Books read in 2008

Sisters by a River by Barbara Comyns
Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
The Road Home by Rose Tremain
Playing With The Grownups by Sophie Dahl
The House at Riverton by Kate Morton
The Cryptographer by Tobias Hill
Agatha Raisin and the Day the Floods Came by M C Beaton
The Rising Tide by Molly Keane
Sovereign Ladies by Maureen Waller
The Inconstant Husband by Susan Barrett
Lesley Castle by Jane Austen
Notes from an Exhibition by Patrick Gale
Girl Meets Boy: The Myth of Iphis by Ali Smith
Second Chance by Jane Green
Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones
Love Falls by Esther Freud
What Was Lost by Catherine O’Flynn
The Robber Bridegroom by Eudora Welty
The Point of Rescue by Sophie Hannah
Dead Cold by Louise Penny
People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
Full House by Molly Keane
Millenium Hall by Sarah Scott
The Crowded Street by Winifred Holtby
The Sweet Dove Died by Barbara Pym
Julianna Kiss by Hannah MacDonald
Jane and Prudence by Barbara Pym
Daphne du Maurier : a daughter’s memoir by Flavia Leng
Digging To America by Anne Tyler
The Eye of Love by Margery Sharp
The Driver’s Seat by Muriel Spark
The Touchstone by Edith Wharton
The Making of a Marchioness by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Counting The Stars by Helen Dunmore
An Expert In Murder by Nicola Upson
The Monsters of Templeton by Lauren Groff
Agatha Raisin and the Curious Curate by M C Beaton
Elizabeth: The Scandalous Life of the Duchess of Kingston by Claire Gervat
Die With Me by Elena Forbes
The Fantastic Book of Everybody’s Secrets by Sophie Hannah
Queen Lucia by E. F. Benson
Ten Tales Tall & True by Alasdair Gray
The Book of Air and Shadows by Michael Gruber
Poe: A Life Cut Short by Peter Ackroyd
Paper Houses by Michele Roberts
Hunting and Gathering by Anna Gavalda
The Nutmeg Tree by Margery Sharp
The End of Mr Y by Scarlett Thomas
Aiding and Abetting by Muriel Spark
The Vows of Silence by Susan Hill
A Wreath of Roses by Elizabeth Taylor
The Private Lives of Pippa Lee by Rebecca Miller
The Third Angel by Alice Hoffman
The Lives of Elsa Triolet by Lachlan MacKinnon
Bleeding Heart Square by Andrew Taylor
Novel About My Wife by Emily Perkins
Agatha Christie: An English Mystery by Laura Thompson
The Beach House by Jane Green
The Last Princess by Matthew Dennison
Gold by Dan Rhodes,
The Lady Penelope: The Lost Tale of Love and Politics in the Court of Elizabeth I by Sally Varlow
The Outcast by Sadie Jones
The Carlyles at Home by Thea Holme
Agatha Raisin and the Haunted House by M C Beaton
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a day by Winifred Watson
Katherine Swynford by Alison Weir
Queen Emma and the Vikings by Harriet O’Brien
The Faithful Servants by Margery Sharp
Daphne by Justine Picardie
Company of Liars by Karen Maitland
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
The Love-Child by Edith Olivier
Transgressions by Sarah Dunant
The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett
The Suspicions of Mr Whicher by Kate Summerscale
The Good Thief by Hannah Tinti
The Private Patient by P. D. James
Tamburlaine Must Die by Louise Welsh
Life and Death of Harriett Frean by May Sinclair
The Crimes of Charlotte Bronte by James Tully
Sprig Muslin by Georgette Heyer
The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson
Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn
Embers by Sandor Marai
The Behaviour of Moths by Poppy Adams
The Bolter by Frances Osborne
When Will There be Good News? by Kate Atkinson
The Runaway by Elizabeth Anna Hart
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer
The Glass of Time by Michael Cox
Blood Ties by Sam Hayes
Our Lady of Pain by Elena Forbes
The Bookshop at 10 Curzon Street: Letters Between Nancy Mitford and Heywood Hill 1952-1973
Disquiet by Julia Leigh
The Murder Stone by Louise Penny
The Last Queen by C W Gortner
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
The Castle of Wolfenbach by Eliza Parsons
The Likeness by Tana French