Dennis Lehane: The Given Day
(****)
Joakim Zander: The Swimmer
(****)
Peter Kirby: The Dead of Winter
More Montreal... (****)
James Salter: All That Is
(****)
Dominique Fortier: Wonder
(****)
Mai Jia: Decoded: A Novel
2014 Global Challenge 14/21 China (***)
Georges Simenon: The Saint-Fiacre Affair
Maigret #13 (***)
Claire Robertson: The Spiral House
2014 Global Challenge 13/21 South Africa (***)
Aravind Adiga: The White Tiger
India: Global Challenge 13/12 (****)
Vladimir Nabokov: Pnin
(***)
Jhumpa Lahiri: The Lowland
(****)
Jamala Safari: The Great Agony & Pure Laughter of the Gods
2014 Global Challenge 12/21 DR Congo (*****)
John Williams: Augustus: A Novel
(*****)
Liza Marklund: Borderline
(****)
Lima Barreto: The Sad End of Policarpo Quaresma
2014 Global Challenge 11/21 Brazil (***)
Georges Simenon: The Bar on the Seine
Maigret 11 RR (***)
Georges Simenon: The Dancer at the Gai-Moulin
Maigret 10 (****)
Herman Koch: The Dinner
(***)
Stanley Middleton: Holiday
Booker joint winner 1974 (****)
David Grossman: To The End of the Land
TBR 2/12 (*****)
Bao Ninh: The Sorrow Of War
2014 Global Challenge 10/21 Vietnam (****)
Eleanor Catton: The Luminaries
2014 Global Challenge 8/21 New Zealand (*****)
Howard Shrier: Miss Montreal
(****)
Alan Glynn: Bloodland
TBR Pile Challenge 2/12 (****)
Mordecai Richler: Barney's Version
Canada: Global Challenge 8/21 (****)
Georges Simenon: The Grand Banks Café
Maigret 8 (***)
Sloan Wilson: The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit
USA: Global Challenge 7/21 (*****)
Jon Turney: I, Superorganism: Learning to love your inner ecosystem (****)
Sue Roe: In Montmartre: Picasso, Matisse and Modernism in Paris, 1900-1910 (****)
David Kynaston: Modernity Britain: A Shake of the Dice, 1959-62 (****)
Elizabeth Kolbert: The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (*****)
Goran Rosenberg: A Brief Stop on the Road from Auschwitz (*****)
Robert Hughes: Rome (****)
Max Leonard: Lanterne Rouge: The Last Man in the Tour de France (***)
Nick Davies: Hack Attack: How the truth caught up with Rupert Murdoch (****)
Simon Garfield: On The Map: Why the world looks the way it does (****)
Joe Moran: Armchair Nation: An intimate history of Britain in front of the TV (****)
Patrick McGuinness: Other People's Countries: A Journey into Memory (*****)
Laura Miller: The Magician's Book: A Skeptic's Adventures in Narnia
(*****)
Neil Perryman: Adventures with the Wife in Space: Living With Doctor Who
(*****)
Bradley Wiggins: Bradley Wiggins: My Time: An Autobiography
(****)
David Kynaston: Modernity Britain: Opening the Box, 1957-1959
(****)
Dylan Jones: When Ziggy Played Guitar: David Bowie and Four Minutes that Shook the World
(***)
Simon Goddard: Ziggyology
(*****)
Daniel Tammet: Thinking in Numbers: How Maths Illuminates Our Lives
(****)
Nick Harkaway: The Blind Giant: How to Survive in the Digital Age: Being Human in a Digital World
(****)
Peter Doggett: The Man Who Sold The World: David Bowie And The 1970s
(****)
Roger Hermiston: The Greatest Traitor: The Secret Lives of Agent George Blake
(*****)
Peter Turchi: Maps of the Imagination: The Writer as Cartographer
(****)
Philip Oltermann: Keeping Up With the Germans: A History of Anglo-German Encounters
(****)
Dominic Sandbrook: Seasons in the Sun: The Battle for Britain, 1974-1979
(****)
Murray Bail: Eucalyptus
TBR Review (*****)
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: Half of a Yellow Sun
TBR Review (*****)
Johan Theorin: The Quarry
(*****)
Francis Spufford: Red Plenty
(*****)
Santiago Roncagliolo: Red April
(*****)