#PalliserParty
- Anthony Trollope, The Prime Minister
- Anthony
Trollope, The Duke's Children
A year with our Jane {continues...}
- Jane Austen, Persuasion
- Jane
Austen, The Watsons
- Paula Byrne, The real Jane Austen: a life in small things
- Helena
Kelly, Jane
Austen: the secret radical
Biographies, history, lettters, non-fiction
- Anita Anand, Sophia: princess, suffragette, revolutionary
- Rosemary
Ashton, George Eliot: a life {B}
- Clive Aslet, The Edwardian Country House and An Exuberant Catalogue of Dreams: The Americans who revived the country house in Britain
- Helen
Ashton, I had a sister: a study of Mary Lamb, Dorothy
Wordsworth, Caroline Herschel and Cassandra Austen {H}
- Rosemary Ashton, Thomas and Jane Carlyle, Portrait of a Marriage
- Diane
Atkinson, The
criminal conversation of Mrs. Norton {H}
- Georgina
Battiscombe, Queen Alexandra {H}
- John
Baxter, Paris at the End of the World: The City of Light
During the Great War, 1914-1918 {B}
- Sylvia
Beach, The Letters of Sylvia Beach
- Ludwig
Bemelmans, To the one I love best
{H}
- Nicola
Beauman, The Other Elizabeth Taylor
- Adrian
Bell, Apple Acre {noticed on Desperate Reader}
- Ludwig
Bemelmans, To the One I Love Best {recommended here} [H}
- Carol
Berkin, Wondrous Beauty: The Life and Adventures of Elizabeth
Patterson Bonaparte
- Joelle
Bielle, ed., Elizabeth Bishop and The New Yorker : the complete
correspondence
- Elizabeth
Bishop and Robert Lowell, Words in Air: the complete
correspondence
- Evelyne
Bloch-Dano, The last love of George Sand, translated from the
French by Allison Charette
- Shaun Bythell, The diary of a bookseller
- Kate
Bolick, Spinster: making a life of one's own {noticed here}
- Walter
R. Bomeman, American Spring: Lexington, Concord, and the Road to
Revolution
- Mark
Bostridge, Lives for sale: biographers' tales
- Richard Bradford, Literary Rivals: feuds and antagonisms in the world of books
- Gladys
Brooks, Gramercy Park: memoirs of a New York girlhood, Boston
and return, and Three wise
virgins
- Ursula
Buchan, A green and pleasant
land: how England’s gardeners
fought the second world war
- Sophie
Campbell, The
Season {noticed
on Bas Bleu}
- Hugh
and Mirabel Cecil, In search of Rex
Whistler: his life and his work
- Kathy
Chamberlain, Jane Welsh Carlyle and her Victorian world
- Lady
Diana Cooper, Darling monster: the letters of Diana Cooper to
her son, John Julius Norwich, 1939-1952 {noticed here}
- Anne
de Courcy, The fishing fleet : husband-hunting in the Raj {recommended
by Lyn}, Margot
at War and The Husband Hunters
- Devon
Cox, The street of wonderful
possibilities: Whistler, Wilde
& Sargent in Tite Street
- Tatiana de Rosnay, Manderley forever: a biography of Daphne du Maurier
- Joan
DeJean, How Paris became Paris : the invention of the modern city
- John
Demos, The Heathen School : a story of hope and betrayal
in the age of the early Republic
- Matthew
Dennison, 'Over the hills and far away: the life of Beatrix
Potter {B}
- Shelley DeWees, Not just Jane: rediscovering seven women writers who transformed British literature
- Monica Dickens, My turn to make the tea
- Rolf
Dobelli, The Art of Thinking Clearly
- Anthony Doerr, Four seasons in Rome {recommended by Bellezza}
- Elizabeth Driscoll, Tea with Miss Rose: recipes & reminiscences of Boston’s teacup society
- Deborah,
Duchess of Devonshire, In Tearing Haste: letters between
Deborah Devonshire and Patrick Leigh Fermor
- Jane Dunn, Read my heart: a love story in England’s age of revolution
- Philip
Eade, Sylvia, Queen of the Headhunters : An Eccentric
Englishwoman and Her Lost Kingdom
- Lydia
Edwards, How to read a dress {recommended on Random Jottings {H}
- A.
