What I have been reading recently.

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Unfortunately, I have been so busy in lockdown, mainly with writing, walking and decoration, that I haven’t had a lot of time for reading. But I’ve still managed to read a bit. What can be better than a good book?

213. The Wizard of Wands Dewin Nefol
214. The Ghost Robert Harris
215. Sabbath’s Theatre Philip Roth
216. Staring at the Sun Julian Barnes
217. Talking it Over Julian Barnes
218. Hag-Seed Margaret Atwood
219. Trout Fishing in America Richard Brautigan
220. Healers from another world C Coulson Pounder
221. On the Road – original scroll Jack Kerouac
222. Five on Brexit Island – Enid Blyton Bruno Vincent
223. Haynes explains pensioners Boris Starling
224. Munich Robert Harris
225. Spider From Mars Woody Woodmansey
226. The Long Dark Tea-time of the soul Douglas Adams
227. Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency Douglas Adams
228. A Week in December Sebastian Faulks
229. Bowie & Hutch John ‘Hutch’ Hutchinson
230. The girl who takes an eye for an eye David Lagercrantz
231. The Country’s favourite comic poems Compendium
232.The three dimensions of freedom Billy Bragg
233. Conclave Robert Harris
234. Imperial Ambitions Noam Chomsky
235. Men without Women Haruki Murakami
236. Killing Commentadore Haruki Murakami
237. From the inside Nick Mason
238. Levels of life Julian Barnes
239. The Fear Index Robert Harris
240. My Purple Scented Novel Ian McEwan
241. An Officer and the Spy Robert Harris
242. Nutshell Ian McEwan
243. The Human Stain Sebastian Faulks
244. Pigs Might Fly (Pink Floyd) Mark Blake
245. Consider Phlebas Iain M Banks
246. The Game Player of Titan Iain M Banks
247. Becoming Michelle Obama
248. Cockroach Ian McEwan
249. Ham and Rye Bukowski
250. Woody Guthrie’s Modern World Blues Will Kaufman
251. Olaf Stapledon First Men Last Men

A person who reads lives a thousand lives.

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During this time of crisis when so many of us are either in isolation or finding that there is nothing open I hope everyone is reading!

Reading opens the mind and expands the horizons. While sitting in an armchair you can be travelling the world, living on other planets or inhabiting the life of another person.

Writing creates alternative lives.

A person who reads lives a thousand lives.

So instead of worrying – get lost in a book!

If you would like to read one of my books they are all available on Amazon. Below are some links to a selection (there are many more). Why not give one a try?:

 

In the UK:

 

Nick Harper – The Wilderness Years

 

https://www.amazon.co.uk/s?k=Nick+Harper&i=stripbooks&ref=nb_sb_noss

 

The Blues Muse

 

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Blues-Muse-Opher-Goodwin-ebook/dp/B01HDQEMQ6/ref=sr_1_28?keywords=opher+goodwin&qid=1584522597&s=books&sr=1-28&swrs=8CA1CF015D23C1B999212425353077BC

 

In Search of Captain Beefheart

 

 

Sci-fi as Ron Forsythe

 

Neanderthal

 

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Neanderthal-Ron-Forsythe-ebook/dp/B082WL81DH/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Ron+Forsythe&qid=1584522147&s=books&sr=1-1&swrs=17C3F1C42D8DCBDBBA4459BE44B869C4

 

God’s Bolt

 

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Gods-Bolt-Ron-Forsythe/dp/109271359X/ref=sr_1_2?keywords=Ron+Forsythe&qid=1584522214&s=books&sr=1-2

 

Reawakening

 

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Reawakening-Sequel-Gods-Ron-Forsythe/dp/1094954586/ref=sr_1_3?keywords=Ron+Forsythe&qid=1584522266&s=books&sr=1-3

 

Education as Christopher Goodwin

 

A passion for education – The story of a Headteacher

 

https://www.amazon.co.uk/s?i=stripbooks&k=Christopher%20Goodwin%20Headteacher&ref=nb_sb_noss&url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks

 

In the USA:

 

Nick Harper – The Wilderness Years

 

https://www.amazon.com/Nick-Harper-Wilderness-Opher-Goodwin-ebook/dp/B083CQT6Z5/ref=sr_1_2?keywords=Nick+Harper&qid=1584374165&s=books&sr=1-2

