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the shells she sells are sea-shells, I’m sure.
One of my favourite writers is due to host a workshop in my local library this week.
I thought I would like to go.
But then I had a horrible thought.
What if I thought he was a prat?
What if I found his voice grating?
What if I just didn’t like the way he walked?
That would spoil his fiction and poetry forever.
I’d never be able to read another line of his without being reminded.
It’s so silly, I know.
What a wasted opportunity, the reasonable me tells myself.
But still. I can’t help it. Books shouldn’t be confused with personalities.
Possession, by As Byatt
Angels and Insects, by AS Byatt
The Djinn in the nightingale’s eye, by A S Byatt.
Jack Maggs, by Peter Carey
Oscar and Lucinda, by Peter Carey
Theft, by Peter Carey
Fingersmith, by Sarah Waters
The Nightwatch, by Sarah Waters
The Time Traveler’s Wife, by Audrey Niffenegger
Dora Damage, by Belinda Starling
On Chesil Beach, by Ian McEwan
Attonement, by Ian McEwan
The Colour, by Rose Tremain
A Winter Book, by Tove Jansson
Summer Book, by Tove Jansson
The Crimson Petal and the White, by Michel Faber
The Apple, by Michel Faber
The Love of Stones, by Tobias Hill
The Cryptographer, by Tobias Hill
Suite Francaise, by Irene Nemirovsky
The Farenheit Twins, by Michel Faber
His Illegal Self, by Peter Carey
The Steep Appraoch to Garbadale, by Iain Banks
Englyby, by Sebastian Faulks
Swithering, by Robin Robertson
The Blind Assassin, by Margaret Atwood
Oryx and Crake, by Margaret Atwood
Alias Grace, by Margaret Atwood
Music and Silence, by Rose Tremain
Restoration, by Rose Tremain
Runaway, by Alice Munro
Dance of the Happy Shades, by Alice Munro
Bookbinding by Hand, by Laurence Town
Victorian London, by Liza Picard
Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage, by Alice Munro
A Dyer’s Manual, by Jill Goodwin
Alice in Exhile, by Piers Paul Reid
The Love of a Good Woman, by Allice Munro
Once, by Alice Walker
Crocodile Soup, by Julia Darling
The taxi Driver’s Daughter, by Julia Darling
Winter Trees, by Sylvia Plath
The Colossuss, by Sylvia Plath
Horses make the Lanscape look more beautiful, by Alice Walker
Serious Concerns, by Wendy Cope
Making Tea for Kingsley Amis, by Wendy Cope
Crow, by Ted Hughes
The Birthday Letters, by Ted Hughes
Ice Cream, by Helen Dunmore
Love of fat Men, by Helen Dunmore
The Seige, by Helen Dunmore
Babel Tower, by A S Byatt
Lighthouskeeping, by Jeanette Winterson
Brother of the More Famous Jack, by Barbara Trapido
The Age of Reason, by Jean Paul Sartre
Bel Canto, by Ann Patchett
Property, by Valerie Martin
The Idea of Perfection, by Kate Grenville
The Secret River, by Kate Grenville
Frenchman’s Creek, by Daphne du Maurier
The English Patient, by Michael Ondaatje
Anil’s Ghost, by Michael Ondaatje
The Piano Tuner, by Daniel Mason
The God of Small Things, by Arandhati Roy
The Ventriloquist’s Tale, by Pauline Melville
Beloved, by Toni Morrison
The Blackwater Lightship, by Colm Tóibín
The Art of Fiction, by David Lodge
Nineteen Eighty Four, by George Orwell
No Plot? No Problem! by Chris Baty
Cloud Atlas, by David Mitchell
Black Swan Green, by David MItchell
The Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady, by Edith Holden
The Finishing School, by Muriel Spark
Tales from Ovid, by Ted Hughes
From the Beast to The Blonde, by Marina Warner
Border Crossing, by Pat Barker
Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov
With your Crooked Heart, by Helen Dunmore
Enduring Love, by Ian McEwan
A Month in The Country, by J.L .Carr
Hotel World, by Ali Smith
Roget’s Thesauarus
Longitude, by Dava Sobel
A Voyage to the South, Len Tabner
Paula Rego, by John McEwen
Margaret Mee’s Amazon
Edward Thomas, Selected Poems. Bloomsbury
Teach Yourself Typewriting, Pitman’s College. 1964
Interpreter of Maladies, by Jhumpa Lahiri
What ot Look for in Summer, by E.L. Grant Waton. Illus. by C.F. Tunnicliffe, R.A
The Matisse Stories, by A.S. Byatt
Life Class, by Pat Barker
Midnight’s Children, by Salman Rushdie
East, West, by Salman Rushdie
Anna Karenina, by Leo Tolstoy
Captain Corelli’s Mandolin, by Louis de Bernieres
Oranges are not the only fruit, by Jeanette Winterson
