Book reviews archive
A complete list of the books reviewed or featured on this blog since 2012. They are listed alphabetically by author’s surname. If you can’t find something just use the search box (on the right of your screen) or search by categories.
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- Achebe, Chinua Things Fall Apart
- Ackroyd, Peter The Clerkenwell Tales
- Adichie, Chimamanda The Thing Around Your Neck
- Adiga, Aravind The White Tiger
- Alaux, J.P. & Balen, N Late Harvest Havoc
- Alcott, Louisa M Little Women
- Allende, Isabel The Japanese Lover (did not finish)
- Allingham, Marjorie More Work for the Undertaker (did not finish)
- Amis, Kingsley The Old Devils
- Angelou, Maya I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
- Arthofer, M A Complete Guide to World Fiction
- Atwood, Margaret
- de Assis, Joachim Maria Mated Dom Casmurro
- Austen, Jane . Mansfield Park
- Aw, Tash Five Star Billionaire
-B-
- Bainbridge, Beryl
- de Balzac, Honore Old Goriot
- Banville, John
- The Sea
- Ancient Light
- Barbery, Muriel The Gourmet
- Barker, Nicola In the Approaches
- Barnett, Laura The Versions of Us
- Bauer, Belinda
- Bawden, Nina
- Bedford, Sybille A Favourite of the Gods
- Boileau, Pierre and Thomas Narcejac . Vertigo
- Bolaño, Roberto The Third Reich
- Brown, William Wells Clotel or, The President’s Daughter
- Buck, Pearl S The Good Earth
- Burton, Jessie The Miniaturist
- Anita Brookner Hotel du Lac
- Brooks, Geraldine Year of Wonders
- Brown, Tracy and Hanlon, Michael When Safety Rules Don’t Add Up
- Bude, John The Cheltenham Square Murder
- Bulawayo, NoViolet We Need New Names
- Byatt, A. S . Possession
- Brookner, Anita Hotel du Lac
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- Camilleri, Andrea
- Carpenter, Don Fridays at Enrico’s
- Carey, Peter
- Cather, Willa My Antonia
- Catton, Eleanor The Luminaries
- Gabriel, Chevalier Fear
- Christie, Agatha
- Clegg, Bill Did You Ever Have a Family
- Coetzee, J, M
- Collins, Wilkie Dead Secret
- Conde, Maryse The Tree of Life
- Conran, Alys Pigeon
- Crace, Jim Harvest
- Crofts, Freeman Wills The Hog’s Back Mystery
- Cudahy, Paul Read all About It
- Gundar-Goshen, Ayelet Waking Lions
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- Davies, Carys The Redemption of Galen Pike
- Dickens, Charles
- de Rothsay, Isabelle Sarah’s Key
- Desai, Kiran The Inheritance of Loss
- Diago, Evello Rosero The Armies
- Doerr, Anthony All the Light we Cannot See
- Dunmore, Helen
- Doestoevsky, Fyodor Crime and Punishment
- Donaghue, Emma Room
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- Eagleton, Terry How to Read Literature
- Eco, Umberto Numero Zero
- Eddy, Carson Beaded Jewellery Stringing Techniques
- Egan, Jennifer Look at Me
- Eliot, George Adam Bede
- Enright, Anne The Gathering
- Euripides
- Ewan, Pamela An Accidental Life
-F-
- Farah, Nurradin From a Crooked Rib
- Farrell, J G
- Faye, Erik Nagasaki
- Filer, Nathan The Shock of the Fall
- Fink, Sheri Five Days at Memorial
- Fitzgerald, Penelope Offshore
- Flanagan, Richard The Narrow Road to the Deep North
- Forester, C. S The Pursued
- Forrester, Andrew The Female Detective
- Forster, E.M A Room with a View
- Fraser-Sampson, Guy Miss Christie Regrets
- Frayn, Michael Skios
- Fuentes, Gabrielle Lucille The Sleeping World (Did Not Finish)
-G-
- Gale, Patrick A Place Called Winter
- Gaskell, Elizabeth
- Gaudé, Laurent Hell’s Gate
- Ghosh, Amitav The Glass Palace
- Golding, William Rites of Passage
- Grimwood, Jack Moskva
- Greene, Graham
- Griffiths, Rebecca The Primrose Path
- Grossmith, George and Wheedon The Diary of a Nobody
- Gundar-Goshen, Ayelet Waking Lions
