I’m not a fast reader these days, so I only get through between 25 and 30 books a year. I have a to-read bookcase of about 120 books which never seems to diminish, thanks to those few writers whose next book I always have to buy, my publisher giving me books, friends giving me their [...]

It’s getting on to the end of that time of year when people make lists of top ten books for the year. Last year I posted one, but because I’d only read ten books that year those ten were what it contained. I read a lot more books in 2011: twenty-eight plus six of my [...]