Hmph... you're too kind, I do all the work and she gets all the credit.
Builders in widening doorways so her head can get through, had me peeling grapes for her all afternoon.
Ha ha, I'll have her sorted by tomorrow, only takes one live mouse released in the kitchen and I'm in charge again.
But we love you all each and every one.
Rocky x
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2009
- Lily Tobias: Eunice Fleet
Mollie Panter-Downes: Good Evening, Mrs Craven: The Wartime Stories of Mollie Panter-Downes
Susan Hill: Howards End is on the Landing: A year of reading from home
Justine Picardie: If the Spirit Moves You: Love and Life After Death
Mollie Panter-Downes: Minnie's Room: The Peacetime Stories of Mollie Panter-Downes
Kate Summerscale: The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: or the Murder at Road Hill House
Kazuo Ishiguro: Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall
- Jude Morgan: The Taste of Sorrow
- Joseph Boyden: From Mushkegowuk to New Orleans : A Mixed Blood Highway
Charlotte Perkins Gilman: The Yellow Wallpaper and Selected Writings
Remembrance Reading 2009
Julie Summers: Stranger in the House: Women's Stories of Men Returning from the Second World War
Terence Frisby: Kisses on a Postcard: A Tale of Wartime Childhood
Mathilde Wolff-Monckeberg: On the Other Side: Letters to My Children from Germany 1940 -46
Winfried Georg Sebald: On the Natural History of Destruction
Inner child 2009
Prizelist reading
The Roger Deakin Shelf
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The Tinker's Book
Len Chester: Bugle Boy
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Book thoughts 2009
- ADELAIDE Debra : The Household Guide to Dying (Orange L/L)
- AIKEN Joan : The Wolves of Willoughby Chase
- ALLPORT Alan : Demobbed
- ALVTEGEN Karin : Shadow
- ATWOOD Margaret : The Robber Bride
- ATWOOD Margaret : The Year of the Flood
- BADOE Yaba : True Murder a novel
- BAINES Elizabeth : Balancing on the Edge of the World (dgr asks...)
- BARBER Lynn : An Education
- BAUM Louis : I Want to See the Moon.
- BEAUMAN Nicola : The Other Elizabeth Taylor
- BENN Melissa : One of Us
- BERNSTEIN Hilda : The World That Was Ours
- BOLING Dave : Guernica
- BOLLMANN Stefan : Women Who Read Are Dangerous
- BOWLT John E. : Moscow and St. Petersburg in Russia's Silver Age
- BOYDEN Joseph : From Mushkegowuk to New Orleans - A Mixed Blood Highway
- BRADLEY Alan : The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
- BULGAKOV Mikhail : White Guard
- BYATT A.S. : The Children's Book (Booker S/L 09)
- CATHER Willa : My Mortal Enemy
- CATHER Willa : My Ántonia
- CATHER Willa : The Professor's House
- COETZEE J.M. : Summertime (Booker S/L 09)
- COLLINS Norman : London Belongs to Me
- COOPER Duff : Operation Heartbreak
- CRAIG Amanda : Hearts and Minds
- CRAIG Amanda : Hearts and Minds (dgr asks...)
- DAWSON Jill : The Great Lover
- DAY LEWIS C : The Otterbury Incident
- DUFFY Stella : State of Happiness
- DUFFY Stella : The Room of Lost Things
- DUFFY Stella : The Room of Lost Things (dgr asks...)
- EKMAN Kerstin : The Dog
- EVANS Lissa : Their Finest Hour and a Half (Orange L/L)
- FELDMAN Ellen : Scottsboro (Orange L/L - S/L)
- FIENNES William : The Music Room
- FIENNES William : The Snow Geese
- FIORATO Marina : The Glassblower of Murano
- FORMAN Gayle : If I Stay
- FOULDS Adam : The Quickening Maze (Booker S/L 09)
- GARDNER Sally : The Red Necklace
- GARNER Helen - The Spare Room (dgr asks...)
