I am posting this as a follow up to Sue's reading list she wrote in answer to Gracie


Me ,I'm a Dickens man at heart the humour in his books is very sharp although people who have only seen screen adaptions wouldn't think there is any.
Then it,s Asimov,Defoe,Swift and others of their ilk
Non-fiction is proper history not all the royalist pap we are normally fed and tales of great explorers.I do like the tales of the slightly potty English women of old who toured all sorts of outlandish places armed only with a bible and a brolly,real women those lasses
I did get hooked on early Russian fiction a lot of years ago and still dip into it on occasion.
I also have a copy of The Masterpiece library of short stories vol XI Irish and oversea authors starting with Richard Steele 1672-1729. I might dig that out now you bring it to mind.