• ABSE, Dannie: The Strange Case of Dr. Simmonds and Dr. Glas (B+)
• ACKROYD, Peter:
  • The Clerkenwell Tales (B)
  • Milton in America (A)
  • The Plato Papers (A-)
• ADAIR, Gilbert:
  • The Act of Roger Murgatroyd (B)
  • And Then There Was No One (B+)
  • [Buenas Noches, Buenos Aires]
  • A Closed Book (B+)
  • The Death of the Author (A)
  • The Holy Innocents (a.k.a. The Dreamers) (B+)
  • [The Key of the Tower]
  • Love and Death on Long Island (A-)
  • A Mysterious Affair of Style (B+)
• AICKMAN, Robert: Go Back at Once (B+)
• ALBINIA, Alice: Leela's Book (B+)
• AMIS, Martin:
  • Heavy Water (B-)
  • House of Meetings (B)
  • Night Train (B-)
  • The Second Plane (C)
  • Yellow Dog (C+)
• ARNOTT, Jake: The Long Firm (C+)
• ATKINSON, Kate: Case Histories (A-)
• AW, Tash: The Harmony Silk Factory (B+)
• AYLETT, Steve:
  • See the complete review's Steve Aylett page
  • Atom (B)
  • Bigot Hall (B)
  • The Crime Studio (A-)
  • The Inflatable Volunteer (B)
  • Lint (B)
  • Only an Alligator (B)
  • Shamanspace (B)
  • Slaughtermatic (B)
  • Toxicology (B)
  • The Velocity Gospel (B)
• BALASUBRAMANYAM, Rajeev: In Beautiful Disguises (B)
• BALLARD, J.G.: Crash (C+)
• BANDELE-THOMAS, 'Biyi:
  • [Burma Boy]
  • The Man Who Came in from the Back of Beyond (B+)
  • The Sympathetic Undertaker (B+)
• BANKS, Iain: The Business (B)
• BARKER, Susan:
  • Old Soul (B)
  • Sayonara Bar (A-)
• BARNES, Julian:
  • Arthur & George (B+)
  • England, England (A-)
  • The Lemon Table (B+)
  • Love, etc. (B+)
  • [Pulse]
  • The Sense of an Ending (B+)
  • Talking it Over (B+)
• BARRY, Peter: I Hate Martin Amis et al. (B)
• BAX, Martin: The Hospital Ship (B)
• BEARD, Richard: Lazarus is Dead (B)
• BEARD, Steve: Digital Leatherette (B)
• BEAUMAN, Ned: Venomous Lumpsucker (B)
• BENNETT, Alan:
  • The Clothes They Stood Up in (A-)
  • Father ! Father ! Burning Bright (B+)
  • The Laying on of Hands (B)
  • The Uncommon Reader (A-)
• BENNETT, Ronan:
  • The Catastrophist (B)
  • Havoc, In Its Third Year (B+)
  • Zugzwang (B)
• BERGER, John: King (C+)
• BLOM, Philipp: The Simmons Papers (B)
• BLYTH, Alistair Ian: Card Catalogue (B)
• BOYD, William:
  • Any Human Heart (B+)
  • Armadillo (A-)
  • Fascination (B-)
  • Waiting for Sunrise (B-)
• BRIGGS, Kate: The Long Form (A-)
• BROOKE-ROSE, Christine:
  • Textermination (B+)
  • Xorandor (B+)
• BROPHY, Brigid:
  • Flesh (B+)
  • In Transit (B+)
  • The King of a Rainy Country (B+)
  • Palace without Chairs (B-)
• BURGESS, Anthony: Earthly Powers (B+)
• BURN, Gordon:
  • Born Yesterday (B+)
  • Fullalove (B+)
  • The North of England Home Service (A-)
• BURNET, Graeme Macrae: Case Study (B+)
• BURNSIDE, John: The Dumb House (B)
• BYATT, A.S.:
  • See the complete review's A.S.Byatt page
  • Angels and Insects (B+)
  • Babel Tower (A)
  • The Biographer's Tale (B+)
  • The Children's Book (B+)
  • The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye (B+)
  • The Game (A-)
  • Little Black Book of Stories (B+)
  • [Possession]
  • Ragnarok (B+)
  • The Shadow of the Sun (B)
  • Still Life (A-)
  • A Whistling Woman (A-)
• CARTER, Angela:
  • Heroes and Villains (B+)
  • The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman (A)
• CARTWRIGHT, Justin:
  • Leading the Cheers (B)
  • The Promise of Happiness (A-)
• CHILD, Lee:
  • The Affair (B)
  • Bad Luck and Trouble (B)
  • Die Trying (B)
  • The Enemy (B+)
  • Killing Floor (B)
  • Make Me (B)
  • Never Go Back (B+)
  • One Shot (B+)
  • Personal (B)
  • Persuader (B)
