Just wish I could read faster! I like funny crime best eg Janet Evanovitch, Alisa Craig, Nicola Slade. I'm also a big fan of Philip Pullman, Phil Rickman and Terry Pratchett. I love anything with a pair of starcrossed lovers (esp with parallel worlds/times) but lately developing a worrying penchant for regency romance.

Books read in 2018
1) The Visitors' Book by Sophie Hannah
2) Someone To Hold by Mary Balogh
3) The Roundabout Man by Clare Morrall
4) The World Before Us by Aislinn Hunter
5) More Tales of the City by Armietead Maupin
6) The Liar’s Daughter by Laurie Graham
7) How Not to be a Boy by Robert Webb
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Books read in 2017
1) Friends of the Dusk by Phil Rickman
2) Mr Splitfoot by Samantha Hunt
3) first Frost by Sarah Addison Allen
4) The Seed Collectors by Scarlett Thomas
5) Someone to Love by Mary Balogh
6) The Butcher's Hook by Janet Ellis
7) Any Human Heart by William Boyd
8) Frederica by Georgette Heyer
9) Slade House by David Mitchell
10)The Counterfeit Guest by Rose Melikan
11)Neuromancer by William Gibson
12)The Lonely Hearts Hotel by HeatherO'Neill
13)The Unpierced Heart by Katy Darby
14)After the Bombing by Clare Morrall
15)The Sudden Departure of the Frasers by Louise Candlish
16)The Yellow Wallpaper & selected writings by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
17)My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
18)The Roanoke Girls by Amy Engel
19) After me comes the flood by Sarah Perry
20) The Power by Naomi Alderman
21) The Legacy by Katherine Webb
22) Ready Player One by Ernest Clein
23) An Infamous Army by Georgette Heyer
24) How to Stop Time by Matt Haig
25) The Thousand Lights Hotel by Emylia Hall


Books read in 2016
1) Charity Girl by Georgette Heyer
2) The Watcher in the Shadows by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
3) Amy Snow by Tracey Rees
4) Something Borrowed by Paul Magrs
5) Just One Damn Thing After Another by Jodi Taylor
6) And Only To Deceive by Tasha Alexander
7) Am I Normal Yet? by Holly Bourne
8) Singer from the Sea by Sheri S Tepper
9) We are all absolutely beside ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler
10) Anybody Out There by Marian Keyes
11) Under the Skin by Michel Faber
12) The Versions of Us by Laura Barnett
13) The Earth Hums in BFlat by Mari Strachan
14) The Seven Sisters by Lucinda Riley
15) Beauty by Sheri S Tepper
16) The Gate to Women's Country by Sheri S Tepper
17) Knife Edge by Malory Blackman
18) The Scorch trials by James Dashner
19) When the Floods Came by Clare Morrall
20) The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline Kelly
21) The Woman who dived into the heart of the world by Sabina Berman
22) The Language of Others by Clare Morrall
23) Girl on a Train by Paula Hawkins
24) The Woman who stole my life by Marian Keyes
25) Summer in Mount Hope by Rosalie Ham
26) The Miniaturist by Jesse Burton


Books read in 2015
1) The Margarets by Sherri S Tepper
2) The Coronation by Boris Akunin
3) The Adult by Joe Stretch
4) Only Enchanting by Mary Balogh
5) A Slip of the Keyboard by Terry Pratchett
6) PopCo by Scarlett Thomas
7) The Testament of Mary by Colm Toibin
8) How to Build a Girl by Caitlin Moran
9) The Prisoner of Heaven by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
10)Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett
11)Expo 58 by Jonathan Coe
12)The Hidden Cottage by Erica James
13)Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey NIffenegger
14)The Importance of Being Kennedy by Laurie Graham
15)The Ladies of Missalonghi by Colleen McCullough
16) Th Death of Bunny Munro by Nick Cave
17) The Night Guest by Fiona McFarlane
18) The Black Moth by Georgette Heyer
19) Mrs Darcy's Daughters by Elizabeth Aston
20) Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor
21) The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender
22) The Life List by Lori Nelson Spielman
23) The Search by Nora Roberts
24) The Bees by Laline Paull
25) Only a Promise by Mary Balogh
26) Woman on the Edge of Time by Marge Piercy
27) Night After Night by Phil Rickman
28) The book of strange new things by Michel Faber
29)The Night Flower by Sarah Stovell
30) The Shepherd's Crown by Terry Pratchett
31) The Nonesuch by Georgette Heyer
32) The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
33) The House of Susan Lulham by Phil Rickman
34) The Pagan House by David Fludsteter
35) State of Innocence by Anne Patchett
36) The Song House by Trezza Azzopardi
37) Pulp by Charles Bukowski
38) The Journal of Dora Damage by Belinda Starling
39) A Man of Some Repute by Elizabeth Edmondson
40) Summer at the Lake by Erica James




