My Six Best Books

A Life Of Picasso Volume III : The Triumphant Years, 1917-1932 by John Richardson

Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

Andy Warhol-From A to B and Back Again by Donna De Salvo

Animal Farm by George Orwell

Any Human Heart by William Boyd

Art of Happiness : A Handbook for Living by Dalai Lama XIV, Howard C. Cutler

Assassin of Verona by Benet Brandreth

Atomised by Michel Houellebecq

Best of The Oldie Cartoons 1992-2018

Blackberry Wine by Joanne Harris

Bossypants by Tina Fey

Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee : An Indian History of the American West by Dee Brown

Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

Catherine the Great : Portrait of a Woman by Robert K. Massie

Chocky by John Wyndham

Cooking For Fitness : Eat Smart, Train Better by James Haskell, Omar Meziane

Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon

Days Of Abandonment by Elena Ferrante

Days Without End by Sebastian Barry

Denial of Death by Ernest Becker

Dictator by Robert Harris

Diving-Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby

Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell

Down Under : Travels in a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson

Flowers For Algernon by Daniel Keyes

Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger

From Russia with Love by Ian Fleming

Game of Life and How to Play It by Florence Scovel Shinn

Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson

Glass Bead Game by Hermann Hesse

Great Gatsby by F.Scott Fitzgerald

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J.K. Rowling

His Dark Materials : Gift Edition including all three novels: Northern Light, The Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman

Hunger by Knut Hamsun

I Feel Bad About My Neck : And Other Thoughts On Being a Woman by Nora Ephron

In Spite Of The Gods : The Strange Rise of Modern India by Edward Luce

Incredible Adventures of Professor Branestawm by Norman Hunter

Le Morte D'Arthur Volume 1 by Sir Thomas Malory

Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

Longitude by Dava Sobel

Lust For Life by Irving Stone

Ma'am Darling : 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret by Craig Brown

Mythos : The Greek Myths Retold by Stephen Fry

Napoleon the Great by Andrew Roberts

Now That You're Back by A.L. Kennedy

On the Road by Jack Kerouac

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

POP. 1280 by Jim Thompson

Postcards From the Edge by Carrie Fisher

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Quest for Queen Mary by James Pope-Hennessy, Hugo Vickers

Reasons to Stay Alive by Matt Haig

Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier

Sapiens : A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari

Schindler's Ark by Thomas Keneally

Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts

Shell Seekers by Rosamunde Pilcher

So You've Been Publicly Shamed by Jon Ronson

Splendours and Miseries: The Roy Strong Diaries, 1967-87 by Roy Strong

Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John Le Carre

Stella Adler : The Art of Acting by Howard Kissel

Straw Dogs by John Gray

The Idiot by Elif Batuman

The Long Song by Andrea Levy
Re-Printing January 2019

The Outsider by Albert Camus

Think Like a Lawyer Don't Act Like One by Aernoud Bourdrez

Tiny Beautiful Things : Advice on Love and Life from Someone Who's Been There by Cheryl Strayed

Ulysses by James Joyce

Vivien Leigh : A Biography by Anne Edwards

Where Eagles Dare by Alistair MacLean

Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte