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10. The Loney, by Andrew Michael Hurley (a prize winning book)

11. Beyond the bow: Nelson Cooke's life in music, by Song Mei Lee-Wong (a book you finished in one sitting)

12. Police at the station and they don't look friendly, by Adrian McKinty (a book recommended by an author - Ian Rankin)

13. Why Dylan matters, by Richard F Thomas (a book by an Oceanic author)

14. The hours before dawn, by Celia Fremlin (a domestic noir/thriller)

15. Humor, by Stanley Donwood (a book with surreal elements)

16. Test cricket: the unauthorised biography, by Jarrod Kimber (an auto/biography or memoir)

17. Mr Lear: a life of art and nonsense, by Jenny Uglow (a book of more than 500 pages)

18. Ruth and Martin's Album Club, by Martin Fitzgerald (a book set aside for a holiday read)

19. Infidelities, by Kirsty Gunn (a book with an intriguing cover)

20. Historical drawings of moths and butterflies, by Harriet Scott and Helena Scott (a book of fewer than 150 pages)

21. Jack, by Judy Johnson (a book set at sea)

22. I am, I am, I am: seventeen brushes with death, by Maggie O'Farrell (a book with a subtitle)

23. Viper wine: a novel, by Hermione Eyre (an historical fantasy)

24. The princess and the goblin, by George MacDonald (a book that is an oldie but a goodie)

25. Elmet, by Fiona Mozley (a book set in a location that fascinates you)

26. Quakernomics, by Mike King (a book from a genre you rarely read)

27. Wallflowers, by Eliza Robertson (a book of short stories)

28. My house of sky: the life and work of J A Baker, by Hetty Saunders (a book with a character who enjoys the outdoors)

29. A siege of bitterns, by Steve Burrows (a book that raises environmental issues)

30. The age of Bowie: how David Bowie made a world of difference, by Paul Morley (a book written by an author who writes across different genres)

31. Red sky in morning, by Paul Lynch (a book with an anti-hero)

32. The crossing places, by Elly Griffiths

33. Islander: a journey around our archipelago, by Patrick Barkham

34. The rings of Saturn, by W G Sebald

35. The signature of all things, by Elizabeth Gilbert

36. Dotter of her father's eyes, by Mary M Talbot and Bryan Talbot

37. Kin: a real people's history of our nation, by Nick Brodie

38. Boneland, by Alan Garner (audiobook)

39. Careless love, by Peter Robinson

40. Written in dead wax, by Andrew Cartmel (The Vinyl Detective #1)

41. The long drop, by Denise Mina

42. Demi-gods, by Eliza Robertson

43. Fall down dead, by Stephen Booth

44. South, by Merlin Coverley

45. Strange magic, by Syd Moore

46. The dud avocado, by Elaine Dundy

47. Sirens, by Joseph Knox

48. The crofter and the laird, by John McPhee

49. The malice of waves, by Mark Douglas-Home (The Sea Detective #3)

50. Black widow, by Chris Brookmyre

51. Light and shadow: memoirs of a spy’s son, by Mark Colvin

52. Black apples of Gower: stone-footing in memory fields, by Iain Sinclair

53. In a house of lies, by Ian Rankin

54. On becoming a fish, by Emily Hinshelwood

55. Another Kyoto, by Alex Kerr with Kathy Arlen Sokol

56. Persons unknown, by Susie Steiner

57. Floating: a return to Waterlog, by Joe Minihane

58. Nobody walks, by Mick Herron

59. Eureka, by Anthony Quinn

60. Getting out of here alive: the ballad of Murray McLauchlan, by Murray McLauchlan

61. The lost man, by Jane Harper

62. Steve Smith’s men: behind Australian cricket’s fall, by Geoff Lemon

63. The Earlie King & the kid in yellow: a wayward myth, fragments scored against ruins, by Danny Denton

64. Jack Hobbs: England’s greatest cricketer, by Leo McKinstry

1. Cricket: the game of life: every reason to celebrate, by Scyld Berry (a book set aside for a holiday read)

2. The Kinks are the Village Green Preservation Society, by Andy Miller (a book received for Christmas)

3. The rúin, by Dervla McTiernan (a whodunit)

4. Loop of jade, by Sarah Howe (an “own voices” book)

5. Stories from the sandstone: quarantine inscriptions from Australia’s immigrant past, by Peter Hobbins, Ursula K Frederick, Anne Clarke (a book read for professional purposes)

