Author Index

List of book reviews since I started to write about books in April 2007, in alphabetical order by author. Clicking on the titles will take you to my reviews. My aim is to write something about each book even if it’s just a few lines, so some of the posts are less detailed than others/part of composite posts.

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A

AALTO, Kathryn: Writing Wild

AARONOVITCH, Ben:

Rivers of London series

• Rivers of London (1)
• Moon Over Soho (2)

ABBOTT, Rachel: Come a Little Closer

ACHEBE, Chinua: No Longer at Ease

ACKROYD, Peter:

• The Fall of Troy
• Shakespeare: The Biography
• Wilkie Collins

ADAMS, Poppy: The Behaviour of Moths

ADAMS, Richard: The Day Gone By: an Autobiography

ADICHIE, Chimamanda Ngozi:

• Half of a Yellow Sun
• Purple Hibiscus

ALAIN-FOURNIER: Le Grand Meaulnes

ALCOTT, Louisa May: Little Women

ALEXANDER, V S: Her Hidden Life

ALISON, Rosie: The Very Thought of You

ALLEN, Sarah Addison: Garden Spells

ALLENDE, Isabel: Portrait in Sepia

ALLINGHAM, Margery: Tiger in the Smoke

ALLINGHAM, Merryn:

• The Buttonmaker’s Daughter
• The Secret of Summerhayes

ARBUTHNOTT, George: Failures of State

ARCHER, Jeffrey: Nothing Ventured

ARLIDGE, M J: Down to the Woods

ARMSTRONG, Terri: Standing Water

ARNOTT, Paul: Is Anybody Up There?

ARTHERN, Michael: Mountains on the Moon

ATHILL, Diana:

• Alive, Alive Oh! And Other Things That Matter
• Somewhere Towards the End

ATKINSON, Kate:

• Life After Life
• One Good Turn
• Started Early, Took My Dog
• When Will There Be Good News?

ATWOOD, Margaret: The Robber Bride

AUSTEN, Jane:

• Lady Susan, The Watsons, Sanditon
• Mansfield Park
• Northanger Abbey
• Pride and Prejudice

AUSTER, Paul:

• The Book of Illusions
• Invisible
• Man in the Dark
• Travels in the Scriptorium

B

BAINBRIDGE, Beryl:

• Another Part of the Wood
• An Awfully Big Adventure
• The Birthday Boys
• The Bottle Factory Outing
• The Dressmaker
• Harriet Said
• A Quiet Life
• Sweet William

BALDACCI, David: The Christmas Train

BAKER, John: King of the Streets

BANKS, Iain: The Quarry

BARBERY, Muriel: The Gourmet

BARNES, Julian:

• Nothing to Be Frightened Of
• The Sense of an Ending

BARR, Niall: Flodden

BARRY, Sebastian:

• Days Without End
• Old God’s Time
• The Secret Scripture
• A Thousand Moons

BATES, H E: Fair Stood the Wind for France

BAUER, Belinda:

• Blacklands
• Exit
• Snap

BEARD, Mary: SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome

BEATON, M C:

• Agatha Raisin and the Haunted House
• Death of a Gossip

BECKETT, Andy: When the Lights Went Out: Britain in the Seventies

BELL, Natasha: This Nowhere Place

BELLE, Kimberley: The Marriage Lie

BENNETT, Alan:

• The Uncommon Reader
• Four Stories

BENNETT, Vanora:

• Midnight in St Petersburg
• Portrait of an Unknown Woman

BENSON, E F: Queen Lucia

BINCHY, Maeve: The Builders

BINGHAM, Harry: Talking to the Dead

BLACK, Benjamin: Vengeance

BLAKE, Davina: Past Encounters

BLAKE, Nicholas:

• The Corpse in the Snowman
• Malice in Wonderland

BLEEKER, Emily: Wreckage

BLOOD, Alan S: Once Upon a Castle

BOLITHO, Janie:

• Betrayed in Cornwall
• Snapped in Cornwall

BOLTON, Sharon

Standalones:

• Awakening
• Blood Harvest
• The Craftsman
• Little Black Lies
• The Pact
• Sacrifice

Lacey Flint series

• Now You See Me (Lacey Flint 1)
• Dead Scared (Lacey Flint 2)
• Like This, For Ever (Lacey Flint 3)
• A Dark and Twisted Tide (Lacey Flint 4)

BORODIN, Leonid: The Year of Miracle and Grief

BOX, C J: Blue Heaven

BOYLE, Mark: The Way Home

BRADBURY, Ray: Now and Forever (Somewhere a Band is Playing, Leviathan ’99)

BRAGG, Melvyn:

• In Our Time
• Remember Me

BRANDRETH, Giles: Oscar Wilde and the Candlelight Murders

BRAUN, Lilian Jackson: The Cat Who Could Read Backwards

BRETT, Simon:

• Blotto, Twinks and the Ex-King’s Daughter
• The Body on the Beach
• The Hanging in the Hotel
• Murder in the Museum
• The Stabbing in the Stables

BRITTAIN, Vera: Testament of Youth

BRITTNEY, Lynn: Christine Kringle

BROCKMEIER, Kevin: The Brief History of the Dead

BRODRICK, William:

• The Day of the Lie (Father Anselm 4)
• The Discourtesy of Death (Father Anselm 5)
• The Gardens of the Dead (Father Anselm 2)
• The Sixth Lamentation (Father Anselm 1)
• A Whispered Name (Father Anselm 3)

BRODY, Frances:

• Dying in the Wool (Kate Shackleton mystery 1)
• A Medal for Murder  (Kate Shackleton mystery 2)
• A Death in the Dales (Kate Shackleton mystery 7)
• A Snapshot of Murder  (Kate Shackleton mystery 10)

BRONTE, Anne: Agnes Grey

BRONTE, Emily: Wuthering Heights

BROOKMYRE, Christopher:

• Fallen Angel
• Not the End of the World
• Quite Ugly One Morning

BROOKS, Geraldine: People of the Book

BROWN, Dan: The Lost Symbol

BRYSON, Bill:

• The Road to Little Dribbling
• A Walk in the Woods

BUCHAN, John:

• The Thirty-Nine Steps (Richard Hannay series 1)
• Greenmantle (Richard Hannay series 2)
• The Power-House

BUCHANAN, Tracy: The Family Secret

BUDE, John:

• The Cheltenham Square Murder
• The Lake District Murder

BUGAN, Carmen: Burying the Typewriter:Childhood Under the Eye of the Secret Police

BURKE, Bob: The Third Pig Detective Agency

BURLEY, W J:

Wycliffe series

• Wycliffe and How to Kill a Cat (2)
• Wycliffe in Paul’s Court (9)
• Wycliffe and the Four Jacks (12)  
• Wycliffe and the Quiet Virgin (13)
• Wycliffe and the Cycle of Death (16)
• Wycliffe and the Last Rites (18)
• Wycliffe and the House of Fear (20)

BURNETT, Frances Hodgson: The Secret Garden

BURTON, Miles:

