikki)
Plaja, Luisa: Extreme Kissing (Review by Eve)
Plaja, Luisa: Split by a Kiss (review by Leena, Lisa and Rosy)
Poe,Edgar Allan:Tales of Mystery and Imagination (review by Moira)
Poe, Edgar Allan:The Raven (review by Jackie)
Potter, Lawrence: This May Help You Understand the World (review by Moira)
Powys, T F: Mr Tasker’s Gods (review by Kate)
Pratchett, Terry: Night Watch (review by Ariadne)
Pratchett, Terry: Raising Steam (review by Kate)
A Notable Woman. The Romantic Journals of Jean Lucey Pratt, ed Simon Garfield (review by Kate)
Pringle, Erin: The Floating Order (review by Anne)
Proulx, Annie: Close Range: Wyoming Stories (review by Lisa)
Prowse, Jane: Hattori Hach – The Revenge of Praying Mantis (review by Jay and Moira)
Prowse, Jane: Hattori Hachi: Stalking the Enemy (review by Leopold Benedict)
Pryce, Malcolm: Last Tango in Aberystwyth (review by Anne)
Pullman, Philip: The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ (review by The Rt Revd George Hacker).
Pym, Barbara: Excellent Women (review by Hilary)
Pym, Barbara: A Glass of Blessings (review by Anne)
Barbara Pym: Jane and Prudence (review by Kate)
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Ramonet, Ignacio with Castro, Fidel: Fidel Castro: Biografía a dos voces (Part I – review by Kirsty)
Rance, Caroline: Kill-Grief (review by Anne)
Randall, Annie J: Dusty! Queen of the Postmods (review by Jay)
Ranganathan, S R: The Five Laws of Library Science (review by Hilary)
Rash, Ron: Burning Bright (review by Anne)
Rash, Ron: Serena(review by Anne)
Raven, Simon: The Feathers of Death (review by Hilary)
Ray, Jeanne: Calling Invisible Women (review by Kate)
Rayner, Jay: My Dining Hell (review by Hilary)
Reed, John: Ten Days that Shook the World (review by Moira)
Reeve, Philip: Here Lies Arthur (review by Lisa)
Reichs, Kathy: Virals (review by Lisa)
Reid, Christopher (ed.): The Letters of Ted Hughes (review by Moira)
Remarque, Erich: All Quiet on the Western Front (review by Nikki)u
Repcheck, Jack: Copernicus’ Secret (review by Jackie)
Rexroth, Kenneth: Poems from The Greek Anthology (review by Hilary)
Rhodes, Anthony: Sword of Bone (review by Colin)
Rhodes, Danny: Asboville (guest review by Luisa Plaja)
Rhodes, Dan: Little Hands Clapping (review by Lisa)
Rhys, Jean: Good Morning Midnight (review by Emma)
Rice, Luanne: The Edge of Winter (review by Jackie)
Rich, Naomi: Alis (review by Leena)
Richardson, Dorothy: Pilgrimage (trailer by Kate)
Richardson, Ruth: The Making of Mr Gray’s Anatomy (review by Caroline Rance)
Rickman, Phil: The Wine of Angels. Merrily Watkins Mysteries 1 (review by Hilary)
Rippon, Angela: The Victoria Plum books (review by Lisa)
Ristad, Eloise: A Soprano on Her Head (review by Leena)
Robinson, Mary (review by Kate)
Robyn, Fiona: The Letters (review by Jackie)
Roe, Sue: The Private Lives of the Impressionists (review by Jackie)
Roffey, Monique: The White Woman on the Green Bicycle (review by Nikki)
Rooney, Padraig: The Gilded Chalet (review by Kate)
Rosero, Evelio: Good Offices (review by Anne)
Ross, Peter: Daunderlust (review by Kate)
Rothfuss, Patrick: The Name of the Wind (review by Dylan)
Rourke, Lee: Everyday (review by Lisa)
Rowell, Rainbow: Fangirl (review by Holly)
Rowling, J K: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (review by Kate)
Ruiz Zafón, Carlos: The Angel’s Game (review by Sharon)
Runcie, James: The Grantchester novels (review by Hilary)
Ruotolo, Elisa: I Stole the Rain (review by Kate)
Russell, Karen: St Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves (review by Trilby) (review by Kate)
Russell, Karen: Vampires in the Lemon Grove (review by Kate)
Russell, Leonard (ed.): Parody Party (review by Kate)
Ryan, Terry: The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio (review by Jackie)
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St John Ambulance, St Andrew’s First Aid, British Red Cross: First Aid Manual (review by Moira)
Saadi, Suhayl: Joseph’s Box (review by Lisa)
Sacks, Oliver: Hallucinations (review by Simon)
Sacks, Oliver: The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat (review by Simon)
Saint, Andrew: Architect and Engineer – A Study in Sibling Rivalry (review by Michael Carley)
Sansom, Ian: The Case of the Missing Books (review by Jackie)
Santos, John Phillip: Places Left Unfinished at the Time of Creation (review by Hilary)
Sarkies, Duncan: Two Little Boys (review by Lisa)
Sargent, Howard: The Forgotten War (review by Holly)
Satrapi, Marjane: Persepolis (review by Hilary)
Savage, Dan: The Commitment (review by Anne)
Sayers, Dorothy L (translator): Dante: The Divine Comedy (review by Hilary)
Sayers, Dorothy L: Gaudy Night (joint review by Moira, Hilary & Kate)
Schlink, Bernard: The Reader (review by Jackie)
Sclater, Graham: We’re Gonna Be Famous (review by Anne)
Scott, Alastair: Native Stranger (review by Moira)
Scroggie, Justin. Tic-Tac, Teddy Bears and Teardrop Tattoos(review by Lisa).
