Reviews

The Comforters (Muriel Spark)

Injury Time (Beryl Bainbridge)

And Where Were You Adam (Heinrich Boll)

Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (Alan Sillitoe)

House of Meetings (Martin Amis)

Holy Cow! (Sarah Macdonald)

A Hot Country (Shiva Naipaul)

The Sea (John Banville)

The Gathering (Anne Enright)

Girl with Green Eyes (Edna O'Brien)

Pictures of Fidelman (Bernard Malmud)

The Uncommon Reader (Alan Bennett)

The Song Before It is Sung (Justin Cartwright)

Let's Kill Gandhi (Tushar Gandhi)

Cloud Atlas (David Mitchell)

Blaming (Elizabeth Taylor)

Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad)

The Ninth Life of Louis Drax (Liz Jensen)

Offshore (Penelope Fitzgerald)

People of the Book (Geraldine Brooks)

Uncommon Danger (Eric Ambler)

The Inheritance of Loss (Kiran Desai)

Don't You Know Who I Am? (Piers Morgan)

Life and Death of Harriet Frean (May Sinclair)

Auto da Fe (Elias Canetti)

Nothing to be Frightened Of (Julian Barnes)

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society (Mary Ann Shaffer & Anne Burrows)

Crome Yellow (Aldous Huxley)

Diary of A Bad Year (J.M. Coetzee)

Pale Fire (Vladimir Nabokov)

The Hungry Years (William Leith)

All the Fishes Come Home to Roost (Rachel Manija Brown)

Chinese Whispers (Jane Wong)

Nothing to Envy (Barbara Demick)

Little Boy Lost (Marghanita Laski)

The Reluctant Fundamentalist (Mohsin Hameed)

The Family Tree (Carole Cadwalladr)

Good to be God (Tibor Fischer)

Zanzibar (Giles Foden)

King's English (Kingsley Amis)

The Making of Henry (Howard Jacobson)

At the Chime of A City  Clock (D.J. Taylor)

Tiger Hills (Sarita Mandanna)

Salmon Fishing in the Yemen (Paul Torday)

The Mango Orchard (Robin Bayley)

The Thoughtful Dresser (Linda Grant)

Becoming British: the Making of Mr Hai's Daughter (Yasmin Hai)

Freedom (Jonathan Franzen)

Call It Sleep (Henry Roth)

One Day (David Nicholls)

The Masque of Africa (V.S. Naipaul)

Small Memories (Jose Saramago)

Summertime (J.M. Coetzee)

The Box (Gunter Grass)

Elizabeth and her German Garden (Elizabeth von Arnim)

Tinkers (Paul Harding)

The Good Earth (Pearl Buck)

Mr Rosenblum's List (Natasha Solomons)

The Museum of Innocence (Orhan Pamuk)

The Sound and the Fury (William Faulkner)

Kaddish for an Unborn Child (Imre Kersetz)

The Passport (Herta Muller)

Solar (Ian McEwan)

The Conservationist (Nadine Gordimer)

The Aunt's Story (Patrick White)

The Other Hand (Chris Cleave)

The Interrogation (JMG Le Clezio)

Selling Hitler (Robert Harris)

After A Funeral (Diana Athill)

My Father's Roses (Nancy Kohner)

Marrying Anita (Anita Jain)

Sleeping Arrangements (Laura Shaine Cunningham)

The Autobiography of Alice B Toklas (Gertrude Stein)

The Young Che (Ernesto Guevara-Lynch)

Paper House (Michelle Roberts)

Four Girls from Berlin (Marianne Meyerhoff)

A Beginner's Guide to Acting English (Shappi Khorasandi)

Mao: the Unknown Story (Jung Chang and Jan Halliday)

The Men who Killed Gandhi (Manohar Malgaonkar)

The Great House (Nicole Krauss)

Girl with A One Track Mind Exposed (Zoe Margolis)

Ghost At the Table (Suzanne Berene)

Hand that First Held Mine (Maggie O'Farrell)

Half Blood Blues (Esi Edugyan)

The Spy Game (Georgina Harding)

The Last Runaway (Tracey Chivalier)

The Betrayal (Helen Dunmore)

Flight Behaviour (Barbara Kingsolver)

May We Be Forgiven (A M Homes)

Sunnyside (Glen David Gold) 

The Indian Clerk (David Leavitt)

Barracuda (Cristos Tsiolkas)

A Very Private Gentleman (Martin Booth)

A Man of Parts (David Lodge)

Tortilla Curtain (TC Boyle)

An Object of Beauty (Steve Martin)

Inheritance (Nicholas Shakespeare)

Canada (Richard Ford)

Nowhere Man (Aleksander Hemon)

Ordinary Thunderstorms (William Boyd)

Lost Horizon (James Hilton)

I Served the King of England (Bohumil Hrabal)

Old Masters (Thomas Bernhard)

A Small Circus (Hans Fallada)

The Emperor of Lies (Steve Sem-Sandberg)

The Graveyard (Marek Hlasko)

The Eternal Philistine (Odon Von Horvath)

Esther's Inheritance (Sandor Marai)

The Elegance of the Hedgehog (Muriel Barberry)

The Courilof Affair (Irene Nemirovsky)

The President's Hat (Antoine Laurain)

The Vegetarian (Han Kang)

Americanah (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie)

Lights Out in Wonderland (DBC Pierre)

NW (Zadie Smith)

Bringing Nothing to the Party (Paul Carr)

Boys and Girls (Joseph Connolly)

The Windsor Faction (DJ Taylor)

The Best Exotic Merigold Hotel (Deborah Moggach)

Lucky Break (Esther Freud)

Birds of Passage (Bernice Rubens)

Strange Bodies (Marcel Theroux)


Sex and Stravinsky (Barbara Trapido)

An Officer and A Spy (Robert Harris)

Untold Story (Monica Ali)

blueeyedboy (Joanna Harris)