Books 2016 to 2020

Books Reviewed 2016 to 2020

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Books Reviewed 2020

1 A Silent Death by Peter May

2 The Choice by Clare Wade

3. Beast by Matt Wesolowski

4. Volunteer by Jack Fairweather

5. The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides

6. Volunteer by Jack Fairweather

7. The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides

8. In Pursuit of Spring by Edward Thomas

9. The Animals of Lockwood Manor by Jane Healey

10. The Lost Pianos of Siberia by Sophy Roberts

11. Stubborn Archivist by Yara Rodrigues Fowler

12. Virtuoso by Yelena Moskovich

13. Just Another Mountain by Sarah Jane Douglas

14. The Mirror & the Light by Hilary Mantel

15. Rhubarb Rhubarb by Mary Jane Patterson and Jo Thompson

16. Black River by Will Dean

17. House of Glass by Hadley Freeman (Audible)

18. I am Dust by Louise Beech

19. The Silent Treatment by Abbie Greaves

20. The Game’s Gone by Simon Barnes (Audible)

21. Diary of a Young Naturalist by Dara McAnulty

22. Lockdown by Peter May

23. The Mystery of Henri Pick by David Foenkinos

24. The Boundless Sea by David Abulafia

25. Pomeranski by Gerald Jacobs

26. Miss Benson’s Beetle by Rachel Joyce

27. 100 Birds by Carl Bovis

28. To Tell You the Truth by Gillian Macmillan

29. The Seafarers by Stephen Rutt

30. Rootbound by Alice Vincent

31. Memories by Naim Attallah

32. Hinton Hollow Death Trip by Will Carver

33. Fresh Water for Flowers by Valerie Perrin

34. The Twins of Auschwitz by Eva Mozes Kor

35. Summer by Ali Smith

36. Cauld Blasts and Clishmaclavers by Robin A. Crawford

37. Dear Reader by Cathy Rentzenbrink

38. Beethoven: A Life in Nine Pieces by Laura Tunbridge

39. The Splendid and the Vile by Erik Larson

40. Love Orange by Natasha Randall

41. Plague by Julie Anderson

42. The Seven Doors by Agnes Ravatn

43. V2 by Robert Harris

44. Portrait of the Spy as a Young Man by Edward Wilson

45. Jeoffry: The Poet’s Cat A Biography by Oliver Soden

46. The Second Life of Inspector Canessa by Roberto Perrone

47. The Little Library Christmas by Kate Young

48. The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman

49. A Year of Living Simply by Kate Humble

50. Green Hands by Barbara Witton

51. Dicken’s London by Peter Clark

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Books Reviewed 2019

1	The Hunting Party – Lucy Foley
2	Red Snow – Will Dean
3	The Choice – Edith Eger
4	Virginia Woolf in Richmond – Peter Fullagar
5	Thesaurus – Katie Hall-May
6	No Place to Lay ones Head – Francois frenkel
7	The Last Act of Love – Cathy Rentzenbrink
8	The Long Night – Ernst Israel Bornstein
9	The Wild Remedy – Emma Mitchell
10	The Courier – Kjell ola Dahl
11	The Cut Out Girl – Bart van Es
12	The Flower Girls – Alice Clark-Platts
13	Where Reasons End – Yiyun Li
14	All My Mad Mothers – Jacqueline Saphra
15	Call Me Star Girl – Louise Beech
16	Agent Jack – Robert Hutton
17	Number One Chinese Restaurant – Lillian Li
18	The Dragon Lady – Louisa Treger
19	Wyld Dreamers – Pamela Holmes
20	The Pull of the River – Matt Gaw
21	Underland – Robert Macfarlane
22	Normal People – Sally Rooney
23	The Ghost Tree – Barbara Erskine
24	Arnhem – William F. Buckingham
25	The Red Address Book – Sofia Lundberg
26	Britains Jews in the First World War
27	The Pianiat of Yarmouk – Aeham Ahmad
28	Heart: A History – Sandeep Juhar
29	Under the Rock – Benjamin Myers
30	If I Had Two Lives – Abbigail N. Rosewood
31	One Hundred Miracles – Wendy Holden
32	Bird Therapy – Joe Harkness
33	Green Gold – Gabriel Hemery
34	Turbulent Wake – Paul E. Hardisty
35	Crossing Over – Ann Morgan ( Audio Book )
36	The Good Bee – Alison Benjamin & Brian McCallum
37	The Doll Factory – Elizabeth MacNeal
38	Rosey: My Life with Somerset Cricket – Brian Rose
39	The Never Game
40	Wilding: The Return of Nature to a British Farm – Isabella Tree
41	10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World by Elif Shafak
42	The Carer by Deborah Moggach
43	Normandy 44 – James Holland
44	Wild Woman Swimming: A Journal of West Country Waters. – Lynn Roper
45	The Last Widow – Karin Slaughter
46	A Modern Family – Helga Flatland
47	The Closer I Get – Paul Burston
48	Thinking on My Feet – Kate Humble
49	Breaking and Mending – Joanna Cannon
50	Ellie and the Harp Maker – Hazel Prior
51	Orchid Summer – Jon Dunn
52	Sweet Sorrow – Dvid Nicholls
53	A Hitch in Time – Andy Smart
54	Leonard and Hungry Paul
55	The Lost Words – Spell Songs
56	From Bean to Bar – Andrew Baker
57	Shadowplay – Tim Marshall