6. Something of his art: walking to Lübeck with J.S. Bach, by Horatio Clare (a book with musical roots)

7. A prey to murder, by Ann Cleeves (another whodunit)

8. The year of reading dangerously: how fifty great books (and two not-so-great ones) saved my life, by Andy Miller (a book about books)

9. Moominpappa at sea, by Tove Jansson (a children’s book)

10. The lost words: a spell book, by Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris (a picture book)

11. Melmoth, by Sarah Perry (a wayward myth)

12. Sadie, by Courtney Summers (a book with multiple narrators)

13. The gallows pole, by Benjamin Myers (a prize-winning book)

14. Grief is the thing with feathers, by Max Porter (a book with a plural in the title)

15. Caribou Island, by David Vann (a book with a two-word title)

16. Orchid & the Wasp, by Caoilinn Hughes (a book with a floral cover)

17. The lure of the north (a book of fewer than 150 pages)

18. The attachment: letters from a most unlikely friendship, by Ailsa Piper and Tony Doherty (a non-fiction book)

19. Bury your dead, by Louise Penny (a book featuring an historical figure)

20. Everything under, by Daisy Johnson

21. The butterfly isles: a summer in search of our Emperors and Admirals, by Patrick Barkham

22. Beauty in thorns, by Kate Forsyth

23. In bitter chill, by Sarah Ward

24. Mrs Fox, by Sarah Hall

25. Underland: a deep time journey, by Robert Macfarlane

26. The gifts of reading, by Robert Macfarlane

27. All rivers run free, by Natasha Carthew

28. Grossman House, Maitland, by Patricia R McDonald (National Trust House Series)

29. Love & desire: Pre-Raphaelite masterpieces from the Tate

30. Murder, Mr Mosley, by John Greenwood (Pan Heritage Classics)

31. Climbers, by M John Harrison

32. Room for a stranger, by Melanie Cheng

33. The universal language, by Nicky Gluch

34. Under the Rock: The poetry of a place, by Benjamin Myers

35. The girls of slender means, by Muriel Spark

36. The valley at the centre of the world, by Malachy Tallack

37. The pearl thief, by Elizabeth Wein

38. The Wall, by John Lanchester

39. A Scots song: a life of music, by James MacMillan

40. The bonny pit laddie, by Frederick Grice

41. The closing march, by Lynne Markham

42. The salt path, by Raynor Winn

43. Yorkshire: a lyrical history of England’s greatest county, by Richard Morris

44. The artificial silk girl, by Irmgard Keun

45. Finding Katherine Mansfield, by Susannah Fullerton

46. The frayed Atlantic edge: a historian’s journey from Shetland to the Channel, by David Gange

47. White corridor, by Christopher Fowler (a Bryant & May mystery)

48. Penny lace, by Hilda Lewis

49. Aunts up the Cross, by Robin Dalton

50. Drowned lives, by Stephen Booth

51. The tide’s magnificence: songs and poems of Molly Drake, by Molly Drake

52. The angel’s game, by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

53. Romany and Tom, by Ben Watt

1. Clay, by Melissa Harrison (a book from any HSC reading list)

2. Many rivers to cross, by Peter Robinson (a book set aside for a holiday)

3. Pigs have wings, by P.G. Wodehouse (a witty novel)

