The Vintner's Luck, Elizabeth Knox
The Line of Beauty, Alan Hollinghurst
Dead Air, Iain Banks
The Use of Weapons, Iain M Banks
Pattern Recognition, William Gibson
Friendly Fire, Patrick Gale
A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson
Night Letters, Robert Dessaix
Miss Garnet's Angel, Salley Vickers
Toast, Nigel Slater
A Home at the End of the World, Michael Cunningham
A Spot of Bother, Mark Haddon
Neverwhere, Neil Gaiman
Riddley Walker, Russell Hoban
His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman
Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell
Atonement, Ian McEwan
The Divided World, Owen Marshall
The Way I Found Her, Rose Tremain
The Book of Salt, Monique Truong
Flaubert's Parrot, Julian Barnes
The Fragrant Harbour, John Lanchester
The Moronic Inferno, Martin Amis
If on a Winter's Night a Traveller, Italo Calvino
see also my Books to read page - link at top of this sidebar
amongst films to see are these
2001 A Space Odyssey [Kubrick]
Apartment Zero [Donovan]
Beautiful Thing [Macdonald]
Bladerunner [Scott]
Cabaret [Fosse]
Dead Poets Society [Weir]
Diva [Beineix]
Gattaca [Niccol]
In My Father's Den [McGann]
In the Mood for Love [Wong]
L’auberge espagnole [Klapisch]
Le Confessional [Lepage]
Like Minds [Read]
Lilies [Greyson]
Love and Human Remains [Arcand]
My Beautiful Laundrette [Frears]
Sweet Sixteen [Loach]
The History Boys [Hytner]
The Lives of Others [von Donnersmarck]
The Oyster Farmer [Reeves]
The Servant [Losey]
Wittgenstein [Jarman]
see also my extended list on films to see page - link at top of this sidebar