Books read 2012

1. The land of green plums – Herta Müller
2. The Stalin organ – Gert Ledig
3. To die for – Lucy Siegle
4. The Avenue at war – R.F. Delderfield
5. The gentle art of muckraking – Jessica Mitford
6. Rethinking the Soviet experience – Stephen F. Cohen
7. Wounds – Maureen Duffy
8. The Ivington diaries – Monty Don
9. Queen Victoria: gender and power – Dorothy Thompson
10. Capital – Maureen Duffy
11. Elizabeth and her German garden – Elizabeth von Arnim
12. Fashioning London: clothing and the modern metropolis – Christopher Breward
13. Defining dress – Amy de la Haye and Elizabeth Wilson (eds.)
14. Every day is mother’s day – Hilary Mantel
15. Nazi chic – Irene Guenther
16. The corner that held them – Sylvia Townsend Warner
17. The London hanged: crime and civil society – Peter Linebaugh
18. Under my skin – Doris Lessing
19. Walking in the shade – Doris Lessing
20. Correspondence – Ingeborg Bachmann and Paul Celan
21. From the city, from the plough – Alexander Baron
22. Women in love – D.H. Lawrence
23. Rain on the pavements – Ronald Camberton
24. The forgotten soldier – Guy Sajer
25. Soviet fates and lost alternatives – Stephen F. Cohen
26. There’s no home – Alexander Baron
27. Unexplained laughter – Alice Thomas Ellis
28. The 27th kingdom – Alice Thomas Ellis
29. The haunting of Sylvia Plath – Jacqueline Rose
30. The silent woman: Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath – Janet Malcolm
31. Painting rain – Paula Meehan
32. A journey with two maps: becoming a woman poet – Eavan Boland
33. After every war: twentieth century woman poets – Eavan Boland (translator and editor)
34. My life with Nye – Jennie Lee
35. On not being able to sleep: psychoanalysis and the modern world – Jacqueline Rose
36. In pursuit of the English – Doris Lessing
37. Manhattan, when I was young – Mary Cantwell
38. Loving – Henry Green
39. Nothing to envy: ordinary lives in North Korea - Barbara Demick
40. End this depression now! – Paul Krugman
41. Freefall: free markets and the sinking of the global economy – Joseph Stiglitz
42. MetaMaus – Art Spiegelman
43. The danger tree – Olivia Manning
44. The battle lost and won – Olivia Manning
45. Kingdoms of Elfin – Sylvia Townsend Warner
46. The appointment - Herta Müller
47. The sum of things – Olivia Manning
48. Black Narcissus – Rumer Godden
49. A German requiem – Philip Kerr
50. Too loud a solitude – Bohumil Hrabal
51. Londoners – Maureen Duffy