Books read in 2023/2024

2023 – Whatever – Just Books

The Commandant – Jessica Anderson b/c

The Spare Room – Helen Garner

Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont – Elizabeth Taylor

The Leisure Seeker – Michael Zadoorian

In Falling Snow – Mary-Rose MacColl

The very easy guide to Fair Isle – Lynne Watterson

The Gansey Knitting Source Book – Di Gilpin & Sheila Greenwell

The Flower Girls – Alice Clark – Platts

The World without Us – Mireille Juchau b/c

Elsa Goody – Darry Fraser

A Sand Archive – Gregory Day b/c

Skylarking – Kate Mildenhall

A Month of Sundays – Liz Byrski b/c

A Shilling for Candles – Josephine Tey

The Beekeeper’s Secret – Josephine Moon

The odd angry shot – William Nagle

Seven Little Australians – Ethel Turner

Upside down, Inside out – Monica McInerney

Belgravia – Julian Fellowes

Dead Tide – Fiona McIntosh

Mirror Man – Fiona McIntosh

The Vanished Bride – Bella Ellis

The Missing Child – Kerry McInnes

Fled – Meg Keneally

A Sea Chase – Roger McDonald

The Day of the Triffids – John Wyndham

Dr  Jekyll & Mr Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson

The Midnight Library – Matt Haig

The Year I Met You- Cecelia Ahern

The Bottle Imp – Robert Louis Stevenson

Dirt Music – Tim Winton b/c

Three women and a boat – Ann Youngson

Huda and Me – H Hayek

The Sleeping and The Dead – Ann Cleeves

Tea is so intoxicating- Mary Essex

The Erratics – Vicki Laveau Harvie b/c

Absent in the Spring – Mary Westmacott

The Orphans – Fiona McIntosh

The Spy’s Wife – Fiona McIntosh

2024 – A-Z of this A-Z of that

The Little Wartime Library – Kate Thompson

The Good People – Hannah Kent (reread)

A Christmas Memory – Truman Capote

The Brimstone Wedding – Barbara Vine (reread)

Unfinished Portrait – Mary Westmacott

Remember – Lisa Genova

Death of an Author – E.C.R.Lorac

Small things like this – Claire Keegan

The Christmas Guest – Peter Swanson

A Well-Behaved Woman – Therese Anne Fowler b/c

Our Souls at Night – Kent Haruf

The Brisbane Line – J.P.Powell

The 12.30 from Croydon – Freeman Wills Crofts

Dead in Dublin – Catie Murphy

Zanzibar- Catharina Valckx

Santa is coming to Melbourne – Emma Nash

The Little Girl in Old Quebec – Amanda M Douglas

Less – Andrew Sean Greer