Herbage Edwards, Paris through an
attic {H}
- Martin
Edwards, The golden age of murder
- Megan Elias, Food on the page: cookbooks and American culture
- Samantha Ellis, How to be a heroine, or what I've learned from reading too much
- Charles Emmerson, 1913: In Search of the World Before the Great War
- Sian
Evans, Queen
bees: six brilliant and extraordinary society hostesses between the
wars
- Adam Federman, Fasting and Feasting: the life of visionary food writer Patience Gray
- Nan Fairbother, The cheerful day {H} and Children in the house
- Lara
Feigel, The Love-charm of Bombs: Restless Lives in the Second
World War {recommended by Fleur}
- Margaret
Forster, My life in houses {noticed on Cornflower Books}
- Margalit
Fox, The Riddle of the Labyrinth: the Quest to Crack An Ancient
Code {from an interview on NPR}
- Janet
Flanner, An American in Paris: profile of an interlude
between two wars {B}
- Flora
Fraser, Princesses: The six daughters of George III and The
Washingtons: George and Martha, 'Join'd by Friendship, Crown'd by
Love'
- Francois
Furstenberg, When the United States was French: five
refugees who shaped a nation
- Angelica Garnett, Deceived with kindness: a Bloomsbury childhood
- Henrietta
Garnett, Wives and stunners: the Pre-Raphaelites and their muses
{H}
- Gillian
Gill, Nightingales:
the extraordinary upbringing and curious life of Miss Florence
Nightingale
- Robert Gittings and Jo Manton, Claire Clairmont and the Shelleys
- Adam Gopnik, Paris to the Moon and The Table Comes First: Family, France, and the Meaning of Food {H}
- Michael Gorra, Portrait of a Novel: Henry James and the Making of a Masterpiece
- Annie
Gray, A
Greedy Queen: eating with Queen Victoria
- Patience Gray and Primrose Boyd, Plats du jour
- Dr.
Matthew Green, London: a travel guide through time
- Nile
Green, The Love of Strangers: What Six Muslim Students
Learned in Jane Austen's London {B}
- Hannah
Greig, The Beau Monde: fashionable society in Georgian
London {recommended on Random Jottings}
- J.C.
Hallman, Wm & H'ry: Literature, Love and Letters
between William & Henry James
- Margaret
Halsey, With malice toward some {recommended on LibraryThing}
- Claire
Harman, Fanny Burney
- Lucinda
Hawskley, The mystery of Princess Louise : Queen Victoria's
rebellious daughter {a.p,a. Queen Victoria's Mysterious
Daughter} {M, B}
- Daisy
Hay, The Young Romantics and Mr. and Mrs.
Disraeli: A Strange Romance {recommended here}
- Edna
Healey, The Queen's House: a social history of Buckingham
Palace
- Catherine
Hewitt, The Mistress of Paris {B}
- Katie
Hickman, Daughters of Britannia : the lives and times of
diplomatic wives
- Constance
Hill, Jane Austen ; her homes &
her friends {H}; Fanny Burney at the court of Queen Charlotte {H}; and Mary Russell Mitford and her
surroundings {H}
- Susan
Hill, Howards End is on the Landing and Jacob's
room has too many books {October}
- Matthew
Hollis, Now all roads lead to France
{H}
- Norah
Hoult, There were no windows {H}
- Kathryn Hughes, George Eliot: the last Victorian {H}
- Maggie
Humm, Snapshots of Bloomsbury: the private lives of Virginia Woolf and
Vanessa Bell {H}
- Sam
Irvin, Kay Thompson: from Funny face to Eloise
- Diane
Jacobs, Dear Abigail: The Intimate Lives and Revolutionary Ideas
of Abigail Adams and Her Remarkable Sisters
- Clive
James, Latest Readings {recommended by Frances}
- Henry James, Travels with Henry James
- Elizabeth
Jenkins, Lady Caroline Lamb {H}
- Kathleen
Jones, A passionate sisterhood: the sisters, wives and
daughters of the Lake Poets {noticed on I Prefer Reading} {B, H} and A Glorious Fame: the life of Margaret Cavendish,
Duchess of Newcastle {M}
- Linda
Kelly, Holland
House: a history of London's most celebrated salon {B}
- Greg King and Penny Wilson, Twlight of Empire: the tragedy at Mayerling and the end of the Hapsburgs {M}
- Greg King and Sue Woolmans, The assassination of the Archduke : Sarajevo, 1914, and the romance that changed the world
- Jennifer
Kloester, Georgette Heyer's Regency World
- Jane Kramer, The reporter's kitchen
- Jhumpa
Lahiri, The clothing of books
- Linda
Leavell, Holding
on Upside Down: the life and work of Marianne Moore
- Lucy
Lethbridge,
Servants: a downstairs view of twentieth century Britain {noticed
on Cornflower Books} {H}
- Maurice
Levaillant, The passionate
exiles: Madame de Stael and Madame
Recamier
- Daniel
J. Levitin, The
Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload.