4. The Northumbrians: North-East England and its people: a new history, by Dan Jackson (a non-fiction book)

5. Blood & sugar, by Laura Shepherd-Robinson (a political thriller)

6. In search of England, by Roy Hattersley (a book published more than 10 years ago)

7. The rising tide, by Patrick Easter (the third book in a series)

8. The Trinity College harp: Ireland and the most exotic music instrument in the world, by Brian Manners

9. Westwind, by Ian Rankin

10. Another planet: a teenager in suburbia, by Tracey Thorn (a book about a homeland)

11. Crewe train, by Rose Macaulay (a book with a main character in their twenties)

12. Cherrywood cannon, by Ralph Steadman based on a story told to him by Dimitri Sidjanski (a picture book)

13. The debatable land: the lost world between Scotland and England, by Graham Robb

14. Middle England, by Jonathan Coe

15. The lark ascending: the music of the British landscape, by Richard King

16. The devil’s footprints, by John Burnside

17. The outrun, by Amy Liptrot

18. The western wind, by Samantha Harvey

19. Mudlarking: lost and found on the River Thames, by Lara Maiklem

20. The Zig Zag Girl, by Elly Griffiths

21. Footnotes: a journey round Britain in the company of great writers, by Peter Fiennes

22. Station Eleven, by Emily St John Mandel

23. Time song: searching for Doggerland, by Julia Blackburn

24. Almost a mirror, by Kirsten Krauth

25. The black book, by Ian Rankin (Rebus #5)

26. And the band played on, by Robert Holden

>137 lizaandpaul: Just an fyi: You've got the wrong touchstone, there, if the author is correct.

27. All together now?: one man’s walk in search of his father and a lost England, by Mike Carter

28. The offing, by Benjamin Myers

29. March violets, by Philip Kerr

>141 lizaandpaul: Oh, I love those Bernie Gunther books. I've read the first 8 of them at this point.

30. Long live Great Bardfield: the autobiography of Tirzah Garwood, by Tirzah Garwood

31. How Steeple Sinderby Wanderers won the FA Cup, by J.L. Carr

32. Man out of time, by Broderick Smith with John Tait

33. The end we start from, by Megan Hunter

34. The light in the dark: a winter journal, by Horatio Clare

35. Ghost wall, by Sarah Moss

36. Pink Floyd: their mortal remains

37. The Janus stone, by Elly Griffiths

38. On artists, by Ashleigh Wilson

39. Tell it to a stranger: stories from the 1940s, by Elizabeth Berridge

40. Two steps forward, by Graeme Simsion and Anne Buist

41. Jeeves and the King of Clubs, by Ben Schott

42. In the Cairngorms, by Nan Shepherd

43. The white witch, by Elizabeth Goudge

44. Nature’s engraver: a life of Thomas Bewick, by Jenny Uglow

45. The girl in the painting, by Tea Cooper

46. The military orchid, by Jocelyn Brooke

47. The unfinished life of Addison Stone, by Adele Griffin

48. The easternmost house: a year of life on the edge of England, by Juliet Blaxland

49. Spring: an anthology for the changing seasons, edited by Melissa Harrison

50. As I walked out one midsummer morning, by Laurie Lee

>163 lizaandpaul: Ah, I loved that book.

