Originally Posted by
Graham Breeze
Most of my books are about fine art, history, music, cinema, science or literature but in terms of novels when I was young I studied Scott Fitzgerald and Hemingway.
I have read a lot of classic literature. I think my "favourite" books would be Anna Karenina (Tolstoy), Middlemarch (Eliot) and Madame Bovary (Flaubert); the latter is probably my favourite about the “human condition”.
But I have also read Mankell, I always buy Ian McEwan and I think Julian Barnes' The Sense of an Ending is profound.
On my next holiday I will read Daniel Deronda (Eliot), Mansfield Park (Austen) and, for very light relief, the collected Hannay novels of John Buchan.