Books 2011
December
The Dark is Rising Sequence by Susan Cooper - re-read
Fell Farm Christmas by Marjorie Lloyd
Glint by Ann Coburn
Untying the Knot by Linda Gillard (K)
The House of Silk by Anthony Horowitz
Rattle His Bones by Carola Dunn (K)
Mixed Magics by Diana Wynne-Jones
Ashes to Dust by Yrsa Sigurdardottir
Death Comes to Pemberley by P.D. James
November
Perfect Lives by Polly Samson
Tom's Midnight Garden by Philippa Pearce - re-read
The Sleeping and the Dead by Ann Cleeves
The House of the Wind by Titania Hardie
Styx and Stones by Carola Dunn
Avenger's Angel by Heather Killough-Walden
Damsel in Distress by Carola Dunn
Jalna by Mazo de la Roche - re-read
Witch Week by Diana Wynne-Jones
The Magicians of Caprona by Diana Wynne-Jones
October
The Lives of Christopher Chant by Diana Wynne-Jones re-read
Charmed Life by Diana Wynne-Jones - re-read
Silvertongue by Charlie Fletcher
The Duke's Daughter by Angela Thirkell
Ragnarok by A.S. Byatt
Jane Austen by Carol Shields
The American Boy by Andrew Taylor
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
Arrival City by Doug Saunders (K)
Jane and Prudence by Barbara Pym - re-read
The Pattern in the Carpet by Margaret Drabble
The Girls by John Bowen
September
The Digital Wolf by Jon Rosenberg - K
The Wine of Angels by Phil Rickman - K
Ironhand by Charlie Fletcher
Storm Front by Jim Butcher
Fragile Things by Neil Gaiman
A Lovesome Thing by Patricia S. Bowne - K
Murkmere by Patricia Elliott
The Hanging Wood by Martin Edwards
August
Lost by Gregory Maguire
The Sea Lady by Margaret Drabble
The Affair of the Thirty-Nine Cufflinks by James Anderson
The Flesh Tailor by Kate Ellis
American Gods by Neil Gaiman - re-read
Unseen Academicals by Terry Pratchett
The Herring-Seller's Apprentice by L.C. Tyler (K)
The Vows of Silence by Susan Hill
Conference at Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
The Mind Readers by Margery Allingham
Verdigris Deep by Frances Hardinge
Writing for Social Scientists by Howard S. Becker (K)
Cheerfulness Breaks In by Angela Thirkell
County Chronicle by Angela Thirkell (re-read)
Salamander by David D. Friedman (K)
July
Titus Alone by Mervyn Peake (re-read)
The Sandcastle by Iris Murdoch (re-read)
The Old Bank House by Angela Thirkell
Mortal Engines by Philip Reeve
The Unicorn Crisis by Jon Rosenberg (K)
The Risk of Darkness by Susan Hill
The Somnambulist by Essie Fox
The Flying Troutmans by Miriam Toews
June
Gillespie and I by Jane Harris
Nuns and Soldiers by Iris Murdoch
Superior Saturday by Garth Nix
The Bell by Iris Murdoch (K)
Picts and Martyrs by Arthur Ransome
The Borrowers Avenged by Mary Norton
Annabel by Kathleen Winter
The Provincial Lady Goes Further by E.M. Delafield
Love in Idleness by Amanda Craig (K)
The Borrowers Aloft by Mary Norton
Troll Mill by Katherine Langrish (K)
Troll Fell by Katherine Langrish (K)
May
The Great White Bear by Kieran Mulvaney
Dangerous Deceit by Romy Gemmell (K)
The Burning Sky by Joseph Robert Lewis (K)
Living Dolls by Natasha Walter
Love Among the Ruins by Angela Thirkell
Decline and Fall by Evelyn Waugh - re-read (K)
Firebird by Peter Morwood
Little Fuzzy by H. Beam Piper (K)
Mad World: Evelyn Waugh and the Secrets of Brideshead by Paula Byrne
The Flourish by Heather Spears
Private Enterprise by Angela Thirkell
April
The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag by Alan Bradley (re-read)
Angel by Carola Dunn (K)
A Place of Secrets by Rachel Hore (K)
The Poisoned Crown by Amanda Hemingway
The Susceptible Gentleman by Carola Dunn (K)
