39 Books: 1996
It's a commonplace that in reading novels one can escape the ravages of time. In 1994, I borrow…
It's a commonplace that in reading novels one can escape the ravages of time. In 1994, I borrow…
Looking over the list of books read over a decade, it becomes clear that each book came too early o…
Given that my undergraduate degree was in Philosophy, it may seem odd that this the first book of p…
I've written about Gert Hofmann's novels a few times, most recently Veilchenfeld ( Our Phi…
Poetry is a notable absence in my book lists. I assumed at this time that because novels excited my…
One the first books I found in a bookshop* upon moving to Brighton was Rosalind Belben's novel …
The first book I read in the 39 years of this series was a genre thriller, and I've read only …
Nowadays I would be put off reading a book labelled controversial and exciting gossipy attention o…
This is one of my most surprising discoveries in second-hand bookshop trawls in the far off days wh…
From two books in the first year of reading and twenty-four in the second, I read eighty-six in the…
In my second year of reading, I read four novels by DM Thomas, beginning with his most famous, The …
The first novel I read was Twice Shy by Dick Francis, reportedly the Queen Mother's favourite …
In 1985, I read two books. The following year I read a lot more, and it was then I began to keep a …