12 Black Rabbit Hall. Family drama set over generations of one family living in the hall and another young woman/couple coming across the hall in later years.
It's not brilliantly literary writing or characterisation (the modern-day woman is particularly cliched and sketchily drawn IMO) but the story is compelling. Loss, guilt, family tensions...
13 The Raven's Head, Karen Maitland. A medieval apprentice librarian, on the run with a mysterious silver raven's head. He becomes involved with a powerful and quite possibly mad alchemist and some dubious monks, the White Canons, who are trying to use their art to achieve the seemingly impossible...
This was not fabulously written and for my money meandered a bit too long before getting to the real meat of the story. But I liked the detail of the alchemists' activities.
14 Uprooted: On the Trail of the Green Man, Nina Lyon. Non-fiction on the history/lore of the Green Man and the author's attempts to reinvigorate his cult. She is a supremely annoying writer/narrator, IMO: arch and self-aware to a fault, a bit in love with how 'eccentric' and bohemian her life and friends are; overly fond of dropping smug little hints about her wild youth, and prone to leaving sentences and subjects dangling vaguely to the point where I quite often just didn't follow the point she was trying to make. On the plus side, she meets some funny and interesting people and, if you're keen on the Green Man and associated subjects, as I am, that side of it is fascinating.
15 The Year of the Runaways, Sunjeev Sahota. Follows the intertwined lives of three immigrants from India to the UK and one British Indian woman. They all behave in ways that could sometimes seem incomprehensible, were it not for the way the author shows clearly and convincingly where they're coming from and what is in their lives and histories to explain their actions. Eye-opening, morally complex, moving, sometimes horrifying, anger-inducing... This is both a gripping gripping read and a seriously important book. Read it.