  • Running Blind (UK title: The Visitor) (B+)
  • 61 Hours (B+)
  • Without Fail (B)
• CLARKE, Susanna:
  • Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell (A-)
  • Piranesi (A-)
• CLEAVE, Chris: Incendiary (C-)
• COE, Jonathan:
  • See the complete review's Jonathan Coe page
  • The Accidental Woman (B-)
  • Bournville (B+)
  • The Closed Circle (B+)
  • The Dwarves of Death (B)
  • Expo 58 (B)
  • The House of Sleep (A-)
  • Middle England (B+)
  • Mr. Wilder and Me (B)
  • Number 11 (B+)
  • The Proof of my Innocence (A-)
  • The Rain before it Falls (B+)
  • The Rotters' Club (B+)
  • The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim (B+)
  • A Touch of Love (B+)
  • What a Carve Up ! (also The Winshaw Legacy) (A-)
• COLEGATE, Isabel:
  • The Orlando Trilogy
    1. Orlando King (A-)
    2. Orlando at the Brazen Threshold (B)
    3. Agatha (B+)
• COMPTON, D.G.:
  • The Continuous Katherine Mortenhoe (also: The Unsleeping Eye) (A-)
  • The Steel Crocodile (UK title: The Electric Crocodile) (B)
• COTTERILL, Colin: The Motion Picture Teller (B)
• CRACE, Jim: Six (B+) (US title: Genesis)
• CRITCHLEY, Simon: Memory Theatre (B+)
• CRUMEY, Andrew: Beethoven's Assassins (B)
• DE BOTTON, Alain:
  • See the complete review's Alain de Botton page
  • Essays in Love (B) (US title: On Love)
  • Kiss & Tell (B)
  • The Romantic Movement (B-)
• DEIGHTON, Len: SS-GB (B)
• DICK, Kay: They (A-)
• DYER, Geoff:
  • See the complete review's Geoff Dyer page
  • But Beautiful (A)
  • The Colour of Memory (B+)
  • Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi (B+)
  • Paris Trance (A-)
  • The Search (B)
• EVANS, Stuart: The Caves of Alienation (B)
• FFORDE, Jasper:
  • The Big Over Easy (B+)
  • The Constant Rabbit (B)
  • Early Riser (B)
  • The Eyre Affair (B+)
  • First Among Sequels (B+)
  • The Fourth Bear (B+)
  • Lost in a Good Book (B+)
  • One of Our Thursdays is Missing (B)
  • Red Side Story (B+)
  • Something Rotten (B+)
  • The Well of Lost Plots (B+)
  • The Woman who Died a Lot (B+)
• FISCHER, Tibor:
  • See the complete review's Tibor Fischer page
  • The Collector Collector (B)
  • Don't Read This Book if You're Stupid (US title: I Like Being Killed) (B+)
  • How to Rule the World (B)
  • The Thought Gang (A)
  • Voyage to the End of the Room (B)
• FITZGERALD, Penelope:
  • The Bookshop (A-)
  • The Gate of Angels (B+)
  • The Golden Child (B)
• FODEN, Giles: The Last King of Scotland (B+)
• FOLLETT, Ken: Never (B)
• FOWLES, John:
  • A Maggot (B)
  • The Magus (B+)
• FRASER, George MacDonald:
  • Flashman (A-)
  • Flashman and the Tiger (B+)
  • Flashman on the March (B+)
• FRAYN, Michael:
  • Headlong (A-)
  • Skios (B)
  • Spies (B+)
• GARDAM, Jane:
  • God on the Rocks (A-)
  • Last Friends (B+)
  • A Long Way From Verona (B+)
  • The Man in the Wooden Hat (A-)
  • Old Filth (A-)
• GOLDING, William: The Paper Men (B+)
• GRAY, Alasdair:
  • See the complete review's Alasdair Gray page
  • The Ends of Our Tethers (B+)
  • A History Maker (A-)
  • Mavis Belfrage (A-)
  • McGrotty and Ludmilla (A-)
  • Old Men in Love (A)
  • Old Negatives (B+)
  • Poor Things (A)
  • See also Alasdair Gray: Critical Appreciations and a Bibliography (A-), ed. Phil Moores
  • See also Stephen Bernstein's study, Alasdair Gray (B)
• GUO Xiaolu: A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers (B)
• GURNAH, Abdulrazak: Pilgrims Way (B+)
• HAGGARD, William: Venetian Blind (B-)
• HAMILTON-PATERSON, James:
  • Amazing Disgrace (B+)
