Grief is the thing with feathers by Max Porter. The first stone : some questions about sex and power by Helen Garner La Princesse de Clèves by Madame de Lafayette Deadly intent by Anna Sweeney Save
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My Reading – March 2017
Nutshell by Ian McEwan Miss Nobody by Ethel Carnie Epitaph by Maria Russell Doria One Woman's War and Peace : A Nurse's Journey Through the Royal Australian Air Force by Sharon Bown
My Reading – February 2017
Wild Island by Jennifer Livett The Forgotten Highlander by Alister Urquhart Outlander by Diana Gabaldon Save
My Reading – January 2017
The Victorian Chaise-longue by Marghanita Laski Doc by Mary Doria Russell The Bertie Project by Alexander McCall Smith (many spoilers)
My Reading for 2016
This year I have done reasonably well with the number and spread of books I have read - mainly historical fiction, some classic fiction, a few non-fiction and some literary fiction including a handful definitely outside my comfort zone. This list, naturally, does not include the number I have started but not finished which were … Continue reading My Reading for 2016
My Reading – December 2016
A Bluestocking in Patagonia by Anne Whitehead Habits of the House by Fay Weldon By the Sword by Alison Stuart
My Reading – November 2016
Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh All that man is by David Szalay Do not say we have nothing : a novel by Madeleine Thien
One Minute Book Review – Umbrella by Will Self
I picked this book up after hearing that it dealt, in fictional form, with similar experiences to Oliver Sach's Awakenings. I put it down after a single page as I had no desire to force myself through 400 pages of unpunctuated stream of consciousness. Months later I came across the audiobook (someone else had done … Continue reading One Minute Book Review – Umbrella by Will Self
My Reading – October 2016
His Bloody Project : Documents Relating to the Case of Roderick Macrae by Graeme Macrae Burnet The Wife's Tale by Christine Wells Hot Milk by Deborah Levy The Sellout by Paul Beatty Save
One Minute Book Review – Angelica by Arthur Phillips
This is an unsettling novel where reality and the supernatural blend together. Set in London in the 1880s, it the story of a family on the verge of breakdown. Angelica has spent the first four years of her life sleeping in her parents’ room. When her father, Joseph Barton, moves her into a room of … Continue reading One Minute Book Review – Angelica by Arthur Phillips
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