 

The Blues Muse

 

https://www.amazon.com/Blues-Muse-Opher-Goodwin-ebook/dp/B01HDQEMQ6/ref=sr_1_8?keywords=Opher+Goodwin&qid=1584522858&s=books&sr=1-8

 

In Search of Captain Beefheart

 

https://www.amazon.com/Search-Captain-Beefheart-Opher-Goodwin-ebook/dp/B00O4CLKYU/ref=sr_1_10?keywords=Opher+Goodwin&qid=1584522893&s=books&sr=1-10

 

Sci-fi as Ron Forsythe

 

Neanderthal

 

https://www.amazon.com/Neanderthal-Ron-Forsythe-ebook/dp/B082WL81DH/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Ron+Forsythe&qid=1584522932&s=books&sr=1-1

 

God’s Bolt

 

https://www.amazon.com/Gods-Bolt-Ron-Forsythe-ebook/dp/B07QB9CFJL/ref=sr_1_8?keywords=Ron+Forsythe&qid=1584522958&s=books&sr=1-8

 

Reawakening

 

https://www.amazon.com/Reawakening-Sequel-Gods-Ron-Forsythe-ebook/dp/B07QQ2PX37/ref=sr_1_7?keywords=Ron+Forsythe&qid=1584522995&s=books&sr=1-7

 

Education as Christopher Goodwin

 

A passion for education – The story of a Headteacher

 

https://www.amazon.com/passion-Education-story-Headteacher-ebook/dp/B00NRC66E2/ref=sr_1_2?keywords=Christopher+Goodwin+a+passion&qid=1584523061&s=books&sr=1-2&swrs=EC8906D12A2A37C516AE64321C2CA91D

 

If you live in other parts of the world please check on your local Amazon where you will find my books!

 

Thank you for looking!

Five more essential reads – Opher’s favourites

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Five more essential reads – Opher’s favourites

36. D H Lawrence – Lady Chatterley’s Lover

Although this book is most notorious for its sex scenes I felt it was probably the book that was closest to Lawrence’s philosophy. It was set in the post-war Britain and was in many ways an anti-war book. The injured officer deprived of his manhood through injury. It was also about the class system and the purity of love. A lot of things going on.

37. Ken Kesey – Sometimes a Great Notion

This was the second masterpiece of Ken’s. A totally different book in a different setting. Unlike Cuckoo’s nest this was set in the big outdoors and logging. The story was captivating. I liked the was he depicted the same scene from different viewpoints in the same paragraph. It was very Faulknerish.

38. Salman Rushdie – Midnight’s Children

This is the second of Rushdie’s masterpieces. I read this at the same time as Gunter Grass’s Tin Drum and felt that they both carried that same multitextured, multilayered wonder. It was a tale to get lost in and one of those books you did not want to end.

39. John Steinbeck – East of Eden

The second work of genius from John Steinbeck. This told the tale of brothers and a big ranch. It was another sprawling tale that sucked you in. One of my all-time favourites.

40. Iain Banks – Whit

This seems quite topical when we’ve got cults like ISIS running amok in the world and a Marxist cult leader imprisoned for rape and imprisoning his own daughter. Iain is a brilliant story teller in both Sci-fi and mainstream. This is the story of a religious cult done brilliantly. I love all his books. They were all so varied. It’s a sad loss.

Well these five selections went against my original plan to try to stick to one book per author.

Rules? There are no rules!

Reading a much loved writer is like talking to an old friend.

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Reading a much loved writer is like talking to an old friend.

So many of the great writers are now dead yet reading one of their books is like meeting up with an old friend; it feels warm and cosy.
I just read Kurt Vonnegut’s posthumous short stories.
He left me feeling good.

Reading

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Reading

Reading is one of the most pleasurable experiences you can have in life.

You can travel the whole universe, back and forth in time, through dimensions that may not even be real, to places in other universes, all while sitting in your own armchair.

You can see places more vividly, meet people from the past, present and future that you didn’t know existed, and understand things you did not know you needed to understand.

You can explore other peoples’ minds, thoughts, feelings and relationships.

You can find out facts, explore ideas and experience revelations.

You can visit different cultures, different parts of the world and learn to understand different viewpoints, ways of living and see the world through other eyes.

You can become absorbed in plots, characters and settings, as you are captivated by the greatest tales, stories and epics ever told.

