Louisa's Library: Blue Shoes and Happiness by Alexander McCall Smith

Books Read in 2011

Deep Waters - Barbara Nadel
The Black Book - Orhan Pamuk
Arabesk - Barbara Nadel
A 3rd helping of Chicken Soup for the Soul
Nation - Terry Pratchett
A Chemical Prison - Barbara Nadel
The Wizard of the Crow - Ngugi Wa Thiong'o
Cosmic - Frank Cottrell Boyce
Framed - Frank Cottrell Boyce
Skinner's Festival - Quintin Jardine
Carbon Diaries 2017 - Saci Lloyd
Carbon Diaries 2015 - Saci Lloyd
Monsters of Men - Patrick Ness
The Ask and the Answer - Patrick Ness
The Knife of Never Letting Go - Patrick Ness
When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit - Judith Kerr
The Bride's Farewell - Meg Rosoff
Out of Shadows - Jason Wallace
The Butterfly Tattoo - Philip Pullman
A Rush of Blood - Quintin Jardine
The Secret Adversary - Agatha Christie
The Pale Horse - Agatha Christie
Belshazzar's Daughter - Barbara Nadel
The Secret Countess - Eva Ibbotson
No and Me - Delphine de Vigan
Skinner's Rules - Quintin Jardine
HIVE: Zero Hour - Mark Walden
HIVE: Rouge - Mark Walden
Pretty Dead Things - Barbara Nadel
Petrified - Barbara Nadel
Dance with Death - Barbara Nadel
The Other Side of You - Salley Vickers
An Expert in Murder - Nicola Upson
HIVE: Dreadnought - Mark Walden
The Diamond Takers - Karen Wallace
The Time Machine - HG Wells
Maps for Lost Lovers - Nadeem Aslam
Season of the Songbirds - Nadeem Aslam
Some Kind of Black - Diran Adebayo
The Lacuna - Barbara Kingsolver
Toast - Nigel Slater
Her Fearful Symmetry - Audrey Niffenegger

Books Read in 2010

Destination Unknown - Agatha Christie
The Book Thief - Markus Zusak
Brown Eyes - ed Nicole Moore
When She Was White - Judith Stone
Father Brown Stories - GK Chesterton
Looking for JJ - Anne Cassidy
The Last Gospel - David Gibbons
Magic: New Stories - ed JK Rowling
The Hours - Michael Cunningham
City of the Beasts - Isabelle Allende
BogChild - Siobhan Dowd
A Swift Pure Cry - Siobhan Dowd
The Shoe Queen - Anna Davis
Girl Meets Cake - Susie Day
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle
The London Eye Mystery - Siobhan Dowd
Daughter of Fortune - Isabel Allende
The Amnesia Clinic - James Scudamore
Inkdeath - Cornelia Funke
The Queen and I - Sue Townsend
Semi-Detached - Paul Heathorn
The Stuff of Nightmares - Malorie Blackman
City of Stars - Mary Hoffman
The Water Bearer - Dianne Hofmeyr
August Heat - Andrea Camilleri
Escape Velocity - Mark Walden
The Overlord Protocol - Mark Walden
Completely Unexpected Tales - Roald Dahl
The Great Automatic Grammatizator and Other Stories - Roald Dahl
The Constant Gardener - John Le Carre
That Thing Around Your Neck - Chimamanda Ndozi Adichi
The Cypriot - Andreas Koumi
Inkspell - Cornelia Funke
We Need to Talk About Kevin - Lionel Shriver
Flying with Icarus and Other Stories - Curdella Forbes
The Shakespeare Secret - JL Carrell
Flood Child - Emily Diamand

