A selection of books I've read
2016
January
Michael Smith -The Debs of Bletchley Park nf
Alan Bennett - The Lady in the Van nf
Kate Atkinson - A God in Ruins
February
Lindsay Hawdon - Jakob's Colours
Marina Fiorato -The Venetian Contract
Vanessa Diffenbaugh -We Never Asked for Wings
Melissa Hawthorn - At Hawthorn Time
March
Mary Lawson - The Other Side of the Bridge
Mark Henshaw - The Snow Kimono
C.B. Johnson - Dancing with Mrs. Dalloway (essays) nf
Victoria Hislop - The Sunrise
Janice Y.K. Lee - The Piano Teacher
Sister Helen Julian CSF - The Road to Emmaus nf
James Rebanks - The Shepherd's Life: A Tale of the Lake District nf
April
Margaret Dickinson - The Buffer Girls
Kate Atkinson - Behind the Scenes At The Museum (re-read)
Laurie Lee - I Can't Stay Long (memoirs/essays) Part 3 Hills of Tuscany nf
Paul Theroux - The Pillars of Hercules (chapters on Italy) nf
May
Rob Talbot and Robin Whiteman - Cadfael Country: Shropshire & The Welsh Border nf
Sunjeev Sahota - The Year of the Runaways
Kinta Beevor - A Tuscan Childhood (memoirs) nf
Alexander McCall Smith - My Italian Bulldozer
June
Mary Beard - SPQR A History of Ancient Rome nf
Janice Y.K. Lee - The Expatriates (didn't finish)
Kate Furnivall - The Italian Wife
Bill Bryson - A Walk in the Woods nf
Roma Tearne - The Road to Urbino
July
Phillip Keller - The Shepherd Trilogy: Volume 1. A Shepherd Looks At The 23rd Psalm nf
Tracy Chevalier - At The Edge Of The Orchard
Laurie R. King - Dreaming Spies
Joanna Cannon - The Trouble With Goats And Sheep
August
Elly Griffiths - Smoke and Mirrors #2 The Stephens & Mephisto Series
Elizabeth Goudge - The Dean's Watch
Natasha Solomons - The Song Collector
Jessie Burton - The Muse
Virginia Baily - Early One Morning
Sue Gee - Trio
September
Alexander Mc Call Smith - La's Orchestra Saves the World
Jacqueline Yallop - Dreamstreets - A Journey through Britain's Village Utopias nf
Elizabeth Goudge - The Bird in the Tree
October
Arthur Conan Doyle - The Return of Sherlock Holmes (stories)
Jeremy Paxman - A Life in Questions (memoirs) nf
Liss Evans - Crooked Heart - (read for new book group)
Linda Green - While My Eyes Were Closed
November
Kate Morton - The Lake House
Ellis Peters - The Virgin in the Snow The Brother Cadfael Series # 6
Phillip Keller - The Shepherd Trilogy: Volume 2. A Shepherd Looks At The Good Shepherd - nf
Laurie Lee - I Can't Stay Long (memoirs/essays) - True Adventures of the Boy Reader, Eight Year Old World, Whitsuntide Treat, An Obstinate Exile nf
December
Cath Staincliffe - The Silence Between Breaths
Edith Pargeter - The Heaven Tree (part 1 of a trilogy) - Edith Pargeter
A.S. Byatt - Peacock & Vine: Fortuny & Morris in life and work nf
Celtic Christian Daily Readings from The Northumbria Community, Northumberland The Colman, Bishop of Lindisfarne Series December - words & pictures based on the Jesse tree
2017
January
Lucy M. Boston - The Children of Green Knowe
Tracy Chevalier - The Last Runaway (a re-read for a book group)
Elizabeth Strout - My Name is Lucy Barton
Linda Grant - Remind Me Who I Am Again nf
Miss Read - Winter in Thrush Green
Celtic Christian Daily Readings from The Northumbria Community,The Finan Series January - readings based on the hymn, 'Be Thou My Vision'
Michael Pye - The Edge Of The World: How The North Sea Made Us Who We Are nf
February
Celtic Christian Daily Readings from The Northumbria Community, The Finan Series February - 'Doorkeepers'
Stuart Hylton - Reading (Berkshire) Then and Now, (Britain In Old Photographs Series) with modern photography by Michael Hylton nf
Colin Dexter - Service Of All The Dead, The Inspector Morse Series #4
Colin Dexter - The Wench Is Dead, The Inspector Morse Series #8
March
