David Lodge and H G Wells biography
Kate Atkinson Started Early Took My Dog
Nicola Barker Burley Cross Postbox Theft
Jonathan Dee The Privileges
Miranda Seymour Chaplin’s Girl
Toby Wilkinson The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt
Daisy Hay Young Romantics:The Shelleys, Byron and other tangled lives
Books in brief -
Louis de Bernières Notwithstanding
Justin Cartwright Other People’s Money
Adam Gopnik Through the Children’s Gate: A Home in New York
Diaries of different kinds -
Chris Mullins, Virginia Woolf,Samuel
Pepys and Francis Kilvert
Favourites from the Bookshelf-
Catherine Bailey
Gillian Tindall
Robert Lacey
Robert B Parker ‘s Westerns
Some Seasonal Suggestions : Non-Fiction-
Michael Holroyd A Book of Secrets
Alexandra Harris Romantic Moderns
Helen Castor She-Wolves
Daniel Snowman The Gilded Stage
Jehanne Wake Sisters of Fortune
Their Finest Hour and a Half
Curtis Sittenfield American Wife
Summer reading -
Colm Tóibín – Brooklyn
A Memorable Read: -
Martin Booth
Recent Fiction Reviews - Stephenson, Bolaño, Thorpe, Simmons, Diaz, Golding
What We’d Like -
Glen David Gold Sunnyside
Biography-
Selina Hastings The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham
Excellent Non-Fiction -
Robb, Deakin, Nicholl, Lanchester, Fort, Wright, Pinker
The Best of Punch Cartoons
Recommended Books - Zafon: The Angel’s Game, Lawson: The Other Side of the Bridge, Watson: Miss Pettigrew Lives for Day
Booker Prize 2009 – Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