- GIBBONS Stella : Cold Comfort Farm
- GILBERT Paul : The Compassionate Mind
- GRENVILLE Kate : The Lieutenant
- HALL Sarah : How to Paint a Dead Man (Booker L/L 09)
- HARDING Georgina : The Spy Game
- HARNETT Cynthia : The Wool-Pack
- HEARNE & TRITES : A Narrative Compass - Stories That Guide Women's Lives
- HILL Susan : Howards End is on the Landing
- HODGSON BURNETT Frances : The Secret Garden
- HOGAN Edward : Blackmoor
- HUGHES Ted
- HUMBERT Agnes : Resistance
- HUNT Samantha : The Invention of Everything Else (Orange shortlist 2009)
- JENKINS Elizabeth : The Tortoise and the Hare
- JONES Sadie : The Outcast (audio)
- KASTNER Erich : Emil and the Detectives
- KEUN Irmgard : Child of All Nations
- KEY Sarah : The Backsufferer's Bible
- KIBERD Declan : Ulysses and Us, The Art of Everyday Living
- LAMBERT Charles - The Scent of Cinnamon
- LAMBERT Charles - The Scent of Cinnamon (dgr asks...)
- LANE Patrick : Red Dog, Red Dog
- LE CARRE John : A Murder of Quality
- LE CARRE John : Call for the Dead
- LEWIS Eiluned : Dew on the Grass
- LLOYD Marjorie : Fell Farm Holiday
- MADDEN Deirdre : Molly Fox's Birthday (Orange L/L - S/L)
- MANKOWITZ Wolf : A Kid for Two Farthings
- MANTEL Hilary : Wolf Hall (Booker S/L 09)
- MANTEL Hilary on Wolf Hall
- MARAI Sándor : Esther's Inheritance
- MARRYAT Florence : The Dead Man's Message
- MAWER Simon : The Glass Room (Booker S/L 09)
- MELVILLE Pauline : Eating Air
- MICHAELS Ann : Fugitive Pieces
- MORGAN Alistair : Sleeper's Wake
- MORGAN Jude : The Taste of Sorrow
- MULLIN Chris : A View From the Foothills
- MURPHY Peter : John the Revelator
- MYERSON Julie : The Lost Child
- NEMIROVSKY Irene : Le Bal
- NEMIROVSKY Irene : Snow in Autumn
- NEMIROVSKY Irene : Suite Francaise
- NEMIROVSKY Irene : The Courilof Affair
- NESBIT E. : Five Children and It
- O'LOUGHLIN Ed : Not Untrue and Not Unkind (Booker L/L 09)
- ORWELL George : Shooting an Elephant
- PAASILINNA Arto : The Year of the Hare
- PANTER-DOWNES Mollie : Good Evening, Mrs Craven: The Wartime Stories
- PANTER-DOWNES Mollie : Minnie's Room
- PERKINS GILMAN Charlotte : The Yellow Wallpaper
- PIZZICHINI Lilian : The Blue Hour: A Portrait of Jean Rhys
- POTTER John : Tenor, History of a Voice
- PYM Barbara : Excellent Women
- PYM Barbara : No Fond Return of Love
- REYNOLDS Tom : More Blood More Sweat and Another Cup of Tea
- RHYS Jean : After Leaving Mr Mackenzie
- RHYS Jean : Smile Please
- ROBINSON Marilynne : Gilead
- ROGERS Bill : The Cleansing
- RUNCIE James : East Fortune
- SEBALD W.G. : On the Natural History of Destruction
- SHAMSIE Kamila : Burnt Shadows (Orange L/L - S/L)
- SHOWALTER Elaine : A Jury of Her Peers
- SJON : The Blue Fox
- SMITH Emma : The Great Western Beach
- SMITH Lyn : Voices Against War
- SMITH Zadie : Changing my Mind - Occasional Essays
- SMYTH Amanda : Black Rock
- SPARROW Dr Michael : Country Doctor Tales of a Rural GP
- STRACHAN Mari : The Earth Hums in B Flat
- STUCLEY Elizabeth : Magnolia Buildings
- SUMMERSCALE Kate : The Suspicions of Mr Whicher
- TAYLOR Alan (ed) : The Country Diaries - A Year in the British Countryside
- TAYLOR Craig : One Million Tiny Plays About Britain
- TAYLOR Elizabeth : In a Summer Season
- THOM Eleanor : The Tin-Kin
- THOMSON Keith : The Young Charles Darwin
- TOBIAS Lily
- TOBIAS Lily : Eunice Fleet
- TOEWS Miriam : The Flying Troutmans (Orange L/L)