Celtic Christian Daily Readings from the Northumbria Community. The Aidan Series March - 'Ask For The Old Paths'
Katherine Swift - The Morville Hours re-read nf
April
Celtic Christian Daily Readings from the Northumbria Community. The Aidan Series April 'The Inward Journey' nf
Sabahattin Ali - Madonna In A Fur Coat (for library bookgroup)
Philippa Gregory - Earthly Joys
May
Celtic Christian Daily Readings from the Northumbria Community.The Aidan Series May 'Crossroads' nf
Madeleine Thien - Do Not Say We Have Nothing
Philippa Gregory - Virgin Earth (sequel to Earthly Joys)
June
Giorgio Bassani - The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
Martin Gilbert - Letters To Auntie Fori nf
August
Celtic Christian Daily Readings from the Northumbria Community. The Aidan Readings for August 'Iona' nf
September
Ann Cleeves - Cold Earth (The Shetland Series #7)
Ann Cleeves - The Sleeping and the Dead (a stand-alone mystery)
Ann Cleeves - The Seagull (The Vera Stanhope Series #8)
October
Simon Thurley - Houses of Power - The Places That Shaped the Tudor World nf
Alison Weir - Six Tudor Queens Series #2 Ann Boleyn, A King's Obsession
Elly Griffiths - The Chalk Pit #9 Ruth Galloway Series
Elly Griffiths - The Woman in Blue #8 Ruth Galloway Series
Stephen May - Stronger Than Skin
November
Alison Weir - The Lost Tudor Princess, A Life of Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox nf
Lesley Downer - The Last Concubine #1 of quartet set in historical Japan
Rachel Hore - The Gathering Storm (a re-read for bookgroup)
Stephen Booth - Dead in the Dark #17 Cooper & Fry Series detective novels
December
Elly Griffiths - The Blood Card #3 Stephens & Mephisto Mysteries Series
Mary Paulson Ellis - The Other Mrs. Walker
Colm Toibin - Nora Webster (for book group)
2018
January
C. Mackitosh - I Let You Go (for library reading group)
Elly Griffiths - The Vanishing Box a Mephisto and Stephens mystery #4
Patience Gray - Honey From A Weed, Fasting and Feasting In Tuscany, Catalonia, The Cyclades And Apulia nf on-going reading
J.M. Richards - Long Live Great Bardfield the Autobiography of Tirzah Garwood (wife of Eric Ravilious) non fiction
J.M. Richards and E. Ravilious - The High Street - J.M. Richards and Eric Ravilious non fiction
February
Sarah Ward - A Patient Fury (a DC Childs crime/mystery book 3 set in the Derbyshire Peak District)
March/April
Elizabeth Buchan - The New Mrs Clifton
Simon Sebag Montefiore - The Romanovs nf
James Bowen - A Street Cat Named Bob nf
May
Salley Vickers - Miss Garnet's Angel - a re-read
Penelope Fitzgerald - The Bookshop
June
Guy Stagg - The Crossway nf
Elly Griffiths - The Dark Angel A Dr Ruth Galloway Mystery (set in the Liri Valley, Lazio, Italy)
July
Salley Vickers - The Librarian
John Foot - The Archipelego (Italy since 1945) nf
Joanna Cannon - Three Things about Elsie
Nina George - The Little Paris Bookshop (for book group)
Mike Taylor - The Sheffield & South Yorkshire Navigation (Images of England Series) nf
Donna Leon - The Temptation of Forgiveness # 27 crime series
August
Donna Leon - By It's Cover # 23 crime series
Patrick Leigh Fermor - A Time To Keep Silence nf
Donna Leon - The Waters of Eternal Youth # 25 crime series
September
P.D. James - An Unsuitable Job for a Woman (for book group)
Salley Vickers - The Other Side of You
October
Paula Hawkins - The Girl On The Train
November
Natasha Solomons - The House of Gold
Kate Atkinson - Transcription
Francis Spufford - Golden Hill (book group)
Anne Tyler - Clock Dance
December
Susan Hill - Jacob's Room is Full of Books nf
Ambrose Heath - The Country Life Cookery Book nf
Guinevere Glasfurd - The Words In My Hands - (book group)
Explore Daily Bible Reading Notes -The Good Book Company nf
2019
January
Maggie O'Farrell - I Am, I Am, I Am nf memoir