- Gyasi, Yaa . Homegoing
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- Haddad, Joumana I Killed Scheherazade
- Hamid, Mohsin
- Harris, Jane Gillespie and I
- Hartley, Sarah Mrs P’s Journey
- Hawkins, Paula The Girl on the Train
- Healey, Emma Elizabeth is Missing
- Haruf, Kent Benediction
- Hemmingway, E Farewell to Arms
- Henshaw, Mark The Snow Kimono
- Hill, Susan Woman in Black
- Hodgson, Antonia The Devil in the Marshalsea
- Hosseini, Khaled And the Mountains Echoed
- Howe, Katherine The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane (Did not Finish)
- Hulme, Keri The Bone People
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- Indriðason, Arnaldur
-J-
- Jackson, Shirley . We Have Always Lived in the Castle
- Jansen, Leo & Hans Luijten Ever Yours: The Essential Letters of Vincent van Gogh
- James, Henry
- Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer Heat and Dust
- Jones, Cynan Cove
- Dylan Jones Anglesey Blue
- Jones, Gail A Guide to Berlin (did not finish)
- Jones, Jack Off to Philadelphia in the Morning
- Joseph, Anjali Saraswati Park
- Joyce, Rachel The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
- Juul, Pia The Murder of Halland
-K-
- Kang, Han . The Vegetarian
- Keane, Mary Beth Fever
- Keane, Molly
- Keneally, Thomas The Daughters of Mars
- Kenney, John Truth in Advertising
- Khadra, Yasmina The Dictator’s Last Night
- Knight, Bernard
- Koch, Herman The Dinner
- Krasznahorkai, László Satantango
- Kyung-Sook, Shin Please Look After Mom
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- Lancaster, John Capital
- Lane, Lexi Bloggers Survival Guide
- Laurain, Antoine The President’s Hat
- Lawrence , David Young Will the Real William Shakespeare please Step Forward
- LeMaitre, Pierre Alex
- Li, Yiyun Kinder than Solitude
- Link, Charlotte The Other Child
- Lively, Penelope Moon Tiger
- Lovekin, Carol . Snow Sisters
-M-
- Mabanckou, Alain Broken Glass
- Macleod, Alison Unexploded
- Mantel, Mantel Bring up the Bodies
- Marani, Diego New Finnish Grammar
- Marías, Javier The Infatuations (did not finish)
- Martel, Yann Life of Pi
- Matas, Enrique Villa Dublinesque (did not finish)
- Matthee, Dalene Fiela’s Child
- du Maurier, Daphne
- Mawer,Simon The Girl who Fell from the Sky
- Mazur, Anne Design and Sew the Perfect Bag
- Colum McCann TransAtlantic
- McEwan, Ian Chesil Beach
- McGregor, Jon . Reservoir 13
- McGuire, Ian The North Water
- McInerney, Lisa The Glorious Heresies
- McCleen, Grace The Offering
- McCrae, Graeme Burnett His Bloody Project
- Mead, Rebecca My Life in Middlemarch
- Mengestu, Dinaw All our Names
- Menmuir, Wyl The Many
- Middleton, Stanley . Holiday
- Miller, A.D The Snowdrops
- Miller, Andrew Pure
- Miller, Andy A Year of Reading Dangerously
- Mishima, Yukio After the Banquet
- Mistry, Rohinton Such a Long Journey
- Modiano, Patrick Paris Nocturne
- Monroe, Alice Dear Life
- Moore, Alison The Lighthouse
- Moore, Thorne, Time for Silence
- Mudimbe, V.Y Between the Tides
- Mukherjee, Neel The Lives of Others
- Murakami, Huraki Norwegian Wood
- Murdoch, Iris The Sea, The Sea
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- Newby, P H Something to Answer For
- Nothomb, Amelie Fear and Trembling
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- O’Brien, Anne The Shadow Queen
- O’Brien, Edna
- Obioma, Chigozie The Fishermen
- O’Farrell, John The Man Who Forgot His Wife
- O’Farrell, Maggie
- Ogawa, Yoko The Housekeeper and the Professor
- O’Hagan, Andrew The Illuminations
- Okotie, Simon Whatever Happened to Harold Absalon
- Ollikainen , Aki White Hunger
- Omotoso, Yewande The Woman Next Door
- Ondaatje, Michael
- Ørstavik, Hanne The Blue Room
