Books 2012

December

• The Man in the Queue by Josephine Tey
• Small Favour by Jim Butcher
• Shakespeare's Landlord by Charlaine Harris
• Memories of a House by L.M. Boston
• Perverse and Foolish by L.M. Boston
• The Game of Kings by Dorothy Dunnett - re-read
• The Vacillations of Poppy Carew by Mary Wesley - re-read
• A Hole in the Ground by Andrew Garve
• So Wild the Heart by Geoffrey Trease
• Christmas at Candleshoe by Michael Innes
• A Country Christmas by Miss Read
• Dead Beat by Jim Butcher
• Some Tame Gazelle by Barbara Pym
• Familiar Passions by Nina Bawden
• Narrow Dog to Wigan Pier by Terry Darlington

November

• The Red Pavilion by Robert van Gulik
• Some Kind of Fairy Tale by Graham Joyce
• The Madonna of the Astrolabe by J.I.M. Stewart
• Guard Your Daughters by Diana Tutton
• Wild Strawberries by Angela Thirkell (re-read)
• The Brandons by Angela Thirkell (re-read)
• Arriving in Snowy Weather by Joyce Windsor (re-read)
• After the Unicorn by Joyce Windsor (re-read)
• A Mislaid Magic by Joyce Windsor (re-read)

October

• City of Dragons by Robin Hobb
• The American Duchess by Rosamond Fitzroy
• The Cat Manual by Michael Taylor
• The Old Silent by Martha Grimes
• The Day is Dark by Yrsa Sigurdadottir
• Dragonwyck by Anya Seton
• News from Thrush Green by Miss Read
• The Family Trade by Charles Stross
• Appleby's Answer by Michael Innes
• Searching for Captain Wentworth by Jane Odiwe
• The Way to Sattin Shore by Philippa Pearce
• A Woman of Consequence by Miss Anna Dean

September

• Jerusalem Inn by Martha Grimes
• The Atrocity Archives by Charles Stross
• Nemesis by Lindsay Davis
• Mrs Malory and the Festival Murder by Hazel Holt
• Murder by Committee by Veronica Heley
• Dead Harvest by Chris F. Holm
• Out of Love by Victoria Clayton - re-read
• A Brief History of Montmaray by Michelle Cooper (K)
• Going Dutch by Katie Fforde
• Skulduggery by William Marshall
• Boneland by Alan Garner
• The Moon of Gomrath by Alan Garner - re-read
• The Weirdstone of Brisingamen by Alan Garner - re-read

August

• Luminous Airplanes by Paul La Farge 
• Chords and Discords by Roz Southey
• The Governess by Peggy Chambers
• The Widow's Might by Rosamond Fitzroy
• A Castle in Northumbria by Lorna Hill
• A Bothersome Number of Corpses by Catriona McPherson
• Angels and Men by Catherine Fox
• Upside Down by Denis Mackail
• The Manor of Braye by Rosamond Fitzroy
• Archdeacons Afloat by C.A. Alington
• Miss Pym Disposes by Josephine Tey
• Mayhem and Miranda by Carola Dunn
• The Ingenious Mr Avison by Roz Southey, Margaret Maddison and David Hughes
• The Dirty Duck by Martha Grimes

July

• Avilion by Robert Holdstock
• White Boots by Noel Streatfeild - re-read
• Embassytown by China Mieville
• A Murderous Procession by Ariana Franklin
• The Extinction Club by Jeffrey Moore
• Heir to Sevenwaters by Juliet Marillier
• The Impossible Dead by Ian Rankin
• Deep Waters by Kate Charles
• Shadow of Night by Deborah Harkness
• Chocolate Wishes by Trisha Ashley
• Shadows on the Streets by Susan Hill
• Watson's Choice by Gladys Mitchell
• Lydia Bennet's Blog by Valerie Laws

June

• The Complaints by Ian Rankin
• Broken Harmony by Roz Southey
• An Unsuitable Day for a Murder by Catriona McPherson
• Wicked Business by Janet Evanovitch
• Kiss the Dead by Laurell K. Hamilton
• An Awfully Big Adventure by Beryl Bainbridge
• Secrets of the Fire Sea by Stephen Hunt
• The Exploits and Adventures of Miss Alethea Darcy by Elizabeth Aston
• Straight Up by Catriona McCloud
• A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness
• Zuleika Dobson by Max Beerbohm
• Sauve Qui Peut by Lawrence Durrell
• The Glass Guardian by Linda Gillard
• The Colonel's Daughter by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles
• The Dog Stars by Peter Heller
• A Late Lark Singing by Sybill Marshall

May

• Diplomatic Baggage by James Melville
• Thank You, Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse
• Death Is Now My Neighbour by Colin Dexter
• Strip the Willow by Sybil Marshall
• Daughters of Cain by Colin Dexter
• Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman - re-read
• The Princess Priscilla's Fortnight by Elizabeth von Arnim
• Duplicate Death by Georgette Heyer
• In a Land of Plenty by Tim Pears

April

• Thus Was Adonis Murdered by Sarah Caudwell
• The Ivy Tree by Mary Stewart
• Mr Darcy's Diary by Amanda Grange
• Sharp Through the Hawthorn by Sybil Marshall
• Uncharted Territory by Connie Willis
• The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
• Ninepins by Rosy Thornton
• The Secret Life of William Shakespeare by Jude Morgan
• An Enemy at Green Knowe by L.M. Boston
• A Nest of Magpies by Sybil Marshall
• The Crime at Diana's Pool by Victor L. Whitechurch

March

• Bury Her Deep by Catriona McPherson
• A Very Private Grave by Donna Fletcher
• Ambergate by Patricia Elliott
• Second Spring by Carola Dunn
• Mayhem and Miranda by Carola Dunn
• Jutland Cottage by Angela Thirkell
• Mr Golightly's Holiday by Salley Vickers

February

• Cousin Harriet by Susan Tweedsmuir
• A Room Full of Bones by Elly Griffiths
• When Last I Died by Gladys Mitchell
• The Scent of Water by Elizabeth Goudge - re-read
• Wild Strawberries by Angela Thirkell
• Portrait of a Man with Red Hair by Hugh Walpole
• Fell Farm Campers by Marjorie Lloyd
• Wolf Solent by John Cowper Powys
• Marling Hall by Angela Thirkell - re-read
• The Growing Summer by Noel Streatfeild
• Fell Farm Holiday by Marjorie Lloyd
• Mariana by Monica Dickens

January

• Out of Oz by Gregory Maguire
• Darkness at Pemberley by T.H. White (K)
• The Brontes Went to Woolworths by Rachel Ferguson
• Happy Returns by Angela Thirkell
• The Midnight Kittens by Dodie Smith
• A Lesson in Dying by Ann Cleeves
• A Civil Contract by Georgette Heyer
• The Rosemary Tree by Elizabeth Goudge - re-read
• A Darkly Hidden Truth by Donna Fletcher Crow (K)
• Diary Without Dates by Enid Bagnold (K)
• The Constant Nymph by Margaret Kennedy
• The Hatchet Man by William Marshall
• Look Back with Love by Dodie Smith
• Blackout by Connie Willis
• The Girls by John Bowen