The Modern Book Scene Part 2 Book List
Murder, mysteries and Thrillers, 6
The Dry, Jane Harper, 2016 (Australian);
Firewall, Henning Mankell, 2008 (Swedish);
Reykjavik Nights , Arnaldur Indridason 2014 (Icelandic) ;
The Second Deadly Sin, Asa Larsson 2014 (Swedish);
Magpie Murders, Anthony Horowitz,2017;
The Thursday Murder Club, Richard Osman, 2020;
Does the punishment fit the Crime? 2
Burial Rites, Hannah Kent, 2013.
Apple Tree Yard, Louise Doughty, 2014.
Mystery, no murder (a “feel good factor” novel) 1
The Cleaner of Chartres , Sally Vickers, 2007;
A Spy Novel & the biography of a Spy, 2
Restless, William Boyd , 2006;
A Woman of No Importance, Sonia Purnell, 2019;
Classic Novels featuring Masters of Disguise, 2
The Four Feathers A.E. W. Mason, 1901, downloaded free from Gutenberg.org
The Scarlett Pimpernel. 1905, Baroness Orczy, downloaded free from Gutenberg.org
One Novel & the Effects of Social Deprivation & Alcoholism. (Booker Prize 2020); 1
Shuggie Bain, Douglas Stuart, 2020;
3 Novels, A True account of the Effects of War and Conflict + an essay ; 5
A Long Petal of the Sea, Isabel Allende, 2020, (Spanish);
Guernica- Dave Boling, 2009;
The Garden of Evening Mists, Tan Twan En, 2012, (Malay);
Endell Street Wendy Moore, 2020;
The Subjection of Women, essay-John Stuart Mill,1869, downloaded free from Gutenberg.org;
3 fiction & 3 non fiction books featuring aspects of the Subjection of Women, 6
Man of Property, John Galsworthy, 1906, download free from Gutenberg.org;
Stay with me, Ayobami Adebayo, 2017,(polygamy in modern Nigeria, Yoruba) ;
Riders of the Purple Sage, Zane Grey, 1904 downloaded free from Gutenberg.org;
Educated, Tara Westover, 2018, (Mormon);
Unorthodox, Deborah Feldman, 2012, (Jewish);
Infidel, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, 2006, (Somali Muslim- author was placed under a fatwa);
It could have been different, 1
Katarina Luther, Anne Boileau, 2016;
Romance, Family and the Natural world 4+1+ 5 The Girl from the Tanner’s Yard, Diane Allen, 2020.
This Love, Dani Atkins, 2018;
All the Lonely People, Mike Gayle 2021;
The Other Bennet Sister, Jane Hadlow, 2020;
Miss Austen, Gill Hornsby 2020;
Wildwood – a Journey Through Trees, Roger Deakin 2008;
Rootbound – Rewilding a Life. Alice Vincent, 2020;
Sightlines Kathleen Jamie, 2012;
The Stubborn Light of Things- a Nature diary – Melissa Harrison, 2020,
The Summer Isles – a sea voyage, Philip Marsden, 2019. (TOTAL = 36 publications)