• Death in the Tunnel
• The Secret of High Eldersham

BUSSI, Michel: Time is a Killer

C

CADE, Jared: Agatha Christie and the Eleven Missing Days

CAIN, Susan: Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking

CALLAHAN, Patti: Becoming Mrs Lewis

CALVERT, Jonathan: Failures of State

CAMILLERI, Andrea: Excursion to Tindari

CAREY, Peter: Theft

CARLIN, Laura: The Wicked Cometh

CARR, John Dickson: He Who Whispers

CARR, J L: A Month in the Country

CASEY, Jane:

Maeve Kerrigan series:

• The Burning (1)
• The Reckoning (2)
• The Last Girl (3)
• The Stranger You Know (4)
• The Kill (5)
• After the Fire (6)
• Let the Dead Speak (7)
• Cruel Acts (8)
• The Cutting Place (9)
• The Close (10)

Standalone:

• The Killing Kind

CATHER, Willa:

• A Lost Lady
• My Antonia

CATTON, Eleanor: The Luminaries

CECIL, Henry: Much in Evidence

CEDER, Camilla: Frozen Moment

CEP, Casey: Furious Hours

CHANDLER, Raymond: The Big Sleep

CHANG, Jung: Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China see also this post

CHARLES, Janet Skeslien: The Paris Library

CHARLTON, Karen:

• Catching the Eagle
• Seeking Our Eagle

CHATWIN, Bruce:

• On the Black Hill
• The Songlines

CHEVALIER, Tracy:

• At the Edge of the Orchard
• Falling Angels
• The Last Runaway
• A Single Thread

CHILD, Lee: The Midnight Line

CHINN, Adrienne: The Lost Letter from Morocco

CHRISTIE, Agatha

• The ABC Murders
• Absent in the Spring (writing as Mary Westmacott)
• The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding (short stories)
• After the Funeral
• And Then There Were None
• Appointment with Death (Poirot)
• At Bertram’s Hotel (Miss Marple)
• An Autobiography
• The Big Four (Poirot)
• The Body in the Library
• By the Pricking of My Thumbs
• Cards on the Table
• A Caribbean Mystery
• Cat Among the Pigeons
• The Clocks
• Come, Tell Me How You Live
• The Crooked House
• Curtain: Poirot’s Last Case
• Dead Man’s Folly
• Death Comes as the End
• Death in the Clouds
• Death on the Nile
• Destination Unknown
• Dumb Witness
• Elephants Can Remember
• Endless Night
• Evil Under the Sun
• Five Little Pigs (Poirot)
• 4.50 from Paddington
• Hallowe’en Party
• Hercule Poirot’s Christmas
• Hickory Dickory Dock
• The Hollow
• The Hound of Death (short stories)
• The Labours of Hercules
• Lord Edgware Dies
• The Man in the Brown Suit
• The Mirror Crack’d from Side to Side
• Mrs McGinty’s Dead
• The Moving Finger (Miss Marple)
• The Murder at the Vicarage (Miss Marple)
• Murder in Mesopotamia
• Murder in the Mews (Poirot 4 short stories)
• A Murder is Announced (Miss Marple)
• Murder is Easy
• The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
• The Murder on the Links
• Murder on the Orient Express
• The Mysterious Affair at Styles
• The Mysterious Mr Quin
• The Mystery of the Blue Train
• N or M? (Tommy and Tuppence 3)
• Nemesis (Miss Marple)
• One, Two Buckle My Shoe
• Ordeal by Innocence
• The Pale Horse
• Passenger to Frankfurt
• Peril at End House
• Postern of Fate (Tommy and Tuppence 4)
• Sad Cypress (Poirot)
• The Secret Adversary (Tommy & Tuppence 1)
• The Secret of Chimneys (Superintendent Battle)
• The Sittaford Mystery (Inspector Narracott)
• Sleeping Murder: Miss Marple’ Last Case
• Sparkling Cyanide
• Taken at the Flood
• Ten Little Niggers
• They Came to Baghdad
• They Do It With Mirrors
• Third Girl (Poirot)
• The Thirteen Problems (short stories)
• Three Act Tragedy (Poirot & Mr Satterthwaite)
• Towards Zero (Supt. Battle)
• Why Didn’t They Ask Evans?

CHURCHILL, Winston S : Painting as a Pastime

CLAPP, Susannah: A Card from Angela Carter

CLARE, Alys: A Rustle of Silk

CLARK, Susanna: The Ladies of Grace Adieu

CLARKE, Rachel: Breathtaking

CLEEVES, Ann:

Stand-a-lone books:

• Burial of Ghosts

Shetland Series:

• Raven Black (Shetland series 1)
• White Nights (Shetland series 2)
• Red Bones (Shetland series 3)
• Blue Lightning (Shetland series 4)
• Dead Water (Shetland series 5)
• Thin Air (Shetland series 6) (short post)
• Cold Earth (Shetland series 7)

Vera Stanhope series:

• The Crow Trap (Vera 1)
• Silent Voices (Vera 4)
• The Glass Room (Vera 5)
• Harbour Street (Vera 6)
• The Moth Catcher (Vera 7) – just a note
• The Seagull (Vera 8)
• The Darkest Evening (Vera 9)
• The Rising Tide (Vera 10)

CLEMENTS, Rory:

• Corpus (Tom Wilde 1)
• Nucleus (Tom Wilde 2)
• Hitler’s Secret (Tom Wilde 4)
• The Man in the Bunker (Tom Wilde 6)

Standalone:

Munich Wolf

COBEN, Harlan:

• Don’t Let Go
• The Woods

COE, Jonathan:

• The Broken Mirror
• The Rain Before It Falls

COELHO, Paulo:

• The Alchemist
• The Spy

COHEN, Morton N: Lewis Carroll: a biography

COLEGATE, Isabel: The Shooting Party

COLLINS, Wilkie:

• The Dead Secret
• The Moonstone
• The Woman in White

COMYNS, Barbara: Our Spoons Came From Woolworths

CONNELLY, Victoria: A Weekend with Mr Darcy

CONNOLLY, John: The Book of Lost Things

CONRAD, Joseph: Heart of Darkness

COOPER, Catherine: The Chalet

COOPER, Edmund: The Uncertain Midnight

CORNICK, Nicola:

• House of Shadows
• The Phantom Tree

CORNWELL, Bernard: Fools and Mortals

CORNWELL, Patricia: Cause of Death

Cowan-Erskine, Beth: Loch Down Abbey

COXON, Tricia: The Stroke Ward

CRAIG, Angela: Hearts and Minds

CROFTS, Freeman Wills:

• 12.30 from Croydon
• The Hog’s Back Mystery
• Mystery in the Channel

CUMMINGS, Susan: Adventures of a One-Breasted Woman

CUSK, Rachel:

• Arlington Park
• The Bradshaw Variations
• Second Place

D

DAI Randel, Weina: The Last Rose of Shanghai

DALLADAY, Jill: The Abbess of Whitby: a novel of Hild of Northumbria

DANA, Maggie: Beachcombing

DAUGHERTY, Christi: A Beautiful Corpse

DAVIDSON, Andrew: The Gargoyle

DAVIES, David Stuart: The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Devil’s Promise