  • Cooking with Fernet Branca (B)
  • Rancid Pansies (B+)
• HARRIS, Robert:
  • Archangel (B+)
  • Conclave (B)
  • The Fear Index (B)
  • The Ghost (B)
  • Imperium (B+)
  • Pompeii (B+)
  • Precipice (B)
• HARRISON, M. John:
  • Light (A-)
  • Signs of Life (B+)
• HAWES, James: Speak for England (A-)
• HERRON, Mick:
  • Dead Lions (B+)
  • The Secret Hours (A-)
  • Slow Horses (B+)
• HILL, Charlie: Books (B)
• HODDER, Mark:
  • The Curious Case of the Clockwork Man (B-)
  • The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack (B)
• HOUSE, Richard: The Kills (B)
• HUGHES, Rian: XX (B+)
• IDLE, Eric: The Road to Mars (C)
• IRWIN, Robert:
  • Prayer-Cushions of the Flesh (B+)
  • The Runes Have Been Cast (A-)
• ISHIGURO, Kazuo:
  • Klara and the Sun (B+)
  • Never Let Me Go (A-)
  • [Nocturnes]
  • When we were Orphans (B+)
• IYER, Lars:
  • Spurious (B+)
  • Wittgenstein Jr (B+)
• JACOBSON, Howard:
  • [Kalooki Nights]
  • The Making of Henry (B+)
  • The Mighty Walzer (A-)
  • Peeping Tom (B)
  • Who's Sorry Now ? (A-)
• JAMES, P.D.:
  • Death in Holy Orders (A-)
  • The Lighthouse (B+)
  • The Murder Room (B+)
  • The Private Patient (B+)
• JENSEN, Liz: The Rapture (B)
• JOHNSON, B.S.:
  • See the complete review's B.S.Johnson page
  • Albert Angelo (A-)
  • Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry (A)
  • House Mother Normal (B)
  • See the Old Lady Decently (B+)
  • See also Jonathan Coe's biography, Like a Fiery Elephant (A)
• THE JUSTIFIED ANCIENTS OF MU MU: 2023 (B)
• KAVAN, Anna: Ice (A-)
• KEATING, H.R.F.: Jack, the Lady Killer (C+)
• KENNEDY, Margaret: The Feast (B+)
• KERR, Philip:
  • Dark Matter (B)
  • If the Dead Rise Not (B+)
  • The One from the Other (B+)
  • A Quiet Flame (B)
  • The Second Angel (B-)
• KING, Daren: Manual (B)
• KNIGHT, Renée: Disclaimer (B)
• KUNZRU, Hari: Transmission (B+)
• LANE, Eric: Dante Alighieri's Publishing Company (B)
• LE CARRÉ, John:
  • Our Game (B+)
  • Silverview (A-)
• LEDGARD, J.M.: Giraffe (A-)
• LESSING, Doris: Re: Colonised Planet 5, Shikasta (A-)
• LEWYCKA, Marina: A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian (B-)
• LLYWELYN, Robin: White Star (B-)
• MACDONALD, Hector: The Mind Game (B-)
• MACLEOD, Ken:
  • The Corporation Wars:
    1. Dissidence (B+)
    2. Insurgence (B)
    3. Emergence (B)
  • The Execution Channel (B+)
  • The Night Sessions (B)
  • The Restoration Game (B+)
• MANTEL, Hilary:
  • See the complete review's Hilary Mantel page
  • A Change of Climate (B+)
  • Eight Months on Ghazzah Street (B+)
  • Every Day is Mother's Day (B+)
  • An Experiment in Love (B)
  • The Giant, O'Brien (B-)
  • Vacant Possession (B)
  • [Wolf Hall]
• MARLOWE, Derek:
  • A Dandy in Aspic (B+)
  • Echoes of Celandine (A-)
• MATAR, Hisham: In the Country of Men (B-)
• MATHEWS, Adrian: Vienna Blood (B)
• MAXWELL, Glyn: Time's Fool (B+)
• McCARTHY, Tom:
  • C (B+)
  • Men in Space (B)
  • Remainder (A-)
• McEWAN, Ian:
  • Amsterdam (B-)
  • Atonement (A)
  • The Children Act (B+)
  • Machines Like Me (B)
  • On Chesil Beach (B+)
  • Saturday (A-)
  • Solar (B-)
  • Sweet Tooth (B+)
• McILVANNEY, William: Laidlaw (A-)
• MIÉVILLE, China:
  • King Rat (B+)
  • The Last Days of New Paris (B)
  • Perdido Street Station (B+)
  • The Scar (B+)
• MILLAR, Martin:
  • The Goddess of Buttercups and Daisies (B)
  • The Good Fairies of New York (B)
  • Suzy, Led Zeppelin and Me (B+)
• MILLER, Philip: The Goldenacre (B)
• MILLS, Magnus:
  • See the complete review's Magnus Mills page.