Books read in 2014
1) The Chronicles of Narmo by Caitlin Moran
2) In Her Shadow by Louise Douglas
3) The Fahrenheit Twins by Michele Faber
4) Penmarric by Susan Howatch
5) Hands & Hipples by Grant Sharkey
6) Sussex Folk Tales by Michael O'Leary
7) The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion
8) Angels by Marian Keyes
9) Moranthology by Caitlin Moran
10) The Corinthian by Georgette Heyer
11) Future Homemakers of America by Laurie Graham
12) The 100yr old man who climbed ... By Jonas Jonasson
13) There But For The by Ali Smith
14) idioglossia by Eleanor Bailey
15) Me and You by Niccolo Ammaniti
16) Bath Tangle by Georgette Heyer
17) The Arrangement by Mary Balogh
18) A Place of Confinement by Anna Dean
19) Slapstick by Kurt Vonnegut
20) Autobiography by Morrissey
21) The Dragonfly Pool by Eva Ibbotson
22) Life by Keith Richards
23) Notwithstanding by Louis de Bernieres
24) The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
25) A Clockwork Apple by Belinda Webb
26) Cousin Kate by Georgette Heyer
27) Raising Steam by Terry Pratchett
28) How to be a Husband by Tim Dowling
29) Madness and Cures by Regina O'Melveny
30) The Giles Wareing Haters Club by Tim Dowling
31) The Sun is God by Adrian McKinty
32) The Escape by Mary Balogh
33) Gone With the Windsors by Laurier Graham
34) Black Sheep by Georgette Heyer
35) Game of Thrones by George RR Martin
36) Lost Lake by Sarah Addison Allen
37) Some Veil Did Fall by Kirsty Ferry
38) The Hundred and Ninety-nine Steps by Michel Faber
39) The River King by Alice Hoffman


Books read in 2013 (Target: 44)
1) Simply Unforgettable by Mary Balogh
2) Last chance Saloon by Marian Keyes
3) The Day of the Storm by Rosamund Pilcher
4) A Crowded Coffin by Nicola Slade
5) The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer
6) The Island House by Posie Graeme-Evans
7) The Last Days of Dogtown by Anita Diamant
8) The Villa in Italy by Elizabeth Edmondson
9) The Little Book by Selden Edward
10) The Twisted Heart by Rebecca Gowers
11) Turkish Gambit by Boris Akunin
12) The Art of Love by Elizabeth Edmondson
13) The Truth About Melody Browne by Lisa Jewell
14) the Mystery of mercy Close by Marian Keyes
15) Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
16) The Second Mrs Darcy by Elizabeth Aston
17)The Loveliest Chocolate Shop in Paris by Jenny Colgan
18)Venetia by Georgette Heyer
19) Faro's Daughter by Georgette Heyer
20) To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
21) The Frozen Lake by Elizabeth Edmondson
22) Frederica by Georgette Heyer
23) The Midnight Palace by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
24) Walking in Pimlico by Ann Featherstone
25) Friday's Child by Georgette Heyer
26) Mr Toppit by Charles Elton
27) Houses of Stone by Barbara Michaels
28) A Half Forgotten Song by Katherine Webb
29) The Apple by Michel Faber
30) The Real Katie Lavender by Erica James
31) The Diamond Chariot by Boris Akunin
32) The Ghost and Mrs Muir by RA Dick
33) Fate by LR Fredericks
34) Inside by Alix Ohlin
35) Simply Love by Mary Balogh
36) Farundell by LR Fredericks
37) Simply Perfect by Mary Balogh
38) Three cups of Deceit by John Krakauer
39) Murder on the Leviathan by Boris Akunin
40) Dodger by Terry Pratchett
41) The Devil in Amber by Mark Gatiss
42) Sylvester by Georgette Heyer
43) Half Magic by Edward Eager
44) Skullduggery Pleasant by Derek Landy



Books read in 2012:
1) Ruby's Spoon by Anna Lawrence Pietroni
2) The Grand Sophy by Georgette Heyer
3) Hetty Feather by Jacqueline Wilson
4) Sapphire Battersea by Jacqueline Wilson
5) Vanish by Tess Gerritsen
6) The Hotel on the Corner of Bitter & Sweet by Jamie Ford
7) A Civil Contract by Georgette Heyer
8) Thyme Out by Katie Fforde
9) The Monsters of Templeton by Lauren Groff ** Favourite book of the year**
10) Juliet, Naked by Nick Hornby
11) Life Skills by Katie Fforde
12) Cotillion by Georgette Heyer
13) These Old Shades by Georgette Heyer
14) Gangsta Granny by David Walliams
15) The Distant Hours by Kate Morton
16) Billionaire Boy by David Walliams
17) The Masqueraders by Georgette Heyer
18) Arcadia by Lauren Groff
19) Devil's Cub by Georgette Heyer
20) Death of Achilles by Boris Akunin
21) The State Counsellor by Boris Akunin
22) The Girl who Chased the Moon by Sarah Addison Allan
23) First Comes Marriage by Mary Balogh
24) Garden Spells by Sarah Addison Allen
25) One Night for Love by Mary Balogh
26) The Quiet Gentleman by Georgette Heyer
27) The Convenient Marriage by Georgette Heyer
28) The Secrets of Pain by Phil Rickman
29) The Murder Quadrille by Fidelis Morgan
30) Delicate Edible Birds by Lauren Groff
31) Then Comes Seduction by Mary Balogh
32) April Lady by Georgette Heyer
33) Sugar Queen by Sarah Addison Allen
34) A Secret Affair by Mary Balogh
35) The Peach Keeper by Sarah Addison Allen
36) Sprig Muslin by Georgette Heyer
37) At Last Comes Love by Mary Balogh
38) City of Shadows by Ariana Franklin
39) He Lover of Death by Boris Akunin


