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My first memory of The Tiger who Came to Tea is hearing it at story time in nursery school. I love the way that Sophie and her mother treat the arrival of the tiger as they would a neighbour by politely inviting him in. At four I was fascinated that the tiger managed to drink ‘all the water in the tap’. Judith Kerr’s illustrations and storytelling are full of charm. Definitely a classic.
Emily Gravett - 10/11/2011 |
The best example of my favourite kind of story: an extraordinary girl underestimated by a cruel world.
Lauren Kate - 15/06/2012 |
Lyra is my hero.
Lauren Kate - 15/06/2012 |
I love this book. It's relatively well-known, but it came out a while ago and people forget terrifyingly quickly. A man rediscovering himself in a small, strange, hilarious community. Compassionate, uplifting, elegant.
Nick Harkaway - 25/01/2013 |
Norman MacCaig; Ewen McCaig One of our greatest and most influential Scottish poets now has this collected edition of his works which will give readers years of pleasure.
Alexander McCall Smith - 28/07/2011 |
Soyinka’s 1975 play is as essential a work of theatrical tragedy as Oedipus Rex and Macbeth. It also shows how the “clash of civilizations” can be