Uploaded November 2025 | Updated September 2026, 14 hours ago

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In which I muse over my sixty years of reading fiction.

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Books discussed:

Stories from Hans Andersen selected by Philippa Pearce

Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder

The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

Stark by Ben Elton

Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks

The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood

Small Island by Andrea Levy

The Birth of Venus by Sarah Dunnant

Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell

My Sister the Serial Killer by Oyinken Braithwaite

Prophet Song by Paul Lynch