Books read in 2011
1) The Glass Books of The Dream Eaters by GW Dahlquist
2) Love Out of Season by Ray Connolly
3) Paradise House by Erica James
4) The Somnambulist by Essie Fox
5) How To Be a Woman by Caitlin Moran
8) Requiem for a Mezzo by Carola Dunn
7) An Offer You Can't Refuse by Jill Mansell
8) The Children's Book by AS Byatt
9) Kensuke's Kingdom by Michael Morpurgo
10) Snuff by Terry Pratchett
11) The Crimson Petal & The White by Michel Faber ***Best of the year***
12) Dandy in the Underworld by Sebastian Horsley
13) Thud by Terry Pratchett


Books read in 2010 (target=18 but it took me ages to give up on feckin Strange & Norrell!)
1) Death is the Cure by Nicola Slade
2) Silent on the Moor by Deanna Raybourn
3) Fortunate Wager by Jan Jones
4) The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson
5) The Angel's Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
6)The Other Side of the Story by Marian Keyes
7)Bel Canto by Anne Patchett
8)I Shall Wear Midnight by Terry Pratchett
9)The Nemesis List by RJ Frith
10)She Lover of Death by Boris Akunin
11)Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspeare
12)The Empty House by Rosamunde Pilcher

Books read in 2009:
1)To Dream of the Dead by Phil Rickman
2) Bad Vibes: Britpop and my part in its downfall by Luke Haines
3) Lake of Sorrow by Erin Hart
4) Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis De Bernieres **Favourite**
5) Wild Young Bohemians by Kate Saunders
6) The London Eye Mystery by Siobhan Dowd
7) Lady of Hay by Barbara Erskine
8) This Charming Man by Marian Keyes
9) The Forever King by Molly Cochran & Warren Murphy
10)A Dissembler by Fenella-Jane Miller
11)Naughty Neighbour by Janet Evanovitch
12)Unseen Academicals by Terry Pratchett
13)The Ballroom on Magnolia Street by Sharon Owens


Books read in 2008:
1)Oryx and Crake by Margaret Attwood
2)Slightly Wicked by Mary Balogh
3)Slightly Scandalous by Mary Balogh
4)Slightly Dangerous by Mary Balogh
5)Slightly Sinful by Mary Balogh
6)The Cold Calling by Will Kingdom
7)The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards
8)Murder Most Welcome by Nicola Slade
9)Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut
10)More then a Mistress by Mary Balogh
11)Fair Deception by Jan Jones
12)Lady of Lincoln by Anne Barker
13)The Fabric of Sin by Phil Rickman
14)St Lucy's School for Girls Raised by Wolves by Karen Russell

Books read in 2007:
1)Recipes for a Perfect Marriage by Kate Kerrigan
2)Tea House on Mulberry Street by Sharon Owens
3)A Proper Family Christmas by Jane Gordon Cumming
4)Middlesex by Geoffrey Evgenides
5)Smitten by Janet Evanovitch
6)Wintersmith by Terry Pratchett
7)Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
8)The Testament of Gideon Mack by James Robertson
9)Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen
10)Mean Spirit by Will Kingdom
11)The Island by Victoria Hislop
12)The Book of Dave by Will Self
13)Harry Potter & The Deathly Hallows by JK Rowling
14)Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Allbom
15)Labyrinth by Kate Mosse
16)Slippery When Wet by Martin Goodman
17)Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
18)The Smile of a Ghost by Phil Rickman
19)The 5 People you meet in Heaven by Mitch Allbom
20)Coram Boy by Jamila Gavin
21)Slightly Married by Mary Balogh
22)Motor Mouth by Janet Evanovitch
23)Thud by Terry Pratchett
24)A Summer to Remember by Mary Balogh
25)White Oleander by Janet Fitch
26)The Tavern on Maple Street by Sharon Owens
27)The Remains of an Altar by Phil Rickman
28)Dreamworld by Jane Goldman
29)The Forgotten Island by Sasha Troyan
30)Too Many Mothers by Roberta Taylor

Favourite books read in 2007:
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
Thud by Terry Pratchett

My favourite books read in 2006:
Time Traveller's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon