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Book Thoughts 2019
- ANSTRUTHER Eleanor ~ A Perfect Explanation
- ARMITAGE Simon ~ Poet Laureate
- BAINBRIDGE Beryl ~ Every Man For Himself
- BLACKBURN Julia ~ Time Song - Searching for Doggerland
- BLAXLAND Juliet ~ The Easternmost House
- BRODESSER-AKNER Taffy ~ Fleishman is in Trouble
- CHEVALIER Tracy ~ A Single Thread
- CONNELLY Charlie ~ Last Train to Hilversum - A journey in search of the magic of radio
- CRUMLEY Jim ~ Barn Owl
- DE WAAL Elisabeth ~ Milton Place
- DEFOE Daniel ~ A Journal of the Plague Year
- EMENY Richard ~ Edward Thomas - A Life in Pictures
- FENTON James ~ A Garden From a Hundred Packets of Seed
- GOSS Rebecca ~ Girl
- GOSS Rebecca ~ Her Birth
- GRAHAM Stephen ~ The Gentle Art of Tramping
- GRANT Linda ~ A Stranger City
- GRAY Annie ~ The Greedy Queen - Eating with Victoria
- HARPER Jane ~ The Lost Man (audio book)
- HARRIS Robert ~ Munich
- HARRIS Robert ~ Pompeii (audio book)
- HOMER ~ The Odyssey
- JACKSON Shirley ~ The Haunting of Hill House
- JACOBSEN Roy ~ The Unseen
- JAMIE Kathleen ~ Surfacing
- JAMIE Kathleen ~ Surfacing
- JANSSON Tove
- JANSSON Tove ~ The Summer Book
- JOLLY Alice ~ Mary Ann Sate, Imbecile
- JONES Cynan ~ Cove
- KEUN Irmgard ~ The Artificial Silk Girl
- LE BAS Damian ~ The Stopping Places - A Journey Through Gypsy Britain
- LE BAS Damian ~ The Stopping Places - A Journey Through Gypsy Britain
- LEHMANN Rosamond ~ Invitation to the Waltz
- LONCRAINE Rebecca ~ Skybound - a Journey in Flight
- LOPEZ Barry ~ Horizon
- MACFARLANE Robert ~ The Lost Words ~ Spell Songs
- MACFARLANE Robert ~ Underland - A Deep Time Journey
- MACINTYRE Ben ~ A Spy Among Friends : Philby and the Great Betrayal
- MACKINTOSH Clare ~ Let Me Lie (audio book)
- MANTEL Hilary ~ The World of Wolf Hall
- MARSDEN Philip ~ Rising Ground - A Search for the Spirit of Place (redux)
- MCDERMID Val ~ The Distant Echo
- MILLER Andy ~ The Year of Reading Dangerously
- MORT Helen ~ No Map Could Show Them
- MYERS Benjamin ~ The Offing
- MYERS Benjamin ~ Under the Rock -The Poetry of Place
- NEWMAN Sandra ~ The Heavens
- NICOLSON Adam ~ Sea Room
- ONDAATJE Michael ~ The English Patient
- PALIN Michael ~ Erebus (audio book)
- PARK David ~ Travelling in a Strange Land
- PEEL Sarah ~ Luna Lapin's Friends
- PORTER Max ~ Lanny
- PULLMAN Philip ~ His Dark Materials
- ROBSON Jennifer ~ The Gown
- ROONEY Sally ~ Normal People
- RUTTER Esther ~ This Golden Fleece - A Journey Through Britain's Knitted History
- SETTERFIELD Diane ~ Once Upon a River
- SIMMONS Gail ~ The Country of Larks
- SMITH Ali ~ Spring
- SMITH Jonathan ~ Summer in February (redux)
- THOMAS Edward ~ In Pursuit of Spring
- TOWERS Katharine ~ The Remedies
- TRETHEWEY Rachel ~ Before Wallis - Edward VIII's Other Women
- WATLING Sarah ~ Noble Savages
- WATLING Sarah ~ Noble Savages - The Olivier Sisters
- WAUGH Evelyn ~ Brideshead Revisited
- WAUGH Evelyn ~ Scoop
- WEYMOUTH Adam ~ Kings of the Yukon - An Alaskan River Journey
- WHIPPLE Dorothy ~ Every Good Deed
- WILLNER Nina ~ Forty Autumns
- WOODCOCK Alex ~ King of Dust - Adventures in Forgotten Sculpture
- YAFFE David ~ Reckless Daughter - A Portrait of Joni Mitchell
- ZIERVOGEL Meike ~ The Photographer
Book Thoughts 2018
- ATKINSON Kate ~ Transcription
- ATWOOD Margaret ~ The Penelopiad
- BARBA Andres ~ Such Small Hands
- BLACK Sue ~ All That Remains - A Life in Death
- BOURNE Hope ~ Living on Exmoor & A Moorland Year
- BOYD Alex ~ St Kilda - The Silent Islands
- BRISCOE Susan ~ The 1718 Coverlet
- BURTON HILL Clemency ~ Year of Wonder - Classical Music for Every Day-
- CAREY Edward ~ Little
- CARR J.L. ~ A Month in the Country
- CARTER Brian ~ A Black Fox Running
- CHEVALIER Tracy ~ The Sleep Quilt
- CLARE Horatio ~ The Light in the Dark
- COOPER Susan ~ The Dark is Rising #thedarkisreading
- COPE Wendy ~ Anecdotal Evidence
- Darkest Hour (film)
- DAVIES Kate ~ Handywoman
- DAY LEWIS C. ~ The Otterbury Incident
- DE WAAL Kit ~ The Trick to Time
- dovegreyreader ~ The Library of My Childhood
- DRAYTON Joanne ~ Ngaio Marsh - Her Life in Crime
- DUNMORE Helen ~ Inside the Wave
- ELLENDER Lullah ~ Elisabeth's Lists - A Family Story
- ELLIS Clarence ~ The Pebbles on the Beach - A Spotter's Guide
- FERMER Anthony ~ Inside the Bone Box
- FORSHAW Alec ~ An Address in Bloomsbury
- FREMLIN Celia ~ The Hours Before Dawn
- GEORGE Rose ~ Nine Pints (pre-read)
- GLICKMAN Susan ~ The Smooth Yarrow
- GOWAR Imogen Hermes ~ The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock
- GREENE Graham ~ The Human Factor
- GREIG Andrew ~ At the Loch of the Green Corrie
- HAMMERSTEIN Willyne ~ Millefiori Quilts 3
- HARPER Jane ~ The Dry
- HARRISON Melissa ~ All Among the Barley (pre-reading)
- HARRISON Melissa ~ At Hawthorn Time
- HARRISON Melissa ~ Clay
- HEANEY Seamus ~ 100 Poems
- HENSHER Philip ~ The Friendly Ones
- HERRON Mick ~ Slow Horses
- HEXHALL J. & MCNAUGHT B. ~ Treelines - A Collection of Poetry
- HOMER (Trans: WILSON Emily) The Odyssey
- HOWARD Elizabeth Jane ~ The Long View
- HUGHES Shirley ~ Dogger
- JAMES Clive ~ Injury Time
- JAMES Clive ~ The River in the Sky
- KANG Han ~ The White Book
- KAY Adam ~ This is Going to Hurt (pre-reading)
- KING Lily ~ Euphoria
- KNAPP Florence ~ English Paper Piecing
- KUWAMARA Genki ~ If Cats Disappeared From the World
- LEE Tom ~ The Alarming Palsy of James Orr
- LEIGH FERMOR Patrick ~ A Time to Keep Silence
- MACFARLANE Robert & MORRIS Jackie ~ The Lost Words (in London)
- MACLAVERTY Bernard ~ Midwinter Break
- MANGAN Lucy ~ Bookworm - A Memoir of Childhood Reading
- MANN Thomas ~ The Magic Mountain (1)
- MANNING Olivia ~ The Balkan Trilogy
- MANTEL Hilary ~ A Place of Greater Safety (in progress)
- MANTEL Hilary ~ The Masterclass
- MAUGHAM Somerset ~ Up at the Villa
- MAYO Simon ~ Mad Blood Stirring
- MCEWAN Ian ~ The Children Act
- MCGRATH Patrick ~ The Wardrobe Mistress
- MCGREGOR Jon ~ Reservoir 13
- MILLER Madeline ~ Circe
- MITCHELL David ~ Black Swan Green
- MITCHELL David ~ Slade House
- MYERS Benjamin ~ The Gallows Pole
- NELSON Maggie ~ Bluets
- NICOLSON Adam ~ The Mighty Dead - Why Homer Matters
- OLIVER Mary ~ A Thousand Mornings
- ONDAATJE Michael ~ Warlight
- PEACOCK Charlotte ~ Into the Mountain- A Life of Nan Shepherd
- PEARS Tim ~ In a Land of Plenty
- PERRY Sarah ~ Melmoth
- PLATH Sylvia ~ The Letters of Sylvia Plath - Volume II : 1956-1963
- PROTHEROE Keren ~ Petal Power : Floral Fashion and Women Designers at The Silver Studio 1910-1940
- PULLMAN Philip ~ The Book of Dust Volume One - La Belle Sauvage
- RABAN Jonathan ~ Coasting
- ROBERTSON Robin ~ The Long Take
- ROPER Lynne ~ Wild Woman Swimming
- SEBALD W.G. ~ The Rings of Saturn
- SEBALD W.G. ~ The Rings of Saturn
- SIMENON Georges ~ Maigret Enjoys Himself
- SIMENON Georges ~ Maigret Travels
- SLIMANI Leila ~ Lullaby
- SPARK Muriel ~ A Far Cry From Kensington
- SPARK Muriel ~ Memento Mori
- SPARK Muriel ~ The Abbess of Crewe
- SPARK Muriel ~ The Ballad of Peckham Rye
- SPARK Muriel ~ The Driver's Seat
- SPARK Muriel ~ The Girls of Slender Means
- SPRACKLAND Jean ~ Green Noise
- STAMM Peter ~ To the Back of Beyond
- THOMAS Edward ~ In Pursuit of Spring (1)
- THOMAS Edward ~ In Pursuit of Spring (2)
- TIMPANY Emma ~ Travelling in the Dark
- TRETHEWEY Rachel ~ Pearls Before Poppies - The Story of the Red Cross Pearls
- TROLLOPE Joanna ~ Sense & Sensibility
- VOWLER Tom ~ Dazzling the Gods
- WATSON Christie ~ The Language of Kindness (pre-reading)
- WAYLAND BARBER Elizabeth ~ Women's Work - the First 20,000 Years
- WILSON Eliane ~ Edward Thomas : A Mirror of England
- WINN Raynor ~ The Salt Path
- WOOLF Virginia ~ To the Lighthouse
- WORTH Jennifer ~ Call the Midwife
Book Thoughts 2017
- ADEBAYO Ayòbámi ~ Stay With Me (Baileys Prize Short List 2017)
- BANNERMAN Isabel ~ Landscape of Dreams - The Gardens of Isabel and Julian Bannerman
- BATES H.E. ~ Dulcima
- BEACHAM Peter & RAVILIOUS James ~ Down the Deep Lanes
- BELBEN Rosalind ~ Our Horses in Egypt
- BUNTING Madeleine ~ Love of Country - A Hebridean Journey (Wainwright Prize Short List 2017)
- Candlestick Chapter - Christmas Crackers - Ten Poems to Surprise and Delight
- Candlestick Chapter - Christmas Garland - Ten Evergreen Poems
- Candlestick Chapter - Christmas Stocking
- Candlestick Chapter - Fourteen Festive Sonnets
- Candlestick Chapter - Gift of the Old One
- Candlestick Chapter - Holly and Ivy
- Candlestick Chapter - Ten Poems About Birds
- Candlestick Chapter - Ten Poems About Clouds
- Candlestick Chapter - Ten Poems of Kindness
- Candlestick Chapter - Ten Poems on the Telephone
- Candlestick Chapter :: Ten Poems about Friendship
- Candlestick Chapter :: Ten Poems about Home