DEAKIN, Roger: Wildwood: a Journey Through Trees

DELANEY, Frank: The Matchmaker of Kenmare

DELILLO, Don: White Noise

DELORME, Mary: St Bartholomew’s Man

DEMPSEY, Eoin: White Rose, Black Forest

DEXTER, Colin:

• Last Seen Wearing (Morse 2)
• The Silent World of Nicholas Quinn (Morse 3)
• Service of All the Dead (Morse 4)
• The Dead of Jericho (Morse 5)
• The Wench is Dead (Morse 8)
• The Way Through The Woods (Morse 10)
• The Remorseful Day(Morse 13)

DICKENS, Charles:

• Barnaby Rudge
• David Copperfield
• The Holly-Tree Inn
• The Mystery of Edwin Drood
• The Old Curiosity Shop
• Oliver Twist
• Our Mutual Friend

DICKINSON, Peter: The Ropemaker

DILLARD, Annie: The Maytrees

DINES, Adrienne: The Jigsaw Maker

DINSDALE, Robert: The Toymakers

DISKI, Jenny: On Trying to Keep Still

DOERR, Anthony: All the Light We Cannot See

DOUGHTY, Louise: Whatever You Love

DOUGLAS, Claire:

• Do Not Disturb
• Just Like the Other Girls
• Last Seen Alive
• Then She Vanishes

DOUGLAS-HOME, Mark:

The Sea Detective

• The Sea Detective (1)
• The Woman Who Walked into the Sea (2)
• The Malice of Waves (3)
• The Driftwood Girls (4)

DOYLE, Sir Arthur Conan:

• The Sign of Four
• A Study in Scarlet

DRABBLE, Margaret:

• The Dark Flood Rises
• The Pattern in the Carpet
• A Summer Bird-Cage

Dumas, Alexandre: The Count of Monte Cristo

DU MAURIER, Daphne:

• The Breaking Point: short stories
• Castle Dor
• The Flight of the Falcon
• The House on the Strand
• Julius
• My Cousin Rachel
• The Parasites
• Rebecca and see also here
• The Rebecca Notebook and Other Memories
• The Rendezvous and other stories

DUNCAN, Dennis: Index, A History of

DUNMORE, Helen: Birdcage Walk

DUNN, Carola:

• Death at Wentwater Court (Daisy Dalrymple 1)
• The Winter Garden Mystery (Daisy Dalrymple 2)
• Requiem for a Mezzo (Daisy Darylmple 3)
• Styx and Stones (Daisy Dalrymple 7)

DUNN, Suzannah: The Sixth Wife

E

EASTLAND, Sam: The Red Coffin

EDWARDS, Martin:

The Lake District Mystery series:

1. The Coffin Trail
2. The Cipher Garden
3. The Arsenic Labyrinth
4. The Serpent Pool
5. The Hanging Wood
6. The Frozen Shroud

Rachel Savernake series:

1. Gallows Court
2. Mortmain Hall

Harry Devlin series

4. Yesterday’s Papers

Other books:

• Guilty Consciences (short story collection edited by Martin Edwards)
• Take My Breath Away (a legal mystery featuring lawyer turned writer Nic Gabriel)
• The Golden Age of Murder
• Foreign Bodies (short story collection edited by Martin Edwards)
• Miraculous Mysteries (short story collection edited by Martin Edwards)
• Blood on the Tracks (short story collection edited by Martin Edwards)
• The Christmas Card Crime and Other Stories (short story collection edited by Martin Edwards)

EDWARDS, Yvvette: A Cupboard Full of Coats

EKLOF, Jacob: The Darkness Manifesto

ELIOT, George:

• The Mill on the Floss
• Silas Marner

ELLIS, Bella:

The Bronte Mysteries:

• The Vanished Bride (1)
• The Diabolical Bones (2)
• The Red Monarch (3)

ELLIS, Kate: The Shroud Maker

ENQUIST, Anna: 

• A Leap
• The Homecoming

ENRIGHT, Anne: The Gathering

ERSKINE, Barbara:

• Daughters of Fire
• The Warrior’s Princess

EVANS, Harriet: A Place For Us

EVANS, Margiad: Country Dance

EVANS, Siân: Maiden Voyages

EWAN, Chris: The Good Thief’s Guide to Amsterdam

F

FALCONER, Julius: A Fearful Madness

FAULKS, Sebastian: 

• Faulks on Fiction
• Snow Country

FAVIELL, Frances:

• The Dancing Bear
• The Fledgeling

FEENEY, Alice:

• His and Hers
• Sometimes I Lie

FEITO, Virginia: Mrs March

FERGUSON, Kitty: Stephen Hawking His life and Work

FERGUSON, Niall: The Square and the Tower

FERMOR, Patrick Leigh: A Time of Gifts

FIENNES, William: The Music Room

FINE, Anne: All Bones and Lies

FIORATA, Marina: The Madonna of the Almonds

FLEMING, Ian: Diamonds Are Forever

FODEN, Giles: Turbulence

FOLEY, Lucy: The Book of Lost and Found

FOLLETT, Ken: The Pillars of the Earth

FORD, Jamie: Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet

FORSTER, E M: A Room with a View

FORSTER, Margaret:

• Daphne
• Keeping the World Away

FRANKLIN, Ariana:

• The Death Maze
• Mistress of the Art of Death
• Relics of the Dead

FRASER, Antonia: A Splash of Red

FRASER, George MacDonald: The Steel Bonnets: the Story of the Anglo-Scottish Border Reivers

FREAR, Caz:

• Stone Cold Heart
• Sweet Little Lies

FREESE, Mathias: Down to a Sunless Sea

FRENCH, Nicci:

• Losing You
• The Lying Game

FRENCH, Tana:

• The Hunter
• In the Woods
• The Wych Elm
• The Searcher

FULLERTON, Jackie: Revenge Served Cold

FYFIELD, Francis: The Art of Drowning

G

GAIMAN, Neil: The Graveyard Book

GALBRAITH, Robert: The Cuckoo’s Calling

GALE. Partrick:

• Notes from an Exhibition
• A Perfectly Good Man

GALLICO, Paul: Mrs Harris Goes to Moscow

GAPPAH, Petina: An Elegy for Easterly

GARDAM, Jane:

• Going into a Dark House
• Last Friends
• The Man in the Wooden Hat
• Old Filth
• The Sidmouth Letters

GARDNER, Erle Stanley:

• The Case of the Curious Bride
• The Case of the Howling Dog
• The Case of the Lame Canary
• The Case of the Substitute Face

GARFIELD, Simon: Timekeepers

GARMUS, Bonnie: Lessons in Chemistry

GARNER, Alan: The Owl Service

GARNER, Helen: The Spare Room

GASKELL, Elizabeth:

• Cranford see also here, here and here
• Wives and Daughters

GEE, Maggie: My Cleaner

GERAS, Adele: Made in Heaven

GIBBONS, Stella: Westwood

GIFFORD, Elisabeth: The Lost Lights of St Kilda

GILBERT, Elizabeth: Eat, Pray, Love see also here and here and here

GILBERT, Michael:

