Here is a list of the books I read in 2019. Click on the title to read my review.
- Stories We Tell Ourselves by Sarah Françoise (2 out of 5)
- Blackberry and Wild Rose by Sonia Velton (4 out of 5)
- The Hopes and Dreams of Lucy Baker by Jenni Keer (3 out of 5)
- A River in the Trees by Jacqueline O’Mahony (4 out of 5)
- The Secret by Katharine Johnson (4 out of 5)
- The Turn of Midnight (Black Death #2) by Minette Walters (3 out of 5)
- Nemesis (Tom Wilde #3) by Rory Clements (5 out of 5)
- The Edible Woman by Margaret Atwood (3 out of 5)
- Eagle & Crane by Suzanne Rindell (5 out of 5)
- Prester John by John Buchan (3 out of 5)
- A Killer’s Alibi (Philadelphia Legal #3) by William L. Myers, Jr. (4 out of 5)
- The Sewing Machine by Natalie Fergie (3 out of 5)
- The Glass Woman by Caroline Lea (4 out of 5)
- The Phoenix of Florence by Philip Kazan (5 out of 5)
- 99 Nights in Logar by Jamil Jan Kochai (3 out of 5)
- Louis & Louise by Julie Cohen (4 out of 5)
- Blood & Sugar by Laura Shepherd-Robinson (4 out of 5)
- The Horseman’s Song by Ben Pastor (4 out of 5)
- The Blameless Dead by Gary Haynes (3 out of 5)
- Salute to Adventurers by John Buchan (4 out of 5)
- Poetic Justice by R.C. Bridgestock (4 out of 5)
- The Olive Garden Choir by Leah Fleming (4 out of 5)
- All Among the Barley by Melissa Harrison (4 out of 5)
- Josephine’s Daughter (The Golden City #5) by A. B. Michaels (3 out of 5)
- The Cornish Lady by Nicola Pryce (4 out of 5)
- The Things We Cannot Say by Kelly Rimmer (4 out of 5)
- The Road to Grantchester by James Runcie (4 out of 5)
- The Saxon Wolves by Penny Ingham (4 out of 5)
- The Night Tiger by Yangsze Choo (4 out of 5)
- Hetty’s Secret War by Rosie Clarke (3 out of 5)
- The Path of the King by John Buchan (3 out of 5)
- The American Agent (Maisie Dobbs #15) by Jacqueline Winspear (5 out of 5)
- The Conviction of Cora Burns by Carolyn Kirby (5 out of 5)
- Sunwise by Helen Steadman (4 out of 5)
- The Storyteller by Pierre Jarawan (5 out of 5)
- The Golden Hour (The Lady Evelyn Mysteries #4) by Malia Zaidi (3 out of 5)
- The Confessions of Frannie Langton by Sara Collins (4 out of 5)
- Beyond The Thirty-Nine Steps: A Life of John Buchan by Ursula Buchan (5 out of 5)
- Pilgrim by Louise Hall (4 out of 5)
- The New Achilles by Christian Cameron (3 out of 5)
- The Dollmaker by Nina Allan (2 out of 5)
- Dark Sky Island (Jennifer Dorey Mystery #2) by Lara Dearman (4 out of 5)
- A Clean Canvas (Lena Szarka Mystery #2) by Elizabeth Mundy (4 out of 5)
- Call Me Star Girl by Louise Beech (4 out of 5)
- The Inside City by Anita Mir (3 out of 5)
- Midwinter by John Buchan (4 out of 5)
- The Way of All Flesh by Ambrose Parry (3 out of 5)
- Where The Hornbeam Grows by Beth Lynch (5 out of 5)
- This Is Me by Shari Low (3 out of 5)
- De Bohun’s Destiny (The Meonbridge Chronicles #3) by Carolyn Hughes (4 out of 5)
- Storm of Steel (The Bernicia Chronicles #6) by Matthew Harffy (5 out of 5)
- A Devil Comes To Town by Paolo Maurensig, trans. by Anne Milano Appel (3 out of 5)
- Cultivating a Fuji by Miriam Drori (3 out of 5)
- The Three Hostages by John Buchan (4 out of 5)
- Stealing Roses by Heather Cooper (5 out of 5)
- Tell Me Where You Are by Moira Forsyth (4 out of 5)
- The Long Take by Robin Robertson (4 out of 5)
- Gold Digger: The Remarkable Baby Doe Tabor by Rebecca Rosenberg (3 out of 5)
- Aurelia (Roma Nova #4) by Alison Morton (4 out of 5)
- The Lost Shrine (Hills & Barbrook #2) by Nicola Ford (4 out of 5)
- The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Armin (4 out of 5)
- Warlight by Michael Ondaatje (4 out of 5)
- Fled by Meg Keneally (5 out of 5)
- The Western Wind by Samantha Harvey (3 out of 5)
- The Playground Murders (The Detective’s Daughter #7) by Lesley Thomson (4 out of 5)
- A Long Way From Home by Peter Carey (4 out of 5)
- Monopoli Blues by Tim Clark & Nick Cook (4 out of 5)