51. The darkest evening, by Ann Cleeves

52. Religion for atheists: a non-believer’s guide to the uses of religion, by Alain de Botton

53. A song for the dark times, by Ian Rankin

54. On the marshes, by Carol Donaldson

55. Gallows Court, by Martin Edwards

56. Ninety 9, by Vanessa Berry

57. Vesper flights: new and collected essays, by Helen Macdonald

58. A new day yesterday: UK progressive rock & the 1970s, by Mike Barnes

59. The fortnight in September, by R. C. Sherriff

1. English pastoral: an inheritance, by James Rebanks

2. The strange one, by Fred Bodsworth

3. Summer: an anthology for the changing seasons, edited by Melissa Harrison

4. A contemplative camino: four ways to stillness, silence and solitude, by Kate King

5. Absent in the spring, by Mary Westmacott

6. The beautiful mystery, by Louise Penny

7. Give me excess of it: a memoir, by Richard Gill

8. Dark satanic mills, by Marcus Sedgwick, Julian Sedgwick, John Higgins, Marc Olivent

9. Mayflies, by Andrew O’Hagan

10. Bedsit disco queen: how I grew up and tried to be a pop star, by Tracey Thorn

11. The dictionary of lost words, by Pip Williams

12. Vile bodies, by Evelyn Waugh

13. Not dark yet, by Peter Robinson

14. Maitland Jewish Cemetery: a monument to dreams and deeds, by Janis Wilton

15. The left-handed booksellers of London, by Garth Nix

16. I’ll be gone: Mike Rudd, Spectrum and how one song captured a generation, by Craig Horne

17. Dangerous women, by Hope Adams

18. Diary of a young naturalist, by Dara McAnulty

19. Our fathers, by Andrew O’Hagan

20. The student conductor, by Robert Ford

21. Wild gestures: stories, by Lucy Durneen

22. On Chapel sands: my mother and other missing persons, by Laura Cumming

23. Snap, by Belinda Bauer

24. The life of Rebecca Jones: a novel, by Angharad Price, translated from the Welsh by Lloyd Jones

25. Our friends in Berlin, by Anthony Quinn

26. The shepherd’s life: a tale of the Lake District, by James Rebanks

27. Docherty, by William McIlvanney

28. Ghost Town: a Liverpool shadowplay, by Jeff Young

29. The dark remains, by William McIlvanney | Ian Rankin

30. Whispers under ground, by Ben Aaronovitch

31. Coal black mornings, by Brett Anderson

32. Liverpool: the story of a city

33. Banks, by Grantlee Kieza

34. The visitor, by Chris Simpson

35. Killing with confetti, by Peter Lovesey (series: Peter Diamond)

36. The fell, by Sarah Moss

1. The 50 greatest matches in Australian cricket of the past 50 years, by Dan Liebke

2. The 50 greatest Australian cricketers of the past 50 years, by Dan Liebke

3. Daniel Deronda, by George Eliot

4. The convict valley: the bloody struggle on Australia’s early frontier, by Mark Dunn

5. The finisher, by Peter Lovesey (series: Peter Diamond)

6. The game: a portrait of Scott Morrison, by Sean Kelly

7. Gaudy night, by Dorothy L Sayers

8. Klopp: my Liverpool romance, by Anthony Quinn

9. Making conversation, by Christine Longford

10. Devotion, by Hannah Kent

11. My rock ‘n’ roll friend, by Tracey Thorn

12. Long players: writers on the albums that shaped them, edited by Tom Gatti

>221 lizaandpaul: Well, that looks like fun. I'm a life-long collector of LPs, so the title "Long Players" caught my attention immediately. I may have to look for that book.