- Ozeki, Ruth, A Tale for the Time Being
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- Parris, S J Treachery
- Patchett, Ann Bel Canto
- Paton , Alan Cry the Beloved Country
- Penny, Louise
- Pierre, DBC Vernon God Little
- Pretorius, Michelle The Monster’s Daughter
- Pulman, Philip Northern Lights
- Pym, Barbara
-Q-
- Quartey, Kwei Wife of the Gods
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- Rahman, Zia Haider In the Light of What we Know (did not finish)
- Ransome, Arthur Swallows and Amazons
- Rendell , Ruth Wolf to the Slaughter
- Reeve, Phillip Mortal Engines
- Reve, Gerard The Evenings
- Roffey, Monique Archipelego
- Rogan, Charlotte The Lifeboat
- Roy, Arundhati The God of Small Things
- Rowling , J. K Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone
- Rubens, Bernice The Elected Member
- Rushdie, Salman Midnight’s Children
- Donal Ryan The Spinning Heart
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- Saif, Atef Abu (ed) The Book of Gaza
- Saijie, Dai Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
- Sansom C. J
- Sayers, Dorothy L Strong Poison
- Schwabe, Will End of Your Life Book Club
- Scott, Paul Staying On
- Shaffer, Mary Ann The Guernsey Literary & Potato Pie Society
- Shamshie, Kamila Burnt Shadows
- Sharma, Akhil Family Life
- Shahraz, Qaisra The Holy Woman
- Sheers, Owen
- Sigurdardotti, Yrsa The Silence of the Sea
- Škvorecký, Josef Miss Silver’s Past
- Smith, Ali How to Be Both
- Smith, Dominic The Last Painting of Sara de Vos
- Smith, Zadie NW
- Spark, Muriel The Girls of Slender Means
- Staincliffe, Cath Letters to my Daughter’s Killer
- Steinbeck, John
- Stevenson, R. L Treasure Island
- St John Mandel, Emily Station Eleven
- Stockett, Kathryn The Help
- Storey, David Saville
- Strout , Elizabeth My Name is Lucy Barton
- Swift, Graham
- Szalay, David All That Man Is
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- Tan, Amy The Kitchen God’s Wife
- Taylor, Elizabeth
- Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont
- Wreath of Roses
- A View of the Harbour
- Taylor, Mildred Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
- Tey, Josephine The Daughter of Time
- Thayli, Jeet Narcopolis
- Thien, Madeleine Do Not Say We Have Nothing
- Thiong’o, Ngũgĩ wa Petals of Blood
- Thierault, Denis The Peculiar Life of a Lonely Policeman
- Thirkell , Angela High Rising
- Thomas, Gwyn
- Tidhar, Lavie A Man Lies Dreaming
- Toibin, Colm Brooklyn
- Tomalin, Claire The Unequaled Self
- Trollope, Anthony
- Barchester Towers
- The Warden
- Dr Thorne
- Tulloch, Jonathan Larkinland
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- Unsworth, Barry . Sacred Hunger
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- Vickers, Sally The Cleaner of Chartres
- Vonnegut, Kurt Slaughterhouse Five
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- Walsh, Louise Black River ( did not finish)
- Waters, Sarah The Paying Guests
- Watson, S J Before I go to Sleep
- Witwit, May & Rowlatt: Bee Talking about Austen in Baghdad
- Williams, Naill History of the Rain
- Wolfe, Christa The Search for Christa T
- Woolf, Virginia
- Wyndham, John Chocky
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- Xinran Good Women of China
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- Yanagihara, Hanya A Little Life
- Yamada, Taichi Strangers
- Yasmina, Khadra, The Swallows of Kabul
- Kawabata, Yasunari Snow Country
- Yamusangie, Frederick Full Circle
- Yoshimoto, Banana Goodbye Tsugumi
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- Zafon, Carlos Zuin
- Zafin, Gabrielle The Storied Life of A.J.Fitkry
- Zola, Emile
- Zongo, Norbert The Parachute Drop