Sebold, Alice: The Almost Moon (review by Lisa)
Sellers, Susan. Vanessa and Virginia (review by Lisa)
Setterfield, Diane. The Thirteenth Tale (review by Nikki)
Seuss, Dr: The Lorax (review by Michelle Lewis)
Seward, Desmond: Renishaw Hall (review by Simon)
Sexton, Adam (Ed.): Love Stories – A Literary Companion to Tennis (review by Leena)
Shaffer, Mary Ann: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (review by Nikki)
Shakespeare, William: Poetry, selected by Ted Hughes (review by Hilary)
Shakespeare, William: Shakespeare’s Sonnets (review by Hilary)
Shapiro, James: Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare? (review by Nikki)
Shatterly, Margo Lee: Hidden Figures (review by Kate)
Shaw, George Bernard: Mrs Warren’s Profession (review by Kate)
Shepard, Sara: All The Things We Didn’t Say (review by Anne)
Shepherd, Nan: The Quarry Wood (review by Kate)
Shepherd, Nan: The Weatherhouse (review by Colin)
Shelley, Mary: Frankenstein (review by RosyB)
Shreve, Anita: Testimony (review by Anne)
Shreve, Porter: Drives Like a Dream (review by Jackie)
Shrigley, David: What the hell are you doing? (review by Lisa)
Shriver, Lionel: We Need to Talk About Kevin (review by Mary)
Siblin, Eric: The Cello Suites: in search of a baroque masterpiece (review by Hilary)
Simmonds, Posy: Gemma Bovery (review by Nikki)
Simms, Andrew and Joe Smith (edited by): Do Good Lives Have to Cost the Earth (review by Mary)
Simons, J. David: The Liberation of Celia Kahn (review by Lisa)
Signer, Michael:Demagogue (review by Jackie)
Slim, Iceberg: Pimp – The Story of My Life (review by Jay)
Small, Ken and Rogerson, Mark: The Forgotten Dead(review by Moira)
Smith, Ali: The Accidental(review by Anne)
Smith, Josh and Northdurft, William: The Lost Dinosaurs of Egypt (review by Jackie)
Smith, Liz: Our Betty (review by Nikki)
Smith, Roly (ed): Call of the Wild (review by Moira)
Smith, Zadie: White Teeth (review by Nikki)
Solomons, Natasha: Mr Rosenblum’s List (review by Anne)
Solomons, Natasha: The Novel in the Viola (review by Nikki)
Spark, Muriel: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (review by RosyB)
Speidel, Michael P: Riding for Caesar (review by Dr Michael Ng)
Spelman, Lucy H: The Rhino with Glue-on Shoes (review by Jackie)
Spencer, Colin: Backing into Light (review by Kate)
Spinelli, Jerry: Eggs (review by Eve)
Spinelli, Jerry: Stargirl (review by Eve)
Spufford, Francis: Backroom Boys (review by Michael)
Stange, Rolf: From the Cold Edge. Spitsbergen-Svalbard, a complete guide to the Arctic Archipelago
Stater, Victor: High Life, Low Morals (review by Hilary)
Steen, Michael: Enchantress of Nations (review by Leena)
Steifvater, Maggie: Shiver (review by Eve)
Sterling, Eleanor, et al: Vietnam:A Natural History (review by Jackie)
Stevens, Wallace: A Rabbit as King of the Ghosts (review by RosyB)
Stewart, Trenton Lee: The Mysterious Benedict Society (review by Eve)
Stinton, Judith: Chaldon Herring. The Powys Circle in a Dorset Village (review by Kate)
Stockett, Kathryn: The Help (review by Nikki)
Stonich, Sarah: The Ice Chorus (review by Anne)
Stothard, Anna: The Pink Hotel (review by Anne)
Stott, Rebecca: Darwin and the Barnacle (review by Moira)
Stourton, Ivo: The Night Climbers (review by Leena)
Strachan, Jackie: 50 Games to Play with Your Cat (review by Holly)
Stratton, J M: Agricultural Records A.D. 220-1968 (review by Hilary)
Stubbs, John: Donne – The Reformed Soul (review by Emma)
Surkis, Alisa and Nolan, Monica: The Big Book of Lesbian Horse Stories (review by Moira)
Sandhu, Sukhdev: Night haunts (review by Moira)
Sutherland, Amy:Kicked, Bitten, Scratched (review by Jackie)
Sweet, Matthew: Inventing the Victorians (review by Hilary)
Swift, Katherine:The Morville Hours (review by Jackie)