Liz Trenow - The Silk Weaver
Sophie Hannah - Closed Casket (book group)
Sarah Hartley - Mrs P's Journey:The Remarkable Story of the Woman who Created the A-Z Map nf
February
Ann Cleeves - Wild Fire crime Shetland Series #8
Susan Fletcher - The House of Glass
Diane Setterfield - Once Upon A River
Victoria Hislop - The Thread (a re-read for book group)
March
Elly Griffiths - The Stone Circle Ruth Galloway crime series # 11
Stephen Booth - Drop Down Dead - Stephen Booth Cooper and Fry crime series # 17
Melissa Harrison - All Among The Barley
Nancy Bilyeau - The Blue
April
Susan Hill - The Comforts of Home #9 Simon Serrailler crime series
Frances Body - A Snapshot of Murder #10 Kate Shackleton crime mystery series
May
Jacqueline Winspear - To Die But Once #12 a Maisie Dobbs novel
Celeste Nb - Little Fires Everywhere (book group)
June
Donna Leon - Acqua Alta # 5 Commissario Brunetti series
Donna Leon - Earthly Remains # 25 Commissario Brunetti crime series
Tracy Borman - Elizabeth's Rival, the Tumultuous Tale of Lettice Knollys, Countess of Leicester nf
July
Elizabeth Fremantle - Watch the Lady
Elizabeth Fremantle - The Girl in the Glass Tower
August
C.S. Sansom - Tombland # 6 Matthew Shardlake Tudor mystery series
September
Louise Penny - Still Life # 1 Chief Inspector Armand Gamache series
Louise Penny - The Kingdom of the Blind # 14 Ch. Insp. Gamache series
2016
January
Michael Smith -The Debs of Bletchley Park nf
Alan Bennett - The Lady in the Van nf
Kate Atkinson - A God in Ruins
February
Lindsay Hawdon - Jakob's Colours
Marina Fiorato -The Venetian Contract
Vanessa Diffenbaugh -We Never Asked for Wings
Melissa Hawthorn - At Hawthorn Time
March
Mary Lawson - The Other Side of the Bridge
Mark Henshaw - The Snow Kimono
C.B. Johnson - Dancing with Mrs. Dalloway (essays) nf
Victoria Hislop - The Sunrise
Janice Y.K. Lee - The Piano Teacher
Sister Helen Julian CSF - The Road to Emmaus nf
James Rebanks - The Shepherd's Life: A Tale of the Lake District nf
April
Margaret Dickinson - The Buffer Girls
Kate Atkinson - Behind the Scenes At The Museum (re-read)
Laurie Lee - I Can't Stay Long (memoirs/essays) Part 3 Hills of Tuscany nf
Paul Theroux - The Pillars of Hercules (chapters on Italy) nf
May
Rob Talbot and Robin Whiteman - Cadfael Country: Shropshire & The Welsh Border nf
Sunjeev Sahota - The Year of the Runaways
Kinta Beevor - A Tuscan Childhood (memoirs) nf
Alexander McCall Smith - My Italian Bulldozer
June
Mary Beard - SPQR A History of Ancient Rome nf
Janice Y.K. Lee - The Expatriates (didn't finish)
Kate Furnivall - The Italian Wife
Bill Bryson - A Walk in the Woods nf
Roma Tearne - The Road to Urbino
July
Phillip Keller - The Shepherd Trilogy: Volume 1. A Shepherd Looks At The 23rd Psalm nf
Tracy Chevalier - At The Edge Of The Orchard
Laurie R. King - Dreaming Spies
Joanna Cannon - The Trouble With Goats And Sheep
August
Elly Griffiths - Smoke and Mirrors #2 The Stephens & Mephisto Series
Elizabeth Goudge - The Dean's Watch
Natasha Solomons - The Song Collector
Jessie Burton - The Muse
Virginia Baily - Early One Morning
Sue Gee - Trio
September
Alexander Mc Call Smith - La's Orchestra Saves the World
Jacqueline Yallop - Dreamstreets - A Journey through Britain's Village Utopias nf
Elizabeth Goudge - The Bird in the Tree
October
Arthur Conan Doyle - The Return of Sherlock Holmes (stories)
Jeremy Paxman - A Life in Questions (memoirs) nf
Liss Evans - Crooked Heart - (read for new book group)
Linda Green - While My Eyes Were Closed
November
Kate Morton - The Lake House
Ellis Peters - The Virgin in the Snow The Brother Cadfael Series # 6
Phillip Keller - The Shepherd Trilogy: Volume 2. A Shepherd Looks At The Good Shepherd - nf