- TOIBIN Colm : Brooklyn (Booker L/L 09)
- TREVOR William : Love and Summer (Booker L/L 09)
- TYLER L.C.: A Very Persistent Illusion
- VANN David : Legend of a Suicide
- VERITY Jo : Sweets from Morocco
- WALLER David : The Magnificent Mrs Tennant
- WATERS Sarah : The Little Stranger (Booker S/L 09)
- WEISGARBER Ann : The Personal History of Rachel DuPree (Orange L/L)
- WHIPPLE Dorothy : High Wages
- WOOD James : How Fiction Works
- WORGUL Doug : Thin Blue Smoke
- ZWEIG Stefan : Burning Secret
- ZWEIG Stefan : The Post Office Girl
- ZWEIG Stefan : The World of Yesterday (Part One)
Bookerthon 2009
- BYATT A.S. : The Children's Book (S/L)
- COETZEE J.M. : Summertime (S/L)
- FOULDS Adam : The Quickening Maze (S/L)
- HALL Sarah : How to Paint a Dead Man
- MANTEL Hilary : Wolf Hall (S/L)
- MAWER Simon : The Glass Room (S/L)
- O'LOUGHLIN Ed : Not Untrue and Not Unkind
- TOIBIN Colm : Brooklyn
- TREVOR William : Love and Summer
- WATERS Sarah : The Little Stranger (S/L)
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Book Thoughts 2008
- ABRAMS Rebecca : Touching Distance
- ADAMS Poppy : The Behaviour of Moths
- ADAMSON Gil : The Outlander
- ADIGA Aravind : The White Tiger
- ANDERSON Sarah : Halfway to Venus
- BAGGINI Julian
- BAGNOLD Enid : The Squire
- BAINES Elizabeth : Balancing on the Edge of the World
- BALZAC Honore de : Eugenie Grandet
- BANKS Russell : The Reserve
- BARKER Nicola : Clear
- BARRETT Andrea : The Air We Breathe
- BARRY Sebastian : The Secret Scripture
- BATES H.E. : The Triple Echo
- BEARD Mary : Pompeii, The Life of a Roman Town
- BELBEN Rosalind : Our Horses in Egypt
- BENN Tony
- BERGER John : From A to X - A Story in Letters
- BIRCHALL Diana : Mrs Darcy's Dilemma
- BLACKBURN Julia : The Three of Us
- BLOCK Stefan Merrill : The Story of Forgetting
- BOLTON Janet - Textile Pictures
- BORDEN Mary : The Forbidden Zone: A Nurse's Impressions of the First World War
- BOYDEN Joseph : Through Black Spruce
- BRITTAIN Vera : Testament of Youth
- BRONTE Anne : The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
- BROOKS Geraldine : People of the Book
- BROWN Gordon : Courage
- BURNS Richard : A Dance for the Moon
- CALKIN JAMES Margaret
- CANFIELD FISHER Dorothy
- CANFIELD FISHER Dorothy : The Bedquilt & Other Stories
- CAREY John : What Good are the Arts?
- CAREY Peter : His Illegal Self
- CETIN Fethiye : My Grandmother
- CHESTER Len : Bugle Boy
- CLAYE Gina : Don't Let Them Tell You How To Grieve
- COCKAYNE Emily : Hubbub : Filth, Noise & Stench in England
- CONE Libby : War on the Margins
- CRAWFORD Dorothy : Deadly Companions - How Microbes Changed the World
- CRUMEY Andrew : Sputnik Caledonia
- CUSACK Dymphna : Jungfrau
- DE KRETSER Michelle : The Lost Dog (Orange L/L 09)
- DILLARD Annie
- DORWARD Peter : Nightingale
- DOWD Siobhan : Bog Child
- DU MAURIER Daphne : Letters from Menabilly : Portrait of a Friendship (Ed. Oriel Malet)
- DU MAURIER Daphne : Letters from Menabilly : Portrait of a Friendship (Post 1)
- DU MAURIER Daphne : My Cousin Rachel
- DU MAURIER Daphne : The Loving Spirit
- DU MAURIER Daphne : The Parasites
- DU MAURIER Daphne : The Scapegoat
- ELON Emuna : If You Awaken Love
- EPSTEIN Joseph : Fred Astaire
- FENOGLIO Beppe : A Private Affair
- FERGUSON Rachel : The Brontes Went to Woolworths
- FERRIER Carol (ed) : As Good as a Yarn With You :Selected Letters of Five Australian Women Writers.
