Reading Maps
- Reading Map 1: from The Country of the Pointed Firs
From the Maine Coast to the Arctic Circle with dogs, wolves, shells and bears.
Archives
Reviews
- Adamson, Gil ~ The Outlander
- Aiken, Joan ~ The Wolves of Willoughby Chase
- Alain-Fournier ~ The Lost Estate (Le Grand Meaulnes)
- Alison, Rosie ~ The Very Thought of You
- Allan, M.E. ~ The School on North Barrule
- Allingham, Margery ~ Sweet Danger
- Allnatt, Judith ~ The Poet's Wife
- Altenberg, Karin ~ Island of Wings
- Arnim (von), Elizabeth ~ The Enchanted April
- Atkinson, Kate ~ Transcription
- Austen, Jane ~ Sanditon
- B.B. ~ Brendon Chase
- Bailey, Jenna ~ Can Any Mother Help Me?
- Baker, Frank ~ Miss Hargreaves
- Baker, Jo ~ Longbourn
- Baricco, Alessandro ~ Silk
- Basil, Priya ~ The Obscure Logic of the Heart
- Bauermeister, Erica ~ The Monday Night Cooking School
- Belben, Rosalind ~ Our Horses in Egypt
- Bell, Adrian ~ Men and the Fields
- Benson, E.F. ~ Lucia in London
- Benson, E.F. ~ Queen Lucia
- Bishop, Bernardine ~ Unexpected Lessons in Love
- Blythe, Ronald ~ The Time by the Sea
- Boling, Dave ~ Guernica
- Borodale, Jane ~ The Knot
- Boyd, William ~ Love is Blind
- Boyd, William ~ Ordinary Thunderstorms
- Boyd, William ~ Waiting for Sunrise
- Braddon, Mary Elizabeth ~ Lady Audley's Secret
- Bradley, Alan ~ A Red Herring without Mustard
- Bradley, Alan ~ I am Half-Sick of Shadows
- Bradley, Alan ~ Speaking from Among the Bones
- Bradley, Alan ~ The Dead in their Vaulted Arches
- Bradley, Alan ~ The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
- Bradley, Alan ~ The Weed that Strings the Hangman's Bag
- Brockmole, Jessica ~ Letters from Skye
- Brooks, Geraldine ~ People of the Book
- Bryant, Sarah ~ The Other Eden
- Buchan, Ursula ~ Beyond The Thirty-Nine Steps
- Buck, Pearl S. ~ The Good Earth
- Buxton, J.P. ~ I am the Blade
- Byatt, A.S. ~ The Children's Book
- Byatt, A.S. ~ The Matisse Stories
- Cannan, Joanna ~ Princes in the Land
- Carhart, T.E. ~ The Piano Shop on the Left Bank
- Carr, J.L. ~ A Month in the Country
- Cather, Willa ~ Death comes for the Archbishop
- Cavanagh, Mary ~ A Man Like Any Other: The Priest's Tale
- Chatwin, Bruce ~ On the Black Hill
- Chester, Len ~ Bugle Boy
- Chevalier, Tracy ~ A Single Thread
- Chevalier, Tracy ~ The Last Runaway
- Chua, Amy ~ Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother
- Clanchy, Kate ~ Meeting the English
- Clapp, Susannah ~ A Card from Angela Carter
- Claudel, Philippe ~ Brodeck's Report
- Coates, John ~ Patience
- Cobbold, Marika ~ Drowning Rose
- Colegate, Isabel ~ The Shooting Party
- Colette ~ My Mother's House and Sido
- Collins, Warwick ~ The Sonnets
- Craig, Amanda ~ Hearts and Minds
- Dana, Maggie ~ Beachcombing
- Davies, Robertson ~ Fifth Business
- Davies, Robertson ~ The Cunning Man
- de Waal, Edmund ~ The Hare with Amber Eyes
- Dean, Louise ~ The Old Romantic
- Delacourt, Gregoire ~ The List of my Desires
- Delaney, Frank ~ The Matchmaker of Kenmare
- Dennison, Matthew ~ Eternal Boy: The Life of Kenneth Grahame
- Dennys, Joyce ~ Henrietta's War
- di Rollo, Elaine ~ A Proper Education for Girls
