Recent new fiction and non-fiction reviews (by author)
And so farewell…to 2014 in books
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Couple Mechanics by Nelly Alard
After Birth by Elisa Albert
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Scent: The Collected Works by Dinesh Allirajah
The Insect Rosary by Sarah Armstrong
Dark Water by Sara Bailey
Keeping an Eye Open: Essays on Art by Julian Barnes
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SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard
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The Sellout by Paul Beatty
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Pond by Claire-Louise Bennett
On the Wilder Shores of Love by Lesley Blanch
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Towards Mellbreak by Marie-Elsa Bragg
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The Stray American by Wendy Brandmark
The Museum of You by Carys Bray
Through Every Human Heart by Janice Brown
Their Promised Land by Ian Buruma
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Heroic Measures by Jill Ciment
We That Are Left by Clare Clark
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Did You Ever Have a Family by Bill Clegg
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The Life-Writer by David Constantine
October Crime Round-Up by N. J. Cooper
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Outline by Rachel Cusk
Sweetbitter by Stephanie Danler
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Here Comes the Sun by Nicole Dennis-Benn
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Points of Origin by Diao Dou
Exposure by Helen Dunmore
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The Green Road by Anne Enright
Siracusa by Delia Ephron
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The Dancing Bear by Frances Faviell
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A Footman for the Peacock by Rachel Ferguson
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Don’t Let My Baby Do Rodeo by Boris Fishman
How to Measure a Cow by Margaret Forster
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My History by Lady Antonia Fraser
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Muse by Jonathan Galassi
The Book of Memory by Petina Gappah
The Arc of the Swallow by Sissel-Jo Gazan
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Virginia Woolf in Manhattan by Maggie Gee
In the Steps of Exceptional Women by Jane W. Grant
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One Night, Markovitch by Ayelet Gundar-Goshen
Infidelities by Kirsty Gunn
The Past by Tessa Hadley
The Girl in the Red Coat by Kate Hamer
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The Valentine House by Emma Henderson
Cartes Postale from Greece by Victoria Hislop
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Etta and Otto and Russell and James by Emma Hooper
The House on Bellevue Gardens by Rachel Hore
All Together Now by Gill Hornby
Away from the Dead by Karen Jennings
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Fen by Daisy Johnson
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Sometimes a River Song by Avril Joy
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The First Bad Man by Miranda July
Small Hours by Jennifer Kitses
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The Grammar of God by Aviya Kushner
Nobody is Ever Missing by Catherine Lacey
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To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Rebound by Aga Lesiewicz
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Armadillos by P.K. Lynch
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Brief Loves That Live Forever by Andreï Makine
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The Tsar of Love and Techno by Anthony Marra
The Undertaker’s Daughter by Kate Mayfield
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Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue
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The Portable Veblen by Elizabeth McKenzie
The Unfortunates by Sophie McManus
The Zoo by Jamie Mollart
Daughters of Castle Deverill by Santa Montefiore
February Crime Round-Up by N.J.Cooper
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Ladivine by Marie NDiaye
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Perfect Wives in Ideal Homes by Virginia Nicholson
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A House Full of Daughters by Juliet Nicolson
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Mary McGrory: The First Queen of Journalism by John Norris
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The Fishermen by Chigozie Obioma
The Woman Next Door by Yewande Omotoso
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Light Box: Stories by K.J. Orr
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After the Parade by Lori Ostlund
Not Working by Lisa Owens
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Under the Rose by Julia O’Faolain
The Children’s Crusade by Ann Packer
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The Bees by Laline Paull
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My Mother is a River by Donatella Di Pietrantonio
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Miller's Valley by Anna Quindlen
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Work Like Any Other by Virginia Reeves
Conrad and Eleanor by Jane Rogers
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The Art of Typewriting by Ruth and Marvin Sackner
Farewell, Cowboy by Olja Savicevic
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John le Carré: The Biography by Adam Sisman
Eligible by Curtis Sittenfeld
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My Name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout
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A Secret Sisterhood by Emily Midorikawa and Emma Claire Sweeney
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The Last Pier by Roma Tearne
Take Six Girls by Laura Thompson
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Sandlands by Rosy Thornton
The Ice Twins by S.K. Tremayne
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The Diver’s Clothes Lie Empty by Vendela Vida
Palawan Story by Caroline Vu
A Quiet Life by Natasha Walter
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The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters
To Explain the World by Steven Weinberg
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The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
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The Gap of Time by Jeanette Winterson
Older new fiction and non-fiction reviews (by author)
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- Arnold, Gaynor - After Such Kindness
- Ashworth, Jenn - The Friday Gospels
- Bakalar, A.M. - Madame Mephisto
- Banville, John - Ancient Light
- Barbash, Tom - Stay Up with Me
- Barker, Pat - Toby's Room
- Barnes, Kim - In the Kingdom of Men
- Bell, LiamMurray - So It Is
- Benson, Peter - Isabel’s Skin
- Binet, Laurent - HHhH
- Bloom, Amy - Lucky Us
- Bologna, Filippo - The Parrots
- Briscoe, Joanna - Touched
- Brockes, Emma - She Left Me the Gun
- Bruce, Alison - The Silence
- Buarque, Chico - Spilt Milk
- Buckley, Christopher - They Eat Puppies, Don't They?
