I like to read poetry in bed, preferably narrative poetry.
Penelope Lively
Penelope Lively is the author of Family Album, her sixteenth novel.
Tales from Ovid by Ted Hughes
I like to read poetry in bed, preferably narrative poetry. I go back to this again and again, for the language, the stories.
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
Lahiri is new to me, but I read her collection of short stories Unaccustomed Earth and was immediately hooked. She has extraordinary narrative drive though not a great deal is happening, and she wonderfully creates an aspect of American immigrant life, with memorable characters.
The Last September by Elizabeth Bowen
I re-read Elizabeth Bowen constantly. The Last September is one of her early novels - an elegiac recreation of life in one of the Anglo-Irish great houses just before the first world war. It is about youth and love - the central character is a teenage girl - but history and violence lurk behind the story, a dark undercurrent.
Monday, 7 September, 2009
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