- Alison Light, Common people: the history of an English family
- Penelope Lively, Ammonites and Leaping Fish: a life in time {recommended by Lyn}; A House Unlocked (noticed on dovegreyreader scribbles}{M}; and Life in the Garden {June}
- Suzanne
Loebl, America's Medicis: The Rockefellers and their
astonishing cultural legacy
- Elizabeth Longford, The pebbled shore {A}and Victoria R. I.
- Mary S. Lovell, Churchills: in love and war, A Scandalous life: the biography of Jane Digby and The Riviera Set
- Donna M. Lucey, Archie and Amélie : love and madness in the Gilded Age {H} and Sargent's Women: Four Lives Behind the Canvas
- Stewart
MacKay, The Angel of Charleston: Grace Higgens, Housekeeper to the
Bloomsbury Group {noticed on dovegreyreader
scribbles}
- Margaret
MacMillan, Women of the Raj: the mothers, wives and
daughters of the British Empire in India
- Myra
MacPherson, The scarlet sisters : sex, suffrage, and scandal in
the Gilded Age
- Mary
Sperling McAuliffe, Twilight of the Belle Epoque: The Paris of
Picasso, Stravinsky, Proust, Renault, Marie Curie, Gertrude Stein, and
Their Friends Through the Great War
- Fiona
McCarthy, The last curtsey
- St. Clair McKelway, Reporting at wit’s end: tales from the New Yorker
- John
McWhorter, Words on the move {noticed here}
- Hilary
Macaskill, Agatha Christie at Home
- David
Malouf, The Happy Life: the search for contentment in the
modern world ;-)
- William
J. Mann, The wars of the Roosevelts
- Regina Marler, Bloomsbury pie: the making of the Bloomsbury boom
- Suzanne
Mars, ed., Meanwhile there are letters: the correspondence
of Eudora Welty and Ross Macdonald
- Megan
Marshall, Margaret
Fuller: a new American life
- William Maxwell, The outermost dream
- Emily
Midorikawa, A Secret Sisterhood: the literary friendships of
Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, George Eliot and Virginia Woolf {October}
- Robert
Milder, Hawthorne's Habitations: A Literary Life {H}
- Nancy
Milford, Savage Beauty: the life of Edna St. Vincent Millay
- Andy
Miller, The Year of Reading Dangerously {recommended
by Frances}
- Jessica
Mitford, Hons and rebels {recommended by Darlene}
- Mary
Russell Mitford, Our Village
- Wendy
Moffat, A great unrecorded history : a new life of E.M.
Forster
- Wendy
Moore, Wedlock : the true story of the disastrous marriage and
remarkable divorce of Mary Eleanor Bowes, Countess of Strathmore {H}
- Ethan Mordden, The Guest List: how
Manhattan defined American sophistication from the Algonquin Round Table
to Truman Capote's ball
- Caroline Morehead, Dancing to the Precipice: The Life of Lucie de la Tour du Pin, Eyewitness to an Era
- Ann
Morgan, Reading the World: Confessions of a Literary
Traveler {a.k.a. The World Between Two Covers:
Reading the Globe, but the UK edition has a much more appealing
title!} {noticed on Cornflower Books}
- Charlotte Mosley, ed., Love From Nancy: The Letters of Nancy Mitford and The Mitfords: letters between six sisters{recommended on Cornflower Books
- Frances
Mossiker, Madame de Sevigne: a life and letters
- Siddhartha
Mukherjee, The emperor of all maladies: a biography of
cancer
- Paul
Thomas Murphy, Shooting Victoria: Madness, Mayhem, and the
Rebirth of the British Monarchy and Pretty Jane and the
Viper of Kidbrooke Lane
- Venetia
Murray, An elegant madness: high society in Regency England {H}
- Jeffrey
Myers, Robert Lowell in love
- Lucy
Newlyn, William and Dorothy Wordsworth: all in each other {M}
- Beverly
Nichols, Green grows the city {recommended on Kaggsy's
Bookish Ramblings}
- Juliet
Nicholson, A house full of daughters {B}
- Virginia
Nicholson, Among the Bohemians;
Singled out : how two million British women survived without men after
the First World War; Millions Like Us; and Perfect
wives in ideal homes: the story of women in the 1950s {recommended
by Claire} {H}
- Joan
Russell Noble, Recollections of Virginia Woolf by her
contemporaries {B}
- Simon Nowell-Smith, The legend of the master
- Patricia
O'Toole, The Five of Hearts: An Intimate Portrait of Henry
Adams and His Friends, 1880-1918
- Sybil
Oldfield, Spinsters of this
parish: the life and times of F.M.
