Here are the books I’ve read so far in 2020. Click on the title to read my review.
- Payback (DI Charley Mann #1) by R.C. Bridgestock (4 out of 5)
- The Lady of the Ravens by Joanna Hickson (4 out of 5)
- Magician and Fool by Susan Wands (3 out of 5)
- A Messy Affair (Lena Szarka #3) by Elizabeth Mundy (4 out of 5)
- Hitler’s Secret (Tom Wilde #4) by Rory Clements (4 out of 5)
- The Other You by J.S. Monroe (4 out 5)
- Sir Quixote of the Moorsby John Buchan (3 out of 5)
- Katherine by Anya Seton (5 out of 5)
- Requiem for a Knave by Laura Carlin (4 out of 5)
- The Bermondsey Bookshop by Mary Gibson (4 out of 5)
- Summerland by Lucy Adlington (5 out of 5)
- 355: The Women of Washington’s Spy Ring by Kit Sergeant (3 out of 5)
- Real Life by Adeline Dieudonné (4 out of 5)
- Stasi Winter (Karin Muller #5) by David Young (4 out of 5)
- Heaven, My Home (Highway 59 #2) by Attica Locke (4 out of 5)
- Improvement by Joan Silber (4 out of 5)
- Wild Spinning Girls by Carole Lovekin (4 out of 5)
- The House by the Loch by Kirsty Wark (4 out of 5)
- John Burnet of Barns by John Buchan (3 out of 5)
- The Lost Lights of St. Kilda by Elisabeth Gifford (5 out of 5)
- The Widow’s Mite by Allie Cresswell (3 out of 5)
- The Recovery of Rose Gold by Stephanie Wrobel (4 out of 5)
- Distorted Days by Louise Worthington (3 out of 5)
- Summer of the Three Pagodas by Jean Moran (4 out of 5)
- Containment (Sam Shephard #3) by Vanda Symon (4 out of 5)
- The Canary Keeper by Clare Carson (4 out 5)
- The Walls We Build by Jules Hayes (4 out of 5)
- On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Voung (4 out of 5)
- The Philosopher’s Daughters by Alison Booth (4 out of 5)
- A Lodge in the Wilderness by John Buchan (2 out of 5)
- The Far Field by Madhuri Vijay (5 out of 5)
- Summer in Provence by Lucy Coleman (4 out of 5)
- Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell (4 out of 5)
- I Am Dust by Louise Beech (4 out of 5)
- A Thousand Moons by Sebastian Barry (4 out of 5)
- Youth and the Bright Medusa by Willa Cather (3 out of 5)
- A Book of Escapes and Hurried Journeys by John Buchan (4 out of 5)
- A Life Without End by Frédéric Beigbeder (4 out of 5)
- The Wheelwright’s Daughter by Eleanor Porter (4 out of 5)
- The Figure in the Photograph by Kevin Sullivan (4 out of 5)
- The Hidden Village by Imogen Matthews (3 out of 5)
- Living Among The Dead: My Grandmother’s Holocaust Survival Story of Love and Strength by Adena Bernstein Astrowsky (3 out of 5)
- A Wedding in the Olive Garden by Leah Fleming (4 out of 5)
- Shadowplay by Joseph O’Connor (4 out of 5)
- The Straits of Treachery by Richard Hopton (3 out of 5)
- A Registry Of My Passage Upon The Earth by Daniel Mason (5 out of 5)
- Hidden in the Shadows by Imogen Matthews (3 out of 5)
- A Ration Book Wedding by Jean Fullerton (4 out of 5)
- The Saracen’s Mark by S. W. Perry (5 out of 5)
- The Glass House by Eve Chase (4 out of 5)
- People Like Us by Louise Fein (4 out of 5)
- When We Fall by Carolyn Kirby (5 out of 5)
- Lionheart by Ben Kane (4 out of 5)
- The Flowers of Adonis by Rosemary Sutcliff (4 out of 5)
- An Engineered Injustice (Philadelphia Legal #2) by William L. Myers, Jr. (4 out of 5)
- One Hundred Miracles by Zuzana Ruzickova with Wendy Holden (5 out of 5)
- The Bell in the Lake by Lars Mytting (4 out of 5)
- The Last Secrets by John Buchan (4 out of 5)
- Patrol by Fred Majdalany (5 out of 5)
- The Sea Gate by Jane Johnson (4 out of 5)
- Warriors for the Working Day by Peter Elstob (4 out of 5)
- One Day in Summer by Shari Low (4 out of 5)
- Then We Take Berlin (Joe Wilderness #1) by John Lawton (4 out of 5)
- Homilies and Recreations by John Buchan (3 out of 5)
- The Traitor by V. S. Alexander (4 out of 5)
- The Colours by Juliet Bates (4 out of 5)
- The English Wife by Adrienne Chinn (4 out of 5)
- The Offing by Benjamin Myers (5 out of 5)
- The Narrow Land by Christine Dwyer Hickey (5 out of 5)
- A Quiet Death in Italy by Tom Benjamin (4 out of 5)
- The Englishman (Raglan #1) by David Gilman (4 out 5)
- The Time Machine by H. G. Wells (3 out of 5)
- The Horseman (West Country Trilogy #1) by Tim Pears (4 out of 5)
- Rags of Time by Michael Ward (4 out of 5)
- Belladonna by Anbara Salam (4 out of 5)
- Paris Savages by Katherine Johnson (4 out of 5)
