Who recommends it
- Stathis PsillosInterview
Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis; Thinks … by David Lodge; The Missing Shade of Blue by Jennie Erdal; The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood; The Good Terrorist by Doris Lessing; Auto-da-Fé by Elias Canetti; Capital by Karl Marx; Discourse on Metaphysics by Gottfried Leibniz; and The Age of Extremes by Eric Hobsbawm.
- Alastair HumphreysInterview
The Streets by Mike Skinner (if you like his music). Bill Bryson really makes me laugh. So too Scoop by Evelyn Waugh and Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis. I read The Quiet Soldier by Adam Ballinger a dozen times a decade ago. Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life by William Finnegan will make you want to surf the world. Riddley…
- Paul RussellInterview
Many of the best books that I have read have been sad and/or about difficult times and situations (e.g. Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks). I have enjoyed them but I am happy I am not in them. I suppose that the (harsh) humour of writers such as Kingsley Amis amuse me enough, without being too threatening, for me to be…
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