Reviews

Here is a list of all books reviewed on the blog, organised A-Z by author.

Adams, Poppy – The Behaviour of Moths

Alcott, Louisa May - Little Women

Alcott, Louisa May – Good Wives

Allnatt, Judith – The Poet’s Wife

Allnatt, Judith – A Mile of River

Atwood, Margaret – Alias Grace

Atwood, Margaret - Lady Oracle

Atwood, Margaret – The Handmaid’s Tale

Austen, Jane – Mansfield Park – 1, 2, 3

Austen, Jane – Persuasion – 1, 2, 3, 4

Austen, Jane – Sense and Sensibility – 1, 2, 3

Austen, Jane – Pride and Prejudice – 1, 2, 3

Bailey, Blake – A Tragic Honesty: The Life and Work of Richard Yates

Bagnold, Enid – Diary Without Dates

Barbal, Maria – Stone in a Landslide

Benatar, Stephen – Wish Her Safe at Home

Bowen, Elizabeth – Friends and Relations

Bowen, Elizabeth – To the North

Bowen, Elizabeth – The Heat of the Day

Bowen, Elizabeth – The Death of the Heart

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth – Lady Audley’s Secret

Bradley, Alan -The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie

Bridge, Ann – Illyrian Spring, Illyrian Spring Re-Read

Bridge, Ann – Peking Picnic

Brittain, Vera – Testament of Youth

Brocket, Jane – The Gentle Art of Domesticity

Bromfield, Louis – Mrs Parkington

Burnett, Frances Hodgson – In Connection with the De Willoughby Claim

Byatt, A S – The Children’s Book

Canfield, Dorothy – Seasoned Timber

Carson, Susannah (ed) – A Truth Universally Acknowledged: 33 Great Writers on Why We Read Jane Austen

Carter, Angela – Wise Children

Cather, Willa – O, Pioneers!

