This page records the comments I have written on books as part of a postal reading group. The idea is that each member of the group chooses a book, and writes their comments before mailing it to the next person on the list. Over the course of the year you will read and comment on everyone's choices. Please note that the comments recorded here are entirely my own, and, for reasons of privacy, no other members of the group are identified. Please click on the links in the month column to be taken to the relevant set of remarks.
| Month | Title | Author |
|---|---|---|
| October 2018 | Missing Fay | Adam Thorpe |
| November 2018 | The Lighthouse | Alison Moore |
| December 2018 | Angels flight | Michael Connelly |
| January 2019 | The Abortionist's daughter | Elisabeth Hyde |
| February 2019 | All the light we cannot see | Anthony Doerr |
| March 2019 | Falling away | Candida Crewe |
| April 2019 | 'A' is for Alibi | Sue Grafton |
| May 2019 | The Anubis gates | Tim Powers |
| June 2019 | The Long song | Andrea Levy |
| July 2019 | The Visit of the royal physician | Per Olov Enquist |
| August 2019 | Mortality | Christopher Hitchens |
| September 2019 | The Age of miracles | Karen Thompson Walker |
| October 2019 | The Librarian | Salley Vickers |
| November 2019 | Molly Fox's birthday | Deirdre Madden |
| December 2019 | Vaporetto 13 | Robert Girardi |
| January 2020 | Tin man | Sarah Winman |
| February 2020 | A Walk in the woods | Bill Bryson |
| March 2020 | The Great alone | Kristin Hannah |
| April 2020 | If I die before I wake | Emily Koch |
| May 2020 | The Turing test | Chris Beckett |
| June 2020 | Trespass | Rose Tremain |
| July 2020 | My sister, the serial killer | Oyinkan Braithwaite |
| August 2020 | Slade House | David Mitchell |
| September 2020 | Fludd | Hilary Mantel |
| October 2020 | The Offing | Benjamin Myers |
| November 2020 | The Uncommon reader | Alan Bennett |
| December 2020 | Half of a yellow sun | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
| January 2021 | Annie Dunne | Sebastian Barry |
| February 2021 | Elizabeth is missing | Emma Healey |
| March 2021 | A Summer book and The Winter book | Tove Jansson |
| April 2021 | Fried green tomatoes at the Whistle Stop cafe | Fannie Flagg |
| May 2021 | The Chrysalids | John Wyndham |
| June 2021 | The Salt path | Raynor Winn |
| July 2021 | The Giver of stars | Jojo Moyes |
| August 2021 | In a glass darkly | J. Sheridan le Fanu |
| September 2021 | A Gathering light | Jennifer Donnelly |
| October 2021 | Summer water | Sarah Moss |
| November 2021 | Lords and ladies | Terry Pratchett |
| December 2021 | Away with the penguins | Hazel Prior |
| January 2022 | The Shepherd’s life | James Rebanks |
| February 2022 | The Fishermen | Chigozie Obioma |
| March 2022 | We are all completely beside ourselves | Karen Joy Fowler |
| April 2022 | Wide sargasso sea | Jean Rhys |
| May 2022 | Human acts | Han Kang |
| June 2022 | Who will run the frog hospital | Lorrie Moore |
| July 2022 | On the water | H. M. van den Brink |
| August 2022 | The man who died twice | Richard Osman |
| September 2022 | The Woman in the white kimono | Ana Johns |
| October 2022 | Before the coffee gets cold | Toshikazu Kawaguchi |
| November 2022 | Songbirds | Christy Lefteri |
| December 2022 | Enduring love | Ian McEwan |
| January 2023 | Tory heaven, or, thunder on the right | Marghanita Laski |
| February 2023 | The Witches of Cambridge | Menna van Praag |
| March 2023 | All that I am | Anna Funder |
| April 2023 | Still life | Sarah Winman |
| May 2023 | The Reader on the 6:27 | Jean-Paul Didierlaurent |
| June 2023 | Entry Island | Peter May |
| July 2023 | Wintering | Katherine May |
| August 2023 | Godmersham Park | Gill Hornby |
| September 2023 | Poor things | Alisdair Gray |
| October 2023 | Mr. Mac and me | Esther Freud |
| November 2023 | Jamaica Inn | Daphne du Maurier |
| December 2023 | Home fire | Kamila Shamsie |
| January 2024 | Checkout 19 | Claire-Louise Bennett |
| February 2024 | Miss Austen | Gill Hornby |
| March 2024 | Longbourn | Jo Baker |
I have also written a few short reviews for the New Books magazine. These are available here