- Dinesen, Isak ~ Babette's Feast
- Don, Monty ~ The Ivington Diaries
- Donnelly, Jennifer ~ A Gathering Light
- Donoghue, Emma ~ The Sealed Letter
- Doshi, Tishani ~ Small Days and Nights
- Doughty, Caitlin ~ From Here to Eternity: Travelling the World to Find the Good Death
- du Maurier, Daphne ~ My Cousin Rachel
- du Maurier, Daphne ~ The Rebecca Notebook and Other Memories
- Duncan, Jane ~ My Friends the Miss Boyds
- Duncker, Patricia ~ The Strange Case of the Composer and his Judge
- Dunn, Mark ~ Ella Minnow Pea
- Edwards, Kim ~ The Lake of Dreams
- Edwards, Kim ~ The Memory Keeper's Daughter
- Elphinstone, Margaret ~ Light: A Novel
- Evans, Lissa ~ Their Finest Hour and a Half
- Faber, Michel ~ The Crimson Petal and the White
- Fairbairns, Judy ~ Island Wife
- Farndale, Nigel ~ The Blasphemer
- Farndon, John ~ Do you think you're clever: The Oxbridge Questions
- Farrell, J.G. ~ Troubles
- Faulkner, Michael ~ The Blue Cabin
- Faulks, Sebastian ~ A Possible Life
- Ferguson, Rachel ~ The Brontes went to Woolworths
- Fiennes, William ~ The Music Room
- Fiorato, Marina ~ The Madonna of the Almonds
- Fitzgerald, Penelope ~ Human Voices
- Fitzgerald, Penelope ~ The Blue Flower
- Fitzgerald, Penelope ~ The Bookshop
- Fitzgerald, Penelope ~ The Gate of Angels
- Fletcher, Susan ~ Corrag
- Fletcher, Susan ~ House of Glass
- Forster, Margaret ~ Keeping the World Away
- Forster, Margaret ~ My Life in Houses
- Forsyth, Mark ~ The Elements of Eloquence
- Fowles, John ~ The French Lieutenant's Woman
- Freeman, Laura ~ The Reading Cure
- Fremantle, E.C. ~ The Poison Bed
- French, Marilyn ~ The Love Children
- Freud, Esther ~ Mr. Mac and Me
- Furnivall, Kate ~ The White Pearl
- Gaiman, Neil ~ Coraline
- Gardam, Jane ~ Crusoe's Daughter
- Gardam, Jane ~ The Man in the Wooden Hat
- Gardner, Sally ~ The Double Shadow
- Gardner, Sally ~ The Red Necklace
- Garner, Alan ~ The Owl Service
- Gautreaux, Tim ~ The Missing
- Gebbie, Vanessa ~ The Coward's Tale
- Gee, Sue ~ Coming Home
- Gee, Sue ~ Earth and Heaven
- Gee, Sue ~ Last Fling
- Gee, Sue ~ Reading in Bed
- Gee, Sue ~ The Mysteries of Glass
- Geras, Adele ~ A Hidden Life
- Geras, Adele ~ Made in Heaven
- Gerrard, Nicci ~ The Winter House
- Ghosh, Amitav ~ Sea of Poppies
- Gibbons, Stella ~ Nightingale Wood
- Gilbert, Elizabeth ~ The Signature of All Things
- Gillard, Linda ~ Emotional Geology
- Gillard, Linda ~ House of Silence
- Gillard, Linda ~ Star Gazing
- Giono, Jean ~ The Man who planted Trees
- Godden, Rumer ~ In this House of Brede
- Golding, Julia ~ The Diamond of Drury Lane
- Goudge, Elizabeth ~ The Bird in the Tree
- Goudge, Elizabeth ~ The Herb of Grace
- Green, Julian ~ Paris
- Gremillon, Helene ~ The Confidant
- Grossmith, G.&W. ~ The Diary of a Nobody
- Grove, Valerie ~ So Much To Tell
- Gunn, Neil ~ Second Sight
- Hall, Catherine ~ The Proof of Love
- Hannah, Sophie ~ The Orphan Choir
- Harding, Georgina ~ Painter of Silence
- Harding, Georgina ~ The Solitude of Thomas Cave
- Harding, Georgina ~ The Spy Game
- Hardinge, Frances ~ A Skinful of Shadows
- Hare, Cyril ~ Tragedy at Law
- Harkness, Deborah ~ A Discovery of Witches
- Harris, Alexandra ~ Romantic Moderns: English Writers, Artists & the Imagination from Virginia Woolf to John Piper
- Harris, Jane ~ Gillespie and I
- Hart, Charlie ~ Skymeadow: Notes from an English Gardener
- Hartley, L.P. ~ The Go-Between
- Hawkins, Alis ~ Testament
- Heyer, Georgette ~ A Civil Contract
- Hickman, Katie ~ The Aviary Gate
- Hill, Susan ~ A Kind Man
- Hill, Susan ~ Black Sheep
- Hill, Susan ~ Howards End is on the Landing
- Hill, Susan ~ In the Springtime of the Year
- Hill, Susan ~ The Small Hand
- Hodgson Burnett, Frances ~ The Shuttle
- Holtby, Winifred ~ South Riding
- Horwood, W. & Rappaport, H. ~ Dark Hearts of Chicago
- Housman, A.E. ~ A Shropshire Lad
- Ivey, Eowyn ~ The Snow Child
- Jacob, Clare ~ Ophelia in Pieces
- James, P.D. ~ Death comes to Pemberley
- James, P.D. ~ Talking about Detective Fiction
- Jansson, Tove ~ A Winter Book
- Jansson, Tove ~ The Summer Book
- Jenkins, Elizabeth ~ The Tortoise and the Hare
- Jenkins, Janette ~ Little Bones
- Jewett, Sarah Orne ~ The Country of the Pointed Firs
- Joinson, Suzanne ~ A Lady Cyclist's Guide to Kashgar
- Jones, Julia ~ The Adventures of Margery Allingham
- Jones, Lloyd ~ Mister Pip
- Jones, Sadie ~ The Uninvited Guests
- Jones, Susanna ~ When Nights Were Cold
- Jones, Wendy ~ The Thoughts and Happenings of Wilfred Price, Purveyor of Superior Funerals
- Kaplan, Michael & Ellen ~ Bozo Sapiens
- Kay, Francesca ~ An Equal Stillness
- Kay, Francesca ~ The Translation of the Bones
- Kearsley, Susanna ~ Sophia's Secret
- Kelly, Erin ~ The Sick Rose
- King, Claire ~ The Night Rainbow
- Lanchester, John ~ The Debt to Pleasure
- Lane, Harriet ~ Alys, Always
- Laurain, Antoine ~ The President's Hat
- Lawrenson, Deborah ~ The Lantern
- Lawson, Mary ~ Crow Lake
- Le Guin, Ursula ~ A Wizard of Earthsea
- Leavitt, David ~ The Indian Clerk
- Lee, Harper ~ To Kill a Mockingbird
- Lee, Hermione ~ Penelope Fitzgerald: A Life
- Lee, Janice Y.K. ~ The Piano Teacher
- Leighton, Clare ~ Country Matters
- Lelord, Francois ~ Hector and the Search for Happiness
- Leslie, Anita ~ Train to Nowhere
- Levene, Louise ~ Ghastly Business
- Leyshon, Nell ~ The Colour of Milk
- Lindbergh, Anne Morrow ~ Gifts from the Sea
- Long, James ~ Ferney
- Lovett, Charlie ~ First Impressions
- Lovett, Charlie ~ The Bookman's Tale
- Lovric, Michelle ~ The Undrowned Child
- Mabey, Richard ~ Nature Cure
- Macfarlane, Robert ~ Underland
- Mantel, Hilary ~ Wolf Hall
- Marsh, Henry ~ Admissions
- Maugham, W. Somerset ~ The Razor's Edge
- Mawer, Simon ~ The Glass Room
- May, Peter ~ Entry Island
- May, Peter ~ The Blackhouse
- May, Peter ~ The Lewis Man
- Mayor, F.M. ~ The Third Miss Symons
- Mazzola, Anna ~ The Story Keeper
- McAllester, Matt ~ Bittersweet: Lessons from My Mother's Kitchen
- McAllister, Angela ~ The Runaway
- McCall Smith, Alexander ~ Bertie's Guide to Life and Mothers
- McCall Smith, Alexander ~ Dream Angus
- McCann, Maria ~ The Wilding
- McCarthy, Tom ~ C
- McCleen, Grace ~ The Professor of Poetry
- McGregor, Jon ~ This isn't the sort of thing that happens to someone like you
- McHaffie, Hazel ~ Right to Die