Mayor and Mary Sheepshanks {H}
- Michael
Paterson, A Brief Guide to Private Life in Britain's Stately
Homes
- Stanley
Plumly, The Immortal Evening: a legendary dinner with Keats,
Wordsworth and Lamb
- Jean
Lucey Pratt, A Notable Woman: the romantic journals of Jean
Lucey Pratt {recommended by Kate Macdonald}
- Marcel
Proust {Lydia Davis, translator}, Letters to his neighbor {M}
- Dorothy Pym, Houses as friends
- Teresa
Ransom, Fanny Trollope: A Remarkable Life
- Helen
Rappaport, Beautiful forever: Madame Rachel of Bond Street -
cosmetician, con-artist and blackmailer {H}; A Magnificent Obsession: Victoria, Albert, and the Death That
Changed the British Monarchy; Four Sisters: The Lost Lives of the
Romanov Grand Duchesses; and Caught in the Revolution:
Petrograd, Russia, 1917
- Claudia
Renton, Those Wild Wenham’s: Three Sisters At The Heart Of
Power
- Bronwyn
Riley, The edge of the Empire: a journey to Britannia : from the
heart of Rome to Hadrian's Wall {recommended in the NYT Book Review}
- Eric
Ripert, 32 yolks
- Carol
Eron Rizzoli, The House at Royal Oak
- Geraldine
Roberts, The angel and the cad: love, loss and scandal in
Regency England
- Katie
Roiphe, Uncommon arrangements: seven marriages {B, } and The violet hour: great writers at the end {B}
- Padraig
Rooney, The gilded chalet: off piste in literary Switzerland {noticed
on Vulpes Libris} {H}
- Phyllis
Rose, The Shelf {recommended on Stuck in a Book}
- Virginia
Rounding, Alix and Nicky: the passion of the last tsar and
tsarina
- Anne
Boyd Roux, Constance Fenimore Woolson: portrait of a lady
novelist
- Michael
Ruhlman, Grocery: The
Buying and Selling of Food in America {recommended by JoAnn}
- Nina Sankovich, Tolstoy and the purple chair: my year of magical reading
- Laura
Shapiro, What she ate: six remarkable women and the food
that tells their stories
- Michael
Sims, The story of Charlotte's Web : E.B. White's eccentric life
in nature and the birth of an American classic
- Michael
Shelden, Melville in love
- Helen Smith, The uncommon reader: a life of Edward Garnett, mentor and editor of literary genius
- Kathryn Smith, The Gatekeeper: Missy LeHand, FDR, and the Untold Story of the Partnership That Defined a Presidency
- Mary
Soames, A Daughter's Tale: The Memoir of Winston Churchill's
Youngest Child
- Frances Spalding, Gwen Raverat: friends, family and affections
- Julie
Speedie, Wonderful Sphinx: a biography of Ada Leverson {H}
- Paul
Spicer, The Temptress: The Scandalous Life of Alice de Janze and
the Mysterious Death of Lord Erroll
- Kathleen
Spivack, With Robert Lowell and his Circle
- Barbara
Strauch, The secret life of the grown-up brain : the surprising
talents of the middle-aged mind
- Noel Streatfield, A vicarage family, Away from the vicarage and Beyond the vicarage
- Roy Strong, A Country Life {recommended by Claire} and Coronation
- Sarah
Payne Stuart, Perfectly miserable : guilt, God and real estate in
a small town
- Julie Summers, Our uninvited guests
- Daniel
Sutherland, Whistler: A life for art's sake
- Emma Tennant, Strangers: a family romance
- Anna
Thomasson, A Curious Friendship {recommended everywhere!}
- Laura
Thompson, Take six girls: the lives of the Mitford sisters
- Gillian
Tindall, The fields
beneath: the history of one London
village {H}; The house by the
Thames, and the people who lived there {H}; Three houses, many
lives {noticed on Dovegreyreader
scribbles};
Célestine: voices from a French village {H}; and The house by the
Thames {H}
- Adrian
Tinniswood, The long weekend: life in the English country
house, 1918-1939 {noted by Lyn}
- Colm
Toibin, On Elizabeth Bishop (Writers on writers)
- Claire
Tomalin, Thomas Hardy and A life of my own
- Frank
Trentmann, Empire of Things: how we became a world of
consumers, from the fifteenth century to the twenty-first
- Jenny
Uglow, In These Times: Living in Britain Through Napoleon’s
Wars {noticed on Shiny New Books no.
