All Book Reviews

3191 Blog - A Year of Mornings
Adams, Poppy - The Behaviour of Moths
Anand, Mulk Raj - Untouchable
Anderson, Sarah - Halfway to Venus
Arlen, Michael - The Green Hat
Ashworth, Jenn - A Kind of Intimacy
Austen, Jane - Northanger Abbey
Bailey, Jenna - Can Any Mother Help Me?

Baines, Elizabeth - Balancing on the Edge of the World
de Balzac, Honore - Sarrasine
Baker, Frank - Before I Go Hence

Baker, Frank - Miss Hargreaves
Baker, Frank - Miss Hargreaves (second review)
Banks, Lynne Reid - The L-Shaped Room
Barbal, Maria - Stone in a Landslide
Barbery, Muriel - The Elegance of the Hedgehog

Bauby, Jean-Dominique - The Diving-Bell and the Butterfly
Beauman, Ned - Boxer, Beetle

Beauman, Nicola - The Other Elizabeth Taylor
Benatar, Stephen - Wish Her Safe At Home
Bennett, Alan - The Uncommon Reader
Bennett, Alan - The History Boys
Benson, E.F. - The Mapp & Lucia series
Benson, E.F. - Secret Lives

Birchall, Diana - Mrs. Darcy's Dilemma
Blyton, Enid - The St. Clare's series
Bowen, Elizabeth - The Last September
Brandenburg, Molly - Everyday Cat Excuses
Brinton, Sybil G. - Old Friends and New Fancies

Brittney, Lynn - Christine Kringle

Bryson, Bill - Shakespeare

Burney, Frances - Evelina
Buzbee, Lewis - The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop
Cannan, Joanna - Princes in the Land
Carey, Edward - Alva & Irva
Carey, Edward - Observatory Mansions
Carhart, Thad - The Piano Shop on the Left Bank
Carr, J. L. - A Month In The Country
Carroll, Lewis - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Cartwright, Justin - This Secret Garden: Oxford Revisited

Cavanagh, Mary - The Crowded Bed
Cavanagh, Mary - A Seriously Useful Author's Guide to Marketing and Publicising Books

Chatto, Beth and Christopher Lloyd - Dear Friend and Gardener

Chopin, Kate - Portraits
Christie, Agatha - The Murder at the Vicarage
Coetzee, J. M. - Foe
Coles, William - The Well-Tempered Clavier
Compton-Burnett, Ivy - A House and Its Head
Compton-Burnett, Ivy - Parents and Children
Compton-Burnett, Ivy - Manservant & Maidservant
Compton-Burnett, Ivy - Pastors and Masters
Comyns, Barbara - Sisters By A River
Comyns, Barbara - The House of Dolls
Comyns, Barbara - The Juniper Tree

Comyns, Barbara - Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead
Comyns, Barbara - The Vet's Daughter
Conrad, Joseph - Heart of Darkness
Crompton, Richmal - Frost at Morning
Crompton, Richmal - Matty and the Dearingroydes

Cunningham, Michael - The Hours

Delafield, E.M. - The Provincial Lady
Delafield, E.M. - Straw Without Bricks: I Visit The Soviets
Delafield, E.M. - As Others Hear Us
Delius, F.C. - Portrait of the Woman as a Young Mother
Dennys, Joyce - Henrietta's War
Dennys, Joyce - Repeated Doses
Devine, Harriet - Being George Devine's Daughter
Devonshire, Deborah (Deborah Mitford) - Counting My Chickens
Devonshire, Deborah - Home To Roost

Dickens, Monica - One Pair of Hands

Dickens, Monica - One Pair of Feet
Dockrill, Laura - Mistakes in the Background
Dominguez, Carlos Maria - The Paper House

Dorward, Peter - Nightingale

Dostoevsky, Fyodor - The Eternal Husband
du Maurier, Daphne - The Flight of the Falcon
du Maurier, Daphne - My Cousin Rachel
du Maurier, Daphne - Letters from Menabilly
Eliot, T.S. - The Family Reunion

Fadiman, Anne - Ex Libris
Faulks, Sebastian - Pistache
Ferguson, Rachel - The Brontes Went To Woolworths
Fitzgerald, Penelope - The Bookshop

Fowler, Karen Joy - The Jane Austen Book Club

Fox, Kate - Watching the English
Frame, Janet - The Lagoon
Fraser-Sampson, Guy - Major Benjy
Freese, Matthias B. - Down To A Sunless Sea
Frisby, Terence - Kisses on a Postcard
Gaarder, Jostein - The Christmas Mystery
Garnett, Angelica - Deceived With Kindness
Garnett, Angelica - The Unspoken Truth
Garnett, David - Aspects of Love

Garnett, David - Lady Into Fox
Gaskell, Elizabeth - Cousin Phillis
Gavron, Asaf - Croc Attack!

