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,The time between the final proofs and the publication of a book is one of transition. Other than waiting for the cover reveal, there’s little for the author to do. Add the Christmas holiday into the mix and for me, the experience has become a dreamscape.
I’m filling the time with the usual: seasonal lurgy, festive fun, twiddling thumbs; first draft of next story. And filling in 2016 dates in my new desk diary: birthdays, MOT renewal, publication date (*Grin*) and so forth. In my personal diary I’ve listed the books I read throughout the year. For no other reason than I used to do it on Live Journal, I’m going to post them here.
Several of the later books are by writers I have come to know and admire via social media. It’s a continuing joy!
(Anything marked with an asterisk* is a reread)
- H is for Hawk – Helen MacDonald
- Mapp & Lucia (Volume One) – E F Benson *
- The Snow Globe – Judith Kinghorn
- Night Waking – Sarah Moss
- Don’t Look Back – Karin Fossum
- When God Was a Rabbit – Sarah Winman *
- Mortal Love – Elizabeth Hand *
- Waking the Moon – Elizabeth Hand *
- We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves – Karen Joy Fowler
- Mitz – Sigrid Nunez
- Vanessa and Her Sister – Priya Parmar
- Howards End Is On The Landing – Susan Hill
- The Humans – Matt Haig
- Monday or Tuesday – Virginia Woolf
- Life After Life – Kate Atkinson
- Rough Music – Patrick Gale
- The Sense Of An Ending – Julian Barnes
- Suite Française – Irène Némirovsky
- Dark Witch – Nora Roberts
- The Hundred Year Old Man Who Climbed Out Of The Window And Disappeared – Jonas Jonasson
- The River King – Alice Hoffman *
- Weird Sister – Kate Pullinger
- The Garden of Evening Mists – Tan Twan Eng
- The Ocean At The End Of The Lane – Neil Gaiman *
- Orkney – Amy Sackville *
- The Children’s Book – A S Byatt *
- Elizabeth is Missing – Emma Healey
- The Color of Secrets – Lindsay Ashford
- The Enchanted April – Elizabeth Von Arnim *
- A Kind Man – Susan Hill
- The Man In The Picture – Susan Hill
- Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë *
- Landed – Tim Pears
- On Green Dolphin Street – Sebastian Faulks
- Fraud – Anita Brookner
- Little Bits of Baby – Patrick Gale
- Stonemouth – Iain Banks
- The Various – Steve Angarde
- The Stranger’s Child – Alan Hollinghurst
- The Goldfinch – Donna Tartt
- The Mysteries of Glass – Sue Gee *
- Legacy of Love – Caroline Harvey
- Howards End – E M Forster *
- Pattern of Shadows – Judith Barrow
- We That Are Left – Juliet Greenwood
- Inshallah – Alys Einion
- Eden’s Garden – Juliet Greenwood *
- The Summer of Secrets – Sarah Jasmon
- The Snow Child – Eowyn Ivey
- In the Kingdom of Mists – Jane Jakeman
- The Bolter – Frances Osborne
- The Kiss of Death – Marcus Sedgwick
- Someone – Alice McDermott
- Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky – Patrick Hamilton *
- How To Be Brave – Louise Beech
- A Time For Silence – Thorne Moore
- Island of Lost Girls – Jennifer McMahon
- Roald Dahl’s Book of Ghost Stories
- The Almost Moon – Alice Sebold
- The Children Act – Ian McEwan
- Girl Interrupted – Susanna Kaysen
- Moments of Being – Virginia Woolf *
- Brooklyn – Colm Tóibín
- Wild Mary: A Life of Mary Wesley – Patrick Marnham *
- Ridley Road – Jo Bloom
- Seeking Carolina – Terri-Lynne DeFino
- A Sweet Obscurity – Patrick Gale
- Before the Fall – Juliet west
- Negotiating With The Dead – Margaret Atwood
- Carol – Patricia Highsmith *
- Talk of the Toun – Helen MacKinven
- The Orphan Choir – Sophie Hannah
- Her Fearful Symmetry _ Audrey Niffenegger *
- The Pure in Heart – Susan Hill
- The House of Eliot – Jean Marsh
- A Family Romance – Anita Brookner
- The Peppered Moth – Margaret Drabble
- Illumination Night – Alice Hoffman *
- The Night Watch – Sarah Waters … still reading this…
- A Writer’s Diary – Virginia Woolf (on-going,almost every day read…)