4}
- Marian Veveers, Jane and Dorothy
- Hugo Vickers, The quest for Queen Mary
- Amanda
Vickery, Behind closed doors : at home in Georgian England {H} and The gentleman’s
daughter: women’s loves in Georgian
England {H}
- Caroline Weber, Proust's duchesses: how three celebrated women captured the heart of fin-de-siecle Paris {May}
- Wayne
A. Wiegand, Part of our lives: a people's history of the
American public library {recommended by Frances}
- Katie
Whitaker, Mad Madge: the extraordinary life of Margaret
Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle {M, B}
- Kate
Williams, Ambition and Desire: The Dangerous Life of Josephine
Bonaparte
- Bee
Wilson, First bite: how we learn to eat
- Frances
Wilson, The ballad of Dorothy Wordsworth : a life {H}
- Katherine Woolf, Culture club: the curious history of the Boston Athenaeum
- Virginia
Woolf, Books and portraits {H}
- Ilyon
Woo, The Great Divorce: A Nineteenth-Century Mother's
Extraordinary Fight against Her Husband, the Shakers, and Her Times
- Lucy Worsley: Queen Victoria: daughter, wife, mother and widow {January}
- Marilyn
Yalom and Theresa Donovan Brown, The social sex: a history of
female friendship, noticed in The New York Times
Book Review
Fiction
- Helen Ashton, Parson Austen's daughter {H}; Dr. Serocold: a page from his day-book {H}; Tadpole Hall {H}; Joanna at Littlefold {H}; Yeoman’s Hospital {H}; and Bricks and Mortar {H}
- Diksha
Basu, The windfall {M}
- Sally
Beauman, The Visitors
- Mark
Beauregarde, The whale: a love story
- Ludwig Bemelmans, Hotel Splendide
- Jill
Bialosky, The Prize {recommended on LitHub}
- Alain
de Botton, The course of love
- Gregoire
Bouillier, The Mystery Guest
- Ann
Bridge, Julia Probyn novels (recommended by Fleur} and Peking
Picnic {recommended on EmilyBooks}
- Elizabeth
Buchan, Daughters {H}
- A.S.
Byatt, The Biographer's Tale {noticed on Nonsuch
Book}
- Alice Campbell, Spiderweb
- Willa
Cather, The professor's house
{recommended by Ali}
- Clare
Clark, We that are left
- Janice
Clark, The Rathbones
- John Coates, Patience, Lettice: the widow’s tale, and time for tea
- Michael
Cox, The meaning of night and The glass of time {H}
- Lynn
Cullen, Twain's end
- Jill
Dawson, The tell-tale heart {noticed on Dovegreyreader
Scribbles}, The
Great Lover and The Crime Writer {both noticed
on A life in books}
- Louis
de Bernieres, The dust that falls from dreams and Notwithstanding
- Marisa
de los Santos, The precious one
- E.M.
Delafield, The provincial lady, The
provincial lady in America and The
provincial lady goes further
- Joyce
Dennys, Henrietta's War and Henrietta Sees it
Through
- E.A.
