A Passage to India by E.M. Forster

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

 

This story wasn't how I imagined it. It is a dark novel, about the cycle of violence and aggression: Heathcliff eventually becomes like the man he hates, by being brought up with beatings and anger he in turn unleashes it on everyone else.

It tells of how love can become a catalyst for hatred.

So many of the characters are utterly unlikable! Cathy is selfish and foolish and obstinate; Heathcliff is brutal and vengeful and psychotic; Hindley is spiteful and venomous and a drunkard.  

 

Amongst Women by John McGahern

The Bell by Iris Murdoch

The Last September by Elizabeth Bowen

Learning to Dance by Michael Mayne

Howards End by E. M. Forster

Family And Friends by Anita Brookner

Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy

A Time to Keep Silence by Patrick Leigh Fermor

The Rector's Daughter by F.M. Mayo

Galahad at Blandings by P.G. Wodehouse

Clayhanger by Arnold Bennett

On The Black Hill by Bruce Chatwin

To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

  

This was not an easy read but wow what a beautiful one!
It is complicated by an interweaving of narrative and personal reflection and as a result it is difficult to discern who is thinking what and which thoughts are the result of whom.

The Heart Of The Matter by Graham Greene

    

I really enjoyed this novel. It is a powerful, thought provoking and deeply profound novel about love and catholic guilt set amongst British colonial settlers in West Africa during the Second World War.
It is a tragedy where Major Scobie, a 50-year-old Deputy Commissioner, is
passed over for promotion and so becomes forced to borrow money to send his despairing wife away. In her absence he falls in love with Helen, a young widow, and his life is transformed by the experience.However, it does not have a happy ending.

The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford

Washington Square by Henry James

The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope

Anthony Trollope wrote this satirical novel as a reaction to the financial scandals of the 1870s in Great Britain.  It is an archetypical Victorian novel, featuring the two big Victorian obsessions - class and women.
It took me a long time to read - it is Trollope's longest novel, but it was enjoyable!
I loved all the disreputable characters. I took an instant dislike to Felix - who basically spends everyone's else money and is a cad! One of my favorites is the seductive Winifred Hurtle, who, they say -- and I love this detail! -- shot a man in Oregon!