Member KayCliff

Real Name

Hazel Kathleen Bell

About My Library

My books come from many sources: inherited from various relatives, purchased at university and retained, sent to me for indexing (some of these published copies given to me, others sets of proofs retained), bought through the years (many at library sales or in second-hand bookshops or charity shops).
Many of my reviews consider the indexes of the books in question.

About Me

I index books professionally, as well as reading them constantly in my leisure time, and sometimes writing and publishing them. I have compiled detailed indexes to all the fiction of A. S. Byatt, and simpler cumulative indexes to the Starbridge novels and St Benet's novels by Susan Howatch, The Lampitt Papers sequence by A. N. Wilson, eight novels by J. L. Carr, and to all the novels of Molly Keane, Alison Lurie, Iris Murdoch, Barbara Pym and Angela Thirkell.

Location

Hatfield, Herts, England

Homepage

http://www.aidanbell.com/html/hkbell.htm

Favorite Authors

Peter Ackroyd, Diana Athill, Kate Atkinson, Dorothy Baker, Julian Barnes, Max Beerbohm, Alan Bennett, Arnold Bennett, John Betjeman, Edward Blishen, Alain de Botton, Elizabeth Bowen, Caryl Brahms, A. S. Byatt, Peter Carey, J. L. Carr, Tracy Chevalier, Wilkie Collins, Ivy Compton-Burnett, Robertson Davies, Colin Dexter, Jane Dorner, George Eliot, Alice Thomas Ellis, E. M. Forster, Michael Frayn, W. Gordon Graham, Philippa Gregory, Helene Hanff, Sophie Hannah, L. P. Hartley, Shirley Hazzard, Catherine Heath, William S. Heckscher, Jean Hegland, Susan Hill, Winifred Holtby, Elizabeth Jane Howard, Susan Howatch, M. V. Hughes, Kazuo Ishiguro, Rosemary Hawley Jarman, Molly Keane, Barbara Kingsolver, Angela Lambert, Marghanita Laski, Harper Lee, Rosamond Lehmann, Doris Lessing, Bernard Levin, Penelope Lively, David Lodge, Alison Lurie, Rose Macaulay, Kay Macaulife, Hilary Mantel, Ian McEwan, Nancy Mitford, Iris Murdoch, Vladimir Nabokov, Audrey Niffenegger, Lawrence Norfolk, Ian Norrie, Anthony Powell, Barbara Pym, Frederic Raphael, William Shakespeare, Annette Stannett, Mary Stott, John Sutherland, Graham Swift, Donna Tartt, Josephine Tey, Angela Thirkell, Salley Vickers, Rebecca West, A. N. Wilson, Jeremy Wilson, P. G. Wodehouse, Virginia Woolf, E. H. Young

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