58	The Unauthorised Biography of Ezra Maas – Daniel James
59	My House is Falling Down – Mary Loudon
60	The Secrets We Kept – Lara Prescott
61	From the City, From the Plough – Alexander Baron
62	Patience by Toby Litt
63	Trial by Battle – David Piper
64	Plenty Under the Couner – Kathleen Hewitt
65	Guiding Me Home and Away: The Autobiography – Dave Thomas
66	The House Without Windows – Barbara Newell-Follett
67	Eight Hours from England – Anthony Quayle
68	Mudlarking – Lara Maiklem
69	The Little Library Year – Kate Young
70	Ring the Hill – Tom Cox
71	The Testaments – Margaret Atwood
72	Once Upon A River – Diane Setterfield
73	Cage – Lilja Sigurdadottir
74	Will by Jeroen Olyslaegers
75	The Postcard Murder: A Judges Tale by Paul Worsley QC
76	Face It by Debbie Harry
77	Ness by Robert Macfarlane & Stanley Donwood
78	100 Things I Meant to Tell You by Arthur Smith
79	Twas The Nightshift Before by Adam Kay
80	Violet by SJI Holliday
81	The Twelve Birds of Christmas by Stephen Moss
82	The Twelve Strange Days of Christmas by Syd Moore

Books Reviewed 2018

1	Three Things About Elsie (2018)
2	Dark Pines – Will Dean (2018)
3	The Coffin Path – Katherine Clements (2018)
4	This is How it Ends – Eva Dolan (2018)
5	Future Home of the Living God – Louise Erdrich
6	Miss Boston and Miss Hargreaves – Rachel Malik (PB BLOG TOUR)
7	The Last Mrs Parrish – Liv Constantine
8	Tattooist of Auschwitz – Heather Morris
9	The Feed – Nick Clark Windo
10	Anotomy of a Scandal – Sarah Vaughan
11	Hydra by Matt Wesolowski
12	Blue Night – Simone Buchholz
13	The Sealwoman’s Gift (Finnished Copy) – Sally Magnusson
14	Travellers in the Third Reich – Julia Boyd
15	Home – Amanda Berriman
16	I Love You Too Much – Alicia Drake
17	Killed – Thomas Enger
18	Your Life in My Hands – Rachel Clarke
19	Entanglement – Katy Mahood
20	The Perfect Girlfriend – Karen Hamilton
21	The Reading Cure – How Books Restored My Appatite – Laura Freeman
22	The London Cage – Helen Fry
23	The Immortalists – Chloe Benjamin
24	From a Low and Quiet Sea – Donal Ryan
25	Never Greener – Ruth Jones
26	We Were the Salt of the Sea – Roxanne Bouchard
27	Two Steps Forward – Graham Simsion & Anne Buist
28	Keeper – Johana Gustawsson
29	The Hoarder – Jess Kidd
30	The Wood – John Lewis-Stempel
31	Our House – Louise Candlish
32	All Along The Barley – Melissa Harrison
33	The Lido – Libby Page
34	All Rivers Run Free – Natasha Carthew
35	Salt Lane – William Shaw
36	The House on Half Moon Street – Alex Reeve
37	The Gradual Disappearance of Jane shand – Nicolai Houm
38	Rose Gold – David Barker
39	Why Do Birds Suddenly Disappear – Lev Parikan
40	The Language of Kindness by Christie Watson
41	In Our Mad and Furious City – Guy Gunaratne
42	The Wisdon of Sally Red Shoes – Ruth Hogan
43	Shelter – Sarah Franklin
44	Falling Short – Lex Coulton
45	Ten Poems from Russia – Boris Dralyuk
46	Take Nothing with You – Patrick Gale
47	America Uber Alles – Jack Fernely
48	Owl Sense – Dr Miriam Darlington
49	The Seabirds Cry – Adam Nicholson
50	The Call of the Curlew by Elizabeth Brooks
51	The Salt Path – Raynor Winn
52	The Woolgrowers Companion – Joy Rhoades
53	The Lost Letters of William Woolf – Helen Cullen
54	The Last Wilderness – Neil Ansell
55	The Lost Words – Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris
56	Do No Harm – L V Hay
57	The Last Thing She Told Me – Linda Green
58	We That Are Young – Preti Taneja
59	Hitler’s British Isles – Duncan Barrett
60	The Rules of Seeing – Joe Heap
61	The Story Keeper – Anna Mazzola
62	From the Mill to Monte Carlo – Anne Fletcher
63	Bellevue Square – Michael Redhill
64	Spitfire – John Nichol
65	A Perfect Mother – Katri Skala
66	Francis Plug: Writer in Residence – Paul Ewen
67	Roald Dahl Short Collection x4
68	Bone Lines – Stephanie Bretherton
69	Transcription – Kate Atkinson
70	Palm Beach Finland – Antti Tuomainen
71	Three Things I’d Tell My Younger Self – Joanna Cannon (E-STORY)
72	The Syndicate – Guy Bolton
73	Help the Witch – Tom Cox
74	Dear Mr Pop Star – Derek & Dave Philpott
75	Something of His Art – Horatio Clare
76	Lies Between Us – Ronnie Turner
77	Bus on Thursday – Sheila Barrett
78	Trap – Lilja Sigurdardottir
79	The Light in the Dark: A Winter Journal – Horatio Clare
80	The Glorious Dead – Tim Atkinson
81	Landfill – Tim Dee
82	The Lingering – SJI Holliday
83	Roar – Ceclia Ahern
84	The Almanac – Lia Leendertz
85	The Wren: A Biography
86	A Small Dark Quiet – Miranda Gold
87	The Christmas Chronicles – Nigel Slater
88	Good Samaritans – Will Carver
89	Erebus: The Story of a Ship – Michael Palin
90	The Hunting Party – Lucy Foley – 2019