- FRAME Janet : An Angel at my Table (film)
- FRAME Janet : Owls Do Cry
- FRAME Janet : The Lagoon
- FRAME Janet : Towards Another Summer
- GALGUT Damon : The Impostor
- GALLOWAY Steven : The Cellist of Sarajevo
- GANESHANANTHAN V.V. : Love Marriage (Orange L/L 09)
- GARNER Helen : The Spare Room
- GHOSH Amitav : Sea of Poppies
- GILBAR Steven (Ed) : Reading in Bed, Personal Essays on the Glories of Reading
- GISSING George : The Nether World
- GLASPELL Susan
- GREER Andrew Sean : The Story of a Marriage
- HAIEN Jeannette : The All Of It
- HALL Lee : The Pitmen Painters
- HARDY Thomas : Under the Greenwood Tree
- HELLER Zoe : The Believers
- HENSHER Philip : The Northern Clemency (1)
- HENSHER Philip : The Northern Clemency (2)
- HILL Rosemary : Stonehenge
- HILL Susan : The Battle for Gullywith
- HILL Susan : The Beacon
- HILL Susan : The Vows of Silence
- HUTH Angela (Ed) : Well-Remembered Friends, Eulogies on Celebrated Lives
- JENKINS Robin : The Changeling
- KELLY Richard T : Crusaders
- KELLY Richard T : Crusaders (half-way thoughts)
- KLEIN Yvonne (Ed) : Beyond the Home Front
- LAMBERT Charles : Little Monsters
- LANDSMAN Anne : The Rowing Lesson
- LE CARRE John : A Most Wanted Man
- LEIGH Julia : Disquiet
- LEYSHON Nell : Devotion
- LIGHT Alison : Forever England Femininity, Literature and Conservatism Between the Wars
- LISPECTOR Clarice : The Hour of the Star
- LIVELY Penelope : Oleander, Jacaranda: A Childhood Perceived
- LODGE David : Deaf Sentence
- LONG James : Ferney
- LUDWIG Sidura : Holding my Breath
- MAGUIRE Elizabeth : The Open Door
- MALONE Nancy : Walking a Literary Labyrinth
- MANKELL Henning : Faceless Killers
- MANSFIELD Katherine
- MAZETTI Katarina : Benny & Shrimp
- McGAHERN John : Amongst Women
- MCGRATH Patrick : Trauma
- MCMASTER Rhyll : Feather Man
- MEGGED Aharon : The Flying Camel and the Golden Hump
- NOTHOMB Amelie : Sulphuric Acid
- O'NEILL Joseph : Netherland
- ONDAATJE Michael : Anil's Ghost
- ONDAATJE Michael : Divisadero
- ONDAATJE Michael : In the Skin of a Lion
- OSBORNE Frances : The Bolter: Idina Sackville
- OXFORD WRITERS : The Sixpenny Debt & other Oxford stories
- PALEY Grace : Collected Stories
- PALMER Ben : Friday's Child
- PATCHETT Ann : Run
- PERKINS Emily : Novel About My Wife
- PICARDIE Justine : Daphne
- PICARDIE Justine : My Mother's Wedding Dress, The Life and Afterlife of Clothes
- POWELL Violet : The Life of a Provincial Lady
- PYM Barbara : Quartet in Autumn
- PYMER Louise : Emotional Thump
- RAISIN Ross : God's Own Country
- RAPPAPORT Helen : Ekaterinburg, The Last days of the Romanovs
- RAVEL Edeet : Ten Thousand Lovers
- REES Matt : The Bethlehem Murders
- ROBYN Fiona : Small Stones
- ROTH Joseph : Rebellion
- ROUD Steve : The English Year
- SEBALD W.G.