Dinely, The Death of Lyndon Wilder (recommended by Fleur}
- Margaret
Drabble, The Seven Sisters
- Kimberly
Elkins, What is visible
- Elizabeth Fair, Landscape in sunlight, The Mingham Air and The native heath
- Lyndsay
Faye, Jane Steele {noticed on LibraryReads}
- Rachel
Ferguson, The Brontes Went to Woolworths
- Katie
Fforde, Summer of love, A French affair, and Recipe
for Love {M}
- Margaret
Forster, Keeping the world away {noticed on Cornflower
Books}
and How to measure a cow
- Therese Anne Fowler, A well-behaved woman: a novel of the Vanderbilts (October)
- Jane
Gardam, The Sidmouth Letters {noticed on The Captive
Reader};
Faith Fox {recommended by Harriet Devine}; and The Flight of the Maidens {H}
- Maggie
Gee, Virginia Woolf in Manhattan {recommended on Shiny New Books}{H}
- Stella Gibbons, Here be Dragons {recommended by Claire}{H}, The Matchmaker{recommended by Frances}, The Swiss summer {H} and A Pink Front Door
- Julia
Glass, A house among the trees {B}
- Rumer Godden, A Fugue in Time {recommended by Jane}
- Imogen Hermes Gowar, The mermaid and Mrs. Hancock {September}
- Gwenthalyn
Graham, Earth and high heaven {H}
- Laurie
Graham, A
Humble Companion, Gone with the Windsors and The Grand
Duchess of Nowhere {recommended on Shiny New
Books}{H}
- Andrew
Sean Greer, Less
- Matt Haig, How to stop time
- Deborah Harkness, The Book of Life and Time's Convert {September}
- Sheila
Heti, Ticknor
- Georgette
Heyer, A Civil Contract, The Talisman Ring {recommended
by Claire}, An
Infamous Army, and Devil's Cub and These
Old Shades {noticed here}
- Mary
Hocking, Good daughters
- Alan
Hollinghurst, The stranger's child {noticed here}
- Anna
Hope, Wake and The Ballroom
- Elizabeth
Jane Howard, All Change
- Judith
Hooper, Alice in Bed {recommended on LitHub}
- Celia
Imrie, Nice work (if you can get it) and Not
quite nice
- Catharina
Ingleman-Sundberg, The little old lady who broke all the rules {recommended
in Shelf Awareness} {B)
- Elizabeth Jenkins, The winters
- Sarah
Orne Jewett, A Country Doctor {recommended by Lyn}
- Margaret Kennedy, Not in the calendar: the story of a friendship and Troy Chimneys
- Claire
King, Everything love is {B}
- C.H.B.
Kitchin, The auction sale {recommended by Fleur}{H}
- India
Knight, Mutton {recommended on Oddments and
snippets}
- Harriet
Lane, Alys, Always {recommended on Cornflower Books} {H}
- Antoine
Laurain, French
Rhapsody and The
Portrait {H}
- Ada Leverson, The little ottleys
- Joanne
Limburg, A want of kindness {noticed in the NYT Book Review}
- Elinor
Lipman, The pursuit of Alice Thrift and The
family man
- Penelope
Lively, Family album, How it all began and Consequences
- Margot
Livesey, Banishing Verona
- Rose
Macaulay, Dangerous Ages{H}, The World My Wilderness
{recommended here}; Crewe Train and The Towers of Trebizon
- Denis Mackail, Upside-Down; or, Love Among the Ruins {noticed on Geranium Cat's Bookshelf), Tales from Greenery Street, and Ian and Felicity {a.k.a. Peninsula Place}
- Bernard MacLaverty, Midwinter break
- Elizabeth
Maguire, The open door {noticed here}
- Oriel Malet, The green leaves of summer {H}
- Anna
Maxted, Rich again
- Alexander McCall Smith, The quiet side of passion {July}
- Sophie
McManus, The Unfortunates
- Claire
Messud, The emperor's children {recommended by JoAnn}
- Livi
Michael, Succession {noticed in The New York
Times Book Review}
- Francesca
Miralles, Love in lowercase
- Clare
Morgan, A Book for All and None {noticed on Cornflower Books}{H}
- Edith
Nesbit, The
Lark and The
Red House {recommended by Harriet Devine}
- Christopher
Nicholson, Winter {noticed in The New York Times
Book Review}
- A.J. Pearce, Dear Mrs. Bird {July}
- Sarah
Perry, The Essex serpent {B}
- Tasmina
Perry, The proposal {H}
- Matthew Plampin, Mrs. Whistler {April}
- Max
Porter, Grief is the thing with feathers {B}
- Alexandra
Potter, The two lives of Miss Charlotte Merryweather
- Natasha
Pulley, The Bedlam Stacks
- Bee
Ridgway, The
River of No Return
- Lucy
Ribchester, The Hourglass Factory {M} and The
Amber Shadows
- Lucinda
Riley, The midnight rose
- Victoria
Roberts, After the Fall {noticed here}
- Erika
Robuck, The House of Hawthorne
- Natalia
Sanmartin Fenollera, The Awakening of Miss Prim
- Margery Sharp, Britannia mews, In pious memory, and Rhododendron Pie
- Natasha Solomons, Mr. Rosenblum dreams in English. The House at Tyneford and The Song of Hartgrove Hall {a.k.a. The Song Collector, recommended by Claire}
- Belinda
Starling, The journal of Dora Damage
{H}
- D.E.
