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Favourite reads and other cultural highlights

	War and Peace (Wordsworth Classics) by L.N. Tolstoy Buy new: £1.99 / Used from: £0.01 Quite simply unforgettable
	Anna Karenina (Penguin Classics) by Leo Tolstoy Buy new: £5.37 / Used from: £2.99 Read it again and again. Moved me beyond words
	Resurrection (Oxford World's Classics) by Leo Tolstoy Buy new: £8.09 / Used from: £1.51 Magnificent
	Remembrance of Things Past: v. 1 (Twentieth Century Classics) by Marcel Proust Buy used from: £0.83 This and all the subsequent volumes form a great reading experience. Superb.
	Clarissa, or The History of a Young Lady (Classics) by Samuel Richardson Buy new: £13.48 / Used from: £9.50 Wonderful - passionate - immensely involving. A classic.
	Cannery Row (Penguin Modern Classics) by John Steinbeck Buy new: £5.20 / Used from: £0.19 A beautiful work. I will keep my copy forever.
	A Scots Quair: "Sunset Song", "Cloud Howe" and "Grey Granite" (Canongate Classics) by Lewis Grassic Gibbon Buy used from: £0.01 Stunned and moved me beyond description. The first one in the series is the best.
	Raj Quartet by Paul Scott Buy used from: £18.40 Endlessly fascinating. Writing straight out of the top drawer.
	Staying on by Paul Scott Buy new: £5.98 / Used from: £1.12 A gem. Marvellous characters
	Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler Buy new: £5.19 / Used from: £0.01 Have never been disappointed by this writer. This is probably the best I have read so far.
	The Heather Blazing by Colm Toibin Buy new: £4.82 / Used from: £0.01 Wonderful stylist. Fine sense of atmosphere
	Small Island by Andrea Levy Buy new: £4.40 / Used from: £0.01 Brilliantly presented characters - narrated with complete conviction. On the same level as Paul Scott
	Mister Johnson by Joyce Cary Buy used from: £0.73 A dream of a book. Heart rending.
	Days Of Heaven [1979] [DVD] Buy new: £3.98 / Used from: £2.99 One of the most beautiful of all films by a cinematic master
	The Thin Red Line [1999] [DVD] Buy new: £3.98 / Used from: £0.90 All other war films give way to this lyrical - unbearably poignant poem on celluloid
	The New World [DVD] [2005] Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £2.29 Could happily see it again and again. Its star will never dim
	The Kenneth Williams Diaries by Kenneth Williams Buy new: £9.71 / Used from: £0.01 Endlessly fascinating. Wonderful picture of thespian life. What a comic genius
	The Painted Veil (Vintage Classics) by W. Somerset Maugham Buy new: £5.08 / Used from: £0.39 One of the most perfect masterpieces I have ever encountered. Something to treasure throughout my life
	While the Sun Shines by John Harding Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £0.01 A book of rare charm and spontaneity. This is writing at its most genuine and clear sighted
	One Big Damn Puzzler by John Harding Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 Very inventive, full of life. This is a joy to read and fully confirms this author's exceptional gifts.