My ten best

Women With Men, by Richard Ford

Women With Men, by Richard Ford

American Pastoral, by Phillip Roth

Le Testament Francais, by Andrei Makine

The Untouchable , by John Banville

Panther in the Basement, by Amos Oz

American Visions, by Robert Hughes

The Building of Castle Howard, by Charles Saumarez Smith (Pimlico)

Boyhood, by J.M. Coetzee

Braque - The Late Works, by John Golding (Yale)

Seurat and the Bathers, by John Leighton & Richard Thomson (National Gallery of London)

A People's Tragedy - The Russian Revolution 1891-1924, by Orlando Figes (Pimlico)

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