

On Trains by John Betjeman, ed.Writers, it's often said, are readers first and writers second. Words and Pictures: Writers, Artists and a Peculiarly British Tradition by Jenny UglowĪsterix et le Griffon Jean-Yves Ferri and Didier Conrad (via Goscinny and Uderzo)įlashman and the Dragon by Georges MacDonald Fraserįlashman and the Tiger by Georges MacDonald Fraser The Emergency Poet: An Anti-Stress Poetry Anthology edited by Deborah Alma * Index, A History of the by Dennis Duncan Magnetic Field: The Marsden Poems by Simon Armitageĭiplomatic Gifts: A History in Fifty Presents by Paul Brummellįleishman Is in Trouble by Taffy Brodesser-Akner Osebel: Voices from a Swedish Village by Marit Kapla * Small Things Like These by Claire KeeganĪccidents of Fortune by Andrew Devonshire The Sea Raiders by HG Wells (short stories) * The Girls of Slender Means by Muriel Spark * All Change (Vol V, The Cazalet Chronicles) by Elizabeth Jane Howard * Casting Off (Vol IV, The Cazalet Chronicles) by Elizabeth Jane Howard The Lake Wobegon Virus by Garrison Keillor London in the Snow, introduction by Lucy Davies * Confusion (Vol III, The Cazalet Chronicles) by Elizabeth Jane Howard


* Marking Time (Vol II, The Cazalet Chronicles) by Elizabeth Jane Howard

* The Light Years (Vol I, The Cazalet Chronicles) by Elizabeth Jane Howard * Something so wild and new in this feeling by Sarah Doyle The Talking Horse and the Sad Girl and the Village Under the Sea by Mark Haddon Hertfordshire: The Buildings of England by Nikolaus Pevsner Madrid de Blanco/Madrid in White by Maria Morenes They are listed in the date order in which I read them and my favourites are marked with an asterisk.Įveryone is still alive by Cathy Rentzenbrink Here's my annual list of all the books I read in 2022 for pleasure (so not including the ones which I read for work purposes).
