Blasts From the Past is a series of occasional posts featuring books I read years ago about which I was wildly enthusiastic at the time, wanting to press a copy in as many hands as I could.
The index can be searched, or sorted by clicking on the relevant table heading.
| Author | Title | Published | Post date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Proulx, Annie | Close Range | 1999 | 2025/10/31 |
| Russo, Richard | Straight Man | 1997 | 2025/09/05 |
| Boyle, T. C. | Water Music | 1981 | 2025/08/01 |
| Kanon, Joseph | Los Alamos | 1997 | 2025/07/04 |
| Murphy, Tim | Correspondents | 2019 | 2025/06/06 |
| Glendinning, Victoria | Electricity | 1995 | 2025/04/04 |
| Faber, Michel | The Crimson Petal and the White | 2002 | 2025/02/28 |
| Bowering, Marilyn | Visible Worlds | 1998 | 2025/01/31 |
| Shields, Carol | The Republic of Love | 1992 | 2025/01/03 |
| Truong, Monique | The Book of Salt | 2003 | 2024/12/13 |
| McGrath, Patrick | Port Mungo | 2004 | 2024/11/01 |
| Hegi, Ursula | Stones from the River | 1994 | 2024/10/04 |
| Banks, Iain | The Crow Road | 1992 | 2024/08/30 |
| Isler, Alan | The Prince of West End Avenue | 1994 | 2024/08/02 |
| Hill, Tobias | Underground | 1999 | 2024/07/5 |
| Sijie, Dai | Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress | 2000 | 2024/05/31 |
| Tóibín, Colm | The Blackwater Lightship | 1999 | 2024/05/03 |
| Shields, Carol | Larry's Party | 1997 | 2024/04/05 |
| Funder, Anna | Stasiland | 2004 | 2024/02/02 |
| Lively, Penelope | The Photograph | 2003 | 2024/01/05 |
| Sage, Lorna | Bad Blood | 2000 | 2023/12/01 |
| Trevor, William | The Story of Lucy Gault | 2002 | 2023/11/03 |
| Sherrill, Stephen | The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break | 2000 | 2023/08/04 |
| Unsworth, Barry | Morality Play | 1995 | 2023/06/02 |
| Gurnah, Abdulrazak | By the Sea | 2001 | 2023/03/31 |
| Cunningham, Michael | A Home at the End of the World | 1990 | 2023/03/03 |
| Atkinson, Kate | Behind the Scenes at the Museum | 1995 | 2023/01/03 |
| Briscoe, Joanna | Sleep with Me | 2005 | 2023/01/06 |
| Waldman, Amy | The Submission | 2011 | 2022/11/04 |
| Mackay, Shena | The Orchard on Fire | 1995 | 2022/09/30 |
| Bail, Murray | Eucalyptus | 1998 | 2021/11/29 |
| Glaister, Leslely | Sheer Blue Bliss | 1999 | 2021/11/08 |
| Murphy, Tim | Christodora | 2015 | 2020/12/28 |
| Oyeyemi, Helen | The Icarus Girl | 2005 | 2020/11/30 |
| McGahern, John | Amongst Women | 1990 | 2020/11/09 |
| Carter, Angela | Wise Children | 1991 | 2020/08/31 |
| Maxwell,William | So Long, See You Tomorrow | 1979 | 2020/08/03 |
| Diski, Jenny | Skating to Antarctica | 1997 | 2020/05/30 |
| Dos Passos, Jon | U. S. A. | 1930-36 | 2020/05/18 |
| Blackburn, Julia | The Leper's Companions | 1999 | 2020/04/27 |
| Crace, Jim | Being Dead | 1999 | 2019/11/25 |
| Harrison, Kathryn | The Seal Wife | 2002 | 2019/09/02 |
| Stegner, Wallace | Crossing to Safety | 1987 | 2019/08/05 |
| Michaels, Anne | Fugitive Pieces | 1996 | 2019/04/01 |
| McInerney, Jay | Brightness Falls | 1992 | 2019/01/02 |
| Hoffman, Eva | Lost in Translation | 1989 | 2018/11/12 |
| Mistry, Rohinton | A Fine Balance | 1995 | 2018/10/01 |
| Jensen, Liz | War Crimes for the Home | 2002 | 2018/09/03 |
| Gautreaux, Tim | The Next Step in the Dance | 1998 | 2018/06/04 |
| Olsson, Linda | Astrid and Veronika | 2005 | 2018/02/02 |
| McGahern, John | That They May Face the Rising Sun | 2001 | 2018/01/01 |
| Barrett, Andrea | The Voyage of the Narwhal | 1998 | 2017/11/20 |
| Aslam, Nadeem | Maps for Lost Lovers | 2004 | 2017/10/30 |
| Knox, Elizabeth | The Vintner's Luck | 1999 | 2017/09/25 |
| Meek, James | The People's Act of Love | 2005 | 2017/09/04 |
| Hay, Elizabeth | Late Nights on Air | 2007 | 2017/08/07 |
| Arnott, Jake | The Long Firm | 1999 | 2017/06/26 |
| Hamilton, Jane | The Observations | 2006 | 2017/06/05 |
| Haruf, Kent | Plainsong | 1999 | 2017/05/08 |
| Birch, Carol | Jamrach's Menagerie | 2011 | 2017/04/03 |
| Miller, Andrew | Ingenious Pain | 1997 | 2017/03/23 |
| Murakami, Haruki | A Wild Sheep Chase | 1989 | 2017/03/05 |
| Welsh, Louise | The Cutting Room | 2002 | 2017/02/03 |
| Crummey, Michael | River Thieves | 2001 | 2017/01/13 |
| Dunmore, Helen | Talking to the Dead | 1996 | 2016/12/05 |
| Malouf, David | Remembering Babylon | 1993 | 2016/11/14 |
| Hustvedt, Siri | What I Loved | 2003 | 2016/10/31 |
| Carr, Caleb | The Alienist | 1994 | 2016/10/03 |
| Donovan, Anne | Buddha Da | 2003 | 2016/09/02 |
| Auster, Paul | The New York Trilogy | 1985-86 | 2016/08/08 |
| McDermott, Alice | Charming Billy | 1998 | 2016/07/07 |
| Norman, Howard | The Bird Artist | 1994 | 2016/06/06 |
| McGregor, Jon | So Many Ways to Begin | 2006 | 2016/05/11 |