The Little People by MacDonald Harris
Cooking with Fernet Branca by James Hamilton-Paterson
The House of Silence by Linda Gillard (K)
The Weight of the Evidence by Michael Innes
Death at La Fenice by Donna Leon
Switched by Amanda Hocking (K)
March
The Cruellest Month by Hazel Holt - re-read
The Silver Pigs by Lindsay Davies (K) - re-read
The Twelve Dancers by William Mayne
Advice from Pigeons by Patricia S. Bowne (K)
Miss Hartwell's Dilemma by Carola Dunn (K)
Peace Breaks Out by Angela Thirkell
Emily Goes to Exeter by M.C. Beaton (K)
A Cotsworld Killing by Rebecca Tope (K)
The Shortest Journey by Hazel Holt (K)
Aboard the Unstoppable Aerostat Fenris by Cameron Chapman (K)
Toblethorpe Manor by Carola Dunn (K)
The Chymical Wedding by Lindsay Clarke
The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie
February
The Twinning Murders by Shelly Frome
They Found Him Dead by Georgette Heyer
Murder on the Flying Scotsman by Carola Dunn
South Riding by Winifred Holtby
Fruit in Season by Anthony Thorne
The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents by Terry Pratchett (K)
The House at Sea's End by Elly Griffiths
Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Sausages by Tom Holt (K)
Clerical Errors by D.M. Greenwood (K)
Dead in the Water by Carola Dunn
Miss Bunting by Angela Thirkell (re-read)
The Fallen Blade by Jon Courtenay Grimwood
January
Rivers of London by Ben Aaronovitch (K)
Murder Fortissimo by Nicola Slade
We Had It So Good by Linda Grant
The Headmistress by Angela Thirkell
A Madness of Angels by Kate Griffin
The Bishop's Man by Linden McIntyre (K)
Envious Casca by Georgette Heyer (re-read)
The Patience of the Spider by Andrea Camilleri
Nightingale Wood by Stella Gibbons
My Dear Charlotte by Hazel Holt (K)
The Dark is Rising Sequence by Susan Cooper - re-read
Fell Farm Christmas by Marjorie Lloyd
Glint by Ann Coburn
Untying the Knot by Linda Gillard (K)
The House of Silk by Anthony Horowitz
Rattle His Bones by Carola Dunn (K)
Mixed Magics by Diana Wynne-Jones
Ashes to Dust by Yrsa Sigurdardottir
Death Comes to Pemberley by P.D. James
November
Perfect Lives by Polly Samson
Tom's Midnight Garden by Philippa Pearce - re-read
The Sleeping and the Dead by Ann Cleeves
The House of the Wind by Titania Hardie
Styx and Stones by Carola Dunn
Avenger's Angel by Heather Killough-Walden
Damsel in Distress by Carola Dunn
Jalna by Mazo de la Roche - re-read
Witch Week by Diana Wynne-Jones
The Magicians of Caprona by Diana Wynne-Jones
October
The Lives of Christopher Chant by Diana Wynne-Jones re-read
Charmed Life by Diana Wynne-Jones - re-read
Silvertongue by Charlie Fletcher
The Duke's Daughter by Angela Thirkell
Ragnarok by A.S. Byatt
Jane Austen by Carol Shields
The American Boy by Andrew Taylor
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
Arrival City by Doug Saunders (K)
Jane and Prudence by Barbara Pym - re-read
The Pattern in the Carpet by Margaret Drabble
The Girls by John Bowen
September
The Digital Wolf by Jon Rosenberg - K
The Wine of Angels by Phil Rickman - K
Ironhand by Charlie Fletcher
Storm Front by Jim Butcher
Fragile Things by Neil Gaiman
A Lovesome Thing by Patricia S. Bowne - K
Murkmere by Patricia Elliott
The Hanging Wood by Martin Edwards
August
Lost by Gregory Maguire
The Sea Lady by Margaret Drabble
The Affair of the Thirty-Nine Cufflinks by James Anderson
The Flesh Tailor by Kate Ellis
American Gods by Neil Gaiman - re-read
Unseen Academicals by Terry Pratchett
The Herring-Seller's Apprentice by L.C. Tyler (K)
