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Mr Wroe's Virgins by Jane Rogers Maps for Lost Lovers by Nadeem Aslam The Damned United by David Peace The Mango Season by Amulya Malladi The Hero's Walk by Anita Rau Badami. And non fiction: Mr Blue by Edward Bunker Waiting for Snow in Havana by Carlos M N Eire.

Mine changes from week to week, but Barry Unsworth's Morality Play has to be up there, along with Arthur Koestler's Darkness at Noon.......

The Kite Runner. Although undeniably impressive in parts, there are far too many clumsy plot contrivances and highly unlikey coincidences. Furthermore, the way so many of the characters are in some way related is almost Dickensian-and I don't mean that as a copmliment. It was successful as an...

Couldn't finish The Time Traveller's Wife. I lost interest when the main character, Henry I think he was called, serenades Clare with a viollin. In the words of Morrisey this, "says nothing to me about my life."

Until quite recently I firmly believed that very little in fiction could really frighten me. Then I read The Girl Next Door by Jack Ketchum. This is shocking, without question. This novel validates and legitimises the phrase, “The banality of evil”. What makes this so potent is the way that vile...

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne-moralising and tedious. Confessions of an English Opium Eater by Thomas Dequincey-self indulgent and tedious.

You could do a lot worse than Mo Hayder's Tokyo, or its alternative title, The Devil of Nanking.

Hello Hey all. My name is Dave and I'm a voracious reader. I love all kinds of stuff, both fiction and non fiction. Favourite authors include Margaret Atwood, Joolz Denby, Mo hayder, John Connolly. Favourite novel so far this year has to be Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche which...