You can feel, empathise and share experiences that you would never have had the opportunity to do in real life.

All the greatest minds and best thoughts of all of mankind are laid out before you. You can tuck in.

You can get lost in a book to the point where it is as real as the life outside.

You can share adventures, wonder and intrigue.

You can find heroes, heroines and the most evil and sadistic monsters.

You can experience terror while being perfectly safe.

You can fall in love and share the saddest moments you will ever know.

On top of all that – overindulgence has no harmful effects.

It is an addiction that it is not necessary to control. It requires no legislation.

Reading is simply awesome!

My favourite fiction writers include:

Jack Kerouac, Richard Brautigan, Haruki Murakami, Margaret Attwood, Kazuo Ishiguro, Iain Banks, John Fowles, John Steinbeck, D H Lawrence, Ken Kesey, Ian McEwan, Salman Rushdie, Hilary Mantel, George Orwell, William Burroughs, Henry Miller, Stephen King, Andrea Levy, Will Self, Norman Mailer, Gerald Durrell, Spike Milligan and a string of others too numerous to mention.

Who are yours?

Books and reading! – A great love!

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I have a collection of thousands of books. My house is full of packed bookcases. I like to be surrounded by my books. It is not just that I enjoy reading. Those books are like old friends. They are a comfort. I often look at them and remember the stories, worlds, feelings and information they have shared with me.

Some of my books I read decades ago. I still love them. They all enriched my life and I am grateful to them. I am grateful to the wonderful authors who spent so many thousands of hours creating them for me.  They shared what it is to be human. They enthralled me.

There is nothing better than reading – nothing (well possibly writing – oh – and love).  It has been the most rewarding aspect of my life (apart from love and writing). I have visited other universes, other lives and shared love, hate and the full gamut of ideas, ways of thinking and emotions.

Reading transports you to anywhere. Human imagination is unlimited.

My school had a motto taken from Pliny which said that books were nourishment for the mind. I think that is true. They’ve certainly enriched my life.

I look around at my books and am filled with satisfaction.

 

These are the books I have read recently.

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The type of books a person reads give you an insight into how they think or feel. The first thing I used to do when meeting a new friend was to check out their bookshelves and record collection. It told you all you needed to know.

I am a writer.

 

 

 