Stevenson, Bel Lamington; Fletchers End; The
Young Clementina {recommended by Fleur}; The Four Graces; and Mrs. Tim of
the Regiment {H}
- Beverly
Swerling, City of promise: a novel of New York’s Gilded Age {H}
- Elizabeth
Tallent, Mendocino Fire: stories
- Emma
Tennant, The Beautiful Child {noticed on Cornflower Books} {M, H}; Felony {H}: and The adventures of Robina, by herself;
being the memoirs of a debutante at the Court of Queen Elizabeth II {H}
- Rosie
Thomas, Lovers and newcomers {B}
- Sophia
Tobin, The Widow's Confession {noticed on Shiny New Books
no. 4}
- Colm
Toibin, The Master
- Paul
Torday, The legacy of Harltepool
Hall {H}
- Amor
Towles, The Rules of Civility {recommended by JoAnn}
- Barbara
Trapido, Sex and Stravinsky {recommended on Oddments and
snippets}
- Joanna Trollope, Balancing Act {H} and An Unsuitable Match
- Norah
Vincent, Adeline: a novel of Virginia Woolf
{noticed on A Work in Progress}
- Menna
von Praag, The house at the end of Hope Street
- Natasha
Walter, A quiet life
- Louise
Walters, Mrs. Sinclair's Suitcase {recommended by Fleur}
- Katherine
Webb, The misbegotten {recommended by Fleur}
- Madeleine Wickham, A Desirable Residence
- Lauren
Willig, Pink
Carnation series and The English Wife
- A.N.
Wilson, The Potter's Hand {recommended by Dovegreyreader}
- P.G.
Wodehouse, Mulliner Nights {noted on Cornflower
Books}
and Aunts aren't gentlemen {M}
- Susan
M. Wyler, Solsbury Hill
Mysteries
- Rennie
Airth, River of Darkness, The Blood-Dimmed Tide, The Dead of
Winter and The Reckoning {A} {Inspector John
Madden}
- Tasha
Alexander, Dangerous to Know, A Crimson Warning, Death
in the Floating City, The Adventuress and The Counterfeit
Heiress
- Margery
Allingham, The White Cottage Mystery {recommended on Mirabile
Dictu}
- Sally
Andrew, Recipes for love and murder
- David
Ashton, Fall from grace and The shadow of the serpent {H}
- Robert
Barnard, The case of the missing Bronte and A
little local murder {recommended on Random
Jottings}
- Lauren
Belfer, A fierce radiance
- Harry
Bingham, Love Story, with Murders
- Nicholas
Blake, A question of proof and Thou shell of
death {recommended by A Desperate
Reader}
- Fabrice
Bourland, The Baker Street Phantom {H} and The
Dream Killer of Paris
- William Brodrick, the Father Anselm mysteries {noticed on Cornflower Books}
- Christopher
Brookmyre, Black Widow {M}
- Kenneth
Cameron, The Bohemian Girl
- Karen
Campbell, After the fire, Proof of life and The twilight time {H}
- Jayne
Casey, The Burning
- Joanna Challis, Peril at Somner House and The Villa of Death
- Karen
Charlton, The Heiress of Linn Hagh and The San Pareil
Mystery
- Barbara
Clevely, Joe Sandilands series
- Edmund
Crispin, The gilded fly and The moving toyshop
- Oscar
de Muriel, The strings of time {recommended in the NYT Book
Review} and A fever in the blood
- Carola
Dunn, Manna from Hades, A Colourful Death, The Valley of the
Shadow {The Cornish Mysteries} and Heirs of the Body
- Elizabeth
Daly, the Henry Gamadge mysteries {noticed on Bas Bleu}
- David
Dickinson, Goodnight sweet prince,, Death and the Jubilee (and
later books in series)
- Patricia
