Recent Book Activity

I'm a Chartered Secretary (like a lawyer, but honest) with interests in archaeology, history, mythology, genealogy, art history and photography.

I have also set up a separate bookshelf for my partner Bugzbunny in order to keep books I pick up for him separate from my own.

Reading in 2012

I'm continuing with the "no-theme" theme in 2012, and looking for a balance of crime and more literary fiction with a variety of UK and non-UK settings. I also plan to read as many as possible of the books which have been longest on my shelf.

However I will continue, for interest's sake, to annotate each book with the (non-UK) country or region in which the action is set. In addition, authors I've not read before are marked with an asterisk (*).

What I'm reading now

Fatherland - Robert Harris* (Germany)
The Quiet American - Graham Greene (Vietnam)

Next up

Moonrise, Sunset - Gopal Baratham* (Singapore)

What I've read so far in 2012

Where Angels Fear to Tread - E M Forster (Italy)
North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell
The Information Officer - Mark Mills* (Malta)
Burmese Days - George Orwell (Burma)
The Minotaur - Barbara Vine
In the Empire of Genghis Khan - Stanley Stewart* (Mongolia)
The Hanging Valley - Peter Robinson
Lonely Hearts - John Harvey
The Mistress of Spices - Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni* (USA)
Turnstone - Graham Hurley*

Around the World in a Book

I thought I'd add a map to show where my reading takes me this year.


visited 8 states (3.55%)
Create your own visited map of The World

Fellraven's British Mysteries, Crime and Thrillers Bookbox

I also host a UK-only bookbox on the above theme which has now completed its third circuit. If you are interested in joining its fourth, please READ THE RULES and then PM me.

Genuine Wild Catches

Put On By Cunning/An Unkindness of Ravens - Ruth Rendall (Caught at Sainsbury's, Redditch, by AF)
Brighton Rock - Graham Greene (Caught at Tate Modern by TonyMC)
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich - Alexandr Solzhenitsyn (Caught at the National Gallery by AF)
Father Brown Stories - G K Chesterton (Caught at the National Gallery by ladybetty)
Dracula - Bram Stoker (Caught in Whitby at Whitby Gothic Weekend by TigerI)
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde (Caught in Whitby at Whitby Gothic Weekend by KayDekker)
The Trumpet Major - Thomas Hardy (Caught at Standedge Canal Tunnel by house-elfdobby's Auntie)
Wives and Daughters - Elizabeth Gaskell (Caught at the Winter Gardens, Harrogate, by MeganBa)
The Outsider - Albert Camus (Caught at Chester Zoo by MontyMolly)
The Glass Palace - Amitav Ghosh (Caught at the Regency Hyatt Hotel, Warsaw, Poland by peterbook)
Empress Orchid - Anchee Min (Caught in Birstall, West Yorkshire, by AF)
The White Russian - Tom Bradby (Caught at the Magpie Cafe, Whitby, North Yorkshire by Topsy123)
Candle For a Corpse - Ann Granger (Caught in Bratislava, Slovakia, by AF)
Devices and Desires - P D James (Caught at White Rose Centre, Morley, Leeds, by Thrashstronaut)
An Unsuitable Job For a Woman - P D James (Caught at Staveley's Mill Yard, near Kendal, Cumbria, by Tili)
Abracadaver - Peter Lovesey (Caught at Sainsbury's, Redditch by AF)
Agatha Raisin and the Potted Gardener - M C Beaton (Caught at Rockcliffe, Dumfries and Galloway, by AF)
Another Man's Poison - Ann Cleeves (Caught in Whithorn, Dumfries and Galloway, by AF)
Live to Tell - Lisa Gardner (Caught in Craster, Northumberland by AF)
As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning - Laurie Lee (Caught on Holy Island, Northumberland by AF)
The Frost Fair - Edward Marston (Caught at Marton-cum-Grafton, North Yorkshire by Nu-Knees)
Goodnight, Sweet Prince - David Dickinson (Caught at Marton-cum-Grafton, North Yorkshire by tree-hugger)
Birds of a Feather - Jacqueline Winspear (Caught at Hebden Bridge Railway Station, West Yorkshire by AF)
The Dante Trap - Arnaud Delalande (Caught at Marton-cum-Grafton, North Yorkshire by Nu-Knees)
Whiter Than the Lily - Alys Clare (Caught at Marton-cum-Grafton, North Yorkshire by Nu-Knees)
The Anatomy of Murder - Imogen Robertson (Caught at Hebden Bridge Railway Station, West Yorkshire by AF)
Lark Rise to Candleford - Flora Thompson (Caught at Keynsham Railway Station, Bristol by AF)

Travelling Books

In addition to the UK, I have released books in the following countries:

The Czech Republic, Germany, The Netherlands, Poland, Qatar, Romania, Slovakia, Sri Lanka and Switzerland

Other books registered by me have visited or been released in:

Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Cyprus, Finland, France, Italy, Malaysia, Nepal, Portugal, Sweden and USA.