a few of my favourite authors
and titles
 

Alexander Solzhenitsyn - especially: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich; Cancer Ward, the Gulag Archipelago

Alice Munro

Alice Sebold - especially: Lucky

Amanda Lohrey - especially: The Philosopher's Doll, Camille's Bread

Anne Lamott - especially: Bird by Bird

Anne Tyler

Annie Dillard  - especially: The Writing Life

Barbara Kingsolver - especially: The Bean Trees; Pigs in Heaven; The Poisonwood Bible

Bill Bryson

Carmel Bird - especially: The White Garden

Colm Toibin - especially: The Blackwater Lightship

Cormac McCarthy - especially: The Crossing

Daniel Dennett - especially: Consciousness Explained; Darwin's Dangerous Idea

Daniel Duane - especially: Caught Inside

David Sedaris

Diana Athill - especially: Stet

Donald Woods - especially: Asking for Trouble; Biko

Dylan Evans - especially: Placebo

E M Forster - especially: Howard's End

Edith Wharton - especially: The House of Mirth

Eva Sallis - especially: The Marsh Birds

Fiona Place - especially: Cardboard

Geoffrey Robertson - especially: The Justice Game

George Eliot - especially: The Mill on the Floss; Daniel Deronda

Geraldine Brooks - especially: Year of Wonders

Helen Fielding - especially: Bridget Jones' Diary

Helen Garner - especially: Joe Cinque's Consolation; The First Stone

Helen Hodgman - especially: Broken Words; Blue Skies and Jack and Jill, The Bad Policeman

Ian McEwan - especially: Atonement

Inga Clendinnen - especially: Tiger's Eye; Dancing with Strangers

James McBride - especially: The Color of Water

Jane Austen - especially: Persuasion; Emma; Sense and Sensibility

Jane Gardam - Bilgewater; A Long Way from Verona

Janette Turner Hospital - especially: Tiger in the Tiger Pit; Charades; Isobars

Jean Rhys - especially: Leaving Mr Mackenzie

John Le Carre - especially: The Constant Gardener

Kate Atkinson - especially: Case Histories (WOW! - such a great novel)

Kate Holden - In My Skin

Katherine Mansfield

Kathryn Harrison - especially: The Kiss; Seeking Rapture

Kinky Friedman - especially: Greenwich Killing Time

Lionel Shriver - We Need To Talk About Kevin

Lorrie Moore - especially: Who Will Run the Frog Hospital?; Birds of America

Malcolm Knox - The Jury Room

Margaret Atwood - especially: Cat's Eye; Surfacing; Eating Fire; The Edible Woman; Alias Grace; Dancing Girls; The Handmaid's Tale; Life Before Man; Bodily Harm; Negotiating with the Dead; Lady Oracle; Bluebeard's Egg

Margaret Wertheim - especially: Pythagoras' Trousers: God, Physics and the Gender Wars

Mark Haddon - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time; a Spot of Bother

Marsha Hunt - especially: Joy

Maya Angelou

Melissa Lucashenko - especially: Hard Yards; Steam Pigs

Michael Shermer - especially: Why People Believe Weird Things

Michael Robotham

Michael Connelly

Moya Sayer-Jones - especially: Little Sister

Naomi Wolf - especially: The Beauty Myth

Nicholas Humphreys - especially: A History of the Mind: the Birth of Consciousness

Nick Earls - especially: Making Laws for Clouds

Oliver Sacks - especially: The Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat; Uncle Tungsten

Pat Barker - especially: Regeneration Trilogy; Another World; Border Crossing; Double Vision

Peter Singer - especially: How are we to live?

Peter Temple

Primo Levi - especially: If This Is A Man; the Truce; The Drowned and the Saved

Rabbit Bartholomew - especially: Bustin Down the Door

Rachel Cusk - especially: Saving Agnes; A Life's Work, The Temporary

Raymond Carver - especially: Where I'm Calling From

Raymond Chandler - especially: The Long Goodbye

Robert Crais

Robert McKee - Story

Roberta Sykes - especially: Snake Trilogy

Roddy Doyle - especially: Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha; The Woman Who Walked into Doors

Ruby Langford Gnibi - especially: Don't Take Your Love to Town

Ruth L Ozeki - My Year of Meat

Sally Morgan - especially: My Place

Scott Turow - especially: Personal Injuries; Sins of the Father; Reversible Errors; Pleading Guilty; Ultimate Punishment

Sebastien Faulks - especially: Charlotte Gray, On Green Dolphin Street

Shane Maloney

Sonya Hartnett - especially: Surrender; Of a Boy; Sleeping Dogs; Thursday's Child; All My Dangerous Friends

Stephen King - On Writing

Toni Morrison

Truman Capote - especially: In Cold Blood

a bit of my favourite music
Emma Driver
Sarah Harmer
Kasey Chambers
Dolly Parton
Johnny Cash
Patsy Cline
Billy Bragg
Simpletons
Bruce Springsteen
Something for Kate
Reef
Darren Hanlon
Indigo Girls
Green Day
Gillian Welch
Ryan Adams
Dixie Chicks
Aimee Mann
The Decemberists
The Audreys
Jolie Holland