Harvey, Samantha: Orbital: Winner of the Booker Prize 2024
ALL THE STARS! ONE OF MY FAVOURITE EVER READS. (*****)
Bjork, Samuel: The Wolf
(****)
Hoover, Colleen: It Ends With Us
Book club read. Absolute trash. (*)
Walsh, Colin: Kala'
ALLTHE STARS! (*****)
Jones, Sadie: Amy and Lan
(****)
Sansom, C. J.: Dark Fire
ALL THE STARS! (*****)
Miller, Kirsten: The Change
BOOK CLUB READ (***)
O'Farrell, Maggie: Hamnet: Winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction 2020
(****)
Michaelides, Alex: The Fury
(****)
Yuzuki, Asako: Butter
DNF (*)
O'Farrell, Maggie: The Marriage Portrait
ALL THE STARS! (*****)
The Bell Jar (50th Anniversary Edition) by Plath, Sylvia
(****)
Gilmartin, Sarah: Service
ALL THE STARS! BOOK CLUB READ (*****)
Moss, Sarah: Summerwater
(****)
Tartt, Donna: The Secret History
ALL THE STARS! (*****)
King, Stephen: Holly
ALL THE STARS! (*****)
Zevin, Gabrielle: Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
(****)
Clark, Eliza: Penance
(***)
Diaz, Hernan: Trust: Winner of the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
(****)
Matsumoto, Seicho: Tokyo Express (Penguin Modern Classics)
(****)
Percival Everett: The Trees: Shortlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize
(****)
Sancton, Julian: Madhouse at the End of the Earth: The Belgica’s Journey into the Dark Antarctic Night
ALL THE STARS! (*****)
Kuang, Rebecca F: Yellowface
(****)
Durrant, Sabine: Sun Damage
(****)
Durrant, Sabine: Under Your Skin
ALL THE STARS! (*****)
Hart, Emilia: Weyward:
(****)
Day, Elizabeth: Magpie
(***)
Kepler, Lars: The Mirror Man
(****)
Slaughter, Karin: Girl, Forgotten
ALL THE STARS! (*****)
Hannah, Sophie: The Mystery of Three Quarters: The New Hercule Poirot Mystery
(****)
Dean, Will: First Born
ALL THE STARS***** (*****)
Nesbo, Jo: The Jealousy Man
ALL THE STARS ! (*****)
Cavanagh, Steve: Twisted
(****)
Cavanagh, Steve: The Accomplice
ALL THE STARS! (*****)
Caro Ramsay: Dark Water
(****)
French, Tana: The Searcher
ALL THE STARS! (*****)
Powers, Richard: The Overstory
DNF as book accidentally ended up in the washing machine.
Cox, Sara: Thrown
(****)
Coetzee, J.M.: Disgrace
ALL THE STARS! (*****)
Bolton, Sharon: The Pact
(****)
Cavanagh, Steve: The Liar
(****)
Kukafka, Danya: Notes on an Execution
ALL THE STARS! (*****)
Williams, Lara: Supper Club
(****)
Cavanagh, Steve: The Plea
(****)
Waters, Sarah: Fingersmith
ALL THE STARS! (*****)
Shaw, Jane: Susan Pulls The Strings
Childhood Christmas favourite
Banville, John: Snow
(****)
Cummins, Jeanine: American Dirt
ALL THE STARS***** (*****)
Penny: All the Devils Are Here (Chief Inspector Gamache)
ALL THE STARS! (*****)
Jackson, Holly: A Good Girl's Guide to Murder: Book 1
(****)
Parsons, Tony: Die Last
(****)
Phillips, Gin: Fierce
(****)
Haruf, Kent: Plainsong
ALL THE STARS! (*****)
Nesbo, Jo: The Kingdom
ALL THE STARS! (*****)
Fuller, Claire: Unsettled Ground: Shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2021
ALL THE STARS! (*****)
Bailey, Anna: Tall Bones
ALL THE STARS! (*****)
Slaughter, Karin: The Silent Wife (Book 10 The Will Trent Series)
(****)
Thomas, Russ: Firewatching
(****)
Hunter, Megan: The Harpy
(****)
Greene, Graham: The End of the Affair (Vintage Classics)
(***)
McDermid, Val: Still Life
(****)
Wait, Rebecca: Our Fathers
ALL THE STARS! (*****)
Dean, Will: The Last Thing to Burn
ALL THE STARS! (*****)
Chambers, Clare: Small Pleasures: Longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2021
(****)
Jónasson, Ragnar: The Island
(****)
Shaw, Jane: Susan Pulls the Strings
ALL THE STARS! (*****)
McDermid, Val: Christmas is Murder: A chilling short story collection
(****)
Slater, Nigel: The Christmas Chronicles: Notes, stories & 100 essential recipes for midwinter
ALL THE STARS! (*****)
Winterson, Jeanette: Christmas Days: 12 Stories and 12 Feasts for 12 Days
ALL THE STARS!
(*****)
Dan Simmons: The Terror
(****)
Whitaker, Chris: Tall Oaks
(****)
Joan Lindsay: Picnic At Hanging Rock
ALL THE STARS! (*****)
Whitaker, Chris: We Begin at the End
ALL THE STARS! (*****)
Cavanagh, Steve: Fifty-Fifty
ALL THE STARS! (*****)
Sullivan, Matthew: Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore
ALL THE STARS! (*****)
Louise Penny: A Great Reckoning (Chief Inspector Gamache Book 12)
(****)
Hans Fallada: Alone in Berlin (Penguin Modern Classics)
All the stars! (*****)
Cavanagh, Steve: Thirteen
(****)
Evaristo, Bernardine: Girl, Woman, Other
ALL THE STARS! (*****)
Jackson, Shirley: The Haunting of Hill House (Penguin Modern Classics)
(****)
Thomas, Angie: The Hate U Give
ALL THE STARS! (*****)
Nesbo, Jo: Knife: (Harry Hole 12)
All the stars! (*****)
Weaver, Tim: No One Home
ALL THE STARS! (*****)
Rubenhold, Hallie: The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
ALL THE STARS! (*****)
Sansom, C. J.: Dissolution
(****)
Anita Shreve: The Stars are Fire
ALL THE STARS! (*****)
Cleeves, Ann: The Long Call
(****)
Andrew Martin: The Winker
(****)
Chris Mooney: The Snow Girls
ALL THE STARS! (*****)
Erin Kelly: He Said/She Said
(*****)
Stephen King: The Outsider
(****)
Stacey Halls: The Familiars
4/5 (****)
Val McDermid: The Distant Echo (Detective Karen Pirie, Book 1)
Margaret Atwood: The Testaments: WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019
Tayari Jones: An American Marriage: WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION, 2019
Martin Edwards: The Serpent Pool (Lake District Mysteries Book 4)
Jane Housham: The Apprentice of Split Crow Lane: The Story of the Carr's Hill Murder
Stuart Turton: The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle: Winner of the Costa First Novel Award 2018
Mons Kallentoft: Midwinter Sacrifice (Malin Fors series Book 1)
Sharon Bolton: A Dark and Twisted Tide: Lacey Flint Series, Book 4
Sharon Bolton: Like This, For Ever: Lacey Flint Series, Book 3
Charles Palliser: The Quincunx: The Inheritance of John Huffam
Cathy Rentzenbrink: The Last Act of Love: The Story of My Brother and His Sister
Alexander McCall Smith: The Comfort Of Saturdays (Isabel Dalhousie Novels)
Dr Rajendra Sharma: Live Longer, Live Younger: Design Your Personal Plan For A Long And Healthy Life
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The Christmas placemats are still missing.
An essential ingredient is sure to have been forgotten.
It doesn't matter.
We have our first gingerbread house.
And a very smiley reindeer to help eat it.
There's a mountain of veg to prepare, a nut loaf to make, a celery and Stilton soup to sieve and a trifle to assemble.
Time to sign off and enjoy the best time of the year.
Merry Christmas.