Books

Book list             * signifies a favourite

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• Derek Jarman’s Garden – Derek Jarman
• The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
• The Use Of The Self – F.M. Alexander
• Atlas of Remote Islands – Judith Schalansky
• Northern Lights – Philip Pullman
• Siddhartha – Hermann Hesse
• The Snow Goose – Paul Gallico
• Cider With Rosie – Laurie Lee
• The Old Man and The Sea – Ernest Hemingway
• Jonathan Livingston Seagull – Richard Bach
• The Metamorphosis and Other Stories – Franz Kafka
• On The Road – Jack Kerouac
• The Planets – Dava Sobel
• Symbolists and Decadents – John Milner
• The Doors of Perception – Aldous Huxley
• The Tao of Physics – Fritjof Capra *
• Don Quixote – Cervantes
• Three Tragedies – Federico García Lorca
• Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
• A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry *
• The Audacity of Hope – Barack Obama
• Picasso, 80 Colour Plates – Dolphin
• Toulouse-Lautrec – Collins Pocket Library
• Herbalism – Christopher Robbins
• The Primal Revolution – Arthur Janov
• As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning – Laurie Lee *
• Burmese Days – George Orwell
• A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Shakespeare
• The Idiot – Fyodor Dostoevsky *
• Duende: A journey in search of Flamenco – Jason Webster
• The Symposium – Plato
• Travels – Michael Crichton
• Homage to Catalonia – George Orwell
• Notes from the Underground – Fyodor Dostoevsky
• Brave New World – Aldous Huxley *
• The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde
• Letters to a Young Poet – Rainer Maria Rilke *
• Worlds in Collision – Immanuel Velikovsky
• The God of Small Things – Aundhati Roy
• Great Expectations – Charles Dickens *
• The Prince – Niccolo Machiavelli
• Modern Poets Three – Faber
• Chronicles Vol.1 – Bob Dylan *
• Faust – Goethe
• The Death of Ivan Iliych – Leo Tolstoy
• Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky
• Introducing Existentialism – Richard Appignanesi
• Sophie’s World – Jostein Gaarder
• A Passage to India – E. M. Forster
• The Age of Kali – William Dalrymple
• Wild Swans – Jung Chang
• The Art of Happiness – H. C. Cutler & The 14th Dalai Lama *
• Lost Horizon – James Hilton
• Return to Tibet – Heinrich Harrer
• Catch 22 – Joseph Heller
• To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
• The Inheritance of Loss – Kiran Desai
• Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
• Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie *
• The Zahir – Paulo Coelho
• Leaf by Niggle – J.R.R. Tolkien
• Brick Lane – Monica Ali
• The Lost World of the Kalahari – Laurens Van Der Post
• Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell *
• Coming up for Air – George Orwell
• For Whom The Bell Tolls – Ernest Hemingway
• Seven Years in Tibet – Heinrich Harrer *
• Touching the Void – Joe Simpson
• Down and Out in Paris and London – George Orwell *
• The Alchemist – Paulo Coelho
• Supernature – Lyall Watson *
• One Hundred Years Of Solitude – Gabriel García Márquez
• Animal Farm – George Orwell
• Life of Pi – Yann Martel
• The Road to Wigan Pier – George Orwell