Good Books

RECENTLY READ & LOVED

Mothering Sunday - Graham Swift

How Saints Die - Carmen Marcus

Things You Should Know - A M Homes

Bad Dreams & Other Stories - Tessa Hadley

A Natural - Ross Raisin

Lie with Me - Sabine Durrant

This Must be the Place - Maggie O'Farrell

Devotion - Patti Smith

Sweet Bean Paste - Durian Sukegawa

Birdcage Walk - Helen Dunmore

The Travelling Cat Chronicles - Hiro Arikawa

Exposure - Helen Dunmore

Transit - Rachel Cusk

Days Without End - Sebastian Barry

All We Shall Know - Donal Ryan

A Quiet Place - Seicho Matsumoto

The Year of the Runaways - Sunjeev Sahota

Aquarium - David Vann

Death and the Seaside - Alison Moore

Out Stealing Horses - Per Petterson

Born to Run - Bruce Springsteen

The Power of the Dog - Thomas Savage

M Train - Patti Smith

Fishnet - Kirstin Innes

The First Bad Man - Miranda July

A God in Ruins - Kate Atkinson

Women with Men - Richard Ford

The Good Son - Paul McVeigh

Blood Relatives - Stevan Alcock

The Paying Guests - Sarah Waters

Nora Webster - Colm Toibin

The Martian - Andy Weir

The Guest Cat - Takashi Hiraide

He Wants - Alison Moore

Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont - Elizabeth Taylor

The Notebook - Agota Kristof

Mrs Hemingway - Naomi Wood

The Lie - Helen Dunmore

Strange Weather in Tokyo - Hiromi Kawakami

The Sound of the Mountain - Yasunari Kawabata

20,000 Streets Under the Sky - Patrick Hamilton

The Housekeeper & the Professor - Yoko Ogawa

The Humans - Matt Haig

The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry - Rachel Joyce

Hotel Iris - Yoko Ogawa

Mariana - Monica Dickens

Stoner - John Williams

Snow Country - Yasunari Kawabata

Moon Tiger - Penelope Lively

The Lighthouse - Alison Moore

Snow - Orhan Pamuk

Burning Bright - Helen Dunmore

A Moveable Feast - Ernest Hemingway

White Palace - Glenn Savan

The German Boy - Patricia Wastvedt

Waterline - Ross Raisin

The Paris Wife - Paula McLain

Deadkidsongs - Toby Litt

The Blue Book - A L Kennedy

No Off Switch - Andy Kershaw

The Coward's Tale - Vanessa Gebbie

The Room of Lost Things - Stella Duffy

The Greatcoat - Helen Dunmore

Duende - Jason Webster

Brooklyn - Colm Toibin

Love & Summer - William Trevor

Into the Darkest Corner - Elizabeth Haynes

The Road - Cormac McCarthy


A FEW OF THE BOOKS I LOVE FOR ALL TIME

Everything by Kazuo Ishiguro - but Remains of the Day is my favourite

Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte

The Old Man & the Sea - Ernest Hemingway

Behind the Scenes at the Museum - Kate Atkinson

The Seige - Helen Dunmore

The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Orchard on Fire - Shena Mackay

Most things by Thomas Hardy

Tenant of Wildfell Hall - Anne Bronte