August 2007

Notes on a Scandal by Zoe Heller [suggested by Rowena James] Pottery teacher Sheba lets herself be talked into an […]

July 2007

The Many-Coloured Land by Julian May [suggested by John Beresford] Although having achieved some success with short fiction, Julian May […]

June 2007

Running with Scissors: A Memoir by Augusten Burroughs [suggested by Ben Monk] There is a passage early in Augusten Burroughs’s […]

May 2007

The Outsider by Albert Camus [suggested by Lynsey Rodger] Meursault leads an apparently unremarkable bachelor life in Algiers until he […]

April 2007

Northern Lights by Philip Pullman [suggested by Lisa Williams] Lyra’s life is already sufficiently interesting for a novel before she […]

March 2007

The Reader by Bernhard Schlink [suggested by Susan Owens] Originally published in Switzerland and gracefully translated into English by Carol […]

February 2007

Catcher In The Rye by J.D.Salinger [suggested by Mair Morgan] The Catcher in the Rye was first published in the […]

January 2007

Perfume by Patrick Suskind [suggested by Linda Wong] Survivor, genius, perfumer, killer: this is Jean-Baptiste Grenouille.  He is abandoned on […]

October 2006

To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf [suggested by Lisa Taylor] This novel is an extraordinarily poignant evocation of a lost […]