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Social Reading 2015
Read 2015
The Collini Case - Ferdinand von Schirach (2013)
The Girl Who Wasn't There - Ferdinand von Schirach (2015)
Love, Revenge and Buttered Scones - Bobbie Darbyshire (2010)
Losing It! - Helen Lederer (2015)
A Time of Gifts -Patrick Leigh Fermor (1977)
Mr Darwin's Gardener - Kristina Carlson (2013)
Dept of Speculation - Jenny Offill (2014)
The Pierced Heart - Lynn Shepherd (2014)
Runaway - Peter May (2015)
Colourless Tsukuru Tazaki and his Years of Pilgrimage - Haruki Murakami (2014)
Eyrie - Tim Winton (2014)
Snow Country - Yasunari Kawabata (1956)
This Is Where I Am - Karen Campbell (2013)
The Battle of the Books - Jonathan Swift (1704)
Read 2014
The Sound of Things Falling - Juan Gabriel Vásquez
Mr Mac and Me - Esther Freud
The Monogram Murders - Sophie Hannah
Germany: Memories of A Nation - Neil McGregor
The Death of Lomond Friel - Sue Peebles
The Unknown Unknown - Mark Forsyth
The Bookshop Strikes Back - Ann Patchett
The Leipzig Affair - Fiona Rintoul
A Child's Garden of Verses - R L Stevenson
F - Daniel Kehlmann
The End of Days - Jenny Erpenbeck
The Essential Rilke
Pure Contradiction - Rainer Maria Rilke
Just call me Superhero - Alina Bronsky
The Dark Meadow - Andrea Maria Schenkel
West - Julia Franck
The Tower - Uwe Tellkamp
Going to the Dogs - Erich Kästner
The Flying Classroom - Erich Kästner
Picture Her Dead - Lin Anderson
Stone Mattress - Margaret Atwood (2014)
The Shock of the Fall - Nathan Filer
The Case of The Black Pearl - Lin Anderson
Big Bad Wolf - Nele Neuhaus
Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay - Elena Ferrante
The Encyclopaedia of Good Reasons - Monica Cantieni
The Goldfinch - Donna Tartt
Berlin Triptych - David Wagner
City of Rumor -Gideon Lewis-Kraus
Berlin: Imagine a City - Rory McLean
Picnic of The Virtues - Felicitas Hoppe
Goetheruh - Bernd Köstering
Fest - Mark McCrum
The Siege - Arturo Perez-Reverte
The Spring of Kasper Meier - Ben Fergusson
Little Man, What Now? - Hans Fallada
Summer House With Swimming Pool - Herman Koch
Look Up Glasgow (Pocket edition) - Adrian Seale (2014)
Bhalla Strand - Sarah Maine (2014)
Death in Pont-Aven - Jean Luc-Bannalec (2014)
These Islands We Sing - An Anthology of Scottish Island Poetry (2012)
The Girl On the Ferry Boat - Angus Peter Campbell (2013)
Virginia Woolf in Manhattan - Maggie Gee (2014)
Absolution - Patrick Flanery (2012)
The Grand Banks Café - Georges Simenon (1931/2014)
A Crime in Holland - Georges Simenon (1931/2014)
A Night at the Crossroads - Georges Simenon (1931/2014)
Cairo - Chris Womersley (2014)
Robert The Bruce, King of Scots - James Robertson and Jill Calder (2014)
Decompression - Juli Zeh (2012/2014)
I Murdered My Library - Linda Grant (2014)
Death By The Book - Lenny Bartulin (2008)
Dog Will Have His Day - Fred Vargas (1996/2014)
Longbourn- Jo Baker (2013)
An Officer and A Spy - Robert Harris (2013)
The Story of A New Name - Elena Ferrante (2012/2013)
The Yellow Dog - Georges Simenon (1931/2014)
The Carter of La Providence - Georges Simenon (1931/2014)
The Hanged Man of Saint-Pholien - Georges Simenon (1931/2014)
Fair Helen - Andrew Greig (2013)
Strange Weather in Tokyo - Hiromi Kawakami (2012/2013)
Northamger Abbey - Val McDiarmid (2014)
On Glasgow and Edinburgh - Robert Crawford (2013)
All The Rage - A L Kennedy (2014)
Cold Winter In Bordeaux - Allan Massie (2014)
The Missing Year of Juan Salvatierra - Pedro Mairal (2013/2013)
Unfashioned Creatures - Lesley MacDowell (2013)
Reasons She Goes to the Woods - Deborah Kay Davies (2014)
The Lowland - Jhumpa Lahiri (2013)
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The Snow Child - Eowyn Ivey (2012)
The Boat - Nam Le (2009)
The Mussel Feast - Birgit Vanderbeke (1990/2013)
Author,, translator, editor interviews
Schottenfreude - Ben Schott (2013)
Schroder - Amity Gaige (2013)
Sense and Sensibility - Joanna Trollope (2013)
The Pendragon Legend - Antal Szerb (1934/2006)
The Bug - Ellen Ullman (2002)
Close to the Machine - Ellen Ullman (1996)
Mesmerized- Alissa Walser (2010/2012)
The Rosie Project - Graeme Simsion (2013)
A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving (1989)
My Brilliant Friend - Elena Ferrante (2012/2012)
Léon and Louise - Alex Capus (2011/2012)
Revenge - Yoko Ogawa (1998/2013)
Entry Island - Peter May (2013)
The Diving Pool - Yoko Ogawa (1990/91/2009)
An Exquisite Sense of What is Beautiful - J David Simons (2013)
The Luminaries - Eleanor Catton (2013)
Highlights from German Literature Month I – III
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5 from the archive: Contemporary German Fiction
89 Novella and Short Story Writers You Should Read
GLM II Author Index
20 German Novels You Must Read
14 Women Writers You Shouldn't Miss
Keeping In Touch With The Magic Mountain of German Literature
The Magic Mountain of German Literature - Translators Recommend
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What to drink when reading Jakob Arjouni
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