Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
Kalooki Nights - Howard Jacobson
Vladimir Nabokov - Mary
Carry me Down, M. J Hyland - really loved this.
Eric Ambler - Epitaph for a spy
The Tent - Margaret Atwood
Joe Brand - Autobiography
We have always lived in the castle - Shirley Jackson - really liked this.
Brighton Rock - Graham Greene
Black Swan Green - David Mitchell (great)
On Beauty - Zadie Smith
The Shadow of the Wind, Carlos Ruiz Zafron - (Enjoyed this)
Brokeback Mountain and other stories - Annie Proux (good stuff)
Brixton Beach - Roma Tearne
The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold (Interesting way to have an omniscient narrator that can also talk in first person. Better than the film)
Exit Music - Ian Rankin (Accidentally read the final Rebus novel first, whoops)
Girl from the South - Joanna Trollope (yuk, no comment)
Love in The Present Tense - Catherine Ryan Hyde - (Enjoyed this, good example how to do an engaging shifting first person narrative)
Suite Fancaise - Irene Nemirovsky - (great story about how individuals cope under extreme circumstances)
John Irving - Last Night In Twisted River (I heart John Irving)
Alex Garland - The Coma - (is he awake or asleep? Liked the illustrations)
Chris Killen - The Bird Room - (Sad,vulnerable and interesting, enjoyed it)
Yvette Weiss - A passage through time - (terrible terrible, what a stinker)
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