Kim Hutson asked me to make a list of ten books that have made an impression on me. I obeyed most of these rules: dont think too much about it and dont pretend youve read “Midnights Children”. I’ve chosen to draw the list from before my early twenties, so no room for Iain M Banks, Suzanne Collins, Mal Peet, Elizabeth Wein... Therefore, witness the weight of my philistinism... 1) The Cruel Sea – Nicholas Monsarrat 2) The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkein 3) One Hundred and One Dalmatians – Dodie Smith 4) The Phantom Tollbooth – Norton Juster 5) Watership Down – Richard Adams 6) Firefox Down – Craig Thomas 7) The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams 8) Sharpe’s Eagle – Bernard Cornwell 9) 1984 – George Orwell 10) Anne of Green Gables – L M Montgomery 11) Danny The Champion of the World – Roald Dahl I tag some writers, who lets face it, have probably done this already. Clare Furniss, Andy Killeen, Alison Padley-Woods, Zoe Boyd-Clack, Claire Wetton, Lorraine Cannell... What?
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