Laurie Lee - I Can't Stay Long (memoirs/essays) - True Adventures of the Boy Reader, Eight Year Old World, Whitsuntide Treat, An Obstinate Exile nf
December
Cath Staincliffe - The Silence Between Breaths
Edith Pargeter - The Heaven Tree (part 1 of a trilogy) - Edith Pargeter
A.S. Byatt - Peacock & Vine: Fortuny & Morris in life and work nf
Celtic Christian Daily Readings from The Northumbria Community, Northumberland The Colman, Bishop of Lindisfarne Series December - words & pictures based on the Jesse tree
2017
January
Lucy M. Boston - The Children of Green Knowe
Tracy Chevalier - The Last Runaway (a re-read for a book group)
Elizabeth Strout - My Name is Lucy Barton
Linda Grant - Remind Me Who I Am Again nf
Miss Read - Winter in Thrush Green
Celtic Christian Daily Readings from The Northumbria Community,The Finan Series January - readings based on the hymn, 'Be Thou My Vision'
Michael Pye - The Edge Of The World: How The North Sea Made Us Who We Are nf
February
Celtic Christian Daily Readings from The Northumbria Community, The Finan Series February - 'Doorkeepers'
Stuart Hylton - Reading (Berkshire) Then and Now, (Britain In Old Photographs Series) with modern photography by Michael Hylton nf
Colin Dexter - Service Of All The Dead, The Inspector Morse Series #4
Colin Dexter - The Wench Is Dead, The Inspector Morse Series #8
March
Celtic Christian Daily Readings from the Northumbria Community. The Aidan Series March - 'Ask For The Old Paths'
Katherine Swift - The Morville Hours re-read nf
April
Celtic Christian Daily Readings from the Northumbria Community. The Aidan Series April 'The Inward Journey' nf
Sabahattin Ali - Madonna In A Fur Coat (for library bookgroup)
Philippa Gregory - Earthly Joys
May
Celtic Christian Daily Readings from the Northumbria Community.The Aidan Series May 'Crossroads' nf
Madeleine Thien - Do Not Say We Have Nothing
Philippa Gregory - Virgin Earth (sequel to Earthly Joys)
June
Giorgio Bassani - The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
Martin Gilbert - Letters To Auntie Fori nf
August
Celtic Christian Daily Readings from the Northumbria Community. The Aidan Readings for August 'Iona' nf
September
Ann Cleeves - Cold Earth (The Shetland Series #7)
Ann Cleeves - The Sleeping and the Dead (a stand-alone mystery)
Ann Cleeves - The Seagull (The Vera Stanhope Series #8)
October
Simon Thurley - Houses of Power - The Places That Shaped the Tudor World nf
Alison Weir - Six Tudor Queens Series #2 Ann Boleyn, A King's Obsession
Elly Griffiths - The Chalk Pit #9 Ruth Galloway Series
Elly Griffiths - The Woman in Blue #8 Ruth Galloway Series
Stephen May - Stronger Than Skin
November
Alison Weir - The Lost Tudor Princess, A Life of Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox nf
Lesley Downer - The Last Concubine #1 of quartet set in historical Japan
Rachel Hore - The Gathering Storm (a re-read for bookgroup)
Stephen Booth - Dead in the Dark #17 Cooper & Fry Series detective novels
December
Elly Griffiths - The Blood Card #3 Stephens & Mephisto Mysteries Series
Mary Paulson Ellis - The Other Mrs. Walker
Colm Toibin - Nora Webster (for book group)
2018
January
C. Mackitosh - I Let You Go (for library reading group)
Elly Griffiths - The Vanishing Box a Mephisto and Stephens mystery #4
Patience Gray - Honey From A Weed, Fasting and Feasting In Tuscany, Catalonia, The Cyclades And Apulia nf on-going reading
J.M. Richards - Long Live Great Bardfield the Autobiography of Tirzah Garwood (wife of Eric Ravilious) non fiction
J.M. Richards and E. Ravilious - The High Street - J.M. Richards and Eric Ravilious non fiction
February
Sarah Ward - A Patient Fury (a DC Childs crime/mystery book 3 set in the Derbyshire Peak District)
March/April
Elizabeth Buchan - The New Mrs Clifton
