Author and subject index
How to use this page: The list below is an index to the chronological entries made in the the main blog. It is organised alphabetically by author or, where appropriate, subject. Use the alphabetical list and navigational links to find authors you are interested in. To search on title if you don’t know an author use your browser’s ‘find on this page’ function. A few titles may appear with no links; these are generally in the process of being read and therefore coming soon.
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- Abandoning a series (27/05/07)
- Adams, Douglas – Douglas Adams’ London (30/05/06)
- Adams, Douglas – The Hitch-Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series (13/05/06)
- Adams, Douglas, and Carwardine, Mark – Last Chance to See (07/05/07)
- Alvtegen, Karin – Missing (20/05/06)
- Angel comics (29/08/06)
- Asimov, Isaac – I, Robot (20/06/07)
- Bad sex award 2006 (01/12/06)
- Baden, Dr Michael and Roach, Marion – Dead Reckoning: the new science of catching killers (15/12/06)
- Barnes, Linda – A Trouble of Fools (31/08/06)
- Bass, Bill, and Jefferson, Jon – Death’s Acre: inside the legendary Body Farm (05/06/07)
- Bechdel, Alison – on writing memoirs (27/03/07)
- Benaquista, Tonino – Holy Smoke (23/04/06)
- Bender, Hy – The Sandman Companion (29/01/07)
- Bennett, Alan – The Lady in the Van (27/04/04)
- Bennett, Alan – Writing Home (29/12/06)
- Bennett, Alan – Untold Stories (14/12/06)
- Bindel, Julie – on women who read thrillers (07/02/07)
- Book storage problems (20/08/06)
- Bookshops at Christmas (15/12/06)
- Botham, Noel – The Assassination of Princess Diana (10/05/07)
- Bradbury, Ray – Fahrenheit 451 (20/06/07)
- Brodrick, William – The Sixth Lamentation (19/02/06)
- Brodrick, William – The Gardens of the Dead (30/07/07)
- Bronte, Charlotte – The Professor (17/06/06)
- Brooker, Charlie – on reading columnists you hate (26/02/06)
- Bruni, Georgina – You Can’t Tell The People: the definitive account of the Rendlesham Forest UFO mystery (04/06/06)
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer comics (19/07/06)
- Burstein, Dan, and de Keijzer, Arne – Secrets of Angels and Demons (07/08/06)
- OBCZ success (02/09/06)
- The Basingstoke OBCZ(02/09/06)
- Bookcrossing: international success (18/08/06)
- Books to Official Bookcrossing Zones (27/04/04)
- Bookcrossing: Tales of the City (19/01/07)
- Bookcrossers’ recommendations from 2006 (09/01/07)
- Pride and Prejudice off to Canada (07/02/2007)
- Cervantes, Miguel de – Don Quixote part one (02/08/06)
- Cervantes, Miguel de – Don Quixote part two (06/12/06)
- Chambers, Paul – The Ghost of Cock Lane: murder, sex and haunting in Dr Johnson’s London (11/07/07)
- Coffey, Maria – Three Moons in Vietnam (06/03/04)
- Cornwell, Patricia – Portrait of a Killer (27/04/07)
- Cornwell, Patricia – The Body Farm (30/07/07)
- Coupland, Douglas, readability of (07/04/04)
- Coupland, Douglas, Wired interview with (13/05/06)
- Coupland, Douglas – Girlfriend in a Coma (11/04/04)
- Coupland, Douglas – Miss Wyoming (15/04/04)
- Coupland, Douglas – All Families are Psychotic (10/05/04)
- Coupland, Douglas – Eleanor Rigby (08/10/06)
- Coupland, Douglas – preview of jPod on BoingBoing.net (10/06/06)
- Cricket, definition of (11/04/07)
- Cricket, expanded definition of (17/04/07)