• After the Fine Weather
• Death Has Deep Roots
• Smallbone Deceased

GILLARD, Linda:

• Cauldstane
• The Glass Guardian
• House of Silence
• Star Gazing

GIONO, Jean: The Man Who Planted Trees

GLASFURD, Guinevere: The Year Without Summer

GLAZEBROOK, Olivia: The Frank Business

GOLDACRE, Ben: Bad Science

GOLDING, William: Lord of the Flies

GOLDSWORTHY, Adrian: Vindolanda

GORDON-SMITH, Dolores: The Chapel in the Woods

GORING, Rosemary:

• After Flodden
• Dacre’s War

GNUSE, A J: Girl in the Walls

GRAFTON, Sue: A is for Alibi

GRAHAM, Caroline: Faithful Unto Death

GRAHAM, Eliza:

• Another Day Gone
• The One I Was
• Playing with the Moon

GRANDIN, Temple: The Autistic Brain

GRANT, Linda:

• The Clothes on their Backs
• I Murdered My Library

GREEN, Anna Katherine: X, Y, Z

GREENE, Graham: 

• The End of the Affair
• The Quiet American
• Stamboul Train

GRENVILLE, Kate:

• The Idea of Perfection
• One Life: My Mother’s Story (biography)
• Restless Dolly Maunder
• A Room Made of Leaves
• Sarah Thornhill
• Searching for The Secret River (non fiction)
• The Secret River

GRIFFITHS, Elly:

Ruth Galloway series

• The Crossing Places (Ruth Galloway 1)
• The Janus Stone (Ruth Galloway 2)
• The House at Seas End (Ruth Galloway 3)
• A Room Full of Bones (opening lines) (Ruth Galloway 4)
• Dying Fall (Ruth Galloway 5)
• The Outcast Dead (opening lines) (Ruth Galloway 6)
• The Chalk Pit (Ruth Galloway 9)
• The Dark Angel (Ruth Galloway 10)
• The Stone Circle (opening lines) (Ruth Galloway 11)
• The Locked Room (14)
• The Last Remains (15)

Stephens and Mephisto series

• The Zig Zag Girl (1)
• The Blood Card (3)
• The Vanishing Box (4)
• The Midnight Hour (6)

Harbinder Kaur series

1. The Stranger Diaries
2. The Postscript Murders

GRISHAM, John:

• Gray Mountain
• The Guardians

GROVE,Valerie: Dear Dodie

GUDENKAUF, Heather: Missing Pieces

GUINEY, Sue: Tangled Roots

H

HAHN, Daniel: Poetic Lives:Shelley

HAIG, Matt: How To Stop Time

HALL, M R:

• The Coroner
• The Flight
• The Redeemed

HAMER, Marc: How to Catch a Mole

HANES, E C: Justice by Another Name

HANNAH, Kristin: The Nightingale

HANNAH, Sophie:

• A Game for All the Family
• Did You See Melody?
• The Killings at Kingfisher Hill

HARDY, Thomas:

• A Pair of Blue Eyes
• The Return of the Native
• The Woodlanders
• Wessex Tales

HARPER, Jane:

• Force of Nature
• The Lost Man
• The Survivors

HARRIS, Jane: Gillespie and I

HARRIS, Joane:

• Chocolat
• The Lollipop Shoes
• Peaches for Monsieur Le Cure

HARRIS, Robert:

• Conclave
• Fatherland
• The Fear Index
• The Ghost
• Munich
• Pompeii
• The Second Sleep
• V2

Cicero Trilogy 

• Imperium (Cicero Trilogy 1)
• Lustrum (Cicero Trilogy 2)
• Dictator (Cicero Trilogy 3)

HARTSHORNE, Pamela: Time’s Echo

HARVEY, Samantha: The Western Wind

HAWKINS, Paula: The Girl on the Train

HAY, Mavis Doriel: The Santa Klaus Mystery

HEALEY, Jane: The Animals at Lockwood Manor

HEAP, Joe: The Rules of Seeing

HEMINGWAY, Ernest: The Old Man and the Sea

HERRIOT, James: Cat Stories

HEYER, Georgette:

• Detection Unlimited
• Friday’s Child

HICKSON, Joanna:

• The Lady of the Ravens
• The Queen’s Lady
• The Tudor Crown

HILL, Reginald:

• An Advancement of Learning
• Asking for the Moon (4 novellas)
• An April Shroud
• On Beulah Height
• Bones and Silence
• A Clubbable Woman
• Deadheads
• Death’s Jest Book
• The Death of Dalziel
• Exit Lines
• A Killing Kindness
• A Pinch of Snuff
• The Turning of the Tide (orig publ as The Castle of the Demon writing as Patrick Ruell)
• Underworld

HILL, Susan:

• The Beacon
• The Betrayal of Trust (Simon Serrailler 6)
• Howards End is on the Landing
• Jacob’s Room is Full of Books
• The Man in the Picture
• A Question of Identity (Simon Serrailler 7)
• The Shadows in the Street (Simon Serrailler 5)
• The Small Hand
• The Vows of Silence (Simon Serrailler 4)

HILL, Tobias: The Hidden

HIRAIDE, Takashi: The Guest Cat

HISLOP, Victoria:

• The Island
• The Sunrise
• Those Who Are Loved

HOFFMAN, Alice: Practical Magic

HOLLINGSWORTH, Pauline: The Spirituality of Jane Austen

HOLLOWAY, Richard: Leaving Alexandria: a Memoir of Faith and Doubt

HOLMS, Joyce:

• Missing Link
• Payment Deferred

HOLTBY, Winifred: South Riding

HONORE, Carl: In Praise of Slow

HORNBY: Gill

• Godmersham Park
• Miss Austen

HOROWITZ, Anthony:

• A Line to Kill
• The House of Silk
• Magpie Murders
• Moonflower Murders
• The Sentence is Death
• The Word is Murder

HOWARD, Elizabeth Jane: All Change

HOWELL, Lis: The Flower Arranger at All Saints

HUGO, Victor: 

• Les Miserables
• Notre-Dame de Paris

HULL, Richard:

• Excellent Intentions
• The Murder of My Aunt

HUNTER, Alan:

• Gently by the Shore
• Gently Does It
• Gently North West

I

IGGULDEN, Conn:

• Dunstan: One Man Will Change the Fate of England
• Lion (Golden Age series 1)
• Empire (Golden Age series 2)
• Nero (Nero 1)

ILES, Francis: Before the Fact

INNES, Michael:

• Death at the President’s Lodging (Inspector Appleby 1)
• The Secret Vanguard (Inspector Appleby 3)
• Appleby’s End (Inspector Appleby 4)
• The Daffodil Affair (Inspector Appleby 8)
• Operation Pax (Inspector Appleby 12)

IRVING, John: A Prayer for Owen Meany

ISHIGURO, Kazuo:

• The Buried Giant
• Nocturnes
• A Pale View of Hills

IVEY, Eowyn: To the Bright Edge of the World

IZNER, Claude: Murder on the Eiffel Tower

J

JACKSON, Mick: The Widow’s Tale

JACKSON, Shirley:

