Zanna Campanula of the revolutionary trousers
hooray, a new year of books, books, books: 2011
Bookclub books
- Remarkable Creatures – Tracy Chevalier (new world alert!)
- The Woman in Black – Susan Hill (scary!)
- The Einstein Girl – Philip Sington
- Breath – Tim Winton
- The Unnamed – Joshua Ferris
- Whatever you love – Louise Doughty (pah, stupid fecking narrator. i have nothing but contempt for her and would like to push her off the fecking boring cliff.)
- The White Woman on the Green Bicycle – Monique Roffey
- Moon Tiger – Penelope Lively (fecking brilliant!)
- The Glass Room – Simon Mawer
- The Bean Trees – Barbara Kingsolver (i love BK)
- The Widow’s Tale – Mick Jackson
- Sister – Rosamund Lupton (ace!)
- Charlotte Sometimes – Penelope Farmer (blast from the past)
- Attachment – Isabel Fonseca
- The Point of Rescue – Sophie Hannah
- A Matter of Fat – Sherry Ashworth (hehe)
- Notes from an Exhibition – Patrick Gayle (ace!)
- Saving Caravaggio – Neil Griffiths (bleurgh)
- The Breaker – Minette Walters (needed sth easy—and it’s set in Purbeck!)
- A Patriot in Berlin – Piers Paul Read (i must really stop reading crap i find in pubs)
- Molly Fox’s birthday – Deirdre Madden
- Bridget Jones’s diary – Helen Fielding (wahahah, still brilliant)
- Afterwards – Rosamund Lupton (not nearly as ace as Sister, imo)
- The Other Side of the Bridge – Mary Lawson (again, in preparation for her reading. oh, i love that book.)
- The Historian – Elizabeth Kostova (that god that’s finished. 700 pages of stodge.)
- The Next Thing on My List – Jill Smolinski (much needed easy read. mentions 43t!)
- HappinessTM – Will Ferguson
- Noah’s Compass – Anne Tyler
- The Commitments _ Roddy Doyle (again)
- Bird by Bird – Anne Lammot (ace!)
- Switch: How to change things when change is hard – Chip & Dan Heath
Plays/screenplays
Poetry