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January 01, 2021

Favourite books of 2020: non-fiction

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Some favourite novels

A Dance to the Music of Time by Anthony Powell
A Glass of Blessings by Barbara Pym
A Long Way from Verona by Jane Gardam
A Redbird Christmas by Fannie Flagg
Bilgewater by Jane Gardam
Bleak House by Charles Dickens
Cassandra at the Wedding by Dorothy Baker
Eight Months on Ghazzah Street by Hilary Mantel
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
Excellent Women by Barbara Pym
Harriet by Jilly Cooper
His Bloody Project by Graeme Macrae Burnet
Jane and Prudence by Barbara Pym
Joan Smokes (novella) by Angela Meyer
Light A Penny Candle by Maeve Binchy
Lolly Willowes by Sylvia Townsend Warner
Love in a Cold Climate by Nancy Mitford
Madam, Will You Talk? by Mary Stewart
Mr Todd's Reckoning by Iain Maitland
No Word from Winifred by Amanda Cross
Nora Webster by Colm Toibin
O Caledonia by Elspeth Barker
One Fine Day by Mollie Panter-Downes
Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl by Andrea Lawlor
Scandalous Risks (The Starbridge novels) by Susan Howatch
Small Pleasures by Clare Chambers
Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
Some Tame Gazelle by Barbara Pym,
South Riding by Winifred Holtby
The Bachelor Brothers Bed & Breakfast by Bill Richardson
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
The Cazalet Chronicles by Elizabeth Jane Howard
The Diary of a Provincial Lady by EM Delafield
The Female Persuasion by Meg Wolitzer
The Fortnight in September by RC Sherriff
The Garrick Year by Margaret Drabble
The L-Shaped Room by Lyn Reid Banks
The Pumpkin Eater by Penelope Mortimer
The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford
The Snow & The Works on the Northern Line by Ruth Thomas
The Tortoise and the Hare by Elizabeth Jenkins
The Towers of Trebizond by Rose Macaulay
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
The Village by Marghanita Laski

Rosemary Kaye: I live in Aberdeenshire and Edinburgh and review books, art and theatre.

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