• The Haunting of Hill House
• We Have Always Lived in the Castle

JAKOBSEN, Dorte Hummelshoj:

• Anna Marklin’s Family Chronicles
• The Cosy Knave
• Crystal Nights
• North Sea Cottage

JAMES, Christina:

• Fair of Face
• Sausage Hall

JAMES, Ed: Worth Killing For

JAMES, Emmett: Admit One

JAMES, Henry:

• The Turn of the Screw
• Washington Square

JAMES, P D:

• Death Comes To Pemberley
• The Murder Room
• The Private Patient
• Talking About Detective Fiction
• An Unsuitable Job for a Woman

JAMES, Peter:

Roy Grace books:

• Dead Simple (1)
• Looking Good Dead (2)
• Not Dead Enough (3)
• Dead Man’s Footsteps (4) – Book Beginning post
• Dead Tomorrow ( 5) – very short review
• Dead Like You (6)
• Dead Man’s Grip (7)
• Not Dead Yet (8)

Novels:

• Absolute Proof

JARDINE, Quintin: Fallen Gods

JAZZ, Jane: Tantalus

JEFFERIES, Dinah: The Tea Planter’s Wife

JENNINGS, Luke: Codename Villanelle

JEROME, K Jerome: Three Men in a Boat

JEWELL, Lisa:

• The Family Upstairs
• I Found You
• Invisible Girl
• Watching You

JOHNSTON, Jennifer:

• The Illusionist
• Shadows on Our Skin
• Two Moons

JÓNASSON, Ragnar:

• The Girl Who Died
• The Island
• The Mist

JONES, Alan: The Cabinetmaker

JONES, Sadie: The Outcast

K

KATSU, Alma:

• The Deep
• The Hunger

KEATING, H R F:

• A Detective at Death’s Door
• Zen There Was Murder

KEEGAN, Claire:

• Foster
• Small Things Like These

KEER, Jenni: The Hopes and Dreams of Lucy Baker

KENNEDY, Emma: The Tent, the Bucket and Me

KENT, Hannah: The Good People

KERNICK, Simon: The Bone Field

KERR, Philip: Dark Matter: The Private Life of Sir Isaac Newton

KEYES, Marian: The Break

KHAN, Ausma Zehanat Khan: The Unquiet Dead

KILLEEN, Richard: A Short History of Scotland

KING, Stephen: The Shining

KINGSOLVER, Barbara:

• The Bean Trees
• The Lacuna
• The Poisonwood Bible

KIPLING, Rudyard: The Man Who Would Be King

KNIGHT, Alanna: 

• Ghost Walk
• The Inspector’s Daughter

KNOX, Joseph:

• The Sleepwalker
• The Smiling Man
• True Crime Story

L
LACKBERG, Camilla: The Drowning

LASKI, Marghanita:

• Little Boy Lost
• The Victorian Chaise-Longue
• The Village

LAWRENCE, D H:

• The Man Who Died
• St Mawr
• Sons and Lovers

LAWSON, Mary:

• Crow Lake
• The Other Side of the Bridge

LEA, Caroline: The Glass Woman

LE CARRÉ, John:

• The Honourable Schoolboy
• The Spy Who Came in from the Cold

LEE, Harper: To Kill a Mockingbird

LEE, Hermione: Body Parts: Essays on Life-Writing

LEE, Laurie: Cider with Rosie

LEEGANT, Joan: Wherever You Go

LEHMANN, Rosamond: The Weather in the Streets

LEIPCIGER, Sarah: Coming Up For Air

LELIC, Simon:

• The Hiding Place
• The House
• The Search Party

LELORD, Francois: Hector and the Search for Happiness

LEMBACH, Marti: Daniel Isn’t Talking

LENG, Flavia: Daphne du Maurier: a Daughter’s Memoir

L’ENGLE, Madeleine: A Wrinkle in Time

LEON, Donna:

Commissario Brunetti Mysteries

• The Sea of Troubles (10)
• Wilful Behaviour (11)
• Doctored Evidence (13)
• Drawing Conclusions (20)
• Give Unto Others (31)

LESSING, Doris: The Grass is Singing

LEVY, Andrea:

• The Long Song
• Small Island

LEWYCKA, Marina: Two Caravans

LEWIS, C S: Letters to Malcom

LINDSAY, Joan: Picnic at Hanging Rock

LIVELY, Penelope:

• Consequences
• Heat Wave
• The Photograph

LIVINGSTON, Michael : Never Greater Slaughter

LODGE, David: Deaf Sentence

LONDON, Jack: The Call of the Wild

LONG, James: Ferney

LOPEZ, Barry: Desert Notes and River Notes

LORAC, E C R:

• Bats in the Belfry
• Checkmate to Murder
• Fell Murder
• Fire in the Thatch
• Murder by Matchlight
• Murder in the Mill Race
• Shroud of Darkness

LOVELL, Mary S: The Riviera Set

LOVESEY, Peter: The Secret Hangman

LOVETT, Charlie: The Bookman’s Tale

LUSK, Sean: The Second Sight of Zachary Cloudesley

LYNCH, Jim: The Highest Tide

M

MACASKILL, Hilary: Agatha Christie at Home

MACBRIDE, Stuart: A Dark So Deadly

MacKAY, John: Heartland

McBAIN, Ed: Cop Hater

McALLISTER, Gillian:

• How to Disappear
• Everything but the Truth
• The Evidence Against You
• No Further Questions

McCALL SMITH, Alexander:

• The Careful Use of Compliments
• The Comfort of Saturdays
• The Right Attitude to Rain
• The Sunday Philosophy Club

44 Scotland Street series:

• Sunshine on Scotland Street (book 8)

McCARTHY, Tom: Remainder

McCRACKEN, Elizabeth: The Giant’s House

McDERMID, Val:

Karen Pirie series:

1. The Distant Echo
2. A Darker Domain
3. The Skeleton Road
4. Out of Bounds – no review
5. Broken Ground

Standalone books:

• Cleanskin
• Northanger Abbey
• A Place of Execution

MACDONALD, Helen: H is for Hawk

McEWAN, Ian:

• Atonement
• Black Dogs
• Solar
• Sweet Tooth

MACFARLANE, Robert: The Wild Places

MacGREGOR, Neil: Shakespeare’s Restless World

MACINTYRE, Ben: Operation Mincemeat

MACLEAN, Alasdair: Night Falls on Ardnamurchan

MACLEAN, S G (aka Shona):

Alexander Seaton series:

• The Redemption of Alexander Seaton (1)
• Crucible (3)

Damian Seeker series:

• The Seeker (1)
• The Black Friar (2)
• Destroying Angel (3)
• The Bear Pit (4)

McHAFFIE, Hazel:

• Inside of Me
• Killing Me Gently
• Over My Dead Body

McINTYRE, W H S: Present Tense

MacKENZIE, A J : The Body in the Ice

McKENZIE, Catherine: The Good Liar

MACKINTOSH, Clare: I Let You Go

McMAHON, Katharine:

• The Crimson Rooms
• The Rose of Sebastopol

MACNEAL, Elizabeth:

