Book Reviews

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Monkey - Wu Ch’eng-en

Girl in a Blue Dress - Gaynor Arnold

The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher - Kate Summerscale

What I Talk About When I Talk About Running - Haruki Murakami

The Diving Bell And The Butterfly - Jean Dominique Bauby

Never Let Me Go - Kasuo Ishiguro

In a Summer Season - Elizabeth Taylor

Reading Lolita in Tehran - Azar Nafisi

Star of the Sea - Joseph O’Connor

Sleep Pale Sister – Joanna Harris

The Whaleboat House - Mark Mills

The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath

Nine and a Half Weeks – Elizabeth MacNeill

The Echoing Grove – Rosamund Lehmann

Touching the Void – Joe Simpson

Gone with the Wind – Margaret Mitchell

Kingfishers Catch Fire – Rumer Godden

The Little Green Man – Simon Armitage

Endurance - Alfred Lansing



The following books have been read but not reviewed...

The Kite Runner - Khaled Husseini

Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold

Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon

Breakfast at Tiffany’s – Truman Capote

The Unfortunates – Laurie Graham

The L-Shaped Room – Lynne Reid Banks

The No1 Ladies’ Detective Agency – Alexander McCall Smith

The Five People you meet in Heaven - Mitch Albom

A High Wind in Jamaica – Richard Hughes

Bonjour Tristesse – Francoise Sagan

Birthday Letters - Ted Hughes

The Used Women’s Book Club - Paul Bryers

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty - James Thurber

A Long Long Way - Sebastian Barry

The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger

Phantoms in the Brain - V S Ramachandran

Fairness - Ferdinand Mount

Down and out in Paris and London - George Orwell

Orlando - Virginia Woolf

Riddley Walker - Russell Hoban

Middlemarch - George Eliot

The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown

Laura Blundy - Julie Myerson
 

Touching The Void
Gone With The Wind
Endurance
In a Summer Season
Never Let Me Go
Star Of The Sea
Reading Lolita in Tehran
The Bell Jar
The Whaleboat House
Nine and a Half Weeks
The Suspicions of Mr Whicher
The Echoing Grove
Girl in a Blue Dress Monkey
The Elegance of the Hedgehog
The Five People You Meet In Heaven
Lovely Bones
Breakfast at Tiffanys The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Phantoms in the Brain Riddley Walker
The Used Women's Book Club
The Time Traveler's Wife A Long Long Way The Unfortunates
Bonjour Tristesse
Middlemarch Down and Out in Paris and London Birthday Letters The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency Kite Runner A High Wind in Jamaica
Star of the Sea
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Haruki Murakami
Sleep Pale Sister
The Little Green Man
Kingfishers Catch Fire
The L Shaped Room
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
The Da Vinci Code
Laura Bundy
Orlando