- Candlestick Chapter :: Ten Poems From Ireland
- Candlestick Chapter :: The Wood in Winter ~ John Lewis Stempel
- CARTER Brian ~ Where the Dream Begins
- COOPER Simon ~ The Otter's Tale (Wainwright Prize Short List 2017)
- COOPER Susan ~ The Dark is Rising
- CRUMLEY Jim ~ The Company of Swans
- CRYSTAL David ~ The Story of Be (Budleigh LitFest)
- DE WAAL Kit ~ My Name is Leon
- DEE T. ~ Four Fields (1)
- DICKENS Monica ~ The Winds of Heaven
- DIDION Joan ~ Live and Learn
- DONALDSON Carol ~ On the Marshes - A Journey Into England's Waterlands
- DUFFY Carol Ann ~ Pablo Picasso’s Noel
- DUNMORE Helen ~ Birdcage Walk
- DUNMORE Helen ~ Inside the Wave
- Elementum
- GAIMAN Neil ~ Neverwhere
- GAIMAN Neil ~ Norse Mythology
- GARWOOD Tirzah ~ Long Live Great Bardfield
- GREEVES Tom ~ The Three Hares - A Curiosity Worth Regarding
- GRINDROD John ~ Outskirts - Living Life on the Edge of the Green Belt
- HARRIS Robert ~ Conclave (audio book)
- HEGARTY Neil ~ Inch Levels
- HERVEY Jane ~ Vain Shadow
- HILL Susan ~ Jacob's Room is Full of Books
- HOBB Robin ~ Assassin's Apprentice
- HONEYMAN Gail ~ Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine (audio book)
- HOWARD Elizabeth Jane ~ The Cazalets (BBC audio dramatisation)
- JENKINS Elizabeth ~ Harriet
- JENKINS Elizabeth ~ The View From Downshire Hill - A Memoir
- JOHNSON Denis ~ Train Dreams
- JONES Cynan ~ The Long Dry
- KELLY Matthew ~ Quartz and Feldspar
- KNOWLES Elizabeth ~ Stanhope Forbes : Father of the Newlyn School
- LEIGH FERMOR Patrick ~ A Time of Gifts
- LESLIE Anita ~ Train to Nowhere
- LEWIS- STEMPEL John ~ Where the Poppies Blow - The British Soldier, Nature, The Great War (Wainwright Prize Short List 2017)
- LEWIS-STEMPEL John ~ The Running Hare (Wainwright Prize Short List 2017)
- LONDON Joan ~ The Golden Age
- MACFARLANE Robert & MORRIS Jackie ~ The Lost Words
- MACKAIL Denis ~ Greenery Street
- MILLER Betty ~ Farewell Leicester Square
- MILLER Betty ~ The Exile
- MITCHELL Emma ~ Making Winter - A Creative Guide for Surviving the Winter Months
- MOSS Stephen ~ Wild Kingdom - Bringing Back Britain's Wildlife (Wainwright Prize Short List 2017)
- MOSS Stephen ~ Wonderland - A Year of Britain's Wildlife ( Budleigh LitFest)
- OSWALD Alice ~ Dart
- OSWALD Alice ~ Falling Awake
- PATCHETT Ann ~ Commonwealth
- PRESTON Alex ~ As Kingfishers Catch Fire (Budleigh LitFest)
- RAVILIOUS Robin ~ James Ravilious - A Life
- RILEY Gwendoline ~ First Love (Baileys Prize Short List 2017)
- SAWDAY Alastair ~ Travelling Light ( Budleigh LitFest)
- SEDGWICK Marcus ~ Snow
- SHERRIFF R.C. ~ Greengates
- SHERRIFF R.C. ~ The Fortnight in September
- SHERRIFF R.C. ~ The Hopkins Manuscript
- SIMENON Georges ~ A Maigret Christmas
- SMITH Dominic ~ The Last Painting of Sara de Vos
- SOMERVILLE Christopher ~ The January Man - A Year of Walking Britain (Wainwright Prize Short List 2017)
- STANCEY Helen ~ The Madonna of the Pool