Books Read in 2009

Rounding the Mark - Andrea Camilleri
The Scent of the Night - Andrea Camilleri
Excursion to Tindari - Andrea Camilleri
Wintersmith - Terry Pratchett
Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key - Jack Gantos
The Voice of the Violin - Andrea Camilleri
Diary of a Wimpy Kidd - Jeff Kinney
The Shape of Water - Andrea Camilleri
Clandestine in Chile - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Once - Morris Gleitzman
Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston
Crick Crack, Monkey - Merle Hodge
The Wheel of Surya - Jamila Gavin
Breath, Eyes, Memory - Edwidge Danticat
Krik? Krak! - Edwidge Danticat
Crossing the River - Caryl Phillips
The Kite Rider - Geraldine McCaughrean
A Concise Chinese English Dictionary for Lovers - Xiaolu Guo
Cast Adrift - Peter Guttridge
The Lost Symbol - Dan Brown
Agatha Christie: Murder in Three Stages - Novelisations by Charles Osborne
The Star of Kazan - Eva Ibbotson
Olympiad: An Historical Novel - Tom Holt
The Prestige - Christopher Priest
The Human Factor - Graham Greene
Brighton Rock - Graham Greene
Beruit, I Love You: A Memoir - Zena El Khalil
The Final Analysis of Dr Stark - Rabbi Joseph Telushkin
Miss Marple Complete Short Stories - Agatha Christie
All The Way Home - Bookey Peek
Persepolis - Marjane Satrapi
The Fourth Bear - Jasper Fforde
The Labours of Hercules - Agatha Christie
The Big Four - Agatha Christie
Inkheart - Cornelia Funke
The Devil Wears Prada - Lauren Weisberger
Coram Boy - Jamila Gavin
The House of the Spirits - Isabel Allende
Portrait in Sepia - Isabel Allende
The Troublesome Offspring of Cardinal Guzman - Louis de Bernieres
Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis de Bernieres
Junk - Melvyn Burgess
Blazing Star - Lynne Markham
It's a 50/50 Thing - Chris Higgins
Deep Joy, or Something Like It - Karen McCombie
Happiness and All That Stuff - Karen McCombie
Hunky Dory - Jean Ure
Finding Violet Park - Jenny Valentine
Journey to the River Sea - Eva Ibbotson
Smokescreen - Bernard Ashley
Broken Soup - Jenny Valentine
Higher Institute of Villainous Education - Mark Walden
The Road of the Dead - Kevin Brooks
Freak the Mighty - Rodman Philbrick
Postcards from No Man's Land - Aidan Chambers
The Illustrated Mum - Jacqueline Wilson
Starring Sally J Freedman as Herself - Judy Blume
Waving, Not Drowning - Rosie Rushton
Unheard Voices - Malorie Blackman (collection)
Jack Sweettooth - Malorie Blackman
Tell Me No Lies - Malorie Blackman
Does My Head Look Big In This? - Randa Abdel-Fattah
The Fire Eaters - David Almond
Angels and Demons - Dan Brown
The Complete Book of Aunts - Rupert Christiansen
Before I Die - Jenny Downham
Saffy's Angel - Hilary McKay
Colour Bar - Susan Williams
Ruby Red - Linzi Glass
The View from Saturday - E.L. Konigsburg
At Bertram's Hotel - Agatha Christie
The Sound of Laughter - Peter Kay
The World's Wife - Carol Ann Duffy
Blue Shoes and Happiness - Alexander McCall Smith
The Girl Who Married a Lion - Alexander McCall Smith
The Fire Gospel - Michel Faber
Dreams From My Father - Barack Obama
Song of Solomon - Toni Morrison
Double Cross - Malorie Blackman

Books read in 2008

Tales of Beedle the Bard - JK Rowling
The Bluest Eye - Toni Morrison
The Tailor King - Anthony Arthur
Two Caravans - Marina Lewycka
When A Crocodile Eats the Sun - Peter Godwin
Fearless Fighter - Vera Chirwa
The Freedom Writers Diary - Erin Gruwell
Don't Let's Go To The Dogs Tonight - Alexandra Fuller
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas - John Boyne
Apache: Girl Warrior - Tanya Landman
Mukiwa: A White Boy in Africa - Peter Godwin
A Long Way Gone - Ishmael Beah
The Raphael Affair - Iain Pears
Boy - Roald Dahl
The Reluctant Fundamentalist - Mohsin Hamid
The Medici Secret - Michael White
Fallen Gods - Quintin Jardine
The Immaculate Deception - Iain Pears
Misadventure in the Middle East - Henry Hemming
Mister Pip - Lloyd Jones
Not Without My Sister - Kristina, Juliana and Celeste
On Chesil Beach - Ian McEwan
The Five People You Meet in Heaven - Mitch Albom
The Gathering - Anne Enright
My Booky Wook - Russell Brand

1001 Books to Read Before You Die ... Not dead yet!

A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift
A Portrait of the Artist as a Yound Man by James Joyce
A Scot's Quair by Lewis Grassic Gibbon
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Absalom, Absalom by William Faulkner
Aesop's Fables
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Brighton Rock by Graham Greene
Dracula by Bram Stoker
Emma by Jane Austen
Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
Frankenstein by Mary W Shelley
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathon Swift
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
If This is a Man by Primo Levi
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
Metamorphoses by Ovid
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orweell
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Orlando by Virginia Woolf
Persuasion by Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Castle of /otranto by Horace Walpole
The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger
The End of the Affair by Graham Greene
The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Monk by MG Lewis
The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe
The Picture of Dorien Gray by Oscar Wilde
The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James Hogg
The Quiet America by Graham Greene
The Rainbow by DH Lawrence
The Strange Case of Dr Jeckyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There by Lewis Carroll
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
Wild Swans by Jung Chang
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Blue Shoes and Happiness by Alexander McCall Smith

Another diverting look at life for the No 1 Ladies' Detective Agency. Borrowed from Mum, I have finished this in a couple of days on the tube. A nice relaxing way to recover from a day of teaching.

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