- The Serpent’s Mark by S. W. Perry (4 out of 5)
- Birdie & Jude by Phyllis H. Moore (4 out of 5)
- The Body Lies by Jo Baker (4 out of 5)
- A Modern Family by Helga Flatland (3 out of 5)
- The Dancing Floor by John Buchan (3 out of 5)
- Hudson’s Kill (Justice Flanagan #2) by Paddy Hirsch (5 out of 5)
- Train Man by Andrew Mulligan (3 out of 5)
- In My Life: A Music Memoir by Alan Johnson (4 out of 5)
- The Dinner List by Rebecca Serle (4 out of 5)
- Razia by Abda Khan (4 out of 5)
- The Secret Life of Alfred Nightingale by Rebecca Stonehill (4 out of 5)
- A Cornish Affair by Jo Lambert (3 out of 5)
- The Runagates Club by John Buchan (3 out of 5)
- Motive X by Stefan Ahnhem (4 out of 5)
- This Mortal Boy by Fiona Kidman (5 out of 5)
- Fake Like Me by Barbara Bourland (4 out of 5)
- The Traitor of Treasure Island by John Drake (4 out of 5)
- Untitled: The Real Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor by Anna Pasternak (4 out of 5)
- The Beach at Doonshean by Penny Feeny (4 out of 5)
- The Tides Between by Elizabeth Jane Corbett (4 out of 5)
- Ike and Kay by James MacManus (4 out of 5)
- The Outrageous Fortune of Abel Morgan by Cynthia Jefferies (3 out of 5)
- The Stationmaster’s Daughter by Kathleen McGurl (4 out of 5)
- Nadine by John Steinberg (3 out of 5)
- Welcome to America by Linda Boström Knausgård (4 out of 5)
- The Courts of the Morning by John Buchan (3 out of 5)
- The Secrets We Kept by Lara Prescott (4 out of 5)
- Wicked by Design by Katy Moran (5 out of 5)
- A Single Thread by Tracy Chevalier (4 out of 5)
- The Vanished Bride (Brontë Mysteries #1) by Bella Ellis (4 out of 5)
- The Mermaid’s Call (Cornish Mysteries #3) by Katherine Stansfield (5 out of 5)
- The Mathematical Bridge (Nighthawk #2) by Jim Kelly (5 out of 5)
- Dead Flowers by Nicola Monaghan (4 out of 5)
- The Familiars by Stacey Halls (4 out of 5)
- Eight Hours From England by Anthony Quayle (5 out of 5)
- The Jeweller by Caryl Lewis (4 out of 5)
- Asylum Road (Jake Caldwell #4) by James L. Weaver (4 out of 5)
- Rivals (Georgina Garrett #2) by Sam Michaels (3 out of 5)
- A Ration Book Childhood (East End Ration #3) by Jean Fullerton (4 out of 5)
- The Blanket of the Dark by John Buchan (5 out of 5)
- Don’t Get Involved by F. J. Curlew (3 out of 5)
- The Glittering Hour by Iona Grey (5 out of 5)
- Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston (3 out of 5)
- Chanel’s Riviera: Peace and War on the Cote d’Azur, 1930 – 1944 by Anne de Courcy (3 out of 5)
- Olive, Again by Elizabeth Strout (4 out of 5)
- The House of the Four Winds by John Buchan (3 out of 5)
- The House That Alice Built by Chris Penhall (4 out of 5)
- The Photographer of the Lost by Caroline Scott (4 out of 5)
- Christmas at Ladywell by Nicola Slade (4 out of 5)
- There’s Something About Darcy by Gabrielle Malcolm (3 out of 5)
- The Tide Between Us by Olive Collins (3 out of 5)
- Wolf of Wessex by Matthew Harffy (4 out of 5)
- The Outrun by Amy Liptrot (4 out of 5)
- Entertaining Mr Pepys (Women of Pepys’ Diary #3) by Deborah Swift (3 out of 5)
- The Listening Walls by Margaret Millar (4 out of 5)
- The Honourable Life of Thomas Chayne by Cynthia Jefferies (3 out of 5)
- Death Makes No Distinction (Dan Foster Mystery #3) by Lucienne Boyce (4 out of 5)
- The Woman With Wings by James MacManus (3 out of 5)
- The Boy With Blue Trousers by Carol Jones (4 out of 5)
- Cold, Cold Heart (Katie Flanagan #2) by Christine Poulson (4 out of 5)
- Dreamland by Nancy Bilyeau (4 out of 5)
- Joan Smokes by Angela Meyer (4 out of 5)
- The Island of Sheep by John Buchan (4 out of 5)
- Fred’s Funeral by Sandy Day (3 out of 5)
- Mrs P’s Book of Secrets by Lorna Gray (3 out of 5)
- El Hacho by Luis Carrasco (5 out of 5)
- Burning Cold (Cara Walden Mystery #2) by Lisa Lieberman (4 out of 5)
- Augustus by John Buchan (3 out of 5)
- Artefacts and Other Stories by Rebecca Burns (3 out of 5)