Flipping through 2023


What I can say about 2023 was that I failed miserably at keeping up with this blog! So here is the list for 2023 and I will endeavour to do better in 2024. 

January (Sue) 

Cleaner's Boy by Patric Tariq Mellet
Dreamland by nicholas Sparks 
Lady in Waiting by Anne Glenconner
Not to Mention by Vivian de Klerk
Future Tense by Tony Leon 

February (Veronica) 

All the Broken Places by John Boyne 
Whatever Next by Anne Glenconner
Children of Sugarcane by Joanne Joseph 
Undoctored by Adam Kay

March (Caroline) 

Exiles by Jane Harper
Agatha Christie by Lucy Worsely
This is your Mind on Plants by Michael Pollan
Wilding by Isabella Tree
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin 

April (Terry) 

The Radium Girls by Kate Moore
I Will Find You by Harlan Coben
The Girl from Simon's Bay by Barbara Mutch
Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton 

May (Joan)

Those who are Loved by Victoria Hislop
Mad Bad Love by Sarah-Jayne Makwala King
Finding Me by Viola Davis 
The Private Patient by DP James
The Golden Couple by G Hendricks and S Pekkanen

June (Heather) 

The Muse by Jessie Burton
The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley
Foreign Native by R W Johnson
The Art of Hearing Heartbeats by Jan-Philipp Sendker
Amazing Grace Adams by Fran Littlewood
The House of Doors by Tan Twang Eng
Hang the Moon by Jeanette Walls 

July (Bev)

Girl A by Abigail Dean
Homecoming by Kate Morton
The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese
Africa is not a Country by Dipo Faloyin
10 Minutes in 60 Seconds by Elif Shafak

August (Suzanne)

Reggie and Me by James Hendry
East West Street by Philippe Sands
Common Ground by Naomi Ishiguno
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver

September (Sue W)

Rewilding the World by Caroline Fraser
Standing up for Science by Karim Salim Abdool
Step by Step by Simon Reeve
Truth to Power by Andre de Ruyter
The Interpreter by Brooke Robinson
Bloody Sunday by Mignonne Breier
A Terrible Kindness by Jo Browning Roe
The Bookbinder of Jericho by Pip Williams   

October (Viv) 

The Overstory by Richard Powers
Olive Again by Elizabeth Strout
The First Ladies by Marie Benedict
The Prophet and the Idiot by Jonas Jonasson
The Girls in the Eagle's Talons by Karin Smirnoff
The Bee Sting by Paul Murray
My Cederberg Story by Olive Nieuwoudt

November (Alison)

Tom Jones, the autobiography
The Collected Regrets of Clover by Mikki Beamer
Caster Semenya, the autobiography
Finding Endurance by Darrell Bristow-Bovey 
The Seventh Son by Sebastian Faulkes

December (Sue K)

Winnie and Nelson by Johnny Steinberg
Songbirds by Christy Lefteri 
Neglected by Cathy Glass
Force of Nature by Jane Harper
Robert Sobukwe by Benjamin Pogrund