- Coupland, Douglas – preview of jPod on BoingBoing.net (10/06/06)
- Cutler, Judith – The Food Detective (05/01/07)
- Davis, Lindsey – report of author event at Silchester (29/09/06)
- Davis, Lindsey – See Delphi and Die (26/09/06)
- Devlin, Barbara Lynne (Mary) – I Am Mary Shelley (10/05/04)
- Dibdin, Michael – critical praise for (13/09/06)
- Dibdin, Michael – death of (04/04/07)
- Dibdin, Michael – Blood Rain (21/04/06)
- Dibdin, Michael – And Then You Die (27/05/06)
- Dibdin, Michael – Medusa (19/09/06)
- Dick, Philip K – what to read (01/12/06)
- Dickens, Charles – the quintessential Victorian detective (article by PD James) (25/05/06)
- Don, Monty – My Roots (15/12/06)
- Dunsany, Lord – The King of Elfland’s Daughter (21/07/06)
- Durrell, Gerald – The Corfu Trilogy (25/12/06)
- Fassbender, Tom et al – Buffy the Vampire Slayer: False Memories (19/07/06)
- Faulks, Sebastian – due to write new Bond book (11/07/07)
- Gaiman, Neil et al – The Sandman 1: Preludes and Nocturnes (25/03/07)
- Gaiman, Neil et al – The Sandman 2: The Doll’s House (05/06/07)
- Gaiman, Neil et al – The Sandman 3: Dream Country (13/07/07)
- Gaiman, Neil – Neverwhere (10/06/07)
- Gaiman, Neil – thoughts on Alan Moore’s Lost Girls (20/06/06)
- Gaiman, Neil – interviewed about book signings (10/04/07)
- Gascoigne, Bamber – The Quest for the Golden Hare (24/03/07)
- Golden, Christopher et al – Angel: Earthly Possessions (19/07/06)
- Golden, Christopher et al – Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Oz – Into the Wild (19/07/06)
- Gores, Joe – Interface (21/06/06)
- Grafton, Sue – A is for Alibi (04/07/06)
- Grafton, Sue – B is for Burgar (12/06/06)
- Grafton, Sue – C is for Corpse (15/08/06)
- Grafton, Sue – D is for Deadbeat (26/02/07)
- Grisham, John – The Rainmaker (04/07/06)
- Guardian Digested Read – The Gospel According to Judas (27/03/07)
- le Guin, Ursula – The Other Wind (10/03/04)
- Harris, Jack C and Hampton, Bo – Castle of the Bat (30/10/06)
- Haslam, Dave – Not Abba: The real story of the 1970s (22/08/06)
- Hoare, Philip – England’s Lost Eden: adventures in a Victorian utopia (15/12/06)
- Hollingshead, Iain – Twentysomething (01/12/06)
- Hornby, Nick – Guardian article on outdoor reading (30/09/06)
- James, PD – The Lighthouse (13/09/06)
- James, PD, and Critchley, TA – The Maul and the Pear Tree (07/08/07)
- Jenkins, Elizabeth – Elizabeth the Great (28/01/07)
- Kalush, William, and Sloman, Larry Ratso – how The Secret Life of Houdini may lead to the star’s exhumation (27/03/07)
- Kourdi, Jeremy – Think On Your Feet: 10 steps to better decision-making and problem solving at work (14/06/07)
- Kureishi, Hanif – claims of censorship against the BBC (18/04/07)
- Leddy, Michael – Lifehack article on granularity for students (01/12/06)
- Levitt, Steven D, and Dubner, Stephen J – Freakonomics (11/08/07)
- Lindsay, Frederic – Death Knock (12/04/07)
- Lindsay, Frederic – Darkness In My Hand (28/01/07)
- Lindsay, Frederic – The Endings Man (07/03/07)
- Lindsay, Frederic – Wikipedia article (18/01/07)
- Litro: alternative publishing (06/01/07)
- Machiavelli, Niccolò – The Prince (04/07/06)
- McNamara, Joel – GPS for Dummies (11/07/07)
- Maupin, Armistead – Tales of the City (29/01/07)
- Maupin, Armistead – More Tales of the City (25/03/07)
- Maupin, Armistead – Further Tales of the City (02/05/07)
