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1.		The Road Home from Vintage Price: £3.86 Customer Review: Having been recommended to me on good authority and having heard of the reputation of (but never read) Rose Tremain, I had high expectations of this novel. Well it didn't disappoint me, in fact it exceeded those expectations. Other reviewers have gone into detail here on the plot, suffice to... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information

2.		Pistache from Hutchinson Price: £7.69 Customer Review: I found this in a remaindered bookshop a few weeks ago and picked it up immediately, thinking of the amazing parodies that Faulks used to produce (seemingly with little or no preparation) on Radio 4's "The Write Stuff". This is a handy collection of the best of them, along with a few that have been... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

3.		Over from Vintage Price: £5.99 Customer Review: This is a brilliant depiction of a family disintegrating following the death of a daughter, sadly a situation so often encountered in real life. The characters are well-drawn and convincing and the writing clear and concise. So why was I not compelled to keep reading, anxious to return to the book... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information

4.		Tomorrow from Picador Price: £4.88 Customer Review: Like several reviewers, I too always appreciate Swift's writing; this time, it is sadly disappointing. The ability to reach inside a character and trace history back (or forwards) through time and circumstance, the ability to create layered and complex characterisation just don't cohere here. I... more info	Customer Rating: 2.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information

5.		In the Dark from Vintage Price: £5.54 Customer Review: In the Dark Deborah Moggach has long been one of the best writers in English, and under-appreciated, but this is her best book to date. Many authors have described WW1 profiteers, but none ever managed to give them so much as a vestige of humanity. Moggach achieves this by first showing us the woman... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

6.		The Girl at the Lion D'Or from Vintage Price: £5.94 Customer Review: Those who have read some of Faulks' later novels might be disappointed in this one. There's no question that Faulks is a good writer and the descriptions and phrasing are the same high quality as his later books. The problem for me was the plot - it's a slow moving, rather uninspired story. Set... more info	Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information

7.		A Fool's Alphabet from Vintage Price: £5.99 Customer Review: The 26 chapters of this book are named after places, one for each letter of the alphabet. Moving around in time as well as location, it reads rather like a collection of short stories with a common central character rather than a novel. Rather than being driven by exposition of a plot, each episode... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

8.		The Gathering from Vintage Price: £4.75 Customer Review: Constant analysis by the narrator of the minutiae of life just becomes utterly tedious and irritating very quickly. I persevered to the end but I really didn't find any of the characters engaging or interesting.	Customer Rating: 2.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information

9.		The Rain Before It Falls from Penguin Books Ltd Price: £3.99 Customer Review: Having previously read "What A Carve Up!" and "The House Of Sleep", I expected Jonathan Coe's latest to be more quality fiction laced with his slightly mischievous, surreal edge. So, that "Before The Rain Falls" is a more traditional, straightforward (although no less memorable) book came... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

10.		Life Class from Hamish Hamilton Ltd Customer Review: I was excited to learn of a new Pat Barker novel set during World War One, a subject she writes about so movingly. Unfortunately, I found "Life Class" only half-great, and the main problem was that I simply didn't care enough about the characters. Barker's extraordinary protrayal of both fictional... more info	Customer Rating: 3.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

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