Wildfire at midnight / Mary Stewart
Journeys in the dead season / Spencer Jordan
The dreadful hollow / Nicholas Blake
The unpleasantness at the Bellona Club / Dorothy L. Sayers
The leopard / Jo Nesbo
Terrorist / John Updike
Play it again / Alan Rusbridger
Brave new world / Aldous Huxley
Our dearest Emma / Lozania Prole
The Inspector and silence / Hakan Nesser
Ice road / Gillian Slovo
Seven men at daybreak / Alan Burgess
Death comes to Pemberley / P.D. James
The Moscow option / Jeremy Duns
London belongs to me / Norman Collins
The thirteen problems / Agatha Christie
The secret supper / Javier Sierra
Case histories / Kate Atkinson
Police at the funeral / Margery Allingham
Seizure / Kathy Reichs
Lady Audley's secret / Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Dog on it / Spencer Quinn /
Problem at Pollensa Bay / Agatha Christie
Thinks... / David Lodge
Jerusalem Inn / Martha Grimes
Hangman blind / Cassandra Clark
The world at night / Alan Furst
Lady Chatterley's lover / D.H. Lawrence
Kraken / China Mieville
Can't be ars*d / Richard Wilson
Extra virgin / Annie Hawes
Ashenden / W. Somerset Maugham
Nicholas and Alexandra / Robert K. Massie
2012
The day is dark / Yrsa Sigurdardottir
Travels with myself and another / Martha Gellhorn
The dark is rising / Susan Cooper
Complete fairy tales / collected and edited by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
A noble killing / Barbara Nadel
The man with the golden gun / Ian Fleming
Over sea, under stone / Susan Cooper
Unnatural death / Dorothy L. Sayers
The years of rice and salt / Kim Stanley Robinson
Hercule Poirot's Christmas / Agatha Christie
Berlin / Pierre Frei
Ruso and the demented doctor / R.S. Downie
The Italian : or, the confessional of the Black Penitents / Ann Radcliffe
Too many murders / Colleen McCullough
The swish of the curtain / Pamela Brown
Murder is easy / Agatha Christie
On Hitler's mountain / Irmgard Hunt
The fortunes and misfortunes of the famous Moll Flanders / Daniel Defoe
Land of marvels / Barry Unsworth
The naked ape / Desmond Morris
Around the world in eighty days with Michael Palin
The Gulag Archipelago / Alexander Solzhenitsyn
At risk / Patricia Cornwell
Paul Temple and the Kelby Affair / Francis Durbridge
Hitler's canary / Sandi Toksvig
The handmaid's tale / Margaret Atwood
Madonna of the Seven Hills / Jean Plaidy
The Borgia Ring / Michael White
The plague / Albert Camus
Sheiks and adders / Michael Innes
Call for the dead / John le Carre
I saw the world end / Deryck Cooke
In at the death / David Wishart
The feast of the goat / Mario Vargas Llosa
Six faces of courage / M.R.D. Foot
Innocent blood / P.D. James
Brotherhood of the bomb / Gregg Herken
A conspiracy of friends / Alexander McCall Smith
The historian / Elizabeth Kostova
Cause for alarm / Eric Ambler
Bach's feet / David Yearsley
Armadale / Wilkie Collins
A month in the country / J.L. Carr
Dumb witness / Agatha Christie
The long dark tea-time of the soul / Douglas Adams
Dirk Gently's holistic detective agency / Douglas Adams
The end of the affair / Graham Greene
The sum of things / Olivia Manning
The battle lost and won / Olivia Manning
The danger tree / Olivia Manning
Friends and heroes / Olivia Manning
The spoilt city / Olivia Manning
The great fortune / Olivia Manning
Le grand Meulnes / Alain-Fournier
Northern Lights / Philip Pullman
The anatomy of ghosts / Andrew Taylor
Homage to Catalonia / George Orwell
The little stranger / Sarah Waters
The ancestor's tale / Richard Dawkins
The writing on the hearth / Cynthia Harnett
Rounding the mark / Andrea Camilleri
The Master and Margarita / Mikhail Bulgakov
A pale view of hills / Kazuo Ishiguro
Can you forgive her? / Anthony Trollope
Strong poison / Dorothy L. Sayers
Anatomy of murder / Imogen Robertson
Delius as I knew him / Eric Fenby
A Florentine revenge / Christobel Kent
The flamboya tree / Clara Olink Kelly
Nana / Emile Zola
The interrogator / Andrew Williams
Death at La Fenice / Donna Leon
Doctor Zhivago / Boris Pasternak
The tomb of Zeus / Barbara Cleverly
Woman with birthmark / Hakan Nesser
She Lover of Death / Boris Akunin