Cather, Willa – My Antonia

Cather, Willa – Death Comes for the Archbishop

Cather, Willa – Lucy Gayheart

Cather, Willa – A Lost Lady

Cannato, Vincent –  American Passage: A History of Ellis Island

Caspary, Vera – Bedelia

Chellis, Marcia – The Girls from Winnetka

Colegate, Isabel – The Shooting Party

Collins, Wilkie – The Moonstone

Collins, Wilkie – No Name

Compton Burnett, Ivy – Pastors and Masters

Cossé, Laurence – An Accident in August

Craigie, Emma – Chocolate Cake with Hitler

Delafield, E M – The Way Things Are

Delafield, E M – Thank Heaven Fasting

Delafield, E M – Women Who Love

Delafield, E M – Nothing is Safe

Dennys, Joyce – Henrietta’s War

Dennys, Joyce – Henrietta Sees It Through

Douglas Sedgwick, Anne – Dark Hester

Du Maurier, Daphne  – Hungry Hill

Du Maurier, Daphne – The Doll and Other Stories

Dyhouse, Carol – Glamour: Women, History, Feminism

Edwards, Michelle – A Knitter’s Home Companion

Francis Kane, Jessica – The Report

Frisby, Terence – Kisses on a Postcard

Fussell, Paul – The Great War and Modern Memory

Gibbons, Kaye – Sights Unseen

Gibbons, Kaye – Ellen Foster

Glaspell, Susan – Brook Evans

Graves, Robert – Goodbye to All That

Greene, Graham – The End of the Affair

Gutcheon, Beth – Still Missing

Healy, Marti – The Rhythm of Selby

Highsmith, Patricia – Carol

Hill, Genevieve (ed) – The Diary of Miss Idilia

Hill, Susan – Mrs De Winter

Hill, Susan – In the Springtime of the Year

Hill, Susan – Howard’s End is on the Landing

Hilton, Traci Tyne – Foreclosed: A Mitzi Neuhaus Mystery

Hocking, Mary – Letters from Constance

Holtby, Winifred – South Riding

Hrabal, Bohumil – I Served The King of England

Hull, Helen – Heat Lightning

Hull, Helen – Morning Shows the Day

Irving, Washington –  The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

Jackson, Shirley – We Have Always Lived in the Castle

Jackson, Shirley – The Haunting of Hill House

Jaffe, Rona – The Best of Everything

Jenkins, Elizabeth – The Tortoise and the Hare

Jenkins, Elizabeth – Harriet

Kingsolver, Barbara – The Poisonwood Bible

Laski, Marghanita – Little Boy Lost

Laski, Marghanita – The Victorian Chaise Longue

Laski, Marghanita – To Bed with Grand Music

Laski, Marganita – The Village

Lehmann, Rosamund – A Note in Music

Lovell, Mary S – The Mitford Girls

Mackail, Denis – Greenery  Street

Maud, Constance – No Surrender

Mayor, F M – The Rector’s Daughter

Mayor, F M – The Squire’s Daughter

Mayor, F M – The Third Miss Symons

Maxwell, William – So Long, See You Tomorrow

Maxwell, William – They Came Like Swallows

McCarthy, Mary –  The Group

Merrill Block, Stefan – The Storm at the Door

Miller, Betty – Farewell Leicester Square

Mitford, Nancy – The Pursuit of Love and Love in a Cold Climate

Mitford, Nancy – Wigs on the Green

Montgomery, L M – Anne of Green Gables

Montgomery, L M – Anne of Avonlea

Montgomery, L M – Anne of the Island

Montgomery, L M – Anne’s House of Dreams

Montgomery, L M – Emily of New Moon

Montgomery, L M – The Blue Castle

Munro, Alice - The View from Castle Rock

Nicholls, David – One Day

Nicolson, Juliet – The Great Silence

Niffenegger, Audrey – The Time Traveler’s Wife

Niffenegger, Audrey -  Her Fearful Symmetry

Oates, Joyce Carol – We Were the Mulvaneys

Olivier, Edith – The Love Child

Orne Jewett, Sarah – The Country of the Pointed Firs

Otto, Whitney – How to Make an American Quilt

Panter-Downes, Mollie – One Fine Day

Parini, Jay – The Last Station

Pasternak, Boris – Doctor Zhivago Part 1, Part 2

Peck, Winifred – House-Bound

Pym, Barbara – Excellent Women

Pym, Barbara – Jane and Prudence

Reisen, Harriet – Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind Little Women

Robinson, Jane – Bluestockings: The Remarkable Story of the First Women to Fight for an Education

Robinson, Marilynne – Gilead

Robinson, Marilyn – Home

Russell, James – Ravilious in Pictures: Sussex and the Downs

Sackville West, Vita – All Passion Spent 

Sarton, May – The Magnificent Spinster

Sassoon, Siegfried – Memoirs of a Fox Hunting Man

Sassoon, Siegfried – Memoirs of an Infantry Officer

Schlissel, Lillian – Women’s Diaries of the Westward Journey

Schlossberg, Linda - Life in Miniature

Shreeve, Anita – Fortune’s Rocks

Sims, Michael – The Story of Charlotte’s Web

Sinclair, May – The Life and Death of Harriett Frean

Smith, Betty – A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

Smith, Dodie – I Capture the Castle

Spark, Muriel – The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

Starling, Belinda – The Journal of Dora Damage

Steinbeck, John – Of Mice and Men

Steinbeck, John – Travels with Charley

Stevenson, D E – Miss Buncle’s Book

Stratton, Joanna – Pioneer Women: Voices from the Kansas Frontier

Stratton-Porter, Gene – A Girl of the Limberlost

Summerscale, Kate – The Suspicions of Mr Whicher

Tarkington, Booth – The Magnificent Ambersons

Tartt, Donna – The Secret History

Taylor, Elizabeth – A View of the Harbour

Taylor, Elizabeth – The Devastating Boys

Taylor, Elizabeth - Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont

Taylor, Elizabeth – Palladian

Toibin, Colm – Brooklyn

Trollope, Anthony – Can You Forgive Her?

Vernon, Roland – The Maestro’s Voice

Von Arnim, Elizabeth – The Enchanted April

Von Arnim, Elizabeth – Elizabeth and Her German Garden

Von Arnim, Elizabeth – The Solitary Summer

Von Arnim, Elizabeth – The Caravaners

Watson, Larry – Montana 1948

Webster, Jean – Daddy Long Legs

Wells, H G – Ann Veronica

Welty, Eudora – The Optimist’s Daughter

Wharton, Edith – The Reef

Wharton, Edith – The Age of Innocence

Wharton, Edith –  Ethan Frome

Whipple, Dorothy –  Every Good Deed

Whipple, Dorothy – Young Anne

Whipple, Dorothy – Greenbanks, Greenbanks Re-read

Whipple, Dorothy – They Knew Mr Knight

Whipple, Dorothy – Because of the Lockwoods

Whipple, Dorothy – High Wages

White, Antonia – Frost in May

White, Antonia – The Lost Traveller

Wilder, Laura Ingalls – Little House in the Big Woods

Wilder, Laura Ingalls – Little House on the Prairie

Wilder, Laura Ingalls – Farmer Boy

Wilder, Laura Ingalls – On the Banks of Plum Creek

Wilder, Laura Ingalls – By the Shores of Silver Lake

Wilder, Laura Ingalls – The Long Winter

Wilder, Laura Ingalls – Little Town on the Prairie

Wizenburg, Molly – A Homemade Life

Worth, Jennifer – Call the Midwife

Yates, Richard – Disturbing the Peace

Yates, Richard – The Easter Parade

Yates, Richard – Young Hearts Crying

Yates, Richard – Revolutionary Road

Ziegelman, Jane – 97 Orchard Street: An Edible History of Five Families in One New York Tenement