- STEGNER Wallace ~ Crossing to Safety
- STEGNER Wallace ~ Remembering Laughter
- SWIFT Graham ~ Mothering Sunday
- Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2017
- THOMAS Edward ~ 9th April 1917
- TOLSTOY Leo ~ Anna Karenina
- Washing Lines ~ a collection of poems
- WHITEHEAD Colson ~ The Underground Railroad
- WILSON Ethel ~ Hetty Dorval
- WILSON Ethel ~ Swamp Angel
Book Thoughts 2016
- 100 Prized Poems ~ Twenty Five Years of the Forward Books
- ALLAN M.E. ~ The School on North Barrule
- ATKINSON Kate ~ A God in Ruins (audio book)
- ATKINSON Kate ~ When Will There Be Good News? (audio book)
- BALCH Oliver ~ Under the Tump - Sketches of Real Life on the Welsh Borders
- BARRY Sebastian ~ A Long Long Way (redux)
- BOOTHBY Dan ~ Island of Dreams
- BRADBURY J. & MAEDER E. ~ American Style & Spirit - Fashion & Lives of the Roddis Family, 1850-1995
- BRAY Carys ~ The Museum of You
- CANDLESTICK PRESS ~ The Twelve Poems of Christmas - Volume Eight
- CHEVALIER Tracy ~ At the Edge of the Orchard
- CHIDGEY Catherine ~ In a Fishbone Church
- CORBEL STONE PRESS ~ Reliquiae - Volume Four
- DUFFY Carol Ann (Ed) ~ Off the Shelf - A Celebration of Bookshops in Verse
- DUNMORE Helen ~ Exposure
- ELDER Josephine ~ Doctor's Children
- ELEMENTUM ~ A journal of nature & story
- FARRE Rowena ~ Seal Morning
- FORTEY Richard ~ The Wood For the Trees
- FORTEY Richard ~ The Wood for the Trees ~ Richard Fortey - The Long View of Nature From a Small Wood
- FRANCIS J. & ANDREWS M. ~ Rena Gardiner - Artist and Printmaker
- FRANKOPAN Peter ~ The Silk Roads - A New History of the World
- GANNON Angela & GEDDES George ~ St Kilda : The Last and Outmost Isle
- GRANT Linda ~ The Dark Circle
- GUNNER Janice ~ Shibori for Textile Artists
- HARRIS Alexandra ~ Weatherlands - Writers & Artists Under English Skies (Wainwright Prize 2016)
- HARRISON Melissa ~ Rain- Four Walks in English Weather
- HARUF Kent ~ Benediction
- HARUF Kent ~ Eventide
- HARUF Kent ~ Plainsong
- HAWKSLEY Lucinda ~ Bitten By Witch Fever - Wallpaper and Arsenic in the Victorian Home
- HAWKSLEY Lucinda ~ Lizzie Siddal - The Tragedy of a Pre-Raphaelite Supermodel
- HOWARD Elizabeth Jane ~ The Light Years
- HOWARD Elizabeth Jane ~ The Long View
- IHIMAERA Witi ~ The Whale Rider
- KNIGHT Lynn ~ The Button Box (1)
- LEIGH Julia ~ Avalanche - A Love Story
- LEWIS-STEMPEL John ~ The Running Hare
- LEWIS-STEMPEL John ~ The Running Hare - The Secret Life of Farmland
- LIPTROT Amy ~ The Outrun
- LIPTROT Amy ~ The Outrun (almost)
- LIVINGSTONE Natalie ~ The Mistresses of Cliveden - Three Centuries of Scandal, Power and Intrigue
- LUNDBERG Ulla-Lena ~ Ice
- MANNING Olivia ~ The Balkan Trilogy
- MARSH Ngaio ~ Surfeit of Lampreys (audio book)
- MAXTONE GRAHAM Ysenda ~ Terms & Conditions - Life in Girls' Boarding Schools, 1939-1979
- MCCARTHY Michael ~ The Moth Snowstorm (Wainwright Prize 2016)
