My inner geek is calling and demanding I analyse those 100 books (98 unique works, 26049 pages) read in 2011 in more detail. Just to make sure I’m not stuck in a rut or similar. My main objective in 2011 was to ensure that 1 in 3 books was translated. To turn that much-bandied 3% to 33%. My final tally [...]
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2011: Slicing and dicing ….
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Memory of the Abyss - Marcello Fois
Stabat Mater - Tiziano Scarpa
Skios - Michael Frayn
The Lewis Man - Peter May
The Blackhouse - Peter May
A Red Herring without Mustard - Alan Bradley
Painter of Silence - Georgina Harding
The Last King of Brighton - Peter Guttridge
On The Floor - Aifric Campbell
Company of Liars - Karen Maitland
Island of Wings - Karin Altenberg
Seven Lives - Peter Stamm
Me and You - Niccolo Ammaniti
Lord of Misrule - Jaimy Gordon
Black Cat Bone - John Burnside
The Shadow-Boxing Woman - Inka Parei
A Card From Angela Carter - Susannah Clapp
Waiting for Sunrise - William Boyd
The Mattress House - Paulus Hochgatterer
Love Virtually - Daniel Glattauer
Alone in Berlin - Hans Fallada
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Tom All-Alone's - Lynn Shepherd
The Man In The Picture - Susan Hill
Someone At A Distance - Dorothy Whipple
Brooklyn - Colm Toibin
Into the Darkest Corner - Elizabeth Haynes
Zennor in Darkness - Helen Dunmore
Dr Wortle's School - Anthony Trollope
Murder at Mansfield Park - Lynn Shepherd
Oscar and Lucinda - Peter Carey
Corrag - Suzanne Fletcher
Bereft - Chris Womersley
The News Where You Are - Catherine O'Flynn
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