- SEBALD W.G. : Austerlitz
- SHAFFER Mary Ann : The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
- SHEERS Owen : Resistance
- SKOLKIN-SMITH Leora : Edges, O Israel O Palestine
- SMITH Tom Rob : Child 44
- SNOW Stephanie J : Blessed Days of Anaesthesia: How Anaesthetics Changed the World
- SOUCY Gaetan : Atonement
- STAMP Gavin : The Memorial to the Missing of the Somme
- STEIN Sarah Abrevaya : Plumes
- SURI Manil : The Age of Shiva
- SWIFT Katherine : The Morville Hours
- TOBIN Betsy : Ice Land
- TOMASI DI LAMPEDUSA Giuseppe : The Leopard
- TYRER Nicola : Sisters In Arms
- VASQUEZ Juan Gabriel : The Informers
- WHITEHORN Katharine : Selective Memory
- WILLIAMS Conrad : The Concert Pianist
- WOOLF Virginia : Death of the Moth
- WOOLF Virginia : The Mark on the Wall
- WOOLF Virginia : To the Lighthouse
Book Thoughts 2007
- ACOCELLA MARCHETTO Marisa : Cancer Vixen
- ADICHIE Chimamanda Ngozi : Half of a Yellow Sun
- AHMAD Imran : Unimagined
- ALMOND David : My Dad's a Birdman
- ALVTEGEN Karin : Shame
- ANAM Tahmima : A Golden Age
- ANTHONY Peter : A Town Called Immaculate
- APPELFELD Aharon : The Retreat
- ARDIZZONE Heidi : An Illuminated Life, Belle Da Costa Greene's Journey From Prejudice to Privilege
- ATWOOD Margaret : Moral Disorder
- BAIL Murray : Eucalyptus
- BAILEY Paul
- BAILEY Paul : At the Jerusalem
- BAILEY Paul : Old Soldiers
- BAILIN Miriam : The Sickroom in Victorian Fiction, the Art of Being Ill
- BAINBRIDGE Beryl : Master Georgie
- BARICCO Alessandro : An Iliad
- BARKER Nicola : Darkmans
- BARRETT Angela
- BENNETT Alan : The Uncommon Reader
- BOWER Sarah : The Needle in the Blood
- BOYD Pattie : Wonderful Today (audio)
- BOYD William : Restless
- BRYSON BILL : A Short History of Nearly Everything
- BULLER Frederick : The Domesday Book of Giant Salmon
- CALDWELL Janis McLarren : Literature and Medicine in Nineteenth-Century Britain from Mary Shelley to George Eliot
- CALKIN JAMES Margaret : At the Sign of the Rainbow
- CANDAPPA Rohan : Rules Britannia
- CAPLE John : Somerset
- CARTER Angela
- CASSIDY Sheila : Made For Laughter
- CAVANAGH Mary : The Crowded Bed
- CECIL David : The Fine Art of Reading
- CHABON Michael : The Final Solution
- CHARPAK Nathalie : Kangaroo Babies
- CLARKE Brian : On Fishing
- COE Jonathan : The Rain Before It Falls
- COLETTE : Claudine's House
- COLLINS Warwick : Gents
- COUPERUS Louis : Inevitable
- CROSSLEY-HOLLAND Kevin : The Seeing Stone
- DAHL Roald : Collected Stories
- DANIEL Mark : French Letters & the English Canon
- DE LA MARE Walter : Missing
- DEVER Caroline : Death & the Mother From Dickens to Freud
- DICAMILLO Kate & IBATOULLINE Bagram : Great Joy
- DICKSON WRIGHT Clarissa : Spilling the Beans (audio)
- DOCX Edward : Self Help
- DU MAURIER Daphne
- DUNNETT Dorothy
- DYLAN Bob : Chronicles Vol 1 (audio)
- EDWARDS Kim : The Memory Keeper's Daughter
- EL SAADAWI Nawal : Woman at Point Zero
- ELIOT George : Silas Marner
- ENG Tan Twan : The Gift Of Rain
- ENGEL Matthew : Extracts From The Red Notebooks
- ENRIGHT Anne : The Gathering
- FIGES Orlando : The Whisperers
- FITZGERALD Penelope
- FITZGERALD Penelope : House of Air / The Blue Flower / Collected Letters
- FOSS Brian : War Paint : Art, War, State and Identity in Britain 1939-1945
- FREUDENBERGER Nell : The Dissident
- GAINES Ernest.J. : A Lesson Before Dying
- GALLICO Paul : The Snow Goose
