My Favourite Bookshelf

“I really think you had better come and stop with me for a little time,” said the Rat.

Any time we spend with Johnson is time well spent.

Your first Shakespeare is always special.

If you feel the world is becoming too serious and the evening news too miserable, pick up this book, which has not been out of print since it was first published in 1889.

Catherine Morland is the most endearing and attractive of all Jane Austen’s heroines.

This little book has had the English laughing at themselves for years. Laugh with them!

Let James Herriot take you to north Yorkshire, where the winters are hard. Read about his life with Siegfried and Tristan and their triumphs and disasters as country vets.

All Hollywood romcoms are surpassed by the opening act of this play.

The translations into contemporary English by J.R.R.Tolkien or Simon Armitage will open up the world of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.

I don’t think I am alone in going back to the William stories from time to time. He has certainly not been forgotten!