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 – Emma – 1, 2, 3

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

Austen, Jane – Northanger Abbey

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

Bagnold, Enid – The Squire

Barbal, Maria – Stone in a Landslide

Barker, Pat – Toby’s Room

Barker, Pat – Regeneration

Bates, H E – Fair Stood the Wind for France

Bedford, Sybille – A Favourite of the Gods and A Compass Error

Bedford, Sybille – Pleasures and Landscapes

Benatar, Stephen – Wish Her Safe at Home

Bennett, Alan – The Uncommon Reader

Blyton, Enid – First Term at Malory Towers

Bowen, Elizabeth – Friends and Relations

Bowen, Elizabeth – To the North

Bowen, Elizabeth – The Heat of the Day

Bowen, Elizabeth – The Hotel

Bowen, Elizabeth – The Death of the Heart

Bowen, Elizabeth – The House in Paris

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

Brookner, Anita – Hotel du Lac

Bude, John – The Lake District Murder

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

Byatt, A S – The Children’s Book

Canfield, Dorothy – Seasoned Timber

Capote, Truman – In Cold Blood

Carr, J L – A Month in the Country

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

Catton, Eleanor – The Luminaries

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

Caspary, Vera – Bedelia

Chellis, Marcia – The Girls from Winnetka

Christie, Agatha – The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

Coates, John – Patience

Colegate, Isabel – The Shooting Party

Collins, Norman – London Belongs to Me

Collins, Suzanne – The Hunger Games

Collins, Wilkie – The Moonstone

Collins, Wilkie – No Name

Compton Burnett, Ivy – Pastors and Masters

Conan Doyle, Sir Arthur – A Study in Scarlet

Cossé, Laurence – An Accident in August

Crace, Jim – Harvest

Craigie, Emma – Chocolate Cake with Hitler

Crompton, Richmal – Frost at Morning

De Waal, Edmund – The Hare with Amber Eyes

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

Dickens, Monica – The Winds of Heaven

Douglas Sedgwick, Anne – Dark Hester

Du Maurier, Daphne  – Hungry Hill

Du Maurier, Daphne – My Cousin Rachel

Du Maurier, Daphne – The Doll and Other Stories

Durrell, Gerald – My Family and Other Animals

Dyhouse, Carol – Glamour: Women, History, Feminism

Edwards, Michelle – A Knitter’s Home Companion

Faulks, Sebastian – Birdsong

Ferris, Joshua – To Rise Again at a Decent Hour

Flagg, Fannie – Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

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

Gibbons, Stella – Westwood

Ginzburg, Eugenia – Into the Whirlwind

Glaspell, Susan – Brook Evans

Godden, Rumer – The Greengage Summer

Golding, William – Lord of the Flies

Goudge, Elizabeth – The Runaways

Goudge, Elizabeth – The Little White Horse

Graves, Robert – Goodbye to All That

Green, Henry – Caught

Green, Henry – Loving

Greene, Graham – The End of the Affair

Gutcheon, Beth – Still Missing

Harris, Alexandra – Romantic Moderns

Harris, Jane – Gillespie and I

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

Hollis, Matthew – All Roads Lead to France

Holtby, Winifred – Anderby Wold

Holtby, Winifred – South Riding

Hollinghurst, Alan – The Stranger’s Child

Hope, Anna – Wake

Hrabal, Bohumil – I Served The King of England

Hull, Helen – Heat Lightning

Hull, Helen – Islanders

Hull, Helen – Morning Shows the Day

Hustvedt, Siri – The Blazing World

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

Kavanagh, Paul – Iceberg

Kingsolver, Barbara – The Poisonwood Bible

Lahiri, Jhumpa – The Lowland

Laski, Marghanita – Little Boy Lost

Laski, Marghanita – Love on the Supertax

Laski, Marghanita – The Victorian Chaise Longue

Laski, Marghanita – To Bed with Grand Music

Laski, Marganita – The Village

Lee, Laurie – Cider with Rosie

Lehmann, Rosamund – A Note in Music

Lovell, Mary S – The Mitford Girls

MacGregor, Dr Neil – Germany: Memories of a Nation

Mackail, Denis – Greenery  Street

Madden, Deirdre – Molly Fox’s Birthday

Mantel, Hilary – Wolf Hall

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

Maxwell, William – Time Will Darken It

McCarthy, Mary –  The Group

Merrill Block, Stefan – The Storm at the Door

Miller, Betty – Farewell Leicester Square

Mitchell, Gladys – The Mystery of a Butcher’s Shop

Mitford, Nancy – Christmas Pudding

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

Mitford, Nancy – Pigeon Pie

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

Morgenstern, Erin – The Night Circus

Morrison, Toni – Song of Solomon

Mullan, John – What Matters in Jane Austen?

Murray, Rosalind – The Happy Tree

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

Perry, Sarah – The Essex Serpent

Pym, Barbara – Excellent Women

Pym, Barbara – Jane and Prudence

Pym, Barbara – A Glass Full of Blessings

Quick, Matthew – The Good Luck of Right Now

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 

Sackville West, Vita – The Heir

Sanxay Holding, Elisabeth – The Blank Wall

Sarton, May – The Magnificent Spinster

Sarton, May – Joanna and Ulysses

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

Semple, Maria – Where’d you go, Bernadette?

Shapton, Leanne – Swimming Studies

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

Smith, Zadie – NW

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

Stern, G. B – The Matriarch

Stevenson, D E – Miss Buncle’s Book

Stockett, Kathryn – The Help

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

Stratton-Porter, Gene – A Girl of the Limberlost

Struther, Jan – Mrs Miniver

Summerscale, Kate – The Suspicions of Mr Whicher

Tarkington, Booth – The Magnificent Ambersons

Tartt, Donna – The Secret History

Tartt, Donna – The Goldfinch

Taylor, Elizabeth – A Game of Hide and Seek

Taylor, Elizabeth – A View of the Harbour

Taylor, Elizabeth – The Devastating Boys

Taylor, Elizabeth – Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont

Taylor, Elizabeth – Palladian

Thomas, Helen – As It Was

Toibin, Colm – Brooklyn

Tolstoy, Leo – Anna Karenina 1, 2, 3

Trollope, Anthony – Can You Forgive Her?

Tutton, Diana – Guard Your Daughters

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

Waters, Sarah – The Little Stranger

Watson, Larry – Montana 1948

Waugh, Evelyn – Decline and Fall

Webster, Jean – Daddy Long Legs

Wein, Elizabeth – Code Name Verity

Weinman, Sarah (ed) – Troubled Daughters, Twisted Wives

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 – Because of the Lockwoods

Whipple, Dorothy –  Every Good Deed

Whipple, Dorothy – Greenbanks, Greenbanks Re-read

Whipple, Dorothy – High Wages

Whipple, Dorothy – Someone at a Distance

Whipple, Dorothy – They Knew Mr Knight

Whipple, Dorothy – The Other Day

Whipple, Dorothy – Young Anne

White, Antonia – Frost in May

White, Antonia – The Lost Traveller

White, Ethel Lina – The Wheel Spins

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

Woolf, Virginia – Between the Acts

Woolf, Virginia – Night and Day

Woolf, Virginia – The London Scene

Woolf, Virginia – The Years

Worth, Jennifer – Call the Midwife

Yates, Richard – Disturbing the Peace

Yates, Richard – Revolutionary Road

Yates, Richard – The Easter Parade

Yates, Richard – Young Hearts Crying

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