• Circus of Wonders
• The Doll Factory

MACONIE, Stuart: Long Road from Jarrow

MACPHERSON, Camilla:

• Pictures at an Exhibition

McPHERSON, Catriona:

• After the Armistice Ball (Dandy Gilver 1)
• The Burry Man’s Day (Dandy Gilver 2)
• Dandy Gilver and the Proper Treatment of Bloodstains (Dandy Gilver 5)
• Dandy Gilver and an Unsuitable Day for a Murder (Dandy Gilver 6)
• The Mirror Dance (Dandy Gilver 15)

MADDEN, Deirdre: Molly Fox’s Birthday

MAITLAND, Karen:

• Company of Liars
• The Owl Killers
• The Plague Charmer
• The Raven’s Head
• The Vanishing Witch

writing as K J MAITLAND:

• The Drowned City
• Traitor in the Ice

MANGAN, Lucy: Bookworm

MANKELL,  Henning:

• After the Fire
• Faceless Killers
• Italian Shoes

MANNING, Olivia

• The Great Fortune
• The Spoilt City

MANTEL, Hilary:

• The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher and Other Stories
• Bring Up the Bodies
• A Change of Climate
• Fludd
• Giving Up the Ghost: a Memoir
• Ink in the Blood
• A Place of Greater Safety
• Wolf Hall

MARCHANT, Clare: The Queen’s Spy

MARNHAM, Patrick: Wild Mary

MARR, Andrew:

• A History of Modern Britain
• A Short Book About Drawing

MARRS, John: The Passengers

MARSH, Ngaio: A Man Lay Dead

MARSTON, Edward: The King’s Evil

MARTIN, Andrew: The Winker

MARTIN, George R R: A Game of Thrones

MASS OBSERVATION WRITERS: Our Longest Days

MATTESON, John: Eden’s Outcasts: the story of Louisa May Alcott and her father

MAUGHAM, Somerset:

• Cakes and Ale
• The Moon and Sixpence
• The Painted Veil

MAWER, Simon:

• The Fall
• The Glass Room

MAY, Peter:

• The Blackhouse (Lewis Trilogy 1)
• Entry Island
• Extraordinary People (the Enzo Files 1)
• The Man With No Face

MAZZOLA, Anna: The Story Keeper

MEDIEVAL MURDERS: King Arthur’s Bones

MEREDITH, Anne: Portrait of a Murderer

MERCER, Jeremy: Books, Baguettes and Bedbugs

MEYER, Deon:

• Blood Safari
• Thirteen Hours

MILLER, Andrew: Now We Shall Be Entirely Free

MILLS, Mark: Where Dead Men Meet

MITCHELL, David:

• Cloud Atlas
• Slade House

MITCHELL, Margaret: Gone with the Wind – see also this post

MOORE, Alison: He Wants

MORAN, Michelle: Nefertiti

MORREY, Beth: Saving Missy

MORRIS, Heather: The Tattooist of Auschwitz

MORRISON, Toni: A Mercy

MORTIMER, Peter: 100 Days on Holy Island: a Writer’s Exile

MORTON, Kate:

• The Clockmaker’s Daughter
• The Distant Hours
• The House at Riverton
• The Forgotten Garden
• The Secret Keeper

MOSLEY, Michael: Just One Thing

MOSSE, Kate:

• The Black Mountain
• The Taxidermist’s Daughter by Kate Mosse

The Burning Chambers series:

• The Black Mountain (1)
• The City of Tears (2)

MOSTERT, Natasha: Season of the Witch

MOTION, Andrew: Silver:Return to Treasure Island

MUNRO, Alice: The View from Castle Rock

MURDOCH, Iris:

• The Bell
• A Severed Head

MURPHY, Dervla: Full Tilt: Dunkirk to Delhi by Bicycle

MURRAY, Andrew Hunter: The Last Day

MURRAY, Douglas: The Madness of Crowds

N

NAUGHTIE, James: The Madness of July

NAVIN, Rhiannon: Only Child

NEEL, Janet: Ticket to Ride

NEILL, Fiona: The Betrayals

NEMIROVSKY, Irene:

• Fire in the Blood
• Suite Francaise

NESBIT, Edith: The Railway Children

NESBO, Jo: Macbeth

NICHOLSON, Harry:

• The Black Caravel
• Tom Fleck: a Novel of Cleveland and Flodden

NICOLSON, Juliet: The Perfect Summer: Dancing into Shadow in 1911

NIELSSEN, Jerri: Ice Bound

NIFFENEGGER, Audrey: Her Fearful Symmetry

NORRIS, Barney:

• Turning for Home
• Undercurrent

O

OATES, Joyce Carol:

• Blonde
• The Gravedigger’s Daughter – see also here and here
• Solstice

OBREHT, Tea: Inland

OCKLEY, Martha: The Reluctant Detective

O’CONNOR, Conor: We Are Not In The World

O’CONNOR, Denis:

• Paw Tracks at Owl Cottage
• Paw Tracks in the Moonlight

O’FARRELL, Maggie:

• The Hand That First Held Mine
• I Am, I Am, I Am (short post about opening paragraph)
• Instructions for a Heatwave

O’HAGAN, Andrew: Be Near Me

O’KANE, Janet:

• No Stranger to Death
• Too Soon a Death

OLSSON, Linda: Astrid and Veronika

ORCZY, Baroness:

• The Old Man in the Corner
• The Scarlet Pimpernel

ORWELL, George:

• Animal Farm
• Nineteen Eighty-Four
• The Road to Wigan Pier

OSMAN, Richard:

• The Thursday Murder Club(1)
• The Man Who Died Twice (2)

OSWALD, James:

• Dreamwalker: the Ballad of Sir Benfro
• The Hangman’s Song

OWENS, Delia: Where the Crawdads Sing

P

PACKHAM, Chris: Fingers in the Sparkle Jar

PANTER-DOWNES, Mollie:

• Good Evening, Mrs Craven
• One Fine Day

PARKER, Ann:

• Silver Lies (Silver Rush Mysteries 1)
• A Dying Note (Silver Rush Mysteries 6)

PARRIS, S J: Prophecy

PARRY, Ambrose:

Raven, Fisher and Simpson series

• The Art of Dying (1)
•  The Way of All Flesh (2)
• A Corruption of Blood (3)

PARRY, Robert: The Arrow Chest

PATCHETT, Ann:

• The Dutch House
• The Magician’s Assistant
• State of Wonder

PAVER, Michelle:

• Dark Matter: a Ghost Story
• Thin Air: A Ghost Story
• Wakenhyrst

PAVONE, Chris: The Expats

PAXMAN, Jeremy:

• The English: a Portrait of a People
• A Life in Questions

PEAKE, Mervyn: Titus Groan

PEARCE, A J: Dear Mrs Bird

PEARL, Matthew: The Poe Shadow

PEARTREE, Cecilia: Crime in the Community

PENMAN, Sharon: The Sunne in Splendour

PENNEY, Stef: The Tenderness of Wolves

PERRIN: Valerie: Fresh Water for Flowers

PERRY, Anne: A Christmas Visitor

PICARDIE, Justine: Daphne

PILCHER, Rosamunde: The End of Summer

PLAMPIN, Matthew: Mrs Whistler

POLLOCK, John: Wilberforce

PORTIS, Charles: True Grit

POSTGATE, Raymond: Somebody at the Door

PRESCOTT, H F M: The Man on a Donkey

PROULX, Annie: The Shipping News

PROWSE, Amanda: The Idea of You

PULLEY, Natasha: The Watchmaker of Filigree Street

PULLMAN, Philip:

