‘A good read’ – My recommended books
LOOKING FOR a really good holiday read, or one for bedtime?
Here are the books I have enjoyed most during the last few years, and would really recommend to you. Read good literature and it will improve your writing …
Fiction
Along the Enchanted Way, by William Blacker
Room, by Emma Donoghue
Snow Falling on Cedars, by David Guterson
Stoner, by John Williams
Waterland, by Jonathan Swift
We Need New Names, by Violet Bulawayo
Non-fiction
A Life Like Other People’s, by Alan Bennett
A Little History of the World, by Ernst Gombrich
Agent Zig Zag, by Ben Macintyre
The Boy with the Topknot, by Sathnam Sanghera
Red Dust Road, by Jackie Kay
Toast, by Nigel Slater
Why Be Happy When You can be Normal, by Jeanette Winterson
Old Classics
Burmese Days, by George Orwell
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, by Muriel Spark
The Spy Who Came in from The Cold, by John le Carre
Staying On, by Paul Scott
The Go-Between, by L P Hartley
Three Men in a Boat, by Jerome K Jerome
Troubles, by J G Farrell
Happy Reading!