107. The Ragged Trousered Philantropists Robert Tressell
108. Maddadam Margaret Atwood`
109. Ringworld Engineers Larry Niven
110. The sense of an ending Julian Barnes
111. Ringworld children Larry Niven
112. Breakfast of champions Kurt Vonnegut
113. The blind assassin Margaret Atwood
114. The Midwich Cuckoos John Wyndham
115. The Rights of Man Thomas Paine
116. Wyrd Sisters Terry Pratchett
117. Juliet Naked Nick Hornby
118. Confessions of a crap artist Philip K Dick
119. Doctor Sleep Stephen King
120. White Rooms & imaginary Westerns Pete Brown
121. Moral disorder Margaret Atwood
122. The hare with amber eyes Edmund de Waal
123. Apocalypse D H Lawrence
124. The Cosmological eye Henry Miller
125. The last continent Terry Pratchett
126. Thud Terry Pratchett
127. A tale for the time being Ruth Ozeki
128. Survivor Chum Mey
129. Falling leaves Adeline Yen Mah
130. Catch 22 Joseph Heller
131. Go Now Richard Hell
132. Bluebeard’s egg Margaret Atwood
133. Life before man Margaret Atwood
134. Life after life Kate Atkinson
135. The Who & the story of Tommy Nigel Cawthorne
136. Mr Mercedes Stephen King
137. Umbrella Will Self
138. The Eyre Affair Jasper Fforde
139. The Children’s act Ian McEwan
140. The Magic of Reality Richard Dawkins
141. The Shack Wm Paul Young
142. The last interview Kurt Vonnegutt
143. Strong motion Jonathan Franzen
144. Soul Music Terry Pratchett
145. The sun also rises Ernest Hemingway
146. The Woman who died a lot Jasper Fforde
147. Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki Haruki Murakami
148. On the Road – original scroll Jack Kerouac
149. Discomfort zone Jonathan Frantzen
150. The Establishment and how they get away with it Owen Jones
151. The Kill List Frederick Forsythe
152. The Song of the Quarkbeast Jasper Fforde
153. One of our Thursdays is missing Jasper Fforde
154. No Matter What Sally Donovan
155. The story of my heart Richard Jefferies
156. Time must have a stop Aldous Huxley
157. Immortal coils Kurt Vonnegut
158. Chavs Owen Jones
159. Revival Stephen King
160. In God I doubt John Humphrys
161. Phil Ochs Death of a rebel Marc Elliott
162. In Watermelon Sugar Richard Brautigan
163. Blues for Mr Charlie James Baldwin
164. Stone Mattress Margaret Atwood
165. The Music of Captain Beefheart Chris Wade
166. Something rotten Jasper Fforde
167. From Here to Infinity – Scientific Horizons Martin Rees
168.  Laughter and forgetting Milan Kundera
169. Saturday Night & Sunday Morning Alan Sillitoe
170. Black dogs Ian McEwan
171. This Boy Alan Johnson
172. Please Mr Postman Alan Johnson
173. If this isn’t nice what is? Kurt Vonnegut Jnr
174. Lunar Notes Zoot Horn Rollo
175. The Martian Andy Weir
176. Afterlife Colin Wilson
177. Revolution Russell Brand
178. The buried giant Kasuo Ishiguro
179. Sons and lovers D H Lawrence
180. Women Charles Bukowski
181. Collected stories Philip K Dick
182. Murder on the Marco polo Clive Leatherdale
183. The colour purple Maya Angelou
184. Reader Noam Chomski
185. Magic seeds V S Naipal
186. Notes from a small island Bill Bryson
187. Tortilla flat John Steinbeck
188. The heart goes first Margaret Atwood
189. Finding Son House Richard Shade Gardner
190. The big over easy Jasper Fforde
191. Lost in a good book Jasper Fforde
192. The Eyre affair (again) Jasper Fforde
193. The Fourth Bear Jasper Fforde
194. Sunstorm Arthur C Clarke
195. Bazaar of Bad Dreams Stephen King
196. Wind/Pinball Haruki Murakami
197. The Girl in the Spider’s Web David Lagercrantz
198. The strange library Haruki Murakami
199. The Potato Factory Bryce Courtenay
200. Bodily Harm Margaret Atwood
201. Justine Lawrence Durrell
202. Armageddon in retrospect (again) Kurt Vonnegut Jnr
203. The Tree John Fowles
204. Moon Palace Paul Auster

Reading – yet five more brilliant books

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While I’m in the mood I thought I might as well do five more. I could keep doing this for some time. But I think I’ll stop for a bit after this set.

Robert Heinlein – Stranger in a Strange Land

Robert was criticised in some quarters for his right-wing bias and his portrayal of women. While I can see where that is coming from I do not altogether agree with it and certainly not in this book. He did espouse a free loving ethos with open relationships and strong women taking the lead which upset some. He also espoused a mystical sharing of spirits based around the sharing of water which fitted in with the sixties ethos nicely. But for me he was a great story teller. This is so readable.

Margaret Atwood – Oryx and Crake

Her dystopian book, the first in a trilogy, of a society that has broken down post genetic engineering. She is such a good writer that she draws you into the story and leads you through the characters so that you feel it. Not a nice world to live in when things go wrong and the scientists and politicians mess up.

Henry Miller – Tropic of Capricorn

Henry’s semi-autobiographical story of living a bohemian life in pre-war Paris. He was a precursor to the Beats and helped develop that stream of consciousness, outsider in society and sexual liberation. Some immense writing.

Lynne Reid-Banks – The L-Shaped Room

A book that really captured the social mores of the fifties with its snobbish hypocrisy. The tale of the fate of a young girl who becomes pregnant. In the days before good available contraception this was a common occurrence and led to back-street abortionists and despair. The girls were thrown into social exclusion and often disowned, ostracised and treated disgustingly. There was a racial element thrown into the mix and it captured the mood of the times superbly. Great social realism with good characterisation and a good story.

Gunter Grass – The Tin Drum

A multi-layered tale of Germany in the thirties that has great surreal touches and grabs you from the beginning. A book to get lost in.

 

OK. I’ve got that out of my system for a little while. I’ll do something else.

Remember – we are what we read!

 

Isn’t the process of reading and writing incredible? Just think about the process for a minute!

