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
- Rosemary Ashton, Thomas and Jane Carlyle, Portrait of a Marriage
- Polly Atkin, Recovering Dorothy: the hidden life of Dorothy Wordsworth (April)
- Diane
Atkinson, The
criminal conversation of Mrs. Norton {H}
- Georgina
Battiscombe, Queen Alexandra {H}
- Sylvia Beach, The Letters of Sylvia Beach
- 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
- 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 {H}
- Jane Bradbury, American style and spirit : fashions and lives of the Roddis family, 1850-1995 {H} {noticed on dovegreyreader scribbles}
- 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
- Shaun Bythell, The diary of a bookseller and Confessions of a bookseller
- 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
- Cressida Connolly, The rare and the beautiful: the art, love and lives of the Garman sisters {recommended by Darlene}
- 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 and The Queen's Embroiderer
- 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
- 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
- Philip Eade, Sylvia, Queen of the Headhunters : An Eccentric Englishwoman and Her Lost Kingdom
- Martin Edwards, The golden age of murder
- Samantha Ellis, How to be a heroine, or what I've learned from reading too much
- Sian Evans, Queen bees: six brilliant and extraordinary society hostesses between the wars
- 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}
- Eleanor Fitzsimmons, The life and loves of E. Nesbit {H}
- Janet Flanner, An American in Paris: profile of an interlude between two wars {B}
- Margalit Fox, The Riddle of the Labyrinth: the Quest to Crack An Ancient Code {from an interview on NPR}
- Flora Fraser, Princesses: The six daughters of George III
- 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 and Virginia Woolf and the women who shaped her world
- Robert Gittings and Jo Manton, Claire Clairmont and the Shelleys
- Adam Gopnik, 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
- 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}
- Kathleen Hart, Devorgilla Days {recommended on Cornflower Books}
- 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, Mr. and Mrs.
Disraeli: A Strange Romance {recommended here}, and Dinner with Joseph Johnson: Books and Friendship in a Revolutionary Age {April}
- 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}
- Susan Hill, Jacob's room has too many books
- Matthew
Hollis, Now all roads lead to France
{H}
- Kathryn Hughes, George Eliot: the last Victorian {H}
- Nicola Humble, Culinary Pleasures {H}
- Maggie
Humm, Snapshots of Bloomsbury: the private lives of Virginia Woolf and
Vanessa Bell {H}
- 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
- Alison Light, Common people: the history of an English family and Mrs. Woolf and the servants
- Penelope Lively, Ammonites and Leaping Fish: a life in time {recommended by Lyn}; and A House Unlocked (noticed on dovegreyreader scribbles}{M}
- Suzanne
Loebl, America's Medicis: The Rockefellers and their
astonishing cultural legacy
- Elizabeth Longford, Victoria R. I. , Elizabeth R, and The Royal House of Windsor
- 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 and Virginia Woolf at Home {H}
- 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
- 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}
- Wendy Moffat, A great unrecorded history : a new life of E.M. Forster
- Tom Mole, The secret life of books {noticed on Cornflower Books}
- Charlotte Moore, Hancox; a house and a family {noticed on dovegreyreader scribbles}
- Wendy Moore, Wedlock : the true story of the disastrous marriage and remarkable divorce of Mary Eleanor Bowes, Countess of Strathmore {H}, and No Man's Land: the trailblazing women who ran Britain's most extraordinary military hospital during World War I
- 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 {H}
- 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
- Lynne Murphy, The prodigal tongue
- 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}
- Julia Parry, The shadowy third: love, letters and Elizabeth Bowen
- 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}
- John Preston, A very English scandal
- 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
- 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}
- 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}
- Phyllis Rose, The Shelf {recommended on Stuck in a Book}
- 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
- Francesca Segal, Mothership
- Michael Shelden, Melville in love
- Michael Sims, The story of Charlotte's Web : E.B. White's eccentric life in nature and the birth of an American classic
- William Sitwell, Eggs or anarchy
- 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
- Katharine Smith, All the lives we ever lived: seeking solace in Virginia Woolf
- Christopher A. Snyder, Gatsby's Oxford: Scott, Zelda, and the Jazz Age Invasion of Britain: 1904-1929 {B}
- 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
- Nell Stevens, Bleaker House: chasing my novel to the end of the world and The victorian and the romantic
- Barbara
Strauch, The secret life of the grown-up brain : the surprising
talents of the middle-aged mind
- Roy Strong, A Country Life {recommended by Claire} and Coronation
- Sarah
Payne Stuart, Perfectly miserable : guilt, God and real estate in
a small town
- Daniel Sutherland, Whistler: A life for art's sake
- Anna Thomasson, A Curious Friendship {recommended everywhere!}
- 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}
- Adrian Tinniswood, The long weekend: life in the English country house, 1918-1939 {noted by Lyn}, and Behind the throne: a domestic history of the British royal household
- Colm
Toibin, On Elizabeth Bishop (Writers on writers)
- Amanda Vickery, Behind closed doors : at home in Georgian England {H} and The gentleman’s daughter: women’s loves in Georgian England {H}
- Francesca Wade, Square Haunting: five writers in London between the wars
- Sarah Watling, Noble savages: the Olivier sisters
