It seems a time for some unexpected reading. One of the online bookshops I’d visited amongst other things books for decoration – vintage books sold by colour and by the foot or metre. I ordered a foot of books in brown and yellow. I’m delighted with them – I’ve added one or two of my own and am enjoying the random reading very much.
The first one I read was ‘The Cornerstones. A Conversation in Elysium’ by Eric Linklater. The book is a conversation between Lincoln, Lenin and Confucius with contributions from a recently killed pilot Arden and an Everyman soldier figure. It’s full of the zeal of the time when it was written and has interested me very much in Linklater who I’d previously known only from the children’s book ‘The Wind on the Moon’ which I’d loved as a child.
The Solitary Reader 