September reads

Ten books read this month – and I can honestly say that on the whole they have been fabulous. I didn’t manage to read any non-fiction during September, but I have ceased to worry about my lack of non-fiction reading. The pile of books that I had set aside for reading during September took a bit of a battering after the Booker shortlist was announced and I set about reading the four I had left, one of those I have still to go.

94 A Laodicean (1881) Thomas Hardy (F) SEPT
95 The House in Paris (1935) Elizabeth Bowen (F)
96 Prophecy (2011) S J Parris (F)
97 Painted Clay (1917) Capel Boake (F)
98 The Garden of Evening Mists (2012) Tan Twan Eng (F)
99 Died in the Wool (1945) Ngaio Marsh (F)
100 Swimming Home (2011) Deborah Levy (F)
101 Hester Lily & other stories (1954) Elizabeth Taylor (F)
102 A Pin to see the Peepshow (1934) F Tennyson Jesse (F)
103 Narcopolis (2012) Jeet Thayil (F)

 

Special mention then should go to these books: -

 

1. The House in Paris

2 Painted Clay

3 The Garden of Evening Mists

4 A Pin to see the Peepshow

 

 

 

 

They were each so memorable, well written and come highly recommended – from me.

 

 

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September Reads

85 The good apprentice    Iris Murdoch  (F)
86 Spilling the Beans    Clarissa Dickson Wright (NF)
87 The Sanctuary Seeker    Bernard Knight (F)
88 Schindler’s List    Thomas Keneally (F)
89 Murder on a bad hair day    Anne George (F)
90 Every Light in the House Burnin’    Andrea Levy (F)
91 The Rain Before it Falls    Jonathan Coe (F)
92 High Wages    Dorothy Whipple (F)
93 The Nine Taylors    Dorothy L Sayers (F)
94 Her people     Kathleen Dayus (NF)
95 Agatha Raisin and the Day the floods came    M C Beaton (F)

Special mention should go to:

The Good Apprentice – Iris Murdoch – a really good Murdoch –
Murder on a bad hair day – Anne George  a great cosy mystery from the US deep south
High Wages – Dorothy Whipple – a great Persephone book – one of DW’s earliest books .

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September Reads

94 Diana Mosley	Anna de Courcy NF
95 Divisadero	Michael Ondaatje F
96 Shades of Death	Aline Templeton F
97 The Duchess	Amanda Foreman NF
98 The Emigrants	W G Seablad F
99 Agatha Raisin and the vicious vet	M C Beaton F
100 The Country Girls	Edna O’Brien F
101 An Obedient Father	Akhill Sharma F
102 A Glass of Blessings	Barbara Pym F

Been a slow month this month, but although I may not have read that many this month I have read some lovely books.

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September reads

98 The Red and the Green Iris Murdoch
99 The Magician W Somerset Maugham
100 The Villa in Italy Elizabeth Edmondson
101 Eyestone D. R MacDonald
102 The Yacoubian Building Alaa Al Aswany
103 The Suspicions of Me Whicher Kate Summerscale
104 The Child in Time Ian McEwan
105 This Little World Francis Brett Young
106 Chicken Poop for the Soul David Fisher
107 Angry Housewives eating Bon Bons Lorna Landvik

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Sept. Reads

99 When they lay bare Andrew Greig
100 A Long Long Way Sebastian Barry
101 On Chesil Beach Ian McEwan
102 The Village by the sea Anita Desai
103 Lessons to Learn Natasha Judd
104 Paradise Jazz Kat Pomfret
105 Evelina Fanny Burney
106 Liza of lambeth W. Somerset Maugham
107 Mister Pip Lloyd Jones
108 The Accidental (DNF) Ali Smith
109 The Bookshop Penelope Fitzgerald.
110 Greenery Street Denis Mackail

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