Friday
June 18, 2018
Putting a black line round it
June 14, 2018
Teetotal
June 11, 2018
End of the book year 2017/18
June 9, 2018
I spent time with lodgers;
- Villa des Roses, Willem Elsschot
- Craven House, Parrick Hamilton
- The Paying Guests, Sarah Waters;
the dead;
- Beyond Black, Hilary Mantel
- The Amber Spyglass, Philip Pullman
- Lincoln in the Bardo, George Saunders
And scary men;
- The Collector, John Fowles
- Perfume, Patrick Suskind.
There was one from a fellow blogger:
- Ten Orbits of the Sun, David Milligan-Croft
and an error:
- I missed out listing The Double by Jose Soramago in 16/17!
There were disappointments:
- Ludmila’s Broken English, DBC Pierre
There were 59 books.
The Book of the year 2017/18 could have been The Ballad and the Source, Alone in Berlin or A Prayer for Owen Meany but it is
Time’s Arrow by Martin Amis
The first book of 18/19 is Pensees Blaise Pascal.
The Full List
June
The Mabinogion
A Life of Your Own and other stories, Frank O’Connor
Villa des Roses, Willem Elsschot
Casino Royale, Ian Fleming
Ten Orbits of the Sun, David Milligan-Croft
July
The Pendragon Legend,Antal Szerb
Baotown, Wang Anyi
The Inn at the Edge of the World, Alice Thomas Ellis
The Door, Magda Szabo
The Collector, John Fowles
Operation Mincemeat, Ben MacIntyre
August
Craven House, Parrick Hamilton
Beyond Black, Hilary Mantel
The Amber Spyglass, Philip Pullman
Lincoln in the Bardo, George Saunders
September
Perfume, Patrick Suskind
Emotionally Weird, Kate Atkinson
A Prayer for Owen Meaney, John Irving
Houses, Borislav Pekic
Falconer, John Cheever
October
The Invisible Woman, Claire Tomalin
The Rebel, Albert Camus
Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
November
Hot Milk, Deborah Levy
Hideous Kinky, Esther Freud
Five Red Herrings, Dorothy L Sayers
Ludmila’s Broken English, DBC Pierre
The Woman Who Rode Away and other stories, DH Lawrence
The Saga of King Hrolf Kraki
December
Time’s Arrow, Martin Amis
The Man Who Would Be King, Rudyard Kipling
January
Killer in the Rain, Raymond Chandler
I Capture the Castle, Dodie Smith
February
The Paying Guests, Sarah Waters
Fraulein Schmidt and Mr Anstruther, Elizabeth Von Arnim
Dead Man Talking, Roddy Doyle
Epitaph for a Spy, Eric Ambler
Alone in Berlin, Hans Fallada
The Green Child, Herbert Read
The Bean Trees, Barbara Kingslover
March
The Speckled People, Hugo Hamilton
Yes, and After Michael Hastings, The Happy Haven, John Arden, Five Finger Exercise, Peter Shaffer. Penguin New English Dramatists 4
An Awfully Big Adventure, Beryl Bainbridge
Justine, Marquis De Sade
The One Hundred Year Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared, Jonas Jonasson
Lives of Eminent Men, John Aubrey
Head to Toe, Joe Orton
One Good Turn, Kate Atkinson
April
The Virgin in the Garden, AS Byatt
The Man Who Loves Children, Christina Stead
The Ballad and the Source, Rosamund Lehmann
Gaudy Night, Dorothy L Sayers
Zoe, Geraldine Jewsbury
May
Wordsworth Classics – Classic Victorian and Edwardian Ghost stories
The Company of Swans, Jim Crumley
The Cry of the Owl, Patricia Highsmith
The Blackwater Lightship, Colm Toibin
The Rendezvous and other stories, Daphne Du Maurier
The Georgics, Virgil
Bank
June 7, 2018
Mix
June 4, 2018
Pause
May 21, 2018
Taking a WP break. Back soon. OA
Yellow
May 20, 2018
War
May 19, 2018
Where we walked
May 18, 2018