- McKay, Shirley ~ Hue & Cry
- McNish, Cliff ~ The Hunting Ground
- McQueen, Alison ~ Under the Jewelled Sky
- McVeigh, Jennifer ~ The Fever Tree
- Meier, Diane ~ Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
- Meier, Diane ~ The Season of Second Chances
- Miller, Christian ~ A Childhood in Scotland
- Miller, Madeline ~ The Song of Achilles
- Mills, Magnus ~ A Cruel Bird Came to the Nest and Looked In
- Mitchell, David ~ The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
- Monroe, Alex ~ Two Turtle Doves: A Memoir of Making Things
- Moore Ede, Piers ~ All Kinds of Magic
- Moore, Lisa ~ February
- Mosley, Charlotte (ed.) ~ The Mitfords: Letters between Six Sisters
- Moss, Sarah ~ Bodies of Light
- Moss, Sarah ~ Night Waking
- Mosse, Kate ~ The Taxidermist's Daughter
- Munro, Alice ~ Runaway
- Murdoch, Iris ~ The Nice and the Good
- Narayan, R.K. ~ The Painter of Signs
- Newby, Eric ~ Something Wholesale
- Nicholson, William ~ Motherland
- Nicholson, William ~ Reckless
- Nicholson, William ~ The Secret Intensity of Everyday Life
- Nicolson, Juliet ~ The Perfect Summer: Dancing into Shadow in 1911
- Norfolk, Lawrence ~ John Saturnall's Feast
- Nott, David ~ War Doctor: Surgery on the Front Line
- O'Connell, John ~ The Baskerville Legacy
- O'Farrell, Maggie ~ Instructions for a Heatwave
- O'Farrell, Maggie ~ The Hand that First Held Mine
- Ogawa, Yoko ~ The Housekeeper and the Professor
- Olmi, Veronique ~ Beside the Sea
- Ondaatje, Michael ~ The English Patient
- Osler, Mirabel - The Rain Tree
- Panter-Downes, Mollie ~ One Fine Day
- Parry, Ambrose ~ The Way of All Flesh
- Patchett, Ann ~ Bel Canto
- Patchett, Ann ~ State of Wonder
- Patchett, Ann ~ This is the Story of a Happy Marriage
- Paver, Michelle ~ Dark Matter
- Paver, Michelle ~ Dark Matter
- Paver, Michelle ~ Thin Air
- Paver, Michelle ~ Wakenhyrst
- Pearce, A.J. ~ Dear Mrs. Bird
- Pearce, Philippa ~ Tom's Midnight Garden
- Pears, Iain ~ An Instance of the Fingerpost
- Pears, Iain ~ Stone's Fall
- Pears, Tim ~ The Horseman
- Pears, Tim ~ The Redeemed
- Pears, Tim ~ The Wanderers
- Peck, Winifred ~ House-bound
- Peters, Ellis ~ A Morbid Taste for Bones
- Picardie, Justine ~ Coco Chanel: The Legend and the Life
- Pitcher, Annabel ~ My Sister lives on the Mantelpiece
- Plampin, Matthew ~ The Gunmaker's Gift
- Politycki, Matthias ~ Next World Novella
- Powell, Anthony ~ A Buyer's Market
- Powell, Anthony ~ A Question of Upbringing
- Powell, Anthony ~ The Acceptance World
- Pym, Barbara ~ No Fond Return of Love
- Quinn, Anthony ~ Half of the Human Race
- Rankin, Ian ~ Saints of the Shadow Bible
- Rankin, Ian ~ The Beat Goes On
- Rapp, Emily ~ The Still Point of the Turning World
- Reynolds, Matthew ~ Designs for a Happy Home
- Riley, Peggy ~ Amity & Sorrow
- Rindell, Suzanne ~ The Other Typist
- Robinson, Jane ~ Bluestockings
- Rooney, Jennie ~ Red Joan
- Rooney, Jennie ~ The Opposite of Falling
- Runcie, James ~ East Fortune
- Runcie, James ~ Sidney Chambers and The Perils of the Night
- Runcie, James ~ Sidney Chambers and the Shadow of Death
- Rusbridge, Jane ~ Rook
- Rusbridge, Jane ~ The Devil's Music
