The books – 2014

  1. The Lamp of the Wicked – Phil Rickman
  2. Richard III: The king under the car park – Richard Buckley and Mathew Morris
  3. Essex Folk Tales – Jan Williams
  4. December – Phil Rickman
  5. Red Harvest – Dashiel Hammett
  6. Walking Home – Simon Armitage
  7. Beyond Black – Hilary Mantel
  8. Forgotten Railways vol.7: East Anglia – RS Joby
  9. Concretopia – John Grindrod
  10. The Help – Kathryn Stockett
  11. Hollow City – Ransom Riggs
  12. Rooftoppers – Katherine Rundell
  13. Autobiography – Morrissey
  14. The Killing – David Hewson
  15. The Invisible Woman – Clare Tomalin
  16. Tales of Old Hertfordshire – Doris Jones-Baker
  17. The Stone Book – Alan Garner
  18. VI For Short – Sara Paretsky
  19. Psychogeography – Will Self
  20. Four Realist Novels – Vincent Brome
  21. The Brontë Myth – Lucasta Miller
  22. The Town That Went South – Clive King
  23. The Dain Curse – Dashiell Hammett
  24. Leaving The Sea Stories – Ben Marcus
  25. PopCo – Scarlett Thomas
  26. Northanger Abbey – Val McDermid
  27. The Grey King – Susan Cooper
  28. In the High Valley – Susan Coolidge
  29. The Three-Arched Bridge – Ismail Kadare
  30. Night School – Richard Wiseman
  31. 1603 – Christopher Lee
  32. The Killing II – David Hewson
  33. Confessions of an English Opium Eater – Thomas de Quincey
  34. FreakAngels – Warren Ellis and Paul Duffield
  35. Jenson Button: My championship year – Jenson Button and Sarah Edworthy
  36. Outside the White Lines – Chris Simms
  37. The Elegance of the Hedgehog – Muriel Barbery
  38. The Well of Loneliness – Radclyffe Hall
  39. The Maltese Falcon – Dashiell Hammett
  40. Hawksmoor – Peter Ackroyd
  41. The Last Englishman: The double life of Arthur Ransome – Roland Chambers
  42. Midwinter of the Spirit – Phil Rickman
  43. Modesty Blaise: The Double Agent – Peter O’Donnell & Neville Colvin
  44. Cobra Trap – Peter O’Donnell
  45. From Hell – Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell
  46. Modesty Blaise: The Return of the Mammoth (First American Series) – Peter O’Donnell
  47. Longbourn – Jo Baker
  48. Respect the Spindle – Abby Franquemont
  49. Fishing for Ganseys – The Moray Firth Gansey Project
  50. Strangers: A history of Norwich’s incomers – Frank Meeres
  51. Trees vol. 1: In shadows – Warren Ellis and Jason Howard
  52. People Styles at Work and Beyond – Robert Boulton and Dorothy Grover
  53. The Glass Key – Dashiell Hammett
  54. What Matters in Jane Austen: Twenty crucial puzzles solved – John Mullan
  55. Prehistoric Wiltshire: An illustrated guide – Bob Clarke
  56. Richard III: A life – David Baldwin
  57. Persuasion – Jane Austen
  58. Between the Acts – Virginia Woolf
  59. Narrow Boat – LTC ‘Tom’ Rolt
  60. The Cornish Coast Mystery – John Bude
  61. The Heresies of Dr Dee – Phil Rickman
  62. Sidney Chambers and the Shadow of Death – James Runcie
  63. A Morbid Taste for Bones – Ellis Peters
  64. Arkham Asylum: A serious house on serious Earth – Grant Morrison and Dave McKean
  65. Death and the Virgin – Chris Skidmore
  66. One Corpse Too Many – Ellis Peters
  67. Candlenight – Phil Rickman
  68. Sidney Chambers and the Perils of the Night – James Runcie
  69. Monk’s Hood – Ellis Peters
  70. Beowulf – Rosemary Sutcliffe
  71. Sidney Chambers and the Problem of Evil – James Runcie