• Northern Lights
• The Subtle Knife
• The Amber Spyglass

Q

QIU, Xiaolong:

• Death of a Red Heroine
• A Loyal Character Dancer

QUINDLEN, Anna: Blessings

QUINN, Kate: The Rose Code

R
RABAN, Jonathan: Surveillance

RANKIN, Ian:

• Black and Blue
• The Black Book
• The Complaints
• A Cool Head
• Doors Open
• Even Dogs In the Wild
• Exit Music
• The Falls – see also here
• Fleshmarket Close
• A Good Hanging & other stories
• The Hanging Garden
• Hide and Seek
• The Impossible Dead
• Knots and Crosses
• Let it Bleed
• Mortal Causes
• The Naming of the Dead
• A Question of Blood
• Rebus’s Scotland
• Resurrection Men
• Saints of the Shadow Bible
• Set In Darkness – see also here
• Standing in Another Man’s Grave

READ, Miss:

• Christmas at Thrush Green
• Fresh from the Country

REBANKS, James: English Pastoral

REED, Eric: Ruined Stones

REEVE, Philip: Here Lies Arthur

RENDELL, Ruth:

• The Crocodile Bird
• A Judgement in Stone
• Kissing the Gunner’s Daughter (Wexford)
• Murder Being Once Done (Wexford)
• No Man’s Nightingale (Wexford)
• Not in the Flesh (Wexford) (audio book)
• Portobello
• Put On By Cunning (Wexford)
• The Saint Zita Society
• Tigerlily’s Orchids

RHODES, Pam: Casting the Net

RILEY, Lucinda:

The Butterfly Room

The Seven Sisters series

• The Seven Sisters (1)
• The Storm Sister (2) – no review
• The Moon Sister (5)

ROBERTS, Michele: Fair Exchange

ROBERTSON, James: The Testament of Gideon Mack

ROBERTSON, S D:

• How to Save a Life
• If Ever I Fall

ROBINS, Jane: White Bodies

ROBINSON, Marilynne: Gilead

ROBINSON, Peter:

Inspector Banks  series:

• Gallows View  (Inspector Banks 1)
• A Dedicated Man (Inspector Banks 2)
• A Necessary End (Inspector Banks 3)
• The Hanging Valley (Inspector Banks 4)
• Past Reason Hated (Inspector Banks 5)
• Wednesday’s Child (Inspector Banks 6)
• Dry Bones that Dream (Inspector Banks 7)
• Innocent Graves (Inspector Banks 8)
• Dead Right (Inspector Banks 9)
• In a Dry Season (Inspector Banks 10)
• Cold is the Grave (Inspector Banks 11)
• Aftermath (Inspector Banks 12)
• The Summer That Never Was Inspector Banks 13)
• Playing With Fire (Inspector Banks 14)
• Strange Affair (Inspector Banks 15)
• Piece of My Heart (Inspector Banks 16)
• Friend of the Devil (Inspector Banks 17)
• All the Colours of Darkness (Inspector Banks 18)
• Bad Boy (Inspector Banks 19)
• Watching the Dark (Inspector Banks 20)

Novels:

• Before the Poison
• Caedmon’s Song

Short Stories:

• Not Safe After Dark and other works (short stories)

ROBSON, Eric: The Border Line

ROE, Sue: The Private Lives of the Impressionists

ROSS, Orna: Blue Mercy

ROSSITER, Joanna: The Sea Change

ROWLING, J K: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

ROY, Arundhati: The Ministry of Utmost Happiness

RUSSELL, Craig:

Jan Fabel series

• A Fear of Dark Water (book 6)
• The Ghosts of Altona (book 7)

RUBENFELD, Jed: The Interpretation of Murder

S

SACKVILLE-WEST, Vita: All Passion Spent

SADLER, John: Flodden 1513: Scotland’s Greatest Defeat

SANSOM, C J :

Shardlake series:

• Revelation (book 4)
• Heartstone (book 5)
• Lamentation (book 6)
• Tombland (book 7)

Novels:

• Dominion
• Winter in Madrid

SASSOON, Siegfried: Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man

SAVILLE, Malcolm: Seven White Gates

SAYERS, Dorothy L:

Peter Wimsey books:

• Whose Poison? (1)
• Clouds of Witness (2)
• Strong Poison (6)
• Five Red Herrings (7)
• Have His Carcase (8)
• The Nine Tailors (11)
• Gaudy Night (12)

SCHMIDT, Sarah: See What I Have Done

SCOTT, Sir Walter: Ivanhoe – see also here

SETON, Anya – Green Darkness

SETTERFIELD, Diane: Once Upon a River

SHAW, Catherine: The Riddle of the River

SHAW, William: The Birdwatcher

SHREVE, Anita:

• Body Surfing
• A Change in Altitude
• The Stars are Fire
• Testimony

SHUTE: Nevil: A Town Like Alice

SIGURDARDOTTIR, Yrsa: The Legacy

SIMENON, Georges:

Maigret books

• Pietr the Latvian (1)
• Lock 14 (2)
• The Hanged Man of Saint-Pholien (3)
• The Grand Banks Cafe (9)
• The Dancer at the Gai-Moulin (10)
• The Shadow Puppet (13)
• The Madman of Bergerac (16)
• The Hotel Majestic (20)
• Maigret’s Holiday (28)
• My Friend Maigret (31)
• The Friend of Madame Maigret (34)
• Maigret’s Memoirs (35)
• The Man on the Boulevard (41)
• Maigret and the Reluctant Witnesses (53)
• Maigret in Court (55)
• Maigret and the Ghost (62)

Short Stories:

• A Maigret Christmas (a short story)

SIMMONS, Dan: Drood

SIMONSON, Helen:

• Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand
• The Summer Before the War

SKEA, Margaret:

• Katharina: Deliverance

Munro series:

• Turn of the Tide (Munro 1)
• A House Divided (Munro 2)
• By Sword and Storm (Munro 3)

SKLOOT, Rebecca: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

SLATER, Nigel: Toast

SMITH, Dodie: I Capture the Castle

SMITH, Donald: The English Spy

SMITH, Fiona Veitch: The Kill Fee

SNOW, C P: Death Under Sail

SOSKICE, Janet: Sisters of Sinai: How Two Lady Adventurers Found the Hidden Gospels

SOUTHARD, Susan: Nagasaki: Life After Nuclear War

SPARK, Muriel: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie see also this post

SPAIN, Jo:

• The Confession
• The Darkest Place
• Dirty Little Secrets

STABENOW, Dana: A Cold Day for Murder

STEGNER, Wallace:

• Angle of Repose
• Crossing to Safety

STEINBECK, John:

