Ten favourite books in no particular order!
- One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel Garcia Marquez
City of Broken Promises Austin Coates
Return of The Native Thomas Hardy
Palm Of The Hand Stories Yasunari Kawabata
The Good Soldier Ford Madox Ford
Science and Civilisation in China Joseph Needham
British Botanical and Horticultural Literature before 1800 Blanche Henrey
Explosion in a Cathedral Alejo Carpentier or maybe The Remains of the Day Kazuo Ishiguro!
Short Stories Somerset Maugham
Carmina Catulli Gaius Valerius Catullus
now that is odd; because the list tripped off without much hesitation-apart from the Ishiguro which I added later!. And Ivo Andric's The Bridge on the Drina...which I had forgotten about until an email mentioning Rila reminded me of it! And there is no plavce for it in 10 ..Maybe twelve books would be better?And then twenty! But if you asked who my favourite authors were the list would include Maria Edgeworth, Mrs. Gaskell, Jane Austen, Arlene Chai, Lawrence Sterne, Henry Fielding, Emily Dickinson, Junchiro Tanizaki, various Russians and also Chinese poets too many to enumerate, Stendahl, Jonathan Raban, Henry Thoreau, Colin Thubron, William Dalrymple., the Elizabeth David, Jane Grigson, M.F.K Fisher trio........must do the ones a least like too!