Simon Sebag Montefiore - The Romanovs nf
James Bowen - A Street Cat Named Bob nf
May
Salley Vickers - Miss Garnet's Angel - a re-read
Penelope Fitzgerald - The Bookshop
June
Guy Stagg - The Crossway nf
Elly Griffiths - The Dark Angel A Dr Ruth Galloway Mystery (set in the Liri Valley, Lazio, Italy)
July
Salley Vickers - The Librarian
John Foot - The Archipelego (Italy since 1945) nf
Joanna Cannon - Three Things about Elsie
Nina George - The Little Paris Bookshop (for book group)
Mike Taylor - The Sheffield & South Yorkshire Navigation (Images of England Series) nf
Donna Leon - The Temptation of Forgiveness # 27 crime series
August
Donna Leon - By It's Cover # 23 crime series
Patrick Leigh Fermor - A Time To Keep Silence nf
Donna Leon - The Waters of Eternal Youth # 25 crime series
September
P.D. James - An Unsuitable Job for a Woman (for book group)
Salley Vickers - The Other Side of You
October
Paula Hawkins - The Girl On The Train
November
Natasha Solomons - The House of Gold
Kate Atkinson - Transcription
Francis Spufford - Golden Hill (book group)
Anne Tyler - Clock Dance
December
Susan Hill - Jacob's Room is Full of Books nf
Ambrose Heath - The Country Life Cookery Book nf
Guinevere Glasfurd - The Words In My Hands - (book group)
Explore Daily Bible Reading Notes -The Good Book Company nf
2019
January
Maggie O'Farrell - I Am, I Am, I Am nf memoir
Liz Trenow - The Silk Weaver
Sophie Hannah - Closed Casket (book group)
Sarah Hartley - Mrs P's Journey:The Remarkable Story of the Woman who Created the A-Z Map nf
February
Ann Cleeves - Wild Fire crime Shetland Series #8
Susan Fletcher - The House of Glass
Diane Setterfield - Once Upon A River
Victoria Hislop - The Thread (a re-read for book group)
March
Elly Griffiths - The Stone Circle Ruth Galloway crime series # 11
Stephen Booth - Drop Down Dead - Stephen Booth Cooper and Fry crime series # 17
Melissa Harrison - All Among The Barley
Nancy Bilyeau - The Blue
April
Susan Hill - The Comforts of Home #9 Simon Serrailler crime series
Frances Body - A Snapshot of Murder #10 Kate Shackleton crime mystery series
May
Jacqueline Winspear - To Die But Once #12 a Maisie Dobbs novel
Celeste Nb - Little Fires Everywhere (book group)
June
Donna Leon - Acqua Alta # 5 Commissario Brunetti series
Donna Leon - Earthly Remains # 25 Commissario Brunetti crime series
Tracy Borman - Elizabeth's Rival, the Tumultuous Tale of Lettice Knollys, Countess of Leicester nf
July
Elizabeth Fremantle - Watch the Lady
Elizabeth Fremantle - The Girl in the Glass Tower
August
C.S. Sansom - Tombland # 6 Matthew Shardlake Tudor mystery series
September
Louise Penny - Still Life # 1 Chief Inspector Armand Gamache series
Louise Penny - The Kingdom of the Blind # 14 Ch. Insp. Gamache series
October
Joanna Harris - The Strawberry Thief
Raynor Winn - The Salt Path (book group) nf
Louise Penny - A Better Man # 15 C. I. Gamache series
November
Tracy Chevalier - A Single Thread
Susan Hill - The Benefit of Hindsight
Mary S. Lovell - The Mitford Girls: The Biography of an Extraordinary Family nf
Salley Vickers - Grandmothers
December
Anne de Courcy -The Viceroy's Daughters: The Lives of the Curzon Sisters nf
Pillippa Gregory - Tidelands
2020
January
Celtic Daily Prayer: inspirational prayers and readings compiled by
Joanna Harris - The Strawberry Thief
Raynor Winn - The Salt Path (book group) nf
Louise Penny - A Better Man # 15 C. I. Gamache series
November
Tracy Chevalier - A Single Thread
Susan Hill - The Benefit of Hindsight
Mary S. Lovell - The Mitford Girls: The Biography of an Extraordinary Family nf
Salley Vickers - Grandmothers
December
Anne de Courcy -The Viceroy's Daughters: The Lives of the Curzon Sisters nf
Pillippa Gregory - Tidelands
2020
January
