The books I read in May were: Cat and Mouse by James Patterson; The Cashmere Shawl by Rosie Thomas; The Lighthouse by Alison Moore; (Man Booker Runner-up) The killing hour by Lisa Gardner; Swimming Home by Deborah Levy; (Man Booker Runner-up) Resurrection men by Ian Rankin; The Husband by Dean Kootz; A Question of Guilt by Frances Biffield; The Warriors Princess by Barbara Erskine; For me none of these books were particularly outstanding and I gave up on the two Man Booker Runner-ups. The Cashmere Shawl proved much better than its synopsis suggested, however, and gave an insight into life in Cashmere with some good descriptive narrative. Alison