about me

I am a retired lecturer in English Literature. Unable to resist the appeal of coming across new talent, I am here to explore unknown territory and perhaps give some useful advice, here and there. I shall not respond to requests to read (I always leave cold-callers hanging) but if I come across work that moves me I may comment. My days of detailed analysis are, thankfully, over!

favourite books

No specific genre, my tastes are catholic:-
The works of Charles Dickens
Ditto Shakespeare, Graham Greene and D.H.Lawrence
‘The Canterbury Tales’ by Geoffrey Chaucer
‘Nice Work’ by David Lodge (close to home!)
‘The Up and Comer’ by Howard Roughan
‘Lolita’ by Vladimir Nabokov
‘Catcher in the Rye’ by J.D.Salinger
‘The Alchemist’ by Paolo Coehlo
‘The Unfortunates’ by B.S.Johnson
‘Dead Air’ by Iain Banks
‘One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
‘The Diary of a Madman’ by Nikolai Gogol
‘Heart of Darkness’ by Joseph Conrad
‘A Room with a View’ by E.M.Forster
‘Wuthering Heights’ by Emily Bronte
‘Cat on a Hot Tin Roof’ by Tennessee Williams
‘Middlemarch’ by George Eliot
‘Of Mice and Men’ by John Steinbeck
‘Jude the Obscure’ by Thomas Hardy
And the rest!

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