  • All Quiet On The Orient Express (A-)
  • Explorers of the New Century (B+)
  • [The Maintenance of Headway]
  • [The Restraint of Beasts]
  • The Scheme for Full Employment (B)
  • Three to See the King (B)
• MITCHELL, David:
  • Black Swan Green (B)
  • Cloud Atlas (B+)
  • Ghostwritten (B)
  • number9dream (B)
  • The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet (A-)
• MOORCOCK, Michael:
  • The Cornelius Chronicles (The Cornelius Quartet) (B+):
    • The Condition of Muzak (B+)
    • A Cure for Cancer (B)
    • The English Assassin (B)
    • The Final Programme (The Final Program) (B)
  • King of the City (B-)
  • A Nomad of the Time Streams (B)
    • The Warlord of the Air (B+)
    • The Land Leviathan (B)
    • The Steel Tsar (B)
• MOSLEY, Nicholas:
  • Accident (A-)
  • Inventing God (B)
  • Look at the Dark (B)
• MURDOCH, Iris:
  • An Accidental Man (A+)
  • The Bell (B)
  • The Book and the Brotherhood (B+)
  • The Flight from the Enchanter (B)
  • The Sandcastle (B)
  • The Sea, the Sea (B+)
  • A Severed Head (B+)
  • The Time of the Angels (B+)
  • Under the Net (B)
  • The Unicorn (A-)
  • An Unofficial Rose (A-)
  • A Word Child (B+)
• MUSGRAVE, David: Lambda (B+)
• NAIPAUL, V.S.:
  • Half A Life (B+)
  • Magic Seeds (A)
• NICHOLSON, Geoff:
  • See the complete review's Geoff Nicholson page
  • Bedlam Burning (A-)
  • Bleeding London (A)
  • The City under the Skin (B+)
  • The Errol Flynn Novel (B-)
  • Everything and More (A-)
  • Female Ruins (B)
  • Flesh Guitar (B-)
  • The Food Chain (B)
  • Footsucker (A-)
  • Gravity's Volkswagen (B)
  • The Hollywood Dodo (B+)
  • Hunters and Gatherers (A-)
  • The Knot Garden (B+)
  • The Miranda (B)
  • Still Life with Volkswagens (B+)
  • Street Sleeper (B)
  • What we did on our Holidays (A-)
• NOON, Jeff:
  • Cobralingus (A-)
  • Falling Out of Cars (C+)
  • Nymphomation (B)
  • Pixel Juice (B+)
• O'FLYNN, Catherine: What Was Lost (A-)
• PATRICK, K.: Mrs. S (B)
• PEACE, David: Tokyo Year Zero (B+)
• PEARS, Iain:
  • Arcadia (A)
  • The Dream of Scipio (B+)
  • The Immaculate Deception (B)
  • An Instance of the Fingerpost (B)
  • The Last Judgement (B)
  • The Raphael Affair (B+)
  • Stone's Fall (B)
• PHILLIPS, Marie: Gods Behaving Badly (B+)
• POND, Hattie: On Wandsworth Bridge (A-)
• POTTER, Dennis: Hide and Seek (B+)
• PULLMAN, Philip:
  • The Book of Dust - trilogy:
    • I. La Belle Sauvage (B)
  • The Adventures of John Blake (C)
  • His Dark Materials (B+)
    • I. Northern Lights (US title: The Golden Compass) (B+)
    • II. The Subtle Knife (B)
    • III. The Amber Spyglass (B+)
• QUIN, Ann:
  • See the complete review's Ann Quin page
  • Berg (B)
  • Passages (B)
  • Three (B+)
  • Tripticks (B+)
• RAHMAN, Zia Haider: In the Light of What We Know (B)
• RANKIN, Ian:
  • Black and Blue (B+)
  • Dead Souls (B+)
  • The Falls (B)
  • Fleshmarket Close (US title: Fleshmarket Alley) (B+)
  • A Good Hanging (B)
  • The Hanging Garden (B+)
  • Hide and Seek (B)
  • Knots and Crosses (B)