Books Reviewed 2017

1	A Dangerous Crossing – Rachel Rhys
2	Rattle – Fiona Cummins
3	The River At Night – Erica Ferencik
4	Behind Her Eyes – Sarah Pinborogh
5	Bella Mia – Donatella Di Pietrantonio
6	Rupture by Ragnar Jonasson
7	The Burning Ground – Adam O’Riordan
8	Nine Love Letters – Gerald Jacobs
9	Deep Down Dead – Steph Broadribb
10	Under the Almond Tree – Laura McVeigh
11	A Harvest of Thorns – Corban Addison
12	Hold Back the Stars – Katie Kahn
13	First Love – Gwendoline Riley
14	Sealskin – Su Bristow
15	Blackout – Marc Elsberg
16	The Life Assistance Agency – Thomas Hocknell
17	Fragile Lives – Prof Stephen Westaby
18	Birds Art Life Death – Kyo Maclear
19	The Draughtsman – Robert Lautner
20	See What I Have Done – Sarah Schmidt
21	The Good People – Hannah Kent
22	The Gift Maker – Mark Mayes
23	Cursed – Thomas Enger
24	Lincoln in the Bardo – George Saunders
25	Larchfield – Polly Clark
26	Gone Without A Trace – Mary Torjussen
27	Six Stories – Matt Wesolowski
28	Wild Chamber – Christopher Fowler
29	Gone: A Girl A Violin A Life Unstrung
30	The Single Soldier – George Costigan
31	Centaur – Declan Murphy & Ami Rao
32	The Stolen Child – Sanjida Kay
33	Faithless – Kjell Ola Dahl
34	The May Queen – Helen Irene Young
35	Into the Water – Paula Hawkins
36	The President’s Garden – Mushin-Al-Ramli
37	Spanish Crossings – John Simmons
38	Ealeanor Oliphant is Completely Fine – Gail Honeyman
39	Block 46 – Johana – Gustawsson
40	In Every Moment We Are Still Alive – Tom Malmquist
41	A Beautiful Game – Mark Nicholas
42	The Vinyl Detective – The Run-Out Groove – Andrew Cartmel
43	Fierce Kingdon – Gin Phillips
44	By Blood Divided – James Heneage
45	Greatest Hits – Laura Barnett
46	The Photographer – Meike Ziervogel
47	Exquisite – Sarah Stovell
48	A Thousand Paper Birds – Tor Udall
49	The Lighterman – Simon Michael
50	The Lie of the Land – Amanda Craig
51	The Things We Thought We Knew – Mahsuda Snaith
52	As Kingfishers Catch Fire – Books and Birds – Alex Preston & Neil Gower
53	Mother of Darkness – Venetia Welby
54	I know My Name – C.J. Cooke
55	Being Simon Haines – Tom Vaughan MacAulay
56	If We We Villains – M.L. Rio
57	Conflicts of Interest – Terry Stiastny
58	The Music Shop – Rachel Joyce
59	Fingers in the Sparkle Jar – Chris Packham
60	To Kill the President – Sam Bourne
61	Malice – Hugh Fraser
62	Maria in the Moon – Louise Beech
63	The Other Twin – L V Hay
64	The January Man – Christopher Somerville
65	Yesterday – Felicia Yap
66	The Otters Tale – Simon Cooper
67	Love of Country – A Hebridean Journey
68	This Beautiful Life – Katie Marsh
69	Johannesburg – Fiona Melrose
70	Where Poppies Blow – John Lewis-Stempel
71	Refugee Tales Vol I
72	Refugee Tales Vol II
