Reviews 2020


Each year I write tiny reviews of nearly all the books I read. These are very much for my own purposes, serving to fix the books in my memory; but I put a selection on Facebook and they have often proved popular. They vary from the single-word and whimsical to more considered assessments.

2020 Thumbnail Review #1 Rabbit Redux by John Updike
2020 Thumbnail Review #2 Hollow Places by Christopher Hadley
2020 Thumbnail Review #3 The Fair to Middling by Arthur Calder Marshall
2020 Thumbnail Review #4 Cornish Adventure by Derek McCulloch
2020 Thumbnail Review #5 A Whole Life/The Tobacconist by Robert Seethaler
2020 Thumbnail Review #6 In Praise of Shadows by Junichiro Tanizaki
2020 Thumbnail Review #7 Earthfasts by William May
2020 Thumbnail Review #8 The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
2020 Thumbnail Review #9 Underland by Robert Macfarlane
2020 Thumbnail Review #10 Beowulf
2020 Thumbnail Review #11 The Binding by Bridget Collins
2020 Thumbnail Review #12 The Europeans by Henry James
2020 Thumbnail Review #13 Volume the First by Jane Austen
2020 Thumbnail Review #14 Melisande! What Are Dreams? By Hillel Halkin
2020 Thumbnail Review #15 Fair Stood the Wind for France by H. E. Bates
2020 Thumbnail Review #16 National Velvet by Enid Bagnold
2020 Thumbnail Review #17 The Forest of Boland Light Railway by BB
2020 Thumbnail Review #18 Catweazle by Richard Carpenter
2020 Thumbnail Review #19 The Perilous Descent by Bruce Carter
2020 Thumbnail Review #20 The Flight of the “Scarlet Eagle” by Michael Cely
2020 Thumbnail Review #21 Here We Are by Graham Swift
2020 Thumbnail Review #22 Still She Wished for Company by Margaret Irwin
2020 Thumbnail Review #23 Fifteen by Beverly Cleary
2020 Thumbnail Review #24 The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare
2020 Thumbnail Review #25 The Plague by Albert Camus