Celtic Daily Prayer: inspirational prayers and readings compiled by
The Northumbria Community, January - Aidan Readings: Consider My Meditation nf
Jojo Moyes - The Giver of Stars
February
Celtic Daily Prayer: Aidan Readings, Theme: Devoted To Him nf
John Mole - It's All Greek To Me! nf (ongoing)
March
Elly Griffiths - The Lantern Men (a Ruth Galloway Mystery)
Spiritual Rhythm: Being With Jesus Every Season of Your Soul nf
April
May
June
Edward Hollis - The Secret Life of Buildings (ongoing) nf
Daphne du Maurier - Rebecca Notes nf
July
August
September
Elly Griffiths - The Stranger Diaries a stand alone crime novel
February
Celtic Daily Prayer: Aidan Readings, Theme: Devoted To Him nf
John Mole - It's All Greek To Me! nf (ongoing)
March
Elly Griffiths - The Lantern Men (a Ruth Galloway Mystery)
Spiritual Rhythm: Being With Jesus Every Season of Your Soul nf
April
May
June
Edward Hollis - The Secret Life of Buildings (ongoing) nf
Daphne du Maurier - Rebecca Notes nf
July
August
September
Elly Griffiths - The Stranger Diaries a stand alone crime novel
October
Donna Leon - Death in a Strange Country
Kate Morton - The Forgotten Garden
Bill Bryson - Mother Tongue nf
November
Philip Gwynne Jones - The Venetian Game
Richard Osman - The Thursday Murder Club
December
Donna Leon - Trace Elements
Peter May - A Silent Death
January 2021
Hilary Mantel - The Mirror and the Light (trilogy)
Iain Pears - Giotto's Hand (a Jonathan Argyle Art Crime Mystery # 5)
The Book of Sheffield: A City of Short Stories - edited by Catherine Taylor
The Book of Sheffield: A City of Short Stories - edited by Catherine Taylor
February
Celtic Daily Readings from the Northumbria Community, Finan Readings, Theme: Doorkeepers nf
Katherine Swift - The Morville Hours (reread ongoing) nf
March
Celtic Daily Readings from the Northumbria Community, Finan Readings: Theme: Small Beginnings nf
Rosanne Hodin - Growing Goats and Girls nf
Ann Cleeves - Silent Voices Vera Stanhope mystery series # 4
April
Stephen Booth - Drowned Lives (new mystery series set in Staffordshire, includes history and present day restoration of a local canal)
Kate Ellis - The Burial Circle (mystery/history series DI Wes Paterson # 24)
Stephen Booth - The Devil's Edge # 11 mystery series (the setting is Calver, Froggatt and Grindleford, Derbyshire)
Sarah Ward - The Shrouded Path # 3 a DC Childs mystery set in Derbyshire
Ann Cleeves - Silent Voices Vera Stanhope mystery series # 4
April
Stephen Booth - Drowned Lives (new mystery series set in Staffordshire, includes history and present day restoration of a local canal)
Kate Ellis - The Burial Circle (mystery/history series DI Wes Paterson # 24)
Stephen Booth - The Devil's Edge # 11 mystery series (the setting is Calver, Froggatt and Grindleford, Derbyshire)
Sarah Ward - The Shrouded Path # 3 a DC Childs mystery set in Derbyshire
Frances Brody - Death and the Brewery Queen (a Kate Shackleton mystery # 12 set in the North Riding of Yorkshire in 1930)
May
Agatha Christie - The Mysterious Mr. Quin (a set of stories about the character, Mr. Quin)
David Hewson - The Garden of Angels - setting : Nazi occupied WWII Venice
June
Mary Stewart - Thunder on the Right
Ann Cleeves - The Darkest Evening # 9 Vera Stanhope series
Peter Robinson - Not Dark Yet #27 DCI Banks series
July
Philippa Gregory - Dark Tides (sequel to Tidelands)
Salley Vickers - Miss Garnet's Angel
Clair Fuller - Unsettled Ground
Donna Leon - Transient Desires # 31 Commissario Brunetti (setting Venezia)
August
James Runcie - Sidney Chambers and the Shadow of Death (The Grantchester Mysteries Series) stories
James Runcie - Sidney Chambers and the Shadow of Death (The Grantchester Mysteries Series) stories
later made into a television series
