July 2011

Alone in Berlin [suggested by Matt Stibbe] Among the 231 reviews of this novel that Amazon offers is this one […]

June 2011

The Handmaid’s Tale [suggested by Cate Bale] The Republic of Gilead offers Offred only one function: to breed. If she […]

May 2011

Book choice for May 2011 Paradise [suggested by Neil Fletcher] Hannah Luckraft knows the taste of paradise. It’s hidden in […]

April 2011

Generation A [suggested by Rob Friedlander] “Generation A” is not a sequel to “Generation X”, and it grips from the […]

March 2011

The Little Stranger [suggested by Helen Close] To be honest I have always had a bit of a soft spot […]

February 2011

If On A Winter’s Night A Traveler [suggested by Olivia Walsby] One definition of metafiction is “Fiction that deals, often […]

January 2011

Firmin: Adventures of a Metropolitan Lowlife [suggested by Laura Smith] “I had always imagined that my life story…would have a […]

November 2010

The Wasp Factory [suggested by Anita Galasso] Meet Frank Cauldhame. Just sixteen, and unconventional to say the least: Two years […]

October 2010

The Suspicions of Mr Whicher or The Murder at Road Hill House [suggested by Claire Jolly] It is a summer’s […]

September 2010

Book choice for September 2010 My Name Is Red [suggested by Pauline Turnbull] Orhan Pamuk is one of Turkey’s premier […]