From the holy mountain / William Dalrymple
Hypothermia / Arnaldur Indridason
A passion for killing / Barbara Nadel
Wolf Hall / Hilary Mantel
Troy : Lord of the silver bow / David Gemmell
The body in the library / Agatha Christie
The angel's game / Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Three men in a boat (to say nothing of the dog!) / Jerome K. Jerome
The sun king rises / Yves Jego and Denis Lepee
The foreign correspondent / Alan Furst
The dead of Jericho / Colin Dexter
The city and the city / China Mieville
Never let me go / Kazuo Ishiguro
The bird in the tree / Elizabeth Goudge
Christ stopped at Eboli / Carlo Levi
More than you can say / Paul Torday
A presumption of death / Jill Paton Walsh and Dorothy L. Sayers
Framley Parsonage / Anthony Trollope
The wolves of Willoughby Chase / Joan Aiken
Towards Zero / Agatha Christie
A perfect spy / John Le Carre
65 great tales of the supernatural / edited by Mary Danby
2011
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows / J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the half-blood prince / J.K. Rowling
Mist over Pendle / Robert Neill
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix / J.K. Rowling
The Orton diaries / edited by John Lahr
The drowned world / J.G. Ballard
The Dumas Club / Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Mapp and Lucia / E.F. Benson
Outrage / Arnaldur Indridason
The wings of the sphinx / Andrea Camilleri
Love and war in London / Olivia Cockett
Harry Potter and the Goblet of fire / J.K. Rowling
The egg and I / Betty MacDonald
A Caribbean mystery / Agatha Christie
The Calculus Affair / Herge
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban / J.K. Rowling
Death on the Nile / Agatha Christie
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets / J.K. Rowling
Great Expectations / Charles Dickens
The dogs and the wolves / Irene Nemirovsky
The Raphael Affair / Iain Pears
The Kingdom of Ashes / Robert Edric
The other side of you / Salley Vickers
If on a winter's night a traveller / Italo Calvino
The girl who kicked the hornet's nest / Stieg Larsson
Fair stood the wind for France / H.E. Bates
Charlotte Gray / Sebastian Faulks
The shark net / Robert Drewe
The hare with amber eyes / Edmund de Waal
Bedknob and broomstick / Mary Norton
Cover her face / P.D. James
Rebecca / Daphne du Maurier
Depths / Henning Mankell
MASH / Richard Hooker
Endless Night / Agatha Christie
Diary of a provincial lady / E.M. Delafield
Potsdam Station / David Downing
Stettin Station / David Downing
Silesian station / David Downing
Zoo station / David Downing
In the country of men / Hisham Matar
Dead lagoon / Michael Dibdin
Death and the penguin / Andrey Kurkov
The name of the rose / Umberto Eco
The magnificent Spilsbury and the case of the Brides in the Bath / Jane Robins
The labours of Hercules / Agatha Christie
Ghostwalk / Rebecca Stott
A place of greater safety / Hilary Mantel
A tale of two cities / Charles Dickens
The redeemer / Jo Nesbo
Tales from Shakespeare / Charles and Mary Lamb
Tempest-Tost - Robertson Davies
Busman's honeymoon / Dorothy L. Sayers
The full cupboard of life / Alexander McCall Smith
Mortal remains / Kathy Reichs
A very English deceit / Malcolm Balen
The hidden oasis / Paul Sussman
Towards the end of the morning / Michael Frayn
Father Brown : selected stories / G.K. Chesterton
White boots / Noel Streatfeild
Stars of fortune / Cynthia Harnett
A time of gifts / Patrick Leigh Fermor
Heat and dust / Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
The book thief / Marcus Zusak
Murder must advertise / Dorothy L. Sayers
The phoenix and the carpet / E . Nesbit
Love letters from Cell 92 / Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Maria von Wedermeyer
Through a glass darkly / Donna Leon
In the company of the courtesan / Sarah Dunant
They do it with mirrors / Agatha Christie
One of our Thursdays is missing / Jasper Fforde
Death in Kenya / M.M. Kaye
Life class / Pat Barker
Restless / William Boyd
The painted Messiah / Craig Smith
Moby Dick / Herman Melville
The best of John Wyndham : 1932-49