Elly Griffiths- The Night Hawks # 13 Dr Ruth Galloway Mystery Series
Elly Griffiths- The Night Hawks # 13 Dr Ruth Galloway Mystery Series
James Runcie - The Road to Grantchester (The Grantchester Mysteries - starts in 1938 and then continues seven years later)
James Runcie - Sidney Chambers and the Perils of the Night (The Grantchester Mysteries set in 1955)
James Runcie - Sidney Chambers and the Problem of Evil (Grantchester Mysteries set in 1960s)
James Runcie - Sidney Chambers and the Persistence of Love published 2017
James Runcie - Sidney Chambers and the Forgiveness of Sins (published 2015)
September
Amanda Craig - The Golden Rule
Linda Grant - The Silent City
October
Jo Bloom - Ridley Road
Stephen Cottrell - (former Anglican Bishop of Reading, Berks, present Anglican Archbishop of York) - Dear England: Finding Hope, Taking Heart and Changing the World nf
David Wilbourne - Shepherd of Another Flock: the Charming Tale of a New Vicar in a Country Town nf
November
Edmund de Waal - Letters to Comondo nf
Jacqueline Winspear- Birds of a Feather#14 Maisie Dobbs series
December
Hilary Mantel - Giving Up The Ghost
Edmund de Waal - The Hare With Amber Eyes nf
December
Hilary Mantel - Giving Up The Ghost
Edmund de Waal - The Hare With Amber Eyes nf
January 2022
Susan Hill - A Change of Circumstance #11 DCS Simon Serrailler
Eileen Atkins - Will She Do? (Act One of a Life on Stage) nf
Elizabeth Buchan - the Museum of Broken Promises (for reconvened reading group)
Elly Griffiths - The Midnight Hour (a detective novel set in the mid 1960s with a connection to the music hall world of Max Mephisto of the Mephisto and Stephens series by the same author)
Freya Sampson - The Last Library
February
Jacqueline Winspear - Pardonable Lies #3 Maisie Dodds Mystery
Caroline Slocock - People Like Us nf (memoir of first woman civil servant)
Monty Don - My Garden World nf (on going)
March
Liz Fenwick - The River Between Us
May
J. Blades - Making It nf memoir
Elizabeth Strout - Oh William!
Elizabeth Strout - My Name is Lucy Barton
June
Sheila Hancock - Old Rage nf memoir
Alison Weir - The Marriage Game (Elizabeth I novel)
Sarah-Beth Watkins- The Tudor Brandons: Mary and Charles, HenryVIII's Nearest and Dearest nf
July
Donna Leon - Give Unto Others # 32 crime series set in Venice, Italy
Steven Gunn- Charles Brandon, Henry VIII's Closest Friend nf
David Baldwin - Henry VIII's Last Love (The Extraodinary Life of Katherine Willoughby, Lady-in-Waiting to the Tudors, married to Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk) nf
Elly Griffiths - The Midnight Hour # 6 Detectives Holmes and Collins series
September
Elly Griffiths - The Locked Room # 14 Dr. Ruth Galloway, forensic archaeologist, mystery series
Stephen Booth - Drowned Lives (a contemporary historical mystery set in Staffordshire) a second reading
Louise Penny - All The Devils Are Here - Chief Inspector Gamache series #16 (set in Paris)
Louise Penny - The Madness of Crowds Chief Insp Gamache series # 17
October
Ann Cleeves - The Rising Tide Vera Stanhope Mystery Series set on Lindisfarne, Northumberland)
Sally Vickers - The Gardener
Richard Osman - The Man Who Died Twice
Richard Osman - The Man Who Died Twice
November
Elly Griffiths - Bleeding Heart Yard ) unread
Jessie Burton - The House of Fortune )returned
January 2023
Louise Penny - A World of Curiosities Chief Insp Gamache series # 18
March
Natalie Jenner - Bloomsbury Girls
Raynor Winn - Wild Silence nf
April
Elly Griffiths - The Last Remains # 15 Ruth Galloway Mystery.
Louise Penny - A World of Curiosities Chief Insp Gamache series # 18
March
Natalie Jenner - Bloomsbury Girls
Raynor Winn - Wild Silence nf
April
Elly Griffiths - The Last Remains # 15 Ruth Galloway Mystery.
