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Snow Flower and the Secret Fan - Lisa See

Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont - Elizabeth Taylor

Books read

2012

JANUARY
Wendy Perriam - Fifty-Minute Hour 8
Emma Donoghue - Room 4

FEBRUARY
Shelley Silas - 12 days 8
Sheila Hancock- Just Me 8
Elizabeth Taylor - Angel 8

MARCH
John Canter - Worth 6
Rose Tremain - Sadler's Birthday 7
Markus Zusak - The Book Thief 8

APRIL
Rosie Thomas - Every Woman Knows a Secret 8
Kate Lord Brown - The Beauty Chorus 10
David Zsalay- Spring 5
Janette Jenkins - Angel of Brooklyn 5

MAY
Nicola Hodgkinson - Life With The lid Off 5
Kathleen Winter - Annabel 6
Terry Ronald - Becoming Nancy 9
Jane Rusbridge - The Devil's Music 9









2011

JANUARY
Gillian Tindall - Give Them All My Love 4
Armistead Maupin - Mary Ann in Autumn 10
William Boyd - The new Confessions 7

FEBRUARY
David Roberts - A ~Grave Man 7
Marghanita Laski - Little Boy Lost 10

MARCH
Penelope Lively - Passing On 7
Richard yates - Revolutionary Road 7

APRIL
Dave Boling - Guernica 6

MAY
David Nicholls - One Day 8

JUNE
Sarah Blake - The Postmistress 6
Frank Muir and Denis Norden - Take My Word For It

JULY
Clare Francis - A Dark Devotion 7
Susan Hill - The Man In The Picture 8


AUGUST
Susan Lewis - The Choice 7
Stella Duffy - State of Happiness 9

SEPTEMBER
Blake Morrison - The Last Weekend 9
Clare Morrall - The Man Who Disappeared 7

OCTOBER
Joan Bakewell - All The Nice Girls 8

NOVEMBER
Anne Michaels - Fugitive Pieces 7
Mark Haddon - A Spot of Bother 9

DECEMBER
Kathryn Stockett - The Help 6
Alan Hollinghurst - The Stranger's Child 9


2010

JANUARY
Mark Mills - The Information Officer 8
RD Wingfield - Night Frost 9

FEBRUARY
Nancy Huston - Fault Lines 7
Sarah Kennedy - Charlotte's Friends 6
beryl Kingston - Neptune's Daughter 8 Transita

MARCH
Sheila Hancock - The Two of Us 9
Rosie Thomas - The Potter's House 6
Nick Hornby - About a Boy 6
Rupert Everett - Red Carpets and Other Banana Skins 4
Lynn Barber - An Education 6

APRIL
John Banville - The Infinities 6
Elizabeth Jeffrey - The Thirteenth Child 6
Andrew Taylor - Waiting for The End of The World 6
Rachel Cusk - Arlington Park 9
Penelope Fitzgerald - The Blue Flower 7

MAY
Jonathan Smith - Night Windows 9
Lisa See - Snowflower and the Secret Fan 10

JUNE
PD James - The Lighthouse 9


JULY
Stella Duffy - The Room of Lost Things 8
Philip Marsden - The Main Cages 6
Abraham Vergese - Cutting For Stone 6

AUGUST
Rohinton Mistry Family Matters 7

SEPTEMBER
Ben Elton - The First Casualy 7

OCTOBER
Melvyn Bragg - For Want of a Nail - 5
Catherine Heath - The Lady On The Burning Deck 7

NOVEMBER
Pat Barker - Life Class 8
Allan Sillitoe - The Loneliness Of The Long-Distance Runner 7
Michael Curtin - The League Against Christmas
Kenneth Wesley - Somewhere Over The Rainbow 4
Audrey Niffenegger - Her Fearful Symmetry 6
Derek Jarman - Kicking The Pricks 6
Clare Mulley - The Woman Who saved The Children 7
Susie Vereka - Pond Lane and Paris 8

DECEMBER
Sally Vickers - The Other Side of You. 10
Ken Follett - Eyue of The Needle 9
Jennifer Worth - Call in the Midwife 7
William Golding - Lord of The Flies 2
Gregory Hall - A Cement of Blood 9

