This list thing is getting quite hard now. I'm not going to be doing European airports, pretentious magazines or international trade exhibitions. But one of the delights of international travel is the chance to read. Here are ten fiction authors I've read everything by.
Martin Amis - always surprises.
Guy Bellamy - hugely underrated and under valued comic novelist
Julie Burchill - read one you've read them both. Good laugh and a bit smutty.
Mark Timlin - south London private eye who got progressively darker with each book, very influenced by...
James Crumley - Amercian private eye who gets darker still.
John Grisham - because it's easy.
Bret Easton Ellis - Lunar Park is terrific, and I've nearlly finished.
Donna Tartt - Secret History was better than that other one she wrote. Is she Ellis in disguise?
James Hawes - films have been awful, but his books are good fun.
George Orwell - all his stories, like his journalism, are top drawer.
1 comment:
Michael,
have you tried Graham Greene?
Brilliant writing, stories and the themes are often still current - The Quiet American being one example (no political judgment inferred).
Rob
Artisan
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