13. Oddfellows, by Nicholas Shakespeare

14. The silent musician: why conducting matters, by Mark Wigglesworth

15. The scholar, by Dervla McTiernan

16. Bad debts, by Paul Temple

17. Last bus to Woodstock, by Colin Dexter

18. O Caledonia, by Elspeth Barker

19. Bobby March will live forever, by Alan Parks

20. The Jew’s beech, by Annette von Droste-Hülshoff

21. The Ninth: Beethoven and the world in 1824, by Harvey Sachs

22. 1984, by George Orwell

23. Welsh (plural): essays on the future of Wales, collection editors Darren Chetty, Grug Muse, Hanan Issa, Iestyn Tyne

24. Carrick Hill: a portrait, edited by Richard Heathcote

25. The rising tide, by Ann Cleeves

26. Treacle Walker, by Alan Garner

27. Songbirds, by Christy Lefteri

28. The feast, by Margaret Kennedy

29. Frostquake: the frozen winter of 1962 and how Britain emerged a different country, by Juliet Nicolson

30. Diamond and the eye, by Peter Lovesey

31. The space between the stars: on love, loss and the magical power of nature to heal, by Indira Naidoo

32. A heart full of headstones, by Ian Rankin

33. The summertime of our dreams, by Michael Pascoe

34. London, burning, by Anthony Quinn

35. Dunera lives : a visual history, by Ken Inglis, Seumas Spark and Jay Winter with Carol Bunyan

36. Wobble to death, by Peter Lovesey

37. Lone wolf: Albanese and the new politics, by Katharine Murphy

38. Bowl the maidens over : our first women cricketers, by Louise Zedda-Sampson

2023
1. A pitying of doves, by Steve Burrows

2. Shadowlands: a journey through lost Britain, by Matthew Green

3. The heeding, by Rob Cowen, illustrated by Nick Hayes

4. Winchelsea, by Alex Preston

5. Dark, salt, clear: life in a Cornish fishing town, by Lamorna Ash

6. Slow horses, by Mick Herron

7. The northern silence: journeys in Nordic music & culture, by Andrew Mellor

8. Bitter Wash Road, by Garry Disher

9. Walking in Berlin: a flaneur in the capital, by Franz Hessel

10. Bobish, by Magdalena Ball

11. The last days of Roger Federer, and other endings, by Geoff Dyer

12. I capture the castle, by Dodie Smith

13. Standing in the shadows, by Peter Robinson

14. Cuddy, by Benjamin Myers

15. Plein airs and graces: the life and times of George Collingridge, by Adrian Mitchell

16. The Coast, by Eleanor Limprecht

17. Does your rabbi know you’re here?, by Anthony Clavane

18. Yesterday, by Adele Geras (series: Teenage Memoirs)

19. Hangover Square : a story of darkest Earl’s Court, by Patrick Hamilton

20. To the river : a journey beneath the surface, by Olivia Laing

21. Mystery in the Channel, by Freeman Wills Crofts (series: British Library Crime Classics)

22. Naked at the Albert Hall : the inside story of singing, by Tracey Thorn

23. The glass pearls, by Emeric Pressburger

24. Down in the valley : a writer’s landscape, by Laurie Lee

25. The distant echo, by Val McDermid

26. Quartet: how four women changed the musical world, by Leah Broad

27. Mischief acts, by Zoe Gilbert

28. Wifedom: Mrs Orwell’s invisible life, by Anna Funder

29. The killings at Badger’s Drift, by Caroline Graham (series: Midsomer Murders Mysteries #1)

30. The recording angel: the experience of music from Aristotle to Zappa, by Evan Eisenberg

31. The Twyford Code, by Janice Hallett

32. It takes all sorts: celebrating cricket’s colourful characters, by Peter Roebuck

33. The McMasters guide to homicide. Vol 1 : Murder your employer, by Rupert Holmes

34. Telling stories, by Tim Burgess

35. Salonika burning, by Gail Jones

36. The lighted window : evening walks remembered, by Peter Davidson

37. My phantoms, by Gwendoline Riley

2024
1. Fingers crossed : how music saved me from success, by Miki Berenyi

2. Sea monsters, by Chloe Aridjis

3. The sound of summer: a memoir, by Jim Maxwell

4. Dead man’s grave, by Neil Lancaster

5. Wayward: just another life to lead, by Vashti Bunyan

6. The shadow box, by Jean Kent

7. The night was a bright moonlight and I could see a man quite plain: an Edwardian cricket murder, by Gideon Haigh

8. The blood tide, by Neil Lancaster

9. The sound of being human: how music shapes our lives, by Jude Rogers

10. Lessons in chemistry, by Bonnie Garmus

11. A life in ink, by Ralph Steadman

12. Plender, by Ted Lewis

13. Sweethearts of rhythm: the story of Australia’s all-girl bands and orchestras to the end of the Second World War, by Kay Dreyfus

14. The star on the grave, by Linda Margolin Royal

15. Charleston: a Bloomsbury house and garden, by Quentin Bell and Virginia Nicholson

16. Murder at Church Lodge, by Greg Mosse

17. Silences and secrets: the Australian experience of the Weintraub Syncopators, by Kay Dreyfus

18. Drumming on water: a verse novel, by Geoff Page

19. This secret garden : Oxford revisited, by Justin Cartwright

20. Dark road, by Ian Rankin and Mark Thomson

21. The silver river, by Jim Moginie

22. One river, by Steve Armstrong

23. Isolarion: a different Oxford journey, by James Attlee

24. Hawthorn & Child, by Keith Ridgway

25. The nightingale : notes on a songbird, by Sam Lee