Fakes : forgery and the art world / Alice Beckett
The road / Cormac McCarthy
The dream of Scipio / Iain Pears
The lost army of Cambyses / Paul Sussman
Pride and prejudice / Jane Austen
The eagle of the Ninth / Rosemary Sutcliff
My soul to take / Yrsa Sigurdardottir
Testimony / Anita Shreve
Murder in the mews / Agatha Christie
The Penelopiad / Margaret Atwood
Homo Britannicus / Chris Stringer
Our kind of traitor / John Le Carre
If the dead rise not / Philip Kerr
The moon and sixpence / W. Somerset Maugham
Touch not the cat / Mary Stewart
Yukon alone / John Balzar
Auslander / Paul Dowswell
The curse of the pharaohs / Elizabeth Peters
The rain before it falls / Jonathan Coe
Sweet danger / Margery Allingham
Silence / Shusaku Endo
One pair of hands / Monica Dickens
Hostage queen / Freda Lightfoot
The Jupiter myth / Lindsey Davis
Life and fate / Vasily Grossman
Hideous kinky / Esther Freud
Christopher and his kind / Christopher Isherwood
Child 44 / Tom Rob Smith
The wind on the moon / Eric Linklater
The Singapore Grip / J.G. Farrell
The death of grass / John Christopher
The nursing home murder / Ngaio Marsh
Unnatural causes / P.D. James
Out of Africa / Karen Blixen
Maigret and the burglar's wife / Georges Simenon
Hotel New Hampshire / John Irving
Faceless killers / Henning Mankell
Enter a murderer / Ngaio Marsh
The colour / Rose Tremain
Poseidon's Gold / Lindsey Davis
The Mitfords : letters between six sisters / edited by Charlotte Mosley
Finding your way without map or compass / Harold Gatty
The winter queen / Boris Akunin
The diaries of Francis Kilvert : January 1870 - August 1871
The twelfth card / Jeffery Deaver
The leopard / Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone / J.K. Rowling
The fall of Troy / Peter Ackroyd
Dr. Thorne / Anthony Trollope
A man lay dead / Ngaio Marsh
The white tiger / Aravind Adiga
The girl at the Lion d'Or / Sebastian Faulks
The sight of death / T.J. Clark
By the pricking of my thumbs / Agatha Christie
Sleeping murder / Agatha Christie
Death comes as the end / Agatha Christie
Birdsong / Sebastian Faulks
Shadow of the Silk Road / Colin Thubron
The red queen / Margaret Drabble
Wide Sargasso Sea / Jean Rhys
The Eyre affair / Jasper Fforde
Company of liars / Karen Maitland
Come tell me how you live / Agatha Christie Mallowan
Hide and Seek / Ian Rankin
Farewell my lovely / Raymond Chandler
Nathaniel's nutmeg / Giles Milton
Sex and the city / Candace Bushnell
The hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy / Douglas Adams
Last act in Palmyra / Lindsey Davis
Last rituals / Yrsa Sigurdardottir
Echoes from the macabre / Daphne Du Maurier
In the kitchen / Monica Ali
Rumpole and the primrose path / John Mortimer
The four feathers / A.E.W. Mason
206 bones / Kathy Reichs
We'll meet in England / Kitty Barne
Anne of Green Gables / L.M. Montgomery
The scent of the night / Andrea Camilleri
The pilgrim of hate / Ellis Peters
The Manchurian candidate / Richard Condon
Knots and crosses / Ian Rankin
The secret garden / Frances Hodgson Burnett
The man who mistook his wife for a hat / Oliver Sacks
Lord Edgware dies / Agatha Christie
Reading Lolita in Tehran / Azar Nafisi
Back to Bologna / Michael Dibdin
The closed circle / Jonathan Coe
The nine tailors / Dorothy L. Sayers
2010
Murder on the Orient Express / Agatha Christie
Collected ghost stories / M.R. James
The one hundred and one dalmatians / Dodie Smith
A Christmas Carol / Charles Dickens
The Master and Margarita / Mikhail Bulgakov
44 Scotland Street / Alexander McCall Smith
The pursuit of love / Nancy Mitford
The siege / Helen Dunmore
The Chalet School in exile / Elinor M. Brent-Dyer
The box of delights / John Masefield
The midnight folk / John Masefield
What if? / edited by Robert Cowley
The lady with the little dog : and other stories, 1896-1904 / Anton Chekhov
Venus in copper / Lindsey Davis
Death of a Chancellor / David Dickinson
Porterhouse Blue / Tom Sharpe
The spies of Warsaw / Alan Furst
Hallowe'en Party / Agatha Christie
The adventures of Tom Sawyer / Mark Twain
The Penguin book of ghost stories