- Rush, Christopher ~ Will
- Rutter, Esther ~ This Golden Fleece
- Sackville-West, Robert ~ Inheritance: The Story of Knole and the Sackvilles
- Sam, Anna ~ Checkout: A Life on the Tills
- Saumarez Smith, John (ed.) ~ The Bookshop at 10, Curzon Street
- Sayers, Dorothy L. ~ The Nine Tailors
- Schwalbe, Will ~ The End of Your Life Book Club
- Scott, Anne ~ 18 Bookshops
- Scott, Robyn ~ Twenty Chickens for a Saddle
- Sedgwick, Marcus ~ White Crow
- Setterfield, Diane ~ Bellman & Black
- Setterfield, Diane ~ Once Upon A River
- Shannon, Samantha ~ The Bone Season
- Sheridan, Sara ~ Secret of the Sands
- Simonson, Helen ~ Major Pettigrew's Last Stand
- Sittenfeld, Curtis ~ Sisterland
- Sjon ~ The Blue Fox
- Slater, Nigel ~ Toast: The Story of a Boy's Hunger
- Sloan, Robin ~ Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
- Smith, Dodie ~ I Capture the Castle
- St. John, Lauren ~ The Obituary Writer
- Stegner, Wallace ~ Crossing to Safety
- Steinbeck, John ~ Travels with Charley
- Stevenson, D.E. ~ Miss Buncle's Book
- Stevenson, D.E. ~ The Two Mrs. Abbotts
- Stevenson, Robert Louis ~ The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde
- Stewart, Mary ~ Touch Not The Cat
- Strout, Elizabeth ~ Olive Kitteridge
- Struther, Jan ~ Mrs. Miniver
- Summerscale, Kate ~ Mrs. Robinson's Disgrace: The Private Diary of a Victorian Lady
- Sutcliff, Rosemary ~ Blue Remembered Hills
- Tartt, Donna ~ The Secret History
- Taylor, Andrew ~ The Anatomy of Ghosts
- Taylor, D.J. ~ Ask Alice
- Taylor, D.J. ~ Kept: A Victorian Mystery
- Taylor, Elizabeth ~ A Game of Hide and Seek
- Tearne, Roma ~ Brixton Beach
- Thomas, Aeronwy ~ My Father's Places
- Thomas, Rosie ~ The Kashmir Shawl
- Thomas, Ruth ~ The Home Corner
- Thornton, Rosy ~ The Tapestry of Love
- Torday, Paul ~ The Hopeless Life of Charlie Summers
- Tremain, Rose ~ Music and Silence
- Trollope, Anthony ~ The Warden
- Tweedsmuir, Susan ~ The Edwardian Lady
- Tyler, Anne ~ Breathing Lessons
- Tyler, Anne ~ The Beginner's Goodbye
- Urquhart, Jane ~ Sanctuary Line
- Van Booy, Simon ~ Love Begins In Winter
- Vereker, Susie ~ Paris Imperfect
- Vesaas, Tarjei ~ The Ice Palace
- Vickers, Salley ~ Aphrodite's Hat
- Vickers, Salley ~ The Librarian
- Vickery, Amanda ~ Behind Closed Doors: At Home in Georgian England
- Vida, Nina ~ The Texicans
- Wall, Carolyn ~ Sweeping up Glass
- Waterfield, Giles ~ Markham Thorpe
- Waugh, Evelyn ~ Decline and Fall
- West, Rebecca ~ The Fountain Overflows
- Wilde, Oscar ~ The Picture of Dorian Gray
- Wilder, Thornton ~ The Bridge of San Luis Rey
- Willard, Barbara ~ The Lark and the Laurel
- Williams, John ~ Stoner
- Williams, Niall ~ History of the Rain
- Wilson, Andrew ~ The Lying Tongue
- Wood, Lucy ~ Diving Belles
- Zouroudi, Anne ~ The Messenger of Athens
- Zweig, Stefan ~ Journey into the Past
- Welty, Eudora ~ The Optimist's Daughter
- Weisgarber, Ann ~ The Promise
- Worsley, Kate ~ She Rises
- Zouroudi, Anne ~ The Feast of Artemis
- West, Juliet ~ Before the Fall
- Yee, Chiang ~ The Silent Traveller in Oxford
- Youngson, Anne ~ Meet me at the Museum
- Williams, Niall ~ This is Happiness