Today is ‘National Book Lovers Day’ – why not make time today to really lose yourself in a favourite book, or give someone you love a book as a gift? Seek out an independent bookshop or a second-hand bookshop, and have a really good nose around. Nothing else gets close when it comes to creating a portal for your imagination and building connections in your mind. I owe pretty much everything about who I am and what I do to books. Here’s my classic top 10, in no particular order: enjoy …
- ‘Bleak House’ (Charles Dickens)
- ‘Ethan Frome’ (Edith Wharton)
- ‘Brave New World’ (Aldous Huxley)
- ‘The Quiet American’ (Graham Greene)
- ‘Quartet’ (Jean Rhys)
- ‘Persuasion’ (Jane Austen)
- ‘A Clockwork Orange’ (Anthony Burgess)
- ‘Stoner’ (John Williams)
- ‘His Dark Materials’ (Philip Pullman)
- ‘The Portrait of a Lady’ (Henry James)