2009

JANUARY
John Boyne - The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas 9
Costa Book Awards - The Finalists 6
Irene Nemirovsky - David Golder - 9
J M Coetzee - Elizabeth Costello 6

FEBRUARY
Haruki Murakami - South of The Border West of The Sun 7
Nikki French - Secret Smile 9
Ann Pilling - Black Harvest 8
Ann Pilling - The Year of The Worm 7
Jason F Wright - Christmas Jars 4
Tessa Barclay - The Final Discord 5
Gish Jen - Who's Irish? 6

MARCH
Maureen Lipman - Something To Fall Back On 7
Roald Dahl - Matilda 9
Georgia Hale - Without Consent 8
Doris Lessing - The Grandmothers 5

APRIL
Diana Athill - Yesterday Morning 9
Anne Robinson - Memoirs of an Unfit Mother 7
Tony Parsons - The Family Way 2
Alexander McCall Smith- The Kalahari Typing School For Men - 6

MAY
Victoria Clayton - Past Mischief 7
Rose Tremain - How I found Her - 6
Elie Wiesel - Night - 7


JUNE
Julian Clary - Murder Most Fab 8
Carol Birch - Little Sister 7
Michael Innes - Appleby and Honeybath 6
Mark Obmascik - The Big Year 6
Maggie O'Farrell - The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox 8

JULY
Jeanette Winterson - Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit 9
Anita Shreve - A Wedding in December 9
Gerald Seymour - A Line in the Sand 9
Ian McEwan - Chesil Beach 6
Val McDermid - A Darker Domain 9

AUGUST
Edwina Currie - A Woman's Place 6
Nicola Upson - Angel With Two Faces 7

SEPTEMBER
Donna Leon - Aqua Alta 9
M C Beaton - Death of an Addict 7
Nicola Upson - An Expert In Murder 8

OCTOBER
Deric Longden - I'm a Stranger Here Myself 6
Arthur Golden - Memoirs of a Geisha 5
R D Wingfield - A Touch of Frost 8

NOVEMBER
Minette Walters - The Ice House 8
Gabriel Garcia Marquez - Love in The Time of Cholera 6
Julie Walters - That's Another Story


DECEMBER
Fiona Mountain - Bloodline 7
Stevie Davies - Kith and Kin 7
Pamela Stephenson - Billy 6
Barry Hines - Kestrel For a Knave 7


2008

JANUARY
Xinran - Sky Burial 9
Diana Wynne Jones - Charmed Life 8
Tricia Wastvedt - The River 7
Charles Bukowski - Women 6
Elizabeth Taylor - Angel 8
David Gutterson - Snow fell on Cedars 6
FEBRUARY
Lisa See - Snow Flower and the Secret Fan 10
Celia Brayfield - Wild Weekend 7
Barbara Kingsolver - Poisonwood Bible 2
Laurie Graham - The Unfortunates 7
MARCH
Therese Szymanski - It's All Smoke and Mirrors 6
John Irving - A Prayer For Owen Meany 6
Juliet Greenwood - Elissa's Castle 6 Transita
Sue Moorcroft - Uphill All The Way 8 Transita
Arabella weir - Does My Bum Look Big in This? 6
Tamara Lee - Queen's Flight 8

APRIL
Sarah Dunant - Mapping The Edge 6
Khaled Hosseini - The Kite Runner 9
David Williams - Poison Farm 10
Linda Gillard - Star Gazing 7

MAY
PD James - Innocent Blood 8
Elizabeth Taylor - A View of The Harbour 8
Armistead maupin - Michael Tolliver Lives 9

JUNE
Tom Holt - Barking 6
Patricia Cornwell- Body of Evidence 8
Sidney Sheldon - Tell Me Your Dreams 2(first and last book by this author)

JUNE
Daphne du Maurier - Jamaica Inn 9

JULY
Sarah Waters - Tipping The Velvet 9

AUGUST
Alan Bennett - The Uncommon Reader 9
Andrew Taylor - An Old School Tie 8

SEPTEMBER
Sally Beauman - The Landscape of Love 7
Karin Kallmaker - Car Pool 7

OCTOBER
Sandi Toksvig - Flying Under Bridges 9
Margaret Atwood - Cats Eye 9
Kate Chopin - A Pair of Silk Stockings 6