Gebbie, Vanessa - Words from a Glass Bubble
Gibbons, Stella - Cold Comfort Farm

Gillard, Linda - A Lifetime Burning
Gillard, Linda - Star Gazing
Giono, Jean - The Man Who Planted Trees

Glass, Lisa - Prince Rupert's Teardrop

Gordon-Cumming, Jane - A Proper Family Christmas
Gordon-Cumming, Jane - The Haunted Bridge
Grace, N.B. - High School Musical: The Book of the Film (!)
Graham, Virginia - Say Please
Greenberg, Michael - Beg, Borrow, Steal: A Writer's Life
Greene, Graham - Travels With My Aunt

Grenfell, Joyce and Virginia Graham - Joyce & Ginnie
Grimmett, Neil - The Bestowing Sun
Hansford Johnson, Pamela - An Error of Judgement
Hapwood, Dianne - Tea and Tranquillisers
Hardy, Thomas - Jude the Obscure
Harman, Claire - Jane's Fame
Hart, Elizabeth Anna - The Runaway

Hartley, Jenny - Reading Groups

Hartley, L. P. - The Go-Between

Hartley, L. P. - Simonetta Perkins
Hill, Susan - The Battle for Gullywith
Hill, Susan - Howards End is on the Landing
Hill, Susan - The Beacon
Hill, Susan - In the Springtime of the Year

Hills, Ruth Mary - Scar Tissue

Hosseini, Khaled - The Kite Runner
Humble, Nicola - The Feminine Middlebrow Novel
Ishiguro, Kazuo - Never Let Me Go
Jackson, Shirley - The Haunting of Hill House
Jackson, Shirley - The Bird's Nest
Jackson, Shirley - We Have Always Lived in the Castle
James, Henry - The Turn of the Screw

Jamie, Kathleen - Findings

Jansson, Tove - A Winter Book

Jansson, Tove - Fair Play

Jansson, Tove - The Summer Book
Jansson, Tove - The True Deceiver
Jansson, Tove - Travelling Light

Jerome, Jerome K. - The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow

Jerome, Jerome K. - Three Men in a Boat
Kaye-Smith, Sheila & G.B. Stern - More Talk of Jane Austen
Kendal, Felicity - White Cargo
Kennedy, Richard - A Boy at the Hogarth Press
Koppel, Lily - The Red Leather Diary
Kundera, Milan - Immortality
Kundera, Milan - Identity

Lappin, Tom - Parties
Laski, Marghanita - Little Boy Lost
Last, Nella - Nella Last's War
Lawrence, D.H. - The Fox

Lawson, Mary - Crow Lake
Leacock, Stephen - Literary Lapses
Lee, Harper - To Kill A Mockingbird
Lee, Hermione - A Very Short Introduction to Biography

Lehmann, John - Thrown To The Woolfs

Leigh, Mike - Abigail's Party
Lelord, Francois - Hector and the Search for Happiness
Leverson, Ada - Love's Shadow
Light, Alison - Forever England

Lindsay, David - The Haunted Woman
Lindsay, Joan - Picnic at Hanging Rock
Longford, Christine - Making Conversation
Macaulay, Rose - Crewe Train
Macaulay, Rose - Keeping Up Appearances
Manguel, Alberto - Stevenson Under The Palm Trees
Mankowitz, Wolf - A Kid For Two Farthings
Mansfield, Katherine - Selected Stories
Maxwell, William - They Came Like Swallows

McEwan, Ian - On Chesil Beach
McEwan, Ian - Black Dogs

McGill, John - The Most Glorified Strip of Bunting
Melbye, Eric - Tru
Michaels, Anne - Fugitive Pieces
Middleton Murry, J. - Pencillings
Miles, Susan - Lettice Delmer
Miller, Arthur - All My Sons
Mills, Magnus - The Maintenance of Headway

Milne, A. A. - It's Too Late Now

Milne, A. A. - Year In, Year Out
Milne, A.A. - Two People
Milne, A.A. - Once A Week
Milne, A.A. - The Dover Road
Milne, Christopher - The Enchanted Places
Mitchell, David - The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet

Mitford, Nancy - The Pursuit of Love
The Mitfords - Letters Between Six Sisters (a)
The Mitfords - Letters Between Six Sisters (b)

Morley, Christopher - Parnassus on Wheels
Murdoch, Iris - The Sandcastle
Murray, Simone - Mixed Media

