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The Tinker's Book
Len Chester: Bugle Boy
Father of dgr and primary historical source now published and on the shelves at a bookshop near you.
2008
Steven Gilbar: Reading in Bed: Personal Essays on the Glories of Reading
- Richard Burns: A Dance for the Moon
Lynda A Franklin: Soft Words Butter No Parsnips: The Life and Times of John Iliffe Poole
Mary Borden: The Forbidden Zone: A Nurse's Impressions of the First World War
Gavin Stamp: The Memorial to the Missing of the Somme (Wonders of the World)
Mary Ann Shaffer: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Helen Rappaport: Ekaterinburg: The Last Days of the Romanovs
Dame Daphne Du Maurier: The "Rebecca" Notebook: And Other Memories
Daphne Du Maurier: Letters from Menabilly: Portrait of a Friendship
Justine Picardie: My Mother's Wedding Dress: The Life and Afterlife of Clothes
- H.E. Bates: The Triple Echo
- Dymphna Cusack: Jungfrau
Virginia Woolf: The Mark on the Wall and Other Short Fiction
Remembrance Reading November 2008
Gavin Stamp: The Memorial to the Missing of the Somme (Wonders of the World)
Mary Borden: The Forbidden Zone: A Nurse's Impressions of the First World War (Modern Voices)
Lynda A Franklin: Soft Words Butter No Parsnips: The Life and Times of John Iliffe Poole
- Richard Burns: A Dance for the Moon
Beyond the Home Front: Women's Autobiographical Writing of the Two World Wars
Bookerthon 2008
Aravind Adiga: The White Tiger
It's on my shortlist for sure (*****)Gaynor Arnold: Girl in a Blue Dress
Sorry, gave up at p236 with 200 to go. (**)Sebastian Barry: The Secret Scripture
Loses a star for the ending, why oh why? (****)John Berger: From A to X: Some Letters Recuperated by John Berger
Superb (*****)Michelle de Kretser: The Lost Dog
A brilliant read, loved it. (*****)Amitav Ghosh: Sea of Poppies
Magnificent, story-telling at its supreme best. (*****)Linda Grant: The Clothes on Their Backs
A resounding thumbs-up, excellent thought-provoking read. (*****)Mohammed Hanif: A Case of Exploding Mangoes
Sorry, gave up at p137. (**)Philip Hensher: The Northern Clemency
Stellar and so far my money's on it to win, sorry Philip that's just ruined your chances! (*****)Joseph O'Neill: Netherland
Didn't bowl me over but can easily see why others may love it. (****)Salman Rushdie: The Enchantress of Florence
Seconds out, round two but threw in the towel at p195 (**)Tom Rob Smith: Child 44
A great thriller but not a Booker contender imho. (***)Steve Toltz: A Fraction of the Whole
Early days.
Literary Festivals
Around the World in Eighty Books
2007
K. Jerome Jerome: The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow (Hesperus Classics)
Onora O'Neill: A Question of Trust: The BBC Reith Lectures 2002
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell: Cranford (Oxford World's Classics)
Roger Stutter: Jonny Kennedy: The Story of the Boy Whose Skin Fell Off
Tom Reynolds: Touch Me, I'm Sick: The 52 Creepiest Love Songs You've Ever Heard
Bob Servant: Delete This at Your Peril: One Man's Fearless Exchanges with the Internet Spammers
Rohan Candappa: Rules Britannia: The 101 Essential Questions of Britishness Answered
L. C. Tyler: The Herring Seller's Apprentice (Macmillan New Writing)
Justin Kaplan: When the Astors Owned New York: Blue Bloods and Grand Hotels in a Gilded Age
Anna Kavan: Guilty - A Peter Owen Paperback Original (Peter Owen Modern Classics)
Caspar Wintermanns: Alfred Douglas: A Poet's Life and His Finest Work
Daphne Du Maurier: My Cousin Rachel (Virago Modern Classics)
Rachel Trethewey: Mistress of the Arts: The Passionate Life of Georgina, Duchess of Bedford
Claude Izner: Murder on the Eiffel Tower: A Victor Legris Mystery (Victor Legris)
Betty Miles: At the Sign of the Rainbow: Margaret Calkin James 1895-1985
- Winifred Peck: House-bound