The Vows of Silence by Susan Hill
Conference at Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
The Mind Readers by Margery Allingham
Verdigris Deep by Frances Hardinge
Writing for Social Scientists by Howard S. Becker (K)
Cheerfulness Breaks In by Angela Thirkell
County Chronicle by Angela Thirkell (re-read)
Salamander by David D. Friedman (K)
July
Titus Alone by Mervyn Peake (re-read)
The Sandcastle by Iris Murdoch (re-read)
The Old Bank House by Angela Thirkell
Mortal Engines by Philip Reeve
The Unicorn Crisis by Jon Rosenberg (K)
The Risk of Darkness by Susan Hill
The Somnambulist by Essie Fox
The Flying Troutmans by Miriam Toews
June
Gillespie and I by Jane Harris
Nuns and Soldiers by Iris Murdoch
Superior Saturday by Garth Nix
The Bell by Iris Murdoch (K)
Picts and Martyrs by Arthur Ransome
The Borrowers Avenged by Mary Norton
Annabel by Kathleen Winter
The Provincial Lady Goes Further by E.M. Delafield
Love in Idleness by Amanda Craig (K)
The Borrowers Aloft by Mary Norton
Troll Mill by Katherine Langrish (K)
Troll Fell by Katherine Langrish (K)
May
The Great White Bear by Kieran Mulvaney
Dangerous Deceit by Romy Gemmell (K)
The Burning Sky by Joseph Robert Lewis (K)
Living Dolls by Natasha Walter
Love Among the Ruins by Angela Thirkell
Decline and Fall by Evelyn Waugh - re-read (K)
Firebird by Peter Morwood
Little Fuzzy by H. Beam Piper (K)
Mad World: Evelyn Waugh and the Secrets of Brideshead by Paula Byrne
The Flourish by Heather Spears
Private Enterprise by Angela Thirkell
April
The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag by Alan Bradley (re-read)
Angel by Carola Dunn (K)
A Place of Secrets by Rachel Hore (K)
The Poisoned Crown by Amanda Hemingway
The Susceptible Gentleman by Carola Dunn (K)
The Little People by MacDonald Harris
Cooking with Fernet Branca by James Hamilton-Paterson
The House of Silence by Linda Gillard (K)
The Weight of the Evidence by Michael Innes
Death at La Fenice by Donna Leon
Switched by Amanda Hocking (K)
March
The Cruellest Month by Hazel Holt - re-read
The Silver Pigs by Lindsay Davies (K) - re-read
The Twelve Dancers by William Mayne
Advice from Pigeons by Patricia S. Bowne (K)
Miss Hartwell's Dilemma by Carola Dunn (K)
Peace Breaks Out by Angela Thirkell
Emily Goes to Exeter by M.C. Beaton (K)
A Cotsworld Killing by Rebecca Tope (K)
The Shortest Journey by Hazel Holt (K)
Aboard the Unstoppable Aerostat Fenris by Cameron Chapman (K)
Toblethorpe Manor by Carola Dunn (K)
The Chymical Wedding by Lindsay Clarke
The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie
February
The Twinning Murders by Shelly Frome
They Found Him Dead by Georgette Heyer
Murder on the Flying Scotsman by Carola Dunn
South Riding by Winifred Holtby
Fruit in Season by Anthony Thorne
The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents by Terry Pratchett (K)
The House at Sea's End by Elly Griffiths
Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Sausages by Tom Holt (K)
Clerical Errors by D.M. Greenwood (K)
Dead in the Water by Carola Dunn
Miss Bunting by Angela Thirkell (re-read)
The Fallen Blade by Jon Courtenay Grimwood
January
Rivers of London by Ben Aaronovitch (K)
Murder Fortissimo by Nicola Slade
We Had It So Good by Linda Grant
The Headmistress by Angela Thirkell
A Madness of Angels by Kate Griffin
The Bishop's Man by Linden McIntyre (K)
Envious Casca by Georgette Heyer (re-read)
The Patience of the Spider by Andrea Camilleri
Nightingale Wood by Stella Gibbons
My Dear Charlotte by Hazel Holt (K)