Duncker, The strange case of the composer and his judge
- Martin
Edwards, Take my breath away
- Marjorie
Eccles, Last nocturne and Broken music {and
later books in Herbert Reardon series}
- Kate
Ellis, A Painted Doom (and later books)
- Lyndsay
Faye, The Gods of Gotham, Seven for a Secret {recommended
on She Reads
Novels}
and The Fatal Flame
- Nicci
French, Friday on My Mind: A Frieda Klein Mystery
- Tana French, Into the Woods {recommended
by JoAnn}
- Ann Granger, Mud, Muck and Dead Things and Rack, Ruin and Murder (Campbell and Carter mysteries)
- Elly Griffiths, The dark angel {May}
- Martha
Grimes, Dust, The black cat, and The Knowledge {April}
- Georgette
Heyer, The Unfinished Clue
- Susan Hill, The comforts of home {November}
- Suzette
Hill, Reverend Oughterard mysteries
- Hazel
Holt, Mrs. Malory and death in practice, Mrs. Malory and the
silent killer, Mrs. Malory and no cure for death, Mrs. Malory and a death
in the family, Mrs. Malory and a time to die and Leonora
- Anthony Horowitz, The word is murder {June}
- M.R.C.
Kasasian, The Curse of the House of Fockett, The Mangle Street
Murders, and Death Descends on Saturn Villa
- Christobel
Kent, The Drowning River, A Murder in Tuscany and The
Killing Room
- C.H.B. Kitchin, Death of my aunt {author recommended by Fleur}
- Mary
Kowal, Shades of Milk and Honey {recommended by Claire}
- Camilla
Lackberg, The Ice Princess and The Drowning
- Donna Leon, The temptation of forgiveness
- Charlie Lovett, The lost book of the grail
- G.M.
Malliet, The Haunted Season, Devil's
Breath and In Prior's Wood
- David
Mark, Taking pity
- Edward
Marston, Peril on the royal train
- Val
McDermid, Trick of the Dark
- Jill
McGown, Murder at the Old Vicarage {M}
- Jane
McLaughlin, A nice place to die
- Katharine
McMahon, The Crimson Rooms and The Woman in the
Picture
- Frédérique Molay, Crossing the Line
- Martin O'Brien, Inspector Jacquot mysteries {recommended on Random Jottings}
- Cuyler Overholt, A deadly affection {M}
- Louise Penny, How the Light Gets in, The Long Way Home, The Nature of the Beast, A Great Reckoning and Glass Houses
- Ruth Rendell, Dark Corners
- Mike Ripley, Mr. Campion's Fault
- Kate Rhodes, Hell Bay
- Harriet Rutland, Knock, Murderer, Knock {recommended by Jane} and Bleeding Hooks
- Nicola Slade, The Dead Queen's Garden
- Donald Smith, The constable's tale {noticed in The New York Times Book Review}
- Susie Steiner, Homecoming
- Peter Swanson, The kind worth killing for and Her every fear {recommended by Harriet Devine}{M}
- Josephine Tey, The man in the queue {recommended by Danielle}
- Jane Thynne, Black roses {H}
- Sherry Thomas, A study in scarlet women
- Charles Todd, Hunting Shadows, A Fine Summer's Day and The Gatekeeper {Inspector Rutledge}
- L.C. Tyler, The herring-seller's apprentice and the next four Ethelred Tresidder and Elsie Thirkettle mysteries {recommended by Fleur}
- Fred Vargas, An Uncertain Place and The Ghost Riders of Ordebec
- Louise Welsh, Naming the Bones
- Andrew Wilson, A talent for murder
- Laura Wilson, Stratton's War, An Empty Death and The riot{H}
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