Another year, 2013 in books
January 5, 2014 Leave a comment
This is what I have read and listened to this year. If forced to pick out a ‘best’ I would opt for ‘Dear Boy : The Life Of Keith Moon’, with honourable mentions for ‘The Sisters Who would be Queen : The tragedy of Mary, Katherine & Lady Jane Grey’ and ‘The Last Fighting Tommy’.
| Alexander McCall Smith | Morality for Beautiful Girls |
| Ben Goldacre | Bad Pharma : How drug companies mislead doctors and harm patients |
| Carrie Fisher | Wishful Drinking |
| Christopher Hibbert | The Borgias |
| Danny Danziger | The Goldfish Club |
| David Mitchell | Back Story : A Memoir |
| Doreen Hawkins | Drury Lane to Dimapur |
| Harry Patch with Richard Van Emden | The Last Fighting Tommy |
| Harry Pearson | Slipless in Settle : A slow turn around northern cricket |
| John Mortimer | Where There’s a Will |
| Kate Summerscale | Mrs Robinson’s Disgrace |
| Leanda De Lisle | The Sisters Who would be Queen : The tragedy of Mary, Katherine & Lady Jane Grey |
| Lucy Moore | Anything Goes : A biography of the Roaring Twenties |
| Lynne Truss | Making The Cat Laugh |
| M. C. Beaton | Agatha Raisin and the Quiche of Death |
| Margaret Thatcher | The Autobiography 1925-2013 |
| Michael Crichton and Richard Preston | Micro |
| Michael Palin | New Europe |
| Molly Ivins | Who Let The Dogs In? : A Personal History Of America’s Most Incredible Political Animals |
| Ngaio Marsh | The Nursing Home Murder |
| Nick Cohen | Pretty Straight Guys |
| Party of European Socialists | Robin Cook : PES President 2001-2004 |
| Pauline Prescott with Wendy Holden | Smile Though Your Heart Is Breaking |
| Pete Townshend | Who I Am |
| Peter Ackroyd | London Under |
| Richard Dawkins | The Magic of Reality : how we know what’s really true |
| Robert Goddard | Name To A Face |
| Robert Goddard | Sight Unseen |
| Robert Lacey | Great Tales From English History – Cheddar Man To The Peasants’ Revolt |
| Robert Rogers | Order! Order! : A Parliamentary Miscellany |
| Roger Moore | My Word Is My Bond |
| Rupa Huq | On the Edge : The Contested Cultures of English Surburbia |
| Ruth Rendell | Talking To Strange Men |
| Ruth Rendell | The Saint Zita Society |
| Ruth Rendell | The Thief |
| Sid Waddell | The Road Back Home |
| Simon Brett | A Charles Paris Mystery : The Dead Side of the Mic |
| Simon Schama | The American Future : A History |
| Simon Sebag Montefiore | Jerusalem The Biography |
| Tony Fletcher | Dear Boy : The Life Of Keith Moon |
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