Top 5 Books

1. Sleeping In Flame (Jonathan Carroll)
Fantasy based in reality. He has a beautiful way of seeing and writing about relationships and what most people call 'fate' and 'destiny'.

2. The Corrections (Jonathan Franzen)
Very interesting characters - all faulted but you like them. Not a true story but an interesting look into American family life.

3. In Cold Blood (Truman Capote)
Topical and terrible (in a good way). Very disturbing. A huge departure from 'Breakfast at Tiffanys'...can see why writing this book ruined him!

4. A Fortunate Life (A.B. Facey)
True story of an amazing life...not an easy one and yet he calls himself 'fortunate'. Good Australian history piece.

5. White Teeth (Zadie Smith)
Book about London 30 odd years before we all started living here. About places we know but are very different to how we know them. I like her writing style - a more digestible Salman Rushdie.