73	Behind Her Back – Jane Lythell
74	The Wild Other – Clover Stroud
75	Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk – Kathleen Rooney
76	The Diary of a Bookseller – Shaun Bythell
77	Tin Man – Sarah Winman
78	Three Things About Elsie (JAN 2018)
79	The Travelling Cat Chronicles – Hiro Arikawa
80	Resurraction Bay – Emma Viskic
81	Dead Writers in Rehab – Paul Bassett Davies
82	American War – Omar El Akkad
83	Black Dahlia, Red Rose – Piu Eatwell
84	The Hitory of Bees – Maja Lunde
85	Viking Fire – Justin Hill
86	Elmet – Fiona Mozley
87	The Book of Forgotten Authors – Christopher Fowler
88	I AM I AM I AM – Maggie O’Farrell
89	Snare – Lilja Sigurdrdardardottir
90	Year of the Drought – Roland Buti
91	Islander – A Journey Around Our Archiplago Patrick Barkham
92	The Man Who Died – Antti Tuomainen
93	Dead Lands – Lloyd Otis
94	Such Small Hands – Andres Barba
95	Devils Day – Andrew Michael Hurley
96	The Secret Life of the Owl – John Lewis Stempel
97	This is Going to Hurt – Adam Kay
98	At the End of the Century – Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
99	The Evenings – Gerard Reve
100	The Future Can’t Wait – Angelena Boden
101	CWA Anthology of Short Stories – Mystery Tour – Various
102	Portrain of a Murderer – A Christmas Crime Story – Anne Meridith
103	Whiteout – Ragnar Jonasson
104	House of Spines – Michael J. Malone
105	Manhattan Beach – Jennier Egan
106	Murder on the Orient Express – Agatha Christie
107	The Deaths of December – Suzi Holliday
108	Dark Pines – Will Dean (2018)
109	The Coffin Path – Katherine Clements (2018)
110	This is How it Ends – Eva Dolan (2018)

Books Reviewed 2016

Night Blind by Ragnar Jonasson
The Trouble with Goats and Sheep by Joanna Cannon
Another Love by Amanda Prowse
The North Water by Ian McGuire
A Woman in a Million by Monica Wood (Short Story)
The Chimes by Anna Smaill
For the Most Beautiful by Emily Hauser
Beside Myself by Ann Morgan
From Yellow Sr to Pop Star by Dorit Oliver-Wolff
Exposure by Helen Dunmore
What A Way To Go by Julia Forster
The One-In-a-Million Boy by Monica Wood
Fever at Dawn by Peter Gardos
Out of the Darkness by Katy Hogan
In A Land of Paper Gods by Rebecca Mackenzie
Anatomy of a Soldier
Bone by Bone by Sanjida Kay
Six Four by Hideo Yokoyama
When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
At The Edge of the Orchard by Tracy Chevalier
But you Di Not Come Back by Marceline Loridan-Ivens
Mothering Sunday by Graham Swift
The Other Side of the Mountain by Fiona Cane
Jakobs Colours by Lindsay Hawdon
In Her Wake by Amanda Jennings
Keep You Close by Lucie Whitehouse
Hold Still by Tim Adler
The Midnight Watch by David Dyer
Blood and Roses by Catherine Hokin