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Authors - C:

• CAIN, James M.:
  • The Butterfly (B-)
  • Double Indemnity (A)
  • Love's Lovely Counterfeit (B+)
  • Mildred Pierce (B)
  • The Postman always Rings Twice (A-)
  • Serenade (B)
  • Sinful Woman (B)
• CALDERÓN de la Barca, Pedro: Life Is a Dream (A)
• CALLOW, Simon: The Night of the Hunter (B+)
• CAMBACERES, Eugenio: Pot Pourri (B+)
• CANETTI, Elias: Party im Blitz (B+)
• CANOBBIO, Andrea: The Natural Disorder of Things (B)
• CAO Xueqin:
  • The Story of The Stone (A+)
  • See also: Ideal and Actual in The Story of the Stone (B), Dore J. LEVY
• [CAPPELLANI, Ottavio: Who is Lou Sciortino ?]
• CAREY, Peter:
  • His Illegal Self (B+)
  • My Life As a Fake (B+)
  • Theft (B+)
  • True History of the Kelly Gang (B)
  • The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith (B)
  • Wrong About Japan (B)
• CARLEY, James P.: The Books of King Henry VIII and his Wives (-)
• CARLOTTO, Massimo:
  • Death's Dark Abyss (B+)
  • The Fugitive (B)
  • The Goodbye Kiss (B+)
• CAROFIGLIO, Gianrico:
  • Involuntary Witness (B)
  • A Walk in the Dark (B)
• CARPENTER, Humphrey: Dennis Potter (B)
• CARRÈRE, Emmanuel:
  • The Adversary (A-)
  • I am Alive and You are Dead (B)
• CARROLL, Jonathan:
  • Glass Soup (B-)
  • The Marriage of Sticks (B+)
  • White Apples (B)
  • The Wooden Sea (C)
• CARTER, Angela: Shaking a Leg (B)
• CARTER, Stephen L.: The Emperor of Ocean Park (B)
• CARTWRIGHT, Justin:
  • Leading the Cheers (B)
  • The Promise of Happiness (A-)
• CASANOVA, Pascale: The World Republic of Letters (A-)
• CASTI, John L.:
  • The Cambridge Quintet (C-)
  • Gödel (B+) (with Werner DePauli)
• CAUTY, Jimmy:
  • The Manual (with Bill Drummond) (B+)
  • See also: K Foundation burn a Million Quid (A), Chris Brook,ed.
• CAVES, Richard E.: Creative Industries (B+)
• CELAN, Paul: Romanian Poems (B+)
• CELATI, Gianni: Adventures in Africa (B)
• CÉLINE, Louis-Ferdinand: Conversations with Professor Y (A-)
• CERCAS, Javier:
  • Soldiers of Salamis (B+)
  • The Speed of Light (B+)
• CHACEL, Rosa:
  • Estación. Ida y vuelta. (B+)
  • Memoirs of Leticia Valle (B+)
• CHANDRA, Vikram: Sacred Games (B+)
• CHANG Hsi-Kuo :
  • The City Trilogy (B)
    • I. Five Jade Disks (B)
    • II. Defenders of the Dragon City (B-)
    • III. Tale of a Feather (B-)
• CHANG Ta-Chun:
  • My Kid Sister (B+)
  • Wild Child (B)
  • See also: Wild Kids (B)
• CHARITON: Callirhoe (B+)
• CHATTERJEE, Upamanyu:
  • See the complete review's Upamanyu Chatterjee page
  • English, August (A-)
  • The Last Burden (A-)
  • The Mammaries of the Welfare State (B+)
• CHAUDHURI, Amit:
  • A New World (B)
  • Real Time (B)
• CHAVARRÍA, Daniel:
  • Adios Muchachos (B+)
  • [Tango for a Torturer]
• CHETTRI, Lil Bahadur: Mountains Painted with Turmeric (B+)
• CHINODYA, Shimmer:
  • Chairman of Fools (B)
  • Strife (B)
• CHIRBES, Rafael:
  • Los disparos del Cazador (B)
  • La buena letra (B)
  • Mimoun (B)
• CHRISTENSEN, Inger: alphabet (B+)
• CHRISTENSEN, Lars Saabye:
  • Beatles (B+)
  • Bly (B)
  • The Half Brother (A-)
  • Jokeren (B)
• CHRISTIANSEN, Rupert: The Voice of Victorian Sex (B+)
• CHRISTIANSON, John Robert: On Tycho's Island (B)
• CHU T'ien-hsin: The Old Capital (B+)
• CHUNG, Ook: L'Expérience interdite (B)
• CLAPP, Nicholas: Sheba (B)
• CLARKE, Susanna: Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell (A-)
• CLARO: Electric Flesh (B)
• CLAUDEL, Philippe: Grey Souls (US title: By a Slow River) (A-)
• CLAUS, Hugo:
  • Desire (B+)
  • Greetings (B+)
  • The Sorrow of Belgium (A)
  • The Swordfish (B)
• CLEAVE, Chris: Incendiary (C-)
• COE, Jonathan:
  • See the complete review's Jonathan Coe page
  • The Accidental Woman (B-)
  • The Closed Circle (B+)
  • The Dwarves of Death (B)
  • The House of Sleep (A-)
  • Like a Fiery Elephant (A)
  • The Rain before it Falls (B+)
  • The Rotters' Club (B+)
  • A Touch of Love (B+)
  • What a Carve Up ! (also The Winshaw Legacy) (A-)
• COETZEE, J.M.:
  • Diary of a Bad Year (A-)
  • Disgrace (A-)
  • Elizabeth Costello (A-)
  • Life & Times of Michael K (B)
  • Slow Man (A)
  • Stranger Shores (B)
• CONDON, Richard: The Manchurian Candidate (B)
• CONNOLLY, Cyril: The Unquiet Grave (A-)
• CONSTANT, Paule:
  • The Governor's Daughter (B+)
  • White Spirit (A-)
• COPE, Julian:
  • Head-On (memoirs 1976-82) (B+)
  • Repossessed (memoirs 1983-89) (B)
  • The Modern Antiquarian (A-)
• CORLISS, Richard: Lolita (A-)
• CORTÁZAR, Julio:
  • Autonauts of the Cosmoroute (A-) (with Carol Dunlop)
  • Cronopios and Famas (A-)
  • Diary of Andrés Fava (B)
  • Final Exam (B+)
  • Hopscotch (A)
• COUPERUS, Louis:
  • Ecstasy (B)
  • The Hidden Force (A-)
  • Inevitable (B+)
  • Psyche (A-)
• COWEN, Tyler:
  • Creative Destruction (B)
  • In Praise of Commercial Culture (B)
  • What Price Fame ? (B)
• COZARINSKY, Edgardo: Borges in/and/on Film (B)
• CRACE, Jim: Six (B+) (US title: Genesis)
• CRARY, Jonathan: Suspensions of Perception (B-)
• CREWS, Frederick: Postmodern Pooh (B)
• CRICHTON, Michael: Prey (B-)
• CUSHING, James T.: Philosophical Concepts in Physics (B+)

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