Monday, 30 March 2015

Time Magazine's Top 100 Novels

This list is of course extremely subjective. Some novels, I literally cannot understand why they are even in the list ( For example, 'Death comes for the Archbishop'-How hard going is that? Perhaps, you have to be a Catholic to appreciate it?), but equally there have been some fantastic discoveries. Out of the 40 books I've read so far, the following now have a special place on my bookcase. More prominent even then my George Eliot books. Yes, even them.

The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter
Lucky Jim
Never Let Me Go
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
The Spy Who Came In From The Cold
Ubik

Monday, 9 March 2015

South West Coastal Path

I spent the past week walking along the beautiful South West Coastal Path, starting at Ilfracombe and making my way NW as far as the Great Hangman. At 1,043 feet (318 m) high with a cliff face of 800 feet (244 m) the Great Hangman is the highest sea cliff in England.