The interpretation of murder / Jed Rubenfeld
Hypothermia / Arnaldur Indridason
Amenable women / Mavis Cheek
Shades of grey / Jasper Fforde
Broken / Karin Fossum
Dracula / Bram Stoker
La's orchestra saves the world / Alexander McCall Smith
My brother Michael / Mary Stewart
The Villa Ariadne / Dilys Powell
Death by design / Barbara Nadel
The sign of four / Arthur Conan Doyle
The good man Jesus and the scoundrel Christ / Philip Pullman
The crocodile on the sandbank / Elizabeth Peters
The daughter of time / Josephine Tey
Oscar and Lucinda / Peter Carey
Tinker, tailor, soldier, spy / John Le Carre
They have their exits / Airey Neave
Morality for beautiful girls / Alexander McCall Smith
A town like Alice / Nevil Shute
Mrs. Frisby and the rats of NIMH / Robert C. O'Brien
Parker Pyne investigates / Agatha Christie
Gone with the wind / Margaret Mitchell
Death of an expert witness / P.D. James
Your inner fish / Neil Shubin
The house of special purpose / John Boyne
The fellowship of the ring / J.R.R. Tolkien
The pregnant widow / Martin Amis
The big over easy / Jasper Fforde
At Bertram's Hotel / Agatha Christie
Haroun and the sea of stories / Salman Rushdie
Sense and sensibility / Jane Austen
Stage fright / Alan Dunn
Dark fire / C.J. Sansom
The day of the triffids / John Wyndham
A most wanted man / John Le Carre
Gigi and The cat / Colette
The swan thieves / Elizabeth Kostova
Love lies bleeding / Edmund Crispin
The paper moon / Andrea Camilleri
Goodbye to all that / Robert Graves
Songs my mother never taught me / Selcuk Altun
Thank you, Jeeves / P.G. Wodehouse
The howling miller / Arto Paasilinna
The tin princess / Philip Pullman
Maroon / Adrian Wright
Endless Night / Agatha Christie
A Florentine Death / Michele Giuttari
Mariana / Monica Dickens
The mind's eye / Hakan Nesser
The 13 1/2 lives of Captain Bluebear / Walter Moers
The comfort of Saturdays / Alexander McCall Smith
Daughter of the game / Tracy Grant
Five red herrings / Dorothy L. Sayers
To kill a mockingbird / Harper Lee
Death of a red heroine / Qiu Xiaolong
River of the dead / Barbara Nadel
Any human heart / William Boyd
Horseshoes and holy water / Mefo Phillips
Hunting unicorns / Bella Pollen
The girl who played with fire / Stieg Larsson
A pony in the luggage / Gunnel Linde
Borderliners / Peter Hoeg
Bare bones / Kathy Reichs
Elliott Carter : a centennial portrait in letters and documents / Felix
Meyer and Anne C. Shreffler
Service of all the dead / Colin Dexter
An instance of the fingerpost / Iain Pears
Ring out Bow Bells! / Cynthia Harnett
Trespass / Rose Tremain
The young detectives / R.J. McGregor
A beginner's guide to acting English / Shappi Khorsandi
The tiger in the well / Philip Pullman
Hide my eyes / Margery Allingham
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society / Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie
Barrows
Dark Star Safari / Paul Theroux
Death in Berlin / M.M. Kaye
William at war / Richmal Crompton
The Raphael Affair / Iain Pears
Claudius the God / Robert Graves
The dig / John Preston
A little history of the world / E.H. Gombrich
Three Act Tragedy / Agatha Christie
The girl with the dragon tattoo / Stieg Larsson
Americana / Don De Lillo
Pretty dead things / Barbara Nadel
Tartan tragedy / Antonia Fraser
Love, Sex and Tragedy / Simon Goldhill
William again / Richmal Crompton
Goodbye to Berlin / Christopher Isherwood
The careful use of compliments / Alexander McCall Smith
The snack thief / Andrea Camilleri
A canticle for Leibowitz / Walter M. Miller, Jr.
A thousand splendid suns / Khaled Hosseini
Guns of Navarone / Alistair Maclean
First among sequels / Jasper Fforde
Borkmann's point / Hakan Nesser
Mystery Mile / Margery Allingham
Rebels and traitors / Lindsey Davis
Like water for chocolate / Laura Esquivel
The Exodus quest / Will Adams
Halfway to Hollywood / Michael Palin
The moving toyshop / Edmund Crispin
Purple hibiscus / Chimamande Adichie
A tale etched in blood and hard black pencil / Christopher Brookmyre
The hours / Michael Cunningham
Firewall / Henning Mankell
Far from the madding crowd / Thomas Hardy
The pure in heart / Susan Hill