- Butler, Sarah - Ten Things I’ve Learnt About Love
- Camouro, Alexa - Dixon Grace 1.9.7 Hamburg
- Carey, Peter - The Chemistry of Tears
- Chevalier, Tracy - The Last Runaway
- Christiansen, Rupert - I Know You Are Going To be Happy
- Clanchy, Kate - Meeting the English
- Clarke, Clare - Beautiful Lies
- Cleave, Chris - Gold
- Clements, Kirstie - The Vogue Factor
- Coates, John - Patience
- Coe, Jonathan - Expo 58
- Coelho, Paulo - Adultery
- Cooper, N.J. - Vengeance in Mind
- Coplin, Amanda - The Orchardist
- Creed, Adam - Death in the Sun
- Davenport-Hines, Richard - An English Affair
- Davidson, Toni - My Gun Was As Tall As Me
- DeWitt, Helen - Lightning Rods
- Diaz, Junot - This is How You Lose Her
- Divry, Sophie - The Library of Unrequited Love
- Donoghue, Emma - Frog Music
- Drabble, Margaret - The Pure Gold Baby
- Dragnić, Nataša - Every Day, Every Hour
- Duffy, Maureen - In Times Like These
- Dugdall, Ruth - The Woman Before Me
- Dunmore, Helen - The Lie
- Egan, Jennifer - Black Box
- Emling, Shelley - Marie Curie and Her Daughters
- Erdrich, Louise - The Round House
- Fagan, Jenni - The Panopticon
- Feinstein, Elaine - It Goes With the Territory
- Fell, Alison - The Element –Inth in Greek
- Fergusson, Ben - The Spring of Kasper Meier
- Ferraris, Zoe - Kingdom of Strangers
- Flanagan, Richard - The Narrow Road to the Deep North
- Frayn, Michael - Skios
- Freely, Maureen - Sailing Through Byzantium
- Galgut, Damon - Arctic Summer
- Gallay, Claudie - In the Gold of Time
- Gamerro, Carlos - The Islands
- Gekoski, Rick - Lost, Stolen or Shredded
- Glaister, Lesley - Little Egypt
- Graff, Laurent - The Scream
- Graham, Laurie - A Humble Companion
- Grant, Linda - Upstairs at the Party
- Greenburg, Bradley - When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomed
- Grémillon, Hélène - The Confidant
- Hage, Rawi - Carnival
- Hagena, Katharina - The Taste of Apple Seeds
- Harrington, Rebecca - Penelope
- Harris, Eve - The Marrying of Chani Kaufman
- Hay, Elizabeth - Alone in the Classroom
- Heath, Rachel - Part of the Spell
- Henderson, Eleanor - Ten Thousand Saints
- Hitchman, Beatrice - Petite Mort
- Hoffman, Cara - Be Safe I Love You
- Hogan, Phil - A Pleasure and a Calling
- Hollist, Pede - So The Path Does Not Die
- Holt, Elliott - You Are One of Them
- Honig, Michael - Goldblatt’s Descent
- Hooper, Chloe - The Engagement
- Hope, Anna - Wake
- Hore, Rachel - The Silent Tide
- Horst, JørnLier - Closed for Winter
- Hotakainen, Kari - The Human Part
- Humbert, Fabrice - Sila’s Fortune
- Huson, Nancy - Infrared
- Hustvedt, Siri - The Blazing World
- Idliby, RanyaTabari - Burqas, Baseball and Apple Pie
- Isaac, Jane - The Truth Will Out
- James, Heidi - Wounding
- Jarrett, Vicki - Nothing is Heavy
- Jennings, Karen - Finding Soutbek
- Johnson, Rachel - Winter Games
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- Jones, Catherine - Wonder Girls
- Joyce, Rachel - The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
- Juul, Pia - The Murder of Halland
- Kent, Hannah - Burial Rites
- Kilroy, Claire - The Devil I Know
- Koch, Herman - The Dinner
- Kogan, DeborahCopaken - The Red Book
- Krall, Hanna - Chasing the King of Hearts
- Lane, Harriet - Her
- Larsson, Asa - The Black Path
- Lee, Jonathan - Joy
- Leo, Maxim - Red Love
- Lepucki, Edan - California
- Levy, Deborah - Black Vodka
- Leyshon, Nell - The Colour of Milk
- Lichtarowicz, Paula - The First Book of Calamity Leek
- Locke, Attica - The Cutting Season