  • Let it Bleed (B+)
  • Mortal Causes (B)
  • The Naming of the Dead (B+)
  • A Question of Blood (B+)
  • Resurrection Men (B+)
  • Set in Darkness (B+)
  • Tooth and Nail (B+)
• RAYMOND, Derek: He Died with His Eyes Open (A-)
• RENDELL, Ruth:
  • The Babes in the Wood (B-)
  • Dark Corners (B)
  • A Sight for Sore Eyes (B+)
  • The Vault (B)
• RHODES, Dan:
  • Anthropology (B-)
  • The Little White Car (C)
  • Sour Grapes (B-)
• RICE, Ben: Pobby and Dingan (B+)
• ROBERTS, Adam: Jack Glass (B)
• ROYLE, Nicholas:
  • Antwerp (B+)
  • First Novel (B+)
• RUSHDIE, Salman:
  • [The Enchantress of Florence]
  • The Ground beneath her Feet (B-)
  • Shalimar the Clown (B)
• SELF, Will: Dorian (B+)
• SINCLAIR, Iain:
  • See the complete review's Iain Sinclair page
  • Dining on Stones (A-)
  • Downriver (A-)
  • Landor's Tower (A-)
  • Slow Chocolate Autopsy (C)
  • White Chappell, Scarlet Tracings (B)
  • See also: The Verbals (with Kevin Jackson) (B)
• SMITH, Ali:
  • The Accidental (A-)
  • Girl Meets Boy (B+)
  • Hotel World (B+)
  • The Whole Story (B)
• SPARK, Muriel:
  • Aiding and Abetting (B+)
  • The Ballad of Peckham Rye (B+)
  • The Finishing School (B)
  • Loitering with Intent (A-)
  • Memento Mori (B)
• ST. AUBYN, Edward: Lost for Words (B-)
• STOCKS, Mike: White Man Falling (A-)
• STROSS, Charles:
  • Accelerando (B)
  • Singularity Sky (B)
• SUTCLIFFE, William:
  • Are you Experienced ? (B-)
  • The Love Hexagon (B-)
  • New Boy (B-)
• SWIFT, Graham: The Light of Day (B)
• TAYLOR, Andrew: The American Boy (B+) (US title: An Unpardonable Crime)
• TERRY, Philip: The Book of Bachelors (B+)
• TEY, Josephine: The Daughter of Time (B+)
• THIRLWELL, Adam:
  • The Escape (B-)
  • Lurid & Cute (B-)
  • [Miss Herbert (also: The Delighted States)]
  • Politics (B+)
• THOMAS, Scarlett:
  • Bright Young Things (B)
  • Dead Clever (B)
  • The End of Mr. Y (A-)
  • Going Out (B)
  • In Your Face (B)
  • Oligarchy (B)
  • Our Tragic Universe (B)
  • PopCo (A-)
  • Seaside (B)
  • The Sleepwalkers (B)
• TORDAY, Paul: Salmon Fishing in the Yemen (B)
• TRIGELL, Jonathan: Cham (B)
• WALLACE, Christopher: The Pied Piper's Poison (B)
• WARNER, Alan:
  • Morvern Callar (B-)
  • The Sopranos (B)
• WELDON, Fay:
  • Big Girls don't Cry (also: Big Women) (A-)
  • Mantrapped (A-)
• WILLIAMS, Nigel:
  • Fortysomething (B)
  • Hatchett and Lycett (B+)
  • Jack Be Nimble (B)
  • Stalking Fiona (B-)
• WILSON, Chris:
  • The Ballad of Lee Cotton (US title: Cotton) (A-)
  • Gallimauf's Gospel (B+)
  • Hurdy Gurdy (B+)
  • Mischief (A+)
  • The Wurd (B)
  • The Zoo (B+)
• WINTERSON, Jeanette:
  • See the complete review's Jeanette Winterson page
  • Art and Lies (A-)
  • Boating for Beginners (B+)
  • Gut Symmetries (B+)
  • Lighthousekeeping (B+)
  • The PowerBook (B+)
  • The Stone Gods (B+)
  • Tanglewreck (B)
  • Weight (B)
  • The World and Other Places (B)
• WOOD, James: The Book Against God (B)
• WOOD, Jonathan: No Hero (B)

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