- MENMUIR Wyl ~ The Many
- MITCHELL David ~ The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
- MOSS Sarah ~ The Tidal Zone
- MURRAY Rosalind ~ The Happy Tree
- NORBURY Katharine ~ The Fish Ladder (Wainwright Prize 2016)
- OSWALD Alice ~ Falling Awake
- PAVORD Anna ~ Landskipping - Painters, Ploughmen and Places
- RANKIN Ian ~ Knots and Crosses (audio book)
- RANSOME Arthur ~ Swallows and Amazons
- Requiescat in pace ~ William Trevor
- RICHARDS Dan ~ Climbing Days
- SEETHALER Robert ~ A Whole Life
- SLANEY Di ~ Reward For Winter
- SMILEY Jane ~ Some Luck
- SOYINKA Susan ~ From East End to Land's End
- STOCKETT Kathryn ~ The Help
- STROUT Elizabeth ~ My Name is Lucy Barton
- TREMAIN Rose ~ The Colour
- Washing Lines ~ A collection of poems
- WROE Ann ~ Six Facets of Light
- WROE Ann ~ Six Facets of Light
Book Thoughts 2015
- ARMITAGE Simon ~ Walking Away
- AUDIN Heather ~ Patchwork & Quilting in Britain
- BALDWIN Monica ~ I Leap Over the Wall
- BALFOUR-PAUL Jenny ~ Indigo
- BICKFORD-SMITH Coralie ~ The Fox and the Star
- BLACKBURN Julia ~ Threads - The Delicate Life of John Craske
- BRISCOE Susan ~ The 1718 Coverlet
- Candlestick Press
- CATTON Eleanor ~ The Luminaries (1)
- CHAPMAN Chris ~ Wild Goose and Riddon
- CHATWIN Bruce ~ On the Black Hill
- CLARE Horatio ~ Orison for a Curlew
- CLARE Horatio ~ Running for the Hills
- CLARKE Susanna ~ Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
- CLEVELAND-PECK Patricia ~ Auriculas Through the Ages
- COWEN Painton ~ English Stained Glass
- DE WAAL Edmund ~ The White Road - a pilgrimage of sorts
- DEAKIN Roger ~ Waterlog - A Swimmer's Journey through Britain
- DUFFY Carol Ann ~ The Wren Boys
- FERRANTE Elena ~ My Brilliant Friend
- FIENNES William ~ The Snow Geese
- GALSWORTHY John ~ The Forsyte Saga
- GALSWORTHY John ~ The Man of Property
- GOUDGE Elizabeth ~ The Dean's Watch
- GRAHAM Winston ~ Poldark's Cornwall
- GUNN Kirsty ~ My Katherine Mansfield Project
- HENSHER Philip (Ed) ~ The Penguin Book of the British Short Story
- HIRAIDE Takashi ~ The Guest Cat
- HOSKINS W.G.~ The Making of the English Landscape
- HYAMS Jacky ~ Frances : The Tragic Bride
- JACKSON Shirley ~ Let Me Tell You
- JAMES Peter ~ Dead Simple
- JONES Lloyd ~ The Book of Fame
- LEE Harper ~ Go Set a Watchman
- LEE Laurie ~ Village Christmas & Other Notes on the English Year
- LOPEZ Barry ~ Arctic Dreams
- LOPEZ Barry ~ Arctic Dreams (2)
- MACFARLANE Robert ~ Landmarks
- MACFARLANE Robert ~ Landmarks (2)
- MANTEL Hilary ~ 'My Life in Books' (BudleighLitFest 2015)
- MANTEL Hilary ~ The Mirror and the Light (an update)
- MANTEL Hilary ~ Beyond Black (Audio book)
- MANTEL Hilary ~ Beyond Black (Audio book)
- MARSDEN Philip ~ Rising Ground - A Search for the Spirit of Place
- MARTIN R.R. George ~ A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire - Book One)
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