Sydney, Michael: Bleeding, Blisters and Opium (review by Moira
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Tavares, Zulmira Ribeiro: Family Heirlooms (review by Kate)
Taylor, Cally: Home For Christmas (review by Hilary)
Taylor, Elizabeth: The Soul of Kindness (review by Hilary)
Taylor, Megan:The Dawning (a review by Anne)
Taylor, Megan:The Lives of Ghosts (a review by Anne)
Taylor, Natalie: Signs of Life (review by Lisa)
Tec, Nechama:Defiance (a review by Moira)
Templeton, Edith: Gordon (review by Hilary)
Templeton, Edith: The Surprise of Cremona (review by Hilary) Also: Travels With Edith (review by Hilary) Also: More Travels With Edith (review by Hilary)
Tepper, Sheri S: Grass (review by Emma Barnes)
Teulé, Jean: The Suicide Shop (review by Rosy)
Thirkell, Angela: Three Houses (review by Kate)
Cezair-Thomas, Rosie: Iris & Ruby (review by Nikki)
Thomas, Scarlett: Our Tragic Universe(review by Nikki)
Thomas, Trisha R.:Roadrunner(review by Jackie)
Thomas, Michael Wyndham: Esp (review by Kate)
Thompson, Alice: The Falconer (review by Leena)
Thompson, Christina: Come on Shore and we will Kill and Eat you All (review by Jackie)
Thompson, Kate: Creature of the Night (review by Eve)
Thornton, Rosy: Crossed Wires (review by Moira)
Thornton, Rosy: Hearts and Minds (review by Rosy, Lisa and Leena)
Thornton, Rosy: More Than Love Letters (review by Leena)
Thornton, Rosy: Sandlands (review by Moira and Hilary)
Thornton, Rosy: The Tapestry of Love (review by Hilary)
Thorpe, Adam: Is This The Way You Said (review by Anne)
Tillyer, A. C: An A-Z of Possible Worlds (mini-review by Lisa)
Todd, Janet: Death and the Maidens: Fanny Wollstonecraft and the Shelley Circle (review by Leena)
Todd, Janet: A Man of Genius (review by Moira)
Toibin, Colm: Brooklyn (review by Kate)
Tolkein, J R R: The Lord of the Rings (review by Nikki)
Tolkien, J R R: The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings (part 1 of review by Kate)
Tolkien, J R R: The Lord of the Rings revisited (review by Moira)
Tolstoy, Count Lev: The Kreutzer Sonata (review by Kirsty)
Tonello, Michael: Bringing Home the Birkin (review by Jackie)
Topolski, Carol: Monster Love (review by Jenn)
Townsend Warner, Sylvia: The Corner That Held Them (review by Hilary)
Townsend Warner, Sylvia: The Akeing Heart (review by Kate)
Tremayne, Peter: Sister Fidelma Mysteries (review by Jackie)
Trollope, Anthony: The Last Chronicle of Barset (review by Hilary)
Trotsky, Leon: My Life (review by Kirsty)
Truss, Lynne: Eats, Shoots and Leaves (review by Nikki)
Tsukiyama, Gail: The Street of a Thousand Blossoms (review by Jackie)
Tsutsui, Yasutaka: The Maid (review by Anne)
Turner, Thomas: The Diary of Thomas Turner 1754-1765 (review by Hilary)
Tyler, Anne: Celestial Navigation (review by Anne)
Tyler, Anne: Noah’s Compass (review by Anne)
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Ugresic, Dubravka: Nobody’s Home and Thank You for Not Reading (review by Leena)
Undset, Sigrid: Kristin Lavransdatter (review by Kate)
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Valentine, Jenny: Finding Violet Park (review by Emily)
Valmorbida, Elise: The Book of Happy Endings (review by Anne)
Valmorbida, Elise: The Winding Stick (review by Anne)
Van Booy, Simon: Everything Beautiful Began After (review by Anne)
Van Booy, Simon: Love begins in winter (review by Anne)
Various: 100 stories for Haiti (plus an article about Toussaint Louverture) (review by Anne/article by Kirsty)
Various: Hidden Conflict (review by Anne)
Vatsayana: The Kama Sutra (review by Audrey)
Vere, Ed: Mr Big (review by Lisa)
Verne, Jules: Journey to the Centre of the Earth (review by Kate)
Villalobos, Juan Pablo (Translated by Rosalind Harvey): Down the Rabbit Hole (review by Sam Ruddock)
Vowler, Tom: The Method and Other Stories.
