Books and authors I like
Here's a list of books and authors I've especially enjoyed reading. If there
are books here that you like, there's a fair chance you may also enjoy the
books I write.
I'll add more to this list from time to time. If you've read a book that
isn't here that you think I might like, contact me
and tell me about it.
- Poul Anderson, The Broken Sword
- Guy Gavriel Kay, The Lions of Al-Rassan. Review
- Richard Adams, Watership Down
- Dorothy Parker
- CS Forester, Hornblower series
- JRR Tolkien
- Daphne du Maurier
- Nicholas Monsarrat, The Cruel Sea
- TH White, The Once and Future King. More
- Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
- Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones's Diary
- Bernard Cornwell
- Jane Austen
- Colleen Mc Cullough, First Man in Rome series, The Song of Troy
- Robert Harris, Pompeii. Review
- Dorothy L Sayers, especially the Lord Peter Wimsey mysteries
- Julian Rathbone, The Last English King
- Rudyard Kipling
- Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
- George Eliot
- Terry Pratchett, Discworld series
- John Buchan
- H Rider Haggard
- Baroness Orczy, The Scarlet Pimpernel
- Dorothy Dunnett, King Hereafter. More
- George MacDonald Fraser, The Candlemas Road. More
- Robert Graves, I. Claudius, Claudius the God, Count Belisarius
- Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes stories, The Lost World
- PG Wodehouse
- Sharon Penman
- Alfred Duggan, The Little Emperors. Review
- Edith Pargeter, A Bloody Field by Shrewsbury
- Njal's Saga, translated by Magnus Magnusson and Hermann Palsson
