Year Five: Book Reviews

Baker, Frank – Mr. Allenby Loses The Way 
Barnes, Julian – The Sense of an Ending 
Beaton, Cecil – Ashcombe
Benson, Stella – Living Alone
Bentley, Nicolas – How Can You Bear To Be Human?
Betts, P.Y. – People Who Say Goodbye
Bioy Casares, Adolfo – The Invention of Morel
Border, Terry – Bent Objects 
Bowles, Jane – Two Serious Ladies
Bridge, Ann – Illyrian Spring
Brookner, Anita – Hotel du Lac
Capote, Truman – In Cold Blood
Chesterton, G.K. – The Man Who Was Thursday
Cholmondeley, Mary – Red Pottage
Colquhoun, Kate – Mr. Brigg’s Hat (Review by Our Vicar’s Wife)
Crompton, Richmal – Still William
Dick, Kay – Ivy and Stevie 
Dickens, Charles – Great Expectations 
Dostoevsky, Fyodor – The Double
Essex, Mary – The Amorous Bicycle
Evens, Brecht – The Wrong Place
Fadiman, Anne – At Large and At Small
Ferguson, Rachel – Passionate Kensington
Field, Eugene – The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac
Gallico, Paul – Jennie
Gibbons, Stella – Westwood
Girouard, Mark – Enthusiasms
Goldsworthy, Peter – Maestro 
Graham, Virginia – Here’s How
Green, Henry – Blindness
Grondahl, Jens Christian – Virginia
Hamilton, Patrick – The Slaves of Solitude
Hardy, Thomas – The Return of the Native
Hillis, Marjorie – Live Alone and Like It
Howe, Bea – A Fairy Leapt Upon My Knee
Jackson, Shirley – Life Among the Savages
Jackson, Shirley – Raising Demons
Jackson, Shirley – The Lottery and other stories 
Kaufman, Andrew – The Tiny Wife
Keller, Helen – The World I Live In  
Kennedy, Margaret – Jane Austen 
Kerr, Jean – Please Don’t Eat The Daisies
Kingsolver, Barbara – The Poisonwood Bible
Last, Nella – Nella Last’s Peace
Leduc, Violette – The Lady and the Little Fox Fur
Macaulay, Rose – The World My Wilderness 
Maugham, W. Somerset – Up At The Villa
Maxwell, William – So Long, See You Tomorrow
Maxwell, William & Sylvia Townsend Warner – The Element of Lavishness
Mayor, F.M. – The Rector’s Daughter
Mills, Magnus – All Quiet on the Orient Express
Milne, A.A. – Mr. Pim Passes By
Morley, Christopher – Safety Pins
Nicholls, David – One Day
Olivier, Edith – Night Thoughts of a Country Landlady
Olivier, Edith – Country Moods and Tenses  
Panter-Downes, Mollie – One Fine Day
Pratchett, Terry – Going Postal
Queneau, Raymond – Exercises in Style
Saki – The Unbearable Bassington
Smith, Dodie – I Capture the Castle
Smith, Dodie – The Town in Bloom
Smith, Dodie – Look Back With Love  
Smith, Dodie – Dear Octopus
Spark, Muriel – Memento Mori
Steinbeck, John – The Pearl
Stephenson, Simon – Let Not The Waves of the Sea
Stonier, G.W. – Shaving Through the Blitz
Strachan, Mari – The Earth Hums in B Flat
Taylor, Elizabeth – A View of the Harbour
Toole, John Kennedy – A Confederacy of Dunces
Townsend, Sue – Adrian Mole series  
Trefusis, Violet – Echo
Trevelyan, G.E. – Appius and Virginia
Trillin, Calvin – Tepper Isn’t Going Out
Trillin, Calvin – Deadline Poet 
Vincent, Lady Kitty – Gin and Ginger
von Arnim, Elizabeth – Christopher and Columbus
Warner, Sylvia Townsend – Time Importuned  
Warner, Sylvia Townsend – Opus 7 

Warner, Sylvia Townsend and William Maxwell – The Element of Lavishness 
Winman, Sarah – When God Was A Rabbit
Wodehouse, P.G. – Right Ho, Jeeves 
Wren, Jenny – Lazy Thoughts of a Lazy Girl
Young, E.H. – The Misses Mallett

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