Vowler, Tom: What Lies Within (review by Moira)
Vowler, Tom: That Dark Remembered Day (review by Moira)
Vreeland, Susan: Luncheon of the Boating Party (review by Jackie)
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Wade White, Elizabeth: The Akeing Heart (review by Kate)
Waller, Robert James: High Plains Tango (review by Jackie)
War Department, Washington DC: Instructions for American Servicemen in Britain, 1942(review by Moira)
Ward, Chris: Stalin’s Russia (review by Kirsty)
Wareham, Evonne: Never Coming Home (review by Moira)
Warner, Alan. Morvern Callar (review by Jenn)
Washington, Peter (editor) Persian Poems (review by Colin)
Waters, Sarah: Fingersmith (review by Sam Ruddock)
Waters, Sarah: The Paying Guests (review by Simon)
Waugh, Evelyn: Brideshead Revisited (by RosyB)
Weidensaul, Scott:The Ghost With Trembling Wings (review by Jackie)
Welland, Michael: Sand (review by Moira)
Wells, H G: Little Wars (review by Michael Ng)
Wells, H G: The Sea Lady (review by Kate)
Wells, Stanley: Great Shakespeare Actors – Burbage to Branagh (review by Moira)
Welty, Eudora: The Optimist’s Daughter (review by Simon)
Wesley, Mary: The Camomile Lawn (review by Nikki)
Weston, Mark: The Ringtone and the Drum (review by Kate)
Wharton, Edith: The Custom of the Country (review by Leena)
White, Antonia: Frost in May (review by Kate)
White,Edmund: The Flâneur (review by Hilary)
White, Gilbert: The Natural History of Selborne (review by Moira)
White, T H: The Goshawk (review by Trilby)
Whitehead, Colson: Apex Hides the Hurt (review by Anne)
Whiteley, Aliya: Light Reading (review by Lisa)
Wickham, Madeleine: Cocktails for Three (review by Anne)
Wickham, Madeleine: Sleeping Arrangements (review by Anne)
Wickham, Madeleine: The Gatecrasher (review by Anne)
Wickham, Madeleine: The Tennis Party (review by Anne)
Wickham, Madeleine: The Wedding Girl (review by Anne)
Wilde, Oscar: The Picture of Dorian Gray – Audiobook – Read by Edward Petherbridge (review by Moira)
Wilkinson, Laura: BloodMining (review by Anne)
Wilson, Ben: Decency and Disorder (review by Leena)
Winder, Simon: Germania (review by Kate)
Wing, Sandra Koa: Our Longest Days (review by Moira)
Winger, Anna: This must be the Place (review by Jackie)
Winkett, Lucy: Our Sound is Our Wound (review by Anne)
Winman, Sarah: When God Was A Rabbit (review by Nikki)
The Wipers Times (review by guest)
Wodehouse, P G: The Girl in Blue (review by Anne)
Wodehouse, P G: Right Ho, Jeeves (review by Sharon)
Wood, Maryrose: The Poison Diaries (review by Anne)
Woolf, Virginia: Mrs Dalloway (review by Sam Ruddock)
Woolf, Virginia: Mrs Dalloway (review by Hilary)
Woolf, Virginia: Jacob’s Room (review by Kate)
Woolf, Virginia: Jacob’s Room (review by Simon)
Worth, Lotte: The Perfect Suicide (review by Moira)
Wray, John: Lowboy (review by Anne)
Wu Ming: Altai (review by Kate)
Wyld, Evie: After the Fire, A Still Small Voice (review by Sam Ruddock)
Wyndham Lewis, D B and Lee, Charles: The Stuffed Owl: an anthology of bad verse (review by Hilary)
Wynne Jones, Diana: Enchanted Glass (review by Anne)
Wynne Jones, Diana: An overview of sibling relationships in The Ogre Downstairs, Charmed Life, Howl’s Moving Castle and Time of the Ghost (RosyB and EmmaB)
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Yates, Dornford: Adele & Co (review by Kate)
Dornford Yates: Wife Apparent (review by Kate)
Young, Rob: Electric Eden: Unearthing Britain’s Visionary Music (review by Hilary)
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Zaoui, Amin: Banquet of Lies (review by Jay Benedict)
Zamyatin, Yevgeny: We (review by Sam)
Zhang, Amy: This is Where the World Ends (guest review by Susan)
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