- Nicola J. Watson, The author's effects: on the writer's house museum
- Caroline Weber, Proust's duchesses: how three celebrated women captured the heart of fin-de-siecle Paris
- Zoe Wheddon, Jane Austen's best friend: the life and letters of Martha Lloyd
- 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
- A.N. Wilson, Prince Albert: the man who saved the monarchy
- 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
- Marilyn Yalom and Theresa Donovan Brown, The social sex: a history of female friendship, noticed in The New York Times Book Review
Fiction
- Verily Anderson, Spam tomorrow
- Helen Ashton, Dr. Serocold: a page from his day-book {H}; Tadpole Hall {H}; Joanna at Littlefold {H}; and Yeoman’s Hospital {H};
- Lucy Atkins, Magpie Lane
- Diksha
Basu, The windfall {M}
- Elizabeth Berg, The dream lover {B}{M}
- Sally
Beauman, The Visitors
- Mark
Beauregarde, The whale: a love story
- Ludwig Bemelmans, Hotel Splendide
- Jill
Bialosky, The Prize {recommended on LitHub}
- Gregoire Bouillier, The Mystery Guest {B}
- Alain
de Botton, The course of love
- Rosalind Brackney, Becoming George Sand {B}{M}
- Ann
Bridge, Julia Probyn novels (recommended by Fleur} and Peking
Picnic {recommended on EmilyBooks}
- Celia Buckmaster, Village story and Family ties
- A.S. Byatt, The Biographer's Tale {noticed on Nonsuch Book}
- Alice Campbell, Spiderweb
- Willa
Cather, The professor's house
{recommended by Ali} and My Antonia
- Jerome Charyn, The secret life of Emily Dickinson{B}{M}
- Clare Clark, We that are left
- John Coates, Patience, Lettice: the widow’s tale, and time for tea
- Isabel Colegate, Statues in a Garden {recommended on Cosy Books}
- 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 in America
- 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
- Elizabeth Fair, Landscape in sunlight, The Mingham Air, The native heath, and The Marble Staircase {August}
- 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
- Ruby Ferguson, Apricot Sky {recommended on Cornflower Books}
- 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}
- C.W. Gortner, The American Adventuress {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
- Joanne Harris, The strawberry thief
- 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}
- Anna Hope, Wake and The Ballroom
- Norah Hoult, There were no windows {H}
- 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}
- Diane Johnson, Lorna Mott comes home
- 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}
- Ada Leverson, The little ottleys
- Joanne
Limburg, A want of kindness {noticed in the NYT Book Review}
- Elinor Lipman, 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 Trebizond
- Denis Mackail, Upside-Down; or, Love Among the Ruins {noticed on Geranium Cat's Bookshelf), Tales from Greenery Street {H}, Ian and Felicity {a.k.a. Peninsula Place}; David's Day {H}; The Square Circle {H}
- Bernard MacLaverty, Midwinter break
- Elizabeth
Maguire, The open door {noticed here}
- Oriel Malet, The green leaves of summer {H}
- Benjamin Markovitz, A quiet adjustment {B}{M}
- Anna
Maxted, Rich again
- Sophie McManus, The Unfortunates
- Claire
Messud, The emperor's children {recommended by JoAnn}
- Mameve Medwed, Minus me
- Livi
Michael, Succession {noticed in The New York
Times Book Review}
- Francesca
Miralles, Love in lowercase
- Charlotte Moore, Grandmother's footsteps {H}
- Doris Langley Moore, Not at home and All Done by Kindness
- 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}
- Jane Oliver, Business as usual {March}
- Tasmina Perry, The proposal {H}
- Matthew Plampin, Mrs. Whistler
- Max
Porter, Grief is the thing with feathers {B}
- Alexandra
Potter, The two lives of Miss Charlotte Merryweather
- 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
- Susan Scarlett, Sally-Ann {noticed here}
- Margery Sharp, Britannia mews, In pious memory, and The Stone of Chastity
- 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, Fletchers End; The Young Clementina {recommended by Fleur}; The Four Graces; Mrs. Tim of the Regiment {H}; Music in the Hills; Winter and Rough Weather; The Fair Miss Fortune; and The Musgraves
- 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
- Amor Towles, The Rules of Civility {recommended by JoAnn}
- Barbara
Trapido, Sex and Stravinsky {recommended on Oddments and
snippets}
- Salley Vickers, The librarian and Grandmothers {November}
- 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}
- Sylvia Townsend Warner, Lolly Willowes {H}
- 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, The Dead of
Winter and The Reckoning {Inspector John
Madden}
- Tasha
Alexander, Dangerous to Know, A Crimson Warning, Death
in the Floating City, The Adventuress and The Counterfeit
Heiress
- 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}
- 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
- Deborah Crombie, A Killing of Innocents {January?}
- 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}, Superfluous Women 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 and The Crooked Shore
- 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
- Ann Granger, Mud, Muck and Dead Things and Rack, Ruin and Murder (Campbell and Carter mysteries)
- Martha Grimes, The Knowledge
- Georgette Heyer, The Unfinished Clue
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Martin O'Brien, Inspector Jacquot mysteries {recommended on Random Jottings}
- Cuyler Overholt, A deadly affection {M}
- Louise Penny, All the devils are here, The madness of crowds, and A World of Curiosities {November}
- Ruth Rendell, Dark Corners
- Mike Ripley, Mr. Campion's Fault
- Kate Rhodes, Fatal Harmony
- 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}
- Andrew Taylor, The Ashes of London{H, M} and The Fire Court {M} {recommended by Harriet Devine}
- Josephine Tey, The man in the queue {recommended by Danielle}
- Jane Thynne, Black roses {H}
- Sherry Thomas, A study in scarlet women
- 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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