- Maupin, Armistead, – on abandoning the Tales of the City series (27/05/07)
- du Maurier, Daphne – her centenary (15/04/07)
- du Maurier, Daphne – The House on the Strand (10/04/04)
- du Maurier, Daphne – Rule Britannia (24/10/06)
- du Maurier, Daphne – Don’t Look Now and other stories (27/05/07)
- Montgomery, LM – Anne of Green Gables (03/11/06)
- Moore, Alan et al – Tomorrow Stories part one (21/05/06)
- Moore, Alan et al – Tomorrow Stories part two (26/08/06)
- Moore, Michael – Stupid White Men (06/04/04)
- Murakami, Haruki – new novella reviewed (After Dark) (30/05/07)
- NaNoWriMo 2006 – week three (19/11/06)
- New word: nurdle (11/04/07)
- Newby, Eric – death of (22/10/06)
- Paretsky, Sara – Fire Sale (19/12/06)
- Paretsky, Sara – Blacklist (07/02/07)
- Paretsky, Sara – Total Recall (19/12/06)
- Petrie, Doug et al – Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Ring of Fire (19/07/06)
- Pratchett, Terry – Monstrous Regiment (02/10/06)
- Pratchett, Terry; and Gaiman, Neil – Good Omens (26/08/06)
- Proulx, Annie – Close Range (26/02/07)
- Pullman, Philip – The Subtle Knife (14/02/04)
- Pullman, Philip – His Dark Materials trilogy (10/03/04)
- Pullman, Philip – The Amber Spyglass (06/04/04)
- Puzzles index (from 27/03/07)
- Radcliffe, Ann – The Mysteries of Udolpho (15/04/07)
- Rankin, Robert – Far-fetched fiction (06/07/06)
- Rankin, Robert – The Antipope (08/09/06)
- Rankin, Robert – The Greatest Show Off Earth (11/08/06)
- Reynolds, Tom – Blood, Sweat and Tea: real-life adventures in an inner-city ambulance (04/04/07)
- Rimington, Stella – At Risk (06/08/06)
- Rowling, JK – Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (30/07/07)
- Sayle, Alexei – Barcelona Plates (16/02/04)
- Seierstad, Asne – The Bookseller of Kabul (10/05/04)
- Seierstad, Asne – Legal action following publication of The Bookseller of Kabul (10/07/06)
- Smith, Alexander McCall – Morality for Beautiful Girls (05/03/04)
- Smith, Alexander McCall – The Kalahari Typing School for Men (06/04/04)
- Smith, Alexander McCall – Blue Shoes and Happiness (07/02/07)
- Smith, Alexander McCall – The Good Husband of Zebra Drive (preview extract) (03/04/07)
- Smith, Alexander McCall – 44 Scotland Street (03/02/07)
- Smith, Alexander McCall – Espresso Tales (03/04/07)
- Smith, Alexander McCall – photos of 44 Scotland Street (14/04/07)
- Smith, Alexander McCall – The Sunday Philosophy Club (25/03/07)
- Stevens, Kevin – The Rizzoli Contract (06/04/04)
- Sutcliff, Rosemary – The Eagle of the Ninth (30/09/06)
- Swift, Graham – Interviewed in The Scotsman (27/04/07)
- Swift, Graham – Waterland (04/02/04)
- Theroux, Louis – The Call of the Weird (14/12/06)
- Theroux, Louis – Weird Weekends TV series (29/01/07)
- Tolkien, JRR – Publication of new book (17/04/07)
- Tracy, PJ – Snow Blind preview (10/07/06)
- Unread books (13/03/07)
- Vargas, Fred – The Three Evangelists (03/04/07)
- Vargas, Fred – Seeking Whom He May Devour (29/01/07)
- Vargas, Fred – Have Mercy On Us All (20/05/06)
- Want to read, need to read (15/08/06)
- WhatIHaveRead.net (21/08/06)
- Whittle, Brian and Ritchie, Jean – Prescription for Murder: The true story of mass murderer Dr Harold Frederick Shipman (30/10/06)
- Wikisummaries (15/12/06)
- Williams, Kit – Masquerade (24/03/07)
- Wyndham, John – The Chrysalids (18/09/06)
- Wyndham, John – Trouble with Lichen (02/09/06)