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Reading and writing is absolutely amazing. I sit in my room with my computer and a keyboard. With the aid of a keyboard of twenty six symbols and maybe a dozen punctuation symbols I am able to put my thoughts, ideas and stories into symbols.

Somewhere in the world, in the 119 countries where the hundreds of people who read my blogs live, people of all ages, races and beliefs can study those symbols and extract the ideas, thoughts and stories I codified. They can read my mind, recreate the pictures I described, understand the ideas and know what I am saying. I can open my mind and they can look in.

When I read a book my eyes look at the symbols and my brain converts them to pictures, thoughts and feelings. I am able to see and feel what the author was describing. The symbols are universally understood. Each word has a meaning and I am able to see it in the way the writer intended. We communicate though we have never met.

All the greatest minds, ideas, stories, thoughts and feelings of humanity have been collected in symbols and I have the power to extract them and marvel at them.

The human brain is incredible.

The persons who invented writing and reading were amazing.

The process of reading and writing is probably the greatest human invention.

Books I have read since retirement update!

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I feel good!!!

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Retirement is a great idea. I wish I could have done it earlier. It is just like how I was hoping my life was going to be when I was a young idealistic kid. I had dreams of doing my writing and making a living out of creating. It would not have been work. I was not after wealth or fame – just the means to earn a modest living and do what I wanted to do.

That didn’t work out. Reality intruded. I had to get a job. But I was lucky. I got a job teaching which was great, fitted in with my philosophy and I made a career of it.

I said when I retired that I was going to read, write and travel. That’s what I’ve done. I’ve travelled the world, written thirteen books and read 154. That’s not bad for three and a half years!!

These are some of the books I have written:

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This is an updated list of the books I’ve read recently:

Books I have read since retiring Sept 2011

1.Just Kids Patti Smith
2. Wolf Hall Hilary Mantel
3. Norwegian Wood Haruki Murakami
4. Kafka on the Shore Haruki Murakami
5. Maggie Girl of the Streets Stephen Crane
6. Great Singers of the 2oth Century David Spiller
7. East of Eden John Steinbeck
8. God is not Great Christopher Hitchins
9. The Alchemist Paulo Coelho
10. Full Dark No Stars Stephen King
11. 3 Cups of Tea Greg Mortenson & David Relin
12. Birdie Kurt Vonnegut
13. 11.22.63 Stephen King
14. IQ84 – Book 1 Haruki Murakami
15. IQ84 – Book 2 Haruki Murakami
16. IQ84 – Book 3 Haruki Murakami
17. Good Man Jesus scoundrel Christ Philip Pullman
18. After dark Haruki Murakami
19. After the quake Haruki Murakami
20. Long walk to forever Kurt Vonnegut
21. The Optimist Lawrence Shorter
22. The Atheist’s Bible Joan Konner
23. The portable Atheist Christopher Hitchins
24. The vanishing elephant Haruki Murakami
25. Salmonella men on planet porno Yasutaka Tsutsui
26. The Chrysalids John Wyndham
27. Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad
28. A long way down Nick Hornby
29. Blind willow, sleeping woman Haruki Murakami
30. My dear I wanted to tell you Louisa Young
31. Grimus Salman Rushdie
32. South of the border West of the sun Haruki Murakami
33. The Return Victoria Hislop
34. Stonemouth Iain Banks
35. The girl at the Lion D’Or Sebastian Faulks
36. The Long Song Andrea Levy
37. Underground Haruki Murakami
38. My Family and other animals Gerald Durrell
39. One Flew over the Cuckoos nest Ken Kessey
40. Hard boiled Wonderland and the end of the world Haruki Murakami
41. Red Gary Neville
42. The colour of Magic Terry Pratchett
43. The light fantastic Terry Pratchett
44. Dance Dance dance Haruki Murakami
45. Portnoy’s complaint Philip Roth
46. The lost Symbol Dan Brown
47. Guards Guards Terry Pratchett
48. What I talk about when I talk about running Haruki Murakami
49. A Maggot John Fowles
50. Who I am Pete Townsend
51. The story of Free & Bad Company Steven Rosen
52. Sputnik Sweetheart Haruki Murakami
53. Mr Stone and the knights companion V S Naipal
54. The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks Rebecca Skloot
55. Mister God, I am Anna Finn
56. The Birthday book Haruki Murakami
57. A precocious autobiography Yevgeny Yevtushenko
58. The wind-up bird chronicles Haruki Murakami
59. Siddharta Herman Hesse
60. Hydrogen Sonatta Iain M Banks
61. The bonesetters daughter Joy Tan
62. Keep the Asphidistr flying George Orwell
63. Birds, animals and friends Gerald Durrell
64. Garden of the Gods Gerald Durrell
65. Andy Warhol Diaries Andy Warhol
66. First born Arthur C Clarke
67. Sweettooth Ian McEwan
68. Arguably Christopher Hitchins
69. Bring up the bodies Hilary Mantell
70. Equal Rites Terry Pratchett
71. Mort Terry Pratchett
72. Cutting for stone Aham Verghese
73. Sourcery Terry Pratchett
74. The particular sadness of lemon cake Aimee Bender
75. The dovekeepers Alice Hoffman
76. The Ginger Man J P Donleavy
77. The great Gatsby F Scott Fitzgerald
78. Dharma bums Jack Kerouac
79. For whom the bell tolls Ernest Hemmingway
80. A wild sheep chase Haruki Murakami
81. Fug you Ed Sanders
82. A hat full of sky Terry Pratchett
83. Ring world Larry Niven
84. Wintersmith Terry Pratchett
85. The Quarry Iain Banks
86. Stoner John Williams
87. Blowing the Blues Dick Heckstall-Smith
88. The heart of things A C Grayling
89. Things the Grandchildren should know Mark Oliver Everett
90. Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck
91. The Comfort of Strangers Ian McEwan
92. The Trial Franz Kafka
93. Tarantula Bob Dylan
94. Bound for glory Woody Guthrie
95. Flaubert’s parrot Julian Barnes
96. Talking it over Julian Barnes
97. Raw spirit Iain Banks
98. The favourite game Leonard Cohen
99. Beautiful losers Leonard Cohen
100. Corrections Jonathan Frantzen
101. The Stranger Albert Camus
102. The three Musketeers Alexander Dumas
103. After the flood Margaret Atwood
104. Hellraiser Ginger Baker
105. A Casual Vacancy JK Rowling
106. Wind through the Keyhole Stephen King
107. The Ragged Trousered Philantropists Robert Tressell
108. Maddadam Margaret Atwood`
109. Ringworld Engineers Larry Niven
110. The sense of an ending Julian Barnes
111. Ringworld children Larry Niven
112. Breakfast of champions Kurt Vonnegut
113. The blind assassin Margaret Atwood
114. The Midwich Cuckoos John Wyndham
115. The Rights of Man Thomas Paine
116. Wyrd Sisters Terry Pratchett
117. Juliet Naked Nick Hornby
118. Confessions of a crap artist Philip K Dick
119. Doctor Sleep Stephen King
120. White Rooms & imaginary Westerns Pete Brown
121. Moral disorder Margaret Atwood
122. The hare with amber eyes Edmund de Waal
123. Apocalypse D H Lawrence
124. The Cosmological eye Henry Miller
125. The last continent Terry Pratchett
126. Thud Terry Pratchett
127. A tale for the time being Ruth Ozeki
128. Survivor Chum Mey
129. Falling leaves Adeline Yen Mah
130. Catch 22 Joseph Heller
131. Go Now Richard Hell
132. Bluebeard’s egg Margaret Atwood
133. Life before man Margaret Atwood
134. Life after life Kate Atkinson
135. The Who & the story of Tommy Nigel Cawthorne
136. Mr Mercedes Stephen King
137. Umbrella Will Self
138. The Eyre Affair Jasper Fforde
139. The Children’s act Ian McEwan
140. The Magic of Reality Richard Dawkins
141. The Shack Wm Paul Young
142. The last interview Kurt Vonnegutt
143. Strong motion Jonathan Franzen
144. Soul Music Terry Pratchett
145. The sun also rises Ernest Hemingway
146. The Woman who died a lot Jasper Fforde
147. Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki Haruki Murakami
148. On the Road – original scroll Jack Kerouac
149. Discomfort zone Jonathan Frantzen
150. The Establishment and how they get away with it Owen Jones
151. The Kill List Frederick Forsythe
152. The Song of the Quarkbeast Jasper Fforde
153. One of our Thursdays is missing Jasper Fforde
154.