- GASKELL Elizabeth : Cranford
- GERAS Adele : Facing The Light
- GERAS Adele : Yesterday, A Teenage Memoir
- GLASS Lisa : Prince Rupert's Teardrop
- GREGSON Jessica : The Angel Makers
- HAMID Mohsin :The Reluctant Fundamentalist
- HARRIS Jane :The Observations
- HILL Susan : The Man in the Picture
- HO DAVIES Peter :The Welsh Girl by Peter Ho Davies
- HORWOOD William, RAPPAPORT Helen : Dark Hearts Of Chicago
- HUGHES Ted : Selected Letters
- INDRIDASON Arnaldur : Jar City
- IZNER Claude : Murder on the Eiffel Tower
- JACOBBI Paola : I Want Those Shoes
- JAMES Henry : Washington Square
- JEROME K. Jerome : The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow
- JONES Lloyd : Mister Pip
- JONES Susanna : The Missing Person's Guide to Love
- KAPLAN Justin : When the Astors Owned New York
- KARNEZIS Panos : The Birthday Party
- KAVAN Anna : Guilty
- KAVAN Anna : The Parson
- KAVAN Anna : Who Are You?
- KELLY Christine (Ed.) : Mrs Duberly's War
- KENNEDY Jonny : The Story of the Boy Whose Skin Fell Off
- KEUN Irmgard : After Midnight
- KING Rachael : The Sound Of Butterflies
- KNEALE Matthew : When We Were Romans
- LALWANI Nikita : Gifted
- LAM Vincent : Bloodletting And Miraculous Cures
- LAWSON Mary - Crow Lake
- LECLAIRE Anne : The Law Of Bound Hearts
- LEHMANN Rosamond : The Gipsy's Baby
- LESSING Doris
- LEYSHON Nell : Black Dirt
- LIPMAN Elinor : My Latest Grievance
- LONG Haniel : The Marvellous Adventure of Cabeza de Vaca
- MACINTYRE Ben : Agent Zigzag, The True Wartime Story of Eddie Chapman Lover, Betrayer, Hero, Spy
- MANNING Jo : My Lady Scandalous
- MAX D.T. : The Family That Couldn't Sleep
- McEWAN Ian : On Chesil Beach
- MCGRATH Melanie : The Long Exile, A True Story of Deception and Survival Amongst the Inuit of the Canadian Arctic
- MCGREGOR Jon : So Many Ways to Begin
- MENDELSON Charlotte : When We Were Bad
- MENGESTU Dinaw : The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears
- MILES Betty: The Sign of the Rainbow-Margaret Calkin James
- MILLER Candi : Salt and Honey
- MILLER Miranda : Loving Mephistopheles
- MONROE P.K. : The Thursday Night Letters
- MONTGOMERY Lucy Maud
- MOSTERT Natasha : Season of the Witch
- NEMIROVSKY Irene : Suite Francaise
- NICHOLSON Virginia : Singled Out, How Two Million Women Survived Without Men After the First World War
- NOTHOMB Amelie : Loving Sabotage
- O' CONNOR Flannery : The Complete Stories
- O' FARRELL Maggie : The Vanishing Act Of Esme Lennox
- O'FLYNN Catherine: What Was Lost
- O'NEILL Onora : A Question of Trust
- ODENT Michel : Birth Reborn
- PECK Winifred : House-Bound
- PENNEY Stef : The Tenderness Of Wolves
- PERKINS GILMAN Charlotte : What Diantha Did
- PETTERSON Per : In the Wake
- PETTERSON Per : Out Stealing Horses
- PIRANDELLO Luigi : The Turn
- RABINOVITCH Dina : Take Off Your Party Dress
- RADIGUET Raymond : The Devil in the Flesh
- RAPPAPORT Helen : No Place For Ladies
- REDHILL Michael : Consolation
- REES Celia : Witch Child
- REYNOLDS Tom : Touch Me I'm Sick
- RHYS Jean
- ROTH Joseph : Flight Without End
- ROTH Joseph : Job, The Story of a Simple Man
- ROTH Joseph : The Wandering Jews
- RUBENS Bernice
- SADLER Allen : Bless 'Em All
- SAGAN Francoise
- SATRAPI Marjane : Persepolis
- SAUERWEIN Leigh : Song for Eloise
- SAVAGE Sam: Firmin
- SCOTT CHESSMAN Harriet : Lydia Cassatt Reading The Morning Paper
- SEBALD W.G.