- MacIntyre, Linden - Why Men Lie
- MacMahon, Kathleen - This Is How It Ends
- Macdonald, Helen - H is for Hawk
- Macleod, Kenneth - The Incident
- Manguso, Sarah - The Guardians: An Elegy
- Mann, Jessica - The Fifties Mystique
- Martell, Owen - Intermission
- Martin, Andrew - The Baghdad Railway Club
- McCarten, Anthony - Brilliance
- McEwan, Ian - Sweet Tooth
- McFarlane, Fiona - The Night Guest
- McGregor, Fiona - Indelible Ink
- McMahon, Katharine - The Woman in the Picture
- Meek, James - The Heart Broke In
- Morrall, Clare - After the Bombing
- Munro, Alice - Dear Life
- Myerson, Julie - The Quickening
- NDiaye, Marie - Three Strong Women
- Nakamura, Fuminori - The Thief
- Nicholls, David - Us
- Nicoll, Andrew - If You're Reading This I'm Already Dead
- Niven, JohnJ. - Cold Hands
- Norfolk, Lawrence - John Saturnall’s Feast
- Nott-Bower, Susie - The Making of Her
- O'Faolain, Julia - Trespassers - A Memoir
- O'Neill, Heather - The Girl Who Was Saturday Night
- Oates, JoyceCarol - The Corn Maiden and Other Nightmares
- Onuzo, Chibundu - The Spider King's Daughter
- Osborne, Frances - Park Lane
- O’Donnell, Bridget - Inspector Minahan Makes a Stand: The Missing Girls of England
- O’Flynn, Catherine - Mr Lynch’s Holiday
- O’Neill, Ryan - The Weight of a Human Heart
- Palin, Michael - The Truth
- Parks, Tim - The Server
- Parrett, Favel - Past the Shallows
- Penrose, (editor)Antony - Lee Miller’s War
- Plump, Wendy - Vow
- Powers, Kevin - The Yellow Birds
- Price, Angharad - The Life of Rebecca Jones
- Punti, Jordi - Lost Luggage
- Rachman, Tom - The Rise and Fall of Great Powers
- Rain, David - The Heat of the Sun
- Reeder, Elizabeth - Ramshackle
- Reiss, Tom - The Black Count
- Ridgway, Keith - Hawthorn and Child
- Riley, Gwendoline - Opposed Positions
- Roberts, Bethan - Mother Island
- Rodoreda, Merce - In Diamond Square
- Rothschild, Hannah - The Baroness
- Roy-Battacharya, Joydeep - The Watch
- Rusbridge, Jane - Rook
- Sanchez, Clara - The Scent of Lemon Leaves
- Saunders, George - Tenth of December
- Segal, Francesca - The Innocents
- Shaw, Fiona - A Stone's Throw
- Shipstead, Maggie - Seating Arrangements
- Slade, ToniMarquesandKatie - The Book of Rio – a City in Short Fiction edited
- Smith, Zadie - NW
- Smyth, Cherry - Hold Still
- Soobramanien, Natasha - Genie and Paul
- Spahic, Ognjen - Hansen’s Children
- Stars, Mehrnaz - Woman Master
- Stedman, M.L. - The Light between Oceans
- Stibbe, Nina - Love, Nina
- Straub, Emma - Laura Lamont's Life in Pictures
- Strayed, Cheryl - Wild
- Sullivan, Jane - Little People
- Summerscale, Kate - Mrs Robinson's Disgrace: The Private Diary of a Victorian Lady
- Sussman, Ellen - The Paradise Guesthouse
- Szalowski, Pierre - Fish Change Direction in Cold Weather
- Taylor, Debbie - Herring Girl
- Tearne, Roma - The Road to Urbino
- Tezza, Cristovao - The Eternal Son
- Thirkell, Angela - Summer Half
- Thomas, Matthew - We Are Not Ourselves
- Thornton, Rosy - Ninepins
- Torres, Justin - We the Animals
- Tsvetaeva, Marina - Phaedra: a drama in verse
- Upson, Nicola - Fear in the Sunlight
- Walker, KarenThompson - The Age of Miracles
- Watson-Grant, Roland - Sketcher
- Wayne, Jemma - After Before
- Welsh, Irvine - The Sex Lives of Siamese Twins
- Wheeler, Sara - O My America!
- Wilkinson, Alec - The Ice Balloon
- Winter, Tom - Lost & Found
- Wise, Sarah - Inconvenient People
- Worsley, Kate - She Rises
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- Zaharieva, Virginia - Nine Rabbits