May
Prince Harry Wales - Spare, an autobiography. nf StanleyTucci - Taste: My Life Through Food, autobiography nf June
Donna Leon - So Shall You Reap # 41 Commissario Brunetti Series
Maggie O'Farrell - The Marriage Portrait
David Baldwin - Henry VIII's Last Love The Life of Katherine Willoughby, Lady-in-Waiting to the Tudors re-read nf
Jon Snow - The State of Us nf autobiography. Tessa Dunlop - Elizabeth and Philip: The Story of Young Love, Marriage and Monarchy biography nf. July
Clive Irving - The Last Queen nf biography
Michael Rosen - Getting Better nf memoir, self-help
Violet Bonham Carter - Winston Churchill As I Knew Him nf memoir
Tina Brown - The Palace Papers nf biography
August Kate Atkinson - Shrines of Gaiety September
Laurie Lee - I Can't Stay Long (a collection of author's travel writing) nf
October
Dr Amir Khan - The Doctor Will See You Now: The Highs and Lows of Life as a NHS GP nf (Amir Khan is a tv doctor) nf
Helen Cox - A Body in the Borderlands
Roy Hattersley - A Yorkshire Boyhood nf
November
Iain Pears - The Raphael Affair
Peter Robinson - Standing in the Shadows
Michael Rosen - Getting Better nf memoir, self-help
Violet Bonham Carter - Winston Churchill As I Knew Him nf memoir
Tina Brown - The Palace Papers nf biography
August Kate Atkinson - Shrines of Gaiety September
Laurie Lee - I Can't Stay Long (a collection of author's travel writing) nf
October
Dr Amir Khan - The Doctor Will See You Now: The Highs and Lows of Life as a NHS GP nf (Amir Khan is a tv doctor) nf
Helen Cox - A Body in the Borderlands
Roy Hattersley - A Yorkshire Boyhood nf
November
Iain Pears - The Raphael Affair
Peter Robinson - Standing in the Shadows
January 2024
J.D. Kirk - One For The Ages (DCI Jack Logan Mystery) returned unread
Elly Griffiths - The Great Deceiver Max Mephisto Mystery (set in 1960s Brighton, England) returned half read
Ann Cleeves - The Glass Room #5 Vera Stanhope Mystery returned unread
Agatha Christie - Death on the Nile #19
February 2024
Lucy Worsley - Biography about Agatha Christie (connected to a television series in 2023). nf Agatha Christie - Poirot's Last Case
Agatha Christie - The Mysterious Case at Styles Agatha Christie - Murder on the Links April 2024
Val McDermid - Past Lying, crime Karen Pirie series set in Edinburgh at time of pandemic
Richard Osman - The Man Who Died Twice - a Thursday Murder Club crime mystery # 2 May 2024
Peter May - The Black House (Lewis trilogy) # 1
Peter May - The Lewis House #2 (Lewis trilogy)
Peter May - The Chess Men # 3 (Lewis trilogy) June 2024
Richard Osman - The Man Who Died Twice - a Thursday Murder Club crime mystery # 2 May 2024
Peter May - The Black House (Lewis trilogy) # 1
Peter May - The Lewis House #2 (Lewis trilogy)
Peter May - The Chess Men # 3 (Lewis trilogy) June 2024
Anthony Horowitz - Close To Death Inspector Hawthorne mystery # 5 (setting Richmond-on-Thames)
Ann Cleeves - Raven Black # 1 (Shetland Mystery Crime Series)
Peter May - Lewis Man (trilogy set in Lewis, Harris and Uist, Scotland)
consisting of 3 novels, The Lewis Man, The Black house, The Chess Men July - no reading
Ann Cleeves - Raven Black # 1 (Shetland Mystery Crime Series)
Peter May - Lewis Man (trilogy set in Lewis, Harris and Uist, Scotland)
consisting of 3 novels, The Lewis Man, The Black house, The Chess Men July - no reading
August - no reading September 2024 Rory Cellan-Jones - Ruskin Park (autobiography) nf E.Nesbit - Five Children and It (a children's novel) Iain Pears - The Raphael Affair (mystery novel set in Rome, Italy) David Olalungo - Black and British (history) nf October 2024
Ellis Peters - A Morbid Taste for Bones (Brother Cadfael Mystery novel)
November 2024
Ellis Peters - A Morbid Taste for Bones (Brother Cadfael Mystery novel)
November 2024
(Commissario Guido Brunetti)
Hilary Mantel - Giving Up the Ghost nf (memoir). Louise Penny - The Grey Wolf # 18 P.D.James - Devices and Desires (In Anthony Horovitz - Moonflower Murders # 8.
Hilary Mantel - The Mirror and the Light
A Man Lay Dead Kate Atkinson - Death at the Sign of the Rook
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