August 2007
Notes on a Scandal by Zoe Heller [suggested by Rowena James] Pottery teacher Sheba lets herself be talked into an […]
Notes on a Scandal by Zoe Heller [suggested by Rowena James] Pottery teacher Sheba lets herself be talked into an […]
The Many-Coloured Land by Julian May [suggested by John Beresford] Although having achieved some success with short fiction, Julian May […]
Running with Scissors: A Memoir by Augusten Burroughs [suggested by Ben Monk] There is a passage early in Augusten Burroughs’s […]
The Outsider by Albert Camus [suggested by Lynsey Rodger] Meursault leads an apparently unremarkable bachelor life in Algiers until he […]
Northern Lights by Philip Pullman [suggested by Lisa Williams] Lyra’s life is already sufficiently interesting for a novel before she […]
The Reader by Bernhard Schlink [suggested by Susan Owens] Originally published in Switzerland and gracefully translated into English by Carol […]
Catcher In The Rye by J.D.Salinger [suggested by Mair Morgan] The Catcher in the Rye was first published in the […]
Perfume by Patrick Suskind [suggested by Linda Wong] Survivor, genius, perfumer, killer: this is Jean-Baptiste Grenouille. He is abandoned on […]
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving [suggested by Caz Kemp] Owen Meany is a dwarfish boy with a […]
To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf [suggested by Lisa Taylor] This novel is an extraordinarily poignant evocation of a lost […]