• Cannery Row
• The Grapes of Wrath
• Sweet Thursday
• Tortilla Flat

STEINER, Susie:

• Missing, Presumed
• Persons Unknown
• Remain Silent

STEVENSON, Robert Louis: Tales of Terror

STEWART, Mary:

• The Last Enchantment
• The Wicked Day

STEWART, Rory: The Marches

STOCKETT, Kathryn: The Help

STOKER, Bram: Dracula

STONE, Lisa: Stalker

STOTT, Rebecca: Ghostwalk

STUART, Julia: Balthazar Jones and the Tower of London Zoo

SUCHET, David: Poirot and Me

SUMMERSCALE, Kate: The Suspicions of Mr Whicher

SUSKIND, Patrick: Perfume: the story of a murderer

SUSSMAN, Paul: The Lost Army of Cambyses

SUTCLIFF, Rosemary:

• The Eagle of the Ninth
• The Witch’s Brat

SWARTZ, Katharine: The Lost Garden

SYMONS, Julian: The Colour of Murder

T

TABER, Gladys & WESTER, Barbara: Stillmeadow and Sugarbridge

TARTT, Donna: The Secret History

TAYLOR, Andrew:

Lydmouth series

• An Air That Kills (Lydmouth 1)

Marwood and Lovett series

• The Ashes of London
• The Fire Court
• The King’s Evil
• The Last Protector
• The Royal Secret

Roth trilogy

• The Four Last Things (Roth Trilogy 1)
• The Judgement of Strangers (Roth Trilogy 2)
• The Office of the Dead (Roth Trilogy 3)

Novellas

• Broken Voices

Dougal series

• The Sleeping Policeman (William Dougal 7)

Collections

• Waiting For Mr Right & Other Sinister Stories

TAYLOR, Sara: The Lauras

TEODORESCU, Bogdan: Sword

TEY, Josephine:

• The Franchise Affair
• Miss Pym Disposes
• A Shilling for Candles

THIRKELL, Angela: High Rising

THOMPSON, Laura: Agatha Christie: An English Mystery

THORNTON, Rosy:

• Hearts and Minds
• Ninepins
• Sandlands
• The Tapestry of Love

THOROGOOD, Robert: The Marlow Murder Club

TINNISWOOD, Adrian: The Verneys

TODD, Barbara Euphan: Mr Blossom’s Shop

TOIBIN, Colm: The Shortest Day

TOLKIEN, J R R: The Hobbit

TOMALIN, Claire:

• Jane Austen
• Mrs Jordan’s Profession

TORDAY, Paul:

• Breakfast at the Hotel Deja Vu
• The Girl on the Landing
• Salmon Fishing in the Yemen

TORS, Paul: Highlanders’ Revenge

TROLLOPE, Anthony:

• An Autobiography

Barsetshire Chronicles series

• Barchester Towers (2)
• Doctor Thorne (3)
• Framley Parsonage (4)

TWAIN, Mark:

• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – see also here
• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

TYLER, Anne: Digging to America

U

UNDERDOWN, Beth:

• The Key in the Lock
• The Witchfinder’s Sister

UPSON, Nicola:

• An Expert in Murder
• Fear in the Sunlight

V

VARGAS, Fred:

Commissaire Adamsberg

• The Chalk Circle Man (1)
• Seeking Whom He May Devour (2)
• An Uncertain Place (6)
• The Ghost Riders of Ordebec (7)
• A Climate of Fear (8)

Three Evangelists

• The Three Evangelists (1)
• Dog Will Have His Day (2)
• The Accordionist (3)

VICKERS, Salley:

• The Cleaner of Chartres
• Where Three Roads Meet

de VINCK, Christopher: Ashes

VINE, Barbara:

• Asta’s Book
• The Birthday Present
• The Brimstone Wedding
• A Dark-Adapted Eye
• A Fatal Inversion
• The House of Stairs

W

WADDELL, Dan: The Blood Detective

WALKER, Matthew: Why We Sleep

WALLACE, Edgar: The Clue of the Twisted Candle

WALLMAN-GIRDLESTONE, Jane: The Three Graces

WALTERS, Minette:

• The Breaker
• The Tinder Box

WARD, Sarah: In Bitter Chill

WARE, Ruth:

• In a Dark, Dark, Wood
• The Woman in Cabin 10

WARK, Kirsty:

• The House by the Loch
• The Legacy of Elizabeth Pringle

WARNER, Sylvia Townsend: Lolly Willowes

WATERS, Sarah: The Little Stranger

WATSON, Colin: Bump in the Night

WATT, Douglas:

• Death of a Chief
• Testament of a Witch

WAX, Ruby: And Now For the Good News

WAY, Camilla: Who Killed Ruby?

WEBB, Mary: Gone to Earth

WEBB, Wendy: The Stroke of Winter

WEIR, Alison:

Six Tudor Queens:

• Katherine of Aragon, the True Queen (1)
• Anne Boleyn: A King’s Obsession (2)
• Katheryn Howard: the Tainted Queen (5)

WELLS, H G: 

• The Invisible Man
• The Time Machine

WELSH, Louise:

• The Girl on the Stairs
• A Lovely Way to Burn
• Naming the Bones
• Tamburlaine Must Die

WENTWORTH, Patricia:

• The Brading Collection
• The Girl in the Cellar

WESTMACOTT, Mary (Agatha Christie): Absent in the Spring

WHARTON, Edith: Ethan Frome

WILKINSON, Ellen: The Division Bell Mystery

WILLIAMS, Shirley: Climbing the Bookshelves (autobiography)

WILSON, A N:

• The Man Behind Narnia
• The Potter’s Hand
• Victoria: A Life

WINGFIELD, R D: Frost At Christmas

WINN, Raynor: The Salt Path

WINSPEAR, Jacqueline:

• Among the Mad (Maisie Dobbs 6)
• Messenger of Truth (Maisie Dobbs 4)
• Pardonable Lies (Maisie Dobbs 3)

WODEHOUSE, P G,

• Something Fresh
• Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves

WOODRUFF, William: The Road to Nab End

WOOLF, James: Indefensible

WOOLF, Virginia:

• Death of a Moth and other essays – see also here
• Orlando
• The Voyage Out

WOOLFSON. Esther: Corvus: a Life with Birds (non-fiction)

WORSLEY, Lucy: Jane Austen at Home

WORTHEN, John: D H Lawrence: the Life of an Outsider

WRIGHT, Austin: Tony and Susan

WRIGHT, Clarissa Dickson: Spilling the Beans

WYNDHAM, John:

• Chocky
• The Chrysalids
• The Midwich Cuckoos
• Stowaway to Mars

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YORKE, Margaret:

• Dead in the Morning
• Intimate Kill

JEONG, You-Jeong: The Good Son

YOUNG, Angela:

• The Dance of Love
• Speaking of Love

YOUNG, Lucien: Trump’s Christmas Carol

YOUNG, Suzanne: Murder by Yew

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ZELTSERMAN, Dave: Pariah

ZOUROUDI, Anne:

• The Doctor of Thessaly
• The Messenger of Athens
• The Whispers of Nemesis

ZUSAK, Markus: The Book Thief