NOVEMBER
Rosamunde Pilcher - The Shell Seekers 8
Elizabeth Taylor - The Devastating Boys 7
Margaret Atwood - The Edible Woman 6
Margaret Atwood - Surfacing 6
Andrew Taylor - Caroline Miniscule 6

DECEMBER
Nora Roberts - Blue Dahlia 9
Judith Holder - Grumpy Old Women 7
Women etc - Previews






2007
Ben Elton - Past Mortem
Deborah Crombie - All Shall Be Well
Deborah Crombie - Mourn Not Your Dead
Elizabeth Palmer - The Stainless Angel
Colin Dexter - Last Bus To Woodstock
Joan Barfoot - Plain Jane
Anne Bennett - Till The Sun Shines Through
Zoe Heller - Notes On A Scandal
Armistead Maupin - The Night Listener
Ruth Rendell - A Sleeping Life
Rhona Cameron - 1979
Jane Gordon-Cumming
Sandi Toksvig - Vanished Into Air
Elizabeth Von Arnim - The Enchanted April
Barbara Comyns - Our Spoons Came From Woolworths
Elizabeth Taylor - A Wreath of Roses
Liz Jensen - War Crimes For The Home
Rosie Thomas - Moon Island
Wendy Perriam - Absinthe For Elevenses 8
20 Linda Gillard - Emotional Geology 10
Susie Vereker - Pond Lane and Paris 8
Fiona Shaw - The picture She Took 9
Jon Canter - Seeds Of Greatness 7
Stella Duffy - Parallel Lies 8
Julian Clary - A Young Man's Passage 8
Mark Mills - The Whaleboat House 10
Charlotte Greig - A Girl's Guide To Modern European Philosophy 6
Linda Olsson - Astrid and Veronika 9
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Half of a Yellow Sun 9
30 Susan Fletcher - Eve Green 7
Margaret Forster - Diary of an Ordinary Woman 8
Louis de Bernieres - Birds Without Wings 2
Paul Burston - Star People 6
Manda Scott - Hen's Teeth 8
Kathleen Rowntree - Outside Looking In 7
John Mortimer - Clinging To The Wreckage 6
Jack Kerouac - On The Road 6
Karen Joy Fowler - The Jane Austen Book Club 2
Irene Nemirovsky - Suite Francais 10
40 Annie Proulx - Brokeback Mountain 8
William Newton - The two Pound Tram 5
Galaxy Craze (!) - By The Shore 5
Mark Mills - The Savage Garden 7
Elizabeth Edmondson = The Frozen Lake 6
Margaret Drabble - The Peppered Moth 6
Esther Freud - Hideous Kinky 5
47 Eva Rice - The Lost Art Of Keeping Secrets - 8

2006
Penelope Lively - The Photograph
Veronic Stallwood - Oxford Mourning
Tracey Chevalier - Falling Angels
Manda Scott- Stronger Than Death
Jonathan Kellerman - Flesh and Blood
Guillermo Martinez - The Oxford Murders
Andrea Newman - Three Into two Won't Go

Ben Elton - Dead Famous
Elizabeth Taylor - Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont
Alan Hollinghurst - The Line of Beauty
Valerie Martin - Property
Robert Goddard - Into The Blue
Elizabeth Taylor - Palladian
Michael Innes - The Gay Phoenix
Nigel Slater - Toast
Naomi Alderman - Disobedience
Asne Seierstad - The Bookseller Of Kabul
Charlotte Bingham - The Wind Off The Sea.
Sandi Toksvig - Flying Under Bridges
Meera Syal- Anita and Me
David Nicholls - Starter For Ten

2005
Julie Myerson - Something Might Happen
John Donogue - Shakespeare my Butt!
Jose Carlos Somoza - The Art of Murder
Joseph O'Connor - The Salesman
Sue Townsend - The Cappuccino Years
Meera Syall - Life isn't all ha ha hee hee.
William Sutcliffe - Are You Experienced?
PD James - The Murder Room
Janet Street Porter - Baggage


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