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  • Daphne du Maurier: The King's General
  • Deborah Lawrenson: The Secretary
  • Richard Cohen: How to Write like Tolstoy
  • Adrian Tinniswood: Noble Ambitions
  • Adrian Tinniswood: The Power and the Glory
  • Martin Williams: The King is Dead, Long Live the King
  • Gavin Plumley: A Home for all Seasons
  • Robert Harris: Precipice
  • Nigel Slater: A Thousand Feasts
  • Joan Aiken: Tales of London Town
  • Alan Connor: 188 Words for Rain
  • Ben Robinson: English Villages: An Extraordinary Journey through Time

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Jennifer

I had to laugh at that last quote. A good book is truly a good friend sometimes.

Thomas

Great collection of quotes.

Dark Puss

I agree with Stefan Bollmann. With regard to the quotation from Mansfield, it isn't iving with people that matters it is knowing people who read seriously and who wish to engage in literary discourse. Whether you share the same house, the same bed or even the same country matters not. For me interacting with friends who mainly do not share the same books is the most stimulating.

Sakura

I'm beginning to realise that reading when around bookish friends is fine, but non-bookish friends aren't so happy. It's a fine balance. Katherine Mansfield's quote really is my ideal!

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