- SEBALD W.G. : The Emigrants
- SEBOLD Alice
- SEBOLD Alice : The Lovely Bones
- SERVANT Bob : Delete This at Your Peril
- SEWELL Kitty : Ice Trap
- SHEFFIELD Rob : Love is a Mix Tape
- SINHA Indra : Animal's People
- SLOUKA Mark : The Visible World
- SMAILES Caroline : In Search of Adam
- SMITH Craig : The Painted Messiah
- SOFER Dalia : The Septembers of Shiraz
- SONTAG Susan
- SOSEKI Natsume : Kokoro
- SPALDING Frances : Gwen Raverat, Friends, Family and Affections
- SPENCER Amy : The Crafter Culture Handbook
- SPIOTTA Dana : Eat The Document
- STIFTER Adalbert : Abdias
- STIFTER Adalbert : Brigitta
- SWIFT Patience : The Last Good Man
- TAYLOR Kressman : Address Unknown
- THOMAS Ruth : Things To Make And Mend
- TOMALIN Claire : Thomas Hardy The Time-Torn Man
- TRETHEWEY Rachel : Mistress of the Arts
- TREVOR-ROPER Patrick : The World Through Blunted Sight
- TYLER Anne : Digging to America
- TYLER L.C.: The Herring Seller's Apprentice
- VESAAS Tarjei : The Ice Palace
- WAGNER Erica : Seizure
Book Thoughts 2006
- ADAMS Lorraine : Harbor
- ADICHIE Chimamanda Ngozi
- ALMOND David : Skellig
- ARNIM Elizabeth von : Vera
- ATWOOD Margaret
- BARRY Sebastian : A Long Long Way
- BAXTER Charles : Saul and Patsy
- BIRDSELL Sandra : The Russlander
- BOXALL Peter (Ed.) : 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
- BOYLE T C : Talk Talk
- BURNARD Bonnie : A Good House
- CALLIL Carmen : Bad Faith
- CANFIELD FISHER Dorothy : The Bedquilt
- CARR J L : A Month In The Country
- CHAON Dan : You Remind Me Of Me
- CLARKE Susanna : The Ladies of Grace Adieu
- CLAUDEL Philippe : Grey Souls
- COOLIDGE Susan : What Katy Did
- DE HORNE VAIZEY Mrs George : Pixie O' Shaughnessey
- DEVINE Harriet : Being George Devine's Daughter
- DIDION Joan : A Year Of Magical Thinking
- DRABBLE Margaret : The Sea Lady
- DUNCKER Patricia : Miss Webster and Cherif
- EDRIC Robert : Gathering The Water
- ENCHI Fumiko : The Waiting Years
- GERAS Adele : The Fabulous Fantoras
- GRENVILLE Kate : The Secret River
- GRUEN Sara : Water For Elephants
- HANNAH Sophie : Little Face
- HOBBS Peter : The Short Day Dying
- HORNBY Nick : The Complete Polysyllabic Spree
- HORWOOD William : Skallagrigg
- HYLAND M J : Carry Me Down
- INDRIDASON Arnaldur : Silence Of The Grave
- JACOBSON Howard : Kalooki Nights
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