C. S. Burrough

My Hard Heart: Selected Fiction by Helen Garner My rating:  4 out of 5 stars I loved Helen Garner's style from the time I read with awe ...

The World According to Garp by John Irving My rating:  4 out of 5 stars After rescuing this curled up thirty-plus-year-old paperback from a ...

Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell My rating:  4 out of 5 stars Margaret Mitchell received 38 publishing rejections before the lucky Ma...

The Duchess of Windsor and Other Friends by Diana Mosley My rating:  4 out of 5 stars Writing came naturally to Diana Mitford Mosley, whose ...

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy My rating:  5 out of 5 stars Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina is one of the most gorgeous rides I've had.  T...

The King's Speech: How One Man Saved the British Monarchy by Mark Logue and Peter Conradi My rating:  4 out of 5 stars For history buffs...

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens  My rating:  5 out of 5 stars Without a doubt my favourite Dickens novel. First serialised in 1860-61,...

Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel My rating:  5 out of 5 stars Hilary Mantel surpassed herself with this new and unique take on Thomas Cromwell: ze...

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Süskind My rating:  5 out of 5 stars Set in 18th century France, this is the story of olfactory ...

Mary Boleyn: The Mistress of Kings by Alison Weir My rating:  4 out of 5 stars Like all Weir biographies this delivered and more, for me. Th...

Atonement by Ian McEwan  My rating:  5 out of 5 stars This historical family saga is one of my favourite literary works, which surprises me ...

Chocolat by Joanne Harris  My rating:  4 out of 5 stars I gained kilos reading this book (is that what they call a spoiler alert?). Chocolat...

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë My rating:  4 out of 5 stars My first reading of this was under force, at school. I loathed it. When I mor...

Loved Ones: Pen Portraits by Diana Mitford Mosley My rating:  4 out of 5 stars Charming reminiscences by arguably the most eloquent publishe...

The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins My rating:  4 out of 5 stars This is a great read and will, I s uspect, be more confronting to agnostics...

Natasha: The Biography of Natalie Wood by Suzanne Finstad My rating:  4 out of 5 stars Anyone who even only saw 'Gypsy' (1962) would...

The Stranger by Albert Camus My rating:  4 out of 5 stars Almost anyone can relate to life's absurdities which French Nobel Prize-winnin...

Missus by Ruth Park My rating:  4 out of 5 stars Like all exceptional novelists, the late Ruth Park employed a simplistic yet captivating in...

Hard Road: The Life and Times of Stevie Wright by Glenn Goldsmith My rating:  5 out of 5 stars It was the '60s. I was a boy growing up i...

After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie by Jean Rhys My rating:  5 out of 5 stars This is the delectable Jean Rhys at her very best. She has our central...