Books
In no particular order, my favourite books, authors and poets:
Need For The Bike (Besoin de velo) – Paul Fournel (trans. Allan Stoekl)
Jean de Florette/Manon des Souces – Marcel Pagnol (trans. WE van Heyningen)
La Gloire de Mon Pere/Le Chateau de Ma Mere – Marcel Pagnol (trans. Rita Barisse)
The Hobbit/The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkein
The Cruel Sea – Nicholas Monsarrat
Das Boot – Lothar-Gunther Buchheim
The Ode Less Travelled – Stephen Fry
Beowulf – Anon. (trans. Seamus Heaney)
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight – Anon. (trans. Simon Armitage)
The Adventures of Robin Hood – Roger Lancelyn Green
Shakespeare – Bill Bryson
Biggles Learns to Fly – Capt WE Johns
The Rider – Tim Krabbe
Brat Farrar – Josephine Tey
Somme/1914/They Called It Passchendaele – Lyn Macdonald
The Dam Busters/The Great Escape – Paul Brickhill
The Day of the Jackal – Frederick Forsyth
Basket Case/Native Tongue – Carl Hiaasen
Winterdance – Gary Paulsen
Pride & Prejudice – Jane Austen
Hey, Cowboy, Wanna Get Lucky? – Baxter Black
Seabiscuit – Laura Hillenbrand
The Hour – Michael Hutchinson
The Thirty-Nine Steps – John Buchan
Touching The Void – Joe Simpson
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance – Robert M Pirsig
PG Wodehouse
William Shakespeare
Robert Frost
John Masefield
Seamus Heaney
William Barnes
Thomas Hardy
John Clare
Norman MacCaig
Henning Mankell – the Wallander series
A Horseman Riding By – R F Delderfield
If you had to narrow this list down to just two books – which would they be? Chloe
ooops…or authors or poets!!!
Wow. Um…I think one of them would have to be Marcel Pagnol. Jean de Florette and Manon des Sources are as close to perfection as I’ve ever read, in terms of their plots, characters, settings and drama. And a world without Shakespeare would be – well, not much of a world really. back at you: what two books/authors/poets would you take to a desert island?
Now you’ve asked me the same question, I’ve realised how difficult the answer is! My answer might be a bit non-standard, but for me, I’d be quite happy if I were to be stranded on an island with JK Rowling and Dean Koontz. JK Rowling totally inspires me, plus I can relate to her a lot, and I’d love to write a novel one day similar to the ones Dean writes. Have a great day!! Chloe