- Munich by Robert Harris (5 out of 5)
- The Young Survivors by Debra Barnes (3 out of 5)
- The Storm by Amanda Jennings (4 out of 5)
- Miss Graham’s Cold War Cookbook by Celia Rees (5 out of 5)
- The Gap in the Curtain by John Buchan (3 out of 5)
- The Housing Lark by Sam Selvon (4 out of 5)
- The Whispering House by Elizabeth Brooks (4 out of 5)
- The Honey and the Sting by E. C. Fremantle (4 out of 5)
- The Scarlet Code (Revolutionary Spy #2) by C.S. Quinn (5 out of 5)
- The Borrowed Boy by Deborah Klée (3 out of 5)
- Fortress of Fury (The Bernicia Chronicles #7) by Matthew Harffy (5 out of 5)
- The Bird in the Bamboo Cage by Hazel Gaynor (4 out of 5)
- Katheryn Howard: The Tainted Queen (Six Tudor Queens #5) by Alison Weir (3 out of 5)
- The Girl from Vichy by Andie Newton (3 out of 5)
- The Wanderers (West Country Trilogy #2) by Tim Pears (4 out of 5)
- The Music Shop by Rachel Joyce (4 out of 5)
- A Little London Scandal by Miranda Emmerson (4 out of 5)
- The Bitch by Pilar Quintana (3 out of 5)
- The Night of Shooting Stars (Martin Bora #7) by Ben Pastor (4 out of 5)
- The Night of the Flood by Zoë Somerville (4 out of 5)
- A Prince of the Captivity by John Buchan (4 out of 5)
- The Museum Makers by Rachel Morris (4 out of 5)
- Crooked Heart by Lissa Evans (4 out of 5)
- V For Victory by Lissa Evans (5 out of 5)
- Charlotte by Helen Moffett (4 out of 5)
- Talland House by Maggie Humm (3 out of 5)
- The Ghost Tree (Betty Church Mystery #3) by M.R.C. Kasasian
- Adrift: How Our World Lost Its Way by Amin Maalouf (4 out of 5)
- The Artist and the Soldier by Angelle Petta (3 out of 5)
- The Girl from the Hermitage by Molly Gartland (4 out of 5)
- City of Spies by Mara Timon (5 out of 5)
- Skelton’s Guide to Domestic Poisons by David Stafford (4 out of 5)
- V2 by Robert Harris (5 out of 5)
- Hermit by S.R. White (4 out of 5)
- This Green and Pleasant Land by Ayisha Malik (4 out of 5)
- The Second Marriage by Gill Paul (3 out of 5)
- Dear Child by Romy Hausmann (4 out of 5)
- The Salt Path by Raynor Winn (4 out of 5)
- The Magic Walking Stick by John Buchan (3 out of 5)
- Green Hands by Barbara Whitton (4 out of 5)
- Hunter Killer by Brad Taylor (4 out of 5)
- Those Who Know (The Teifi Valley Coronor #3) by Alis Hawkins (5 out of 5)
- Betrayal by Lilia Siguradottir (4 out of 5)
- The Last of the Wine by Mary Renault (4 out of 5)
- A Conspiracy of Silence (DI Gillian Marsh #5) by Anna Legat (3 out of 5)
- The Wild Silence by Raynor Winn (4 out of 5)
- Endless Skies by Jane Cable (4 out of 5)
- The Exiles by Christina Baker Kline (4 out of 5)
- The Free Fishers by John Buchan (4 out of 5)
- Immortal by Jessica Duchen (4 out of 5)
- When the Music Stops by Joe Heap (4 out of 5)
- Hell Gate (Ingo Finch #3) by Jeff Dawson (5 out of 5)
- The Forgers by Bradford Morrow (3 out of 5)
- When I Come Home Again by Caroline Scott (4 out of 5)
- The Coral Bride by Roxanne Bouchard (4 out of 5)
- How To Belong by Sarah Franklin (4 out of 5)
- The Stasi Game (Karin Müller #6) by David Young (5 out of 5)
- Three Women and a Boat by Anne Youngson (4 out of 5)
- The House in the Hollow by Allie Cresswell (4 out of 5)
- Blitz Writing: Night Shift & It Was Different At The Time by Inez Holden
- The Morning Star by Gita V. Reddy (4 out of 5)
- Cesare by Jerome Charyn (3 out of 5)
- Imperfect Alchemist by Naomi Miller ( 4 out of 5)
- 337 by M. Jonathan Lee (4 out of 5)
- The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields (4 out of 5)
- River of Sins (Bradcote and Catchpoll #7) by Sara Hawkswood (4 out of 5)
- The King’s Grace by John Buchan (3 out of 5)
- Becoming Alfie by Neil Patterson (3 out of 5)
- The Smallest Man by Frances Quinn (4 out of 5)
- Liar by Ayelet Gundar-Goshen (3 out of 5)
- A Time for Swords by Matthew Harffy (4 out of 5)
- Discontents: The Disappearance of a Young Radical by James Wallace Birch (3 out of 5)
- The Running Wolf by Helen Steadman (5 out of 5)
- Winterkill (Dark Iceland #6) by Ragnar Jónasson (4 out of 5)
- The Diabolical Bones (The Brontë Mysteries #2) by Bella Ellis (4 out of 5)
- The Long Traverse by John Buchan (3 out of 5)
- Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult (5 out of 5)
- Last Flight to Stalingrad by Graham Hurley