Myers, Elizabeth - A Well Full of Leaves
Nemirovsky, Irene - Suite Francaise
Nemirovsky, Irene - David Golder
Niffenegger, Audrey - The Time Traveler's Wife
Norton, Mary - The Bread and Butter Stories

O'Farrell, Maggie - The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox
O'Grady, Rohan - Let's Kill Uncle
Oliphant, Laurence - Piccadilly
Olivier, Edith - The Love Child
Olmi, Veronique - Beside the Sea
Orwell, George - Homage to Catalonia
Oyeyemi, Helen - The Icarus Girl
Oyeyemi, Helen - White is for Witching
Panter-Downes, Mollie - Minnie's Room: The Peacetime Stories

Pearce, Philippa - Tom's Midnight Garden
Penney, Stef - The Tenderness of Wolves

Perkins Gilman, Charlotte - The Yellow Wallpaper
Pheby, Alex - Grace
Read, Herbert - The Green Child
Rice, Eva - The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets
Robinson, Mary - The Art of Gardening
Rosenthal, Amy - On The Rocks

Rowling, J. K. - The Harry Potter series

Rowling, J. K. - Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Sacks, Oliver - The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat
Sackville-West, Vita - The Heir
Sackville-West, Vita - All Passion Spent

Saki - The Penguin Complete Saki
Saki - A Shot in the Dark
Sam, Anna - Checkout: A Life on the Tills

Sangster, Alfred - The Brontes
Schein, Elyse & Paula Bernstein - Identical Strangers
Schreiner, Olive - The Story of an African Farm
Sellers, Susan - Vanessa and Virginia
Shaffer, Mary Ann - The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Shaw, Ali - The Girl With Glass Feet
Shelley, Mary - Frankenstein
Sinclair, May - Life and Death of Harriett Frean
Sjon - The Blue Fox
Smith, Emma - The Great Western Beach
Smith, Emma - Maidens' Trip
Solomon, Laura - Alternative Medicine
Solomons, Natasha - Mr. Rosenblum's List
Spalding, Frances - Insights: The Bloomsbury Group
Spark, Muriel - The Driver's Seat
Spark, Muriel - Loitering With Intent
Stacey, Tom - The Man Who Knew Everything
Stevenson, D.E. - Miss Buncle's Book
Stevenson, D.E. - Mrs. Tim of the Regiment
Strachey, Julia - Cheerful Weather for the Wedding

Struther, Jan - Mrs. Miniver
Struther, Jan - Try Anything Twice
Summerscale, Kate - The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher
Taylor, Elizabeth - Angel
Taylor, Elizabeth - Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont
Taylor, Elizabeth - A Game of Hide and Seek

Thomas, Helen - As It Was and World Without End

Thorton, Rosy - Hearts and Minds
Todd, Barbara Euphan - Miss Ranskill Comes Home

Todd, Janet - Death and the Maidens: Fanny Wollstonecraft and the Shelley Circle

Tomalin, Claire - Katherine Mansfield : A Secret Life
Trapido, Barbara - Brother of the More Famous Jack
Truss, Lynne - Making the Cat Laugh

Vercors - Sylva
Visman, Janni - Yellow
Visman, Janni - Sex Education
von Arnim, Elizabeth - The Enchanted April

Wallace, Danny - Yes Man
Warner, Sylvia Townsend - Lolly Willowes
Waterfield, Giles - The Long Afternoon
Waters, Sarah - The Little Stranger
Waugh, Evelyn - Put Out More Flags
Waugh, Evelyn - The Loved One
Whipple, Dorothy - Someone at a Distance

Whipple, Dorothy - The Closed Door and other stories
Whipple, Dorothy - High Wages

Wigfall, Clare - The Loudest Sound and Nothing
Wiseman, Robert - Quirkology
Wodehouse, P.G. - Indiscretions of Archie
Wodehouse, P.G. - Aunts Aren't Gentlemen
Wolff, Tobias - In the Garden of the North American Martyrs
Woolf, Leonard & Trekkie Ritchie Parsons - Love Letters
Woolf, Virginia - Flush
Woolf, Virginia - Orlando

Woolf, Virginia - The London Scene
Yates, Richard - Revolutionary Road

Young, Angela - Speaking of Love
Young, E.H. - Miss Mole
Zaid, Gabriel - So Many Books
Zusak, Markus - The Book Thief

Various - The Assassin's Cloak
Various - Bayard Books

Various - Man Proposes

Various - The Paris Review Interviews
Various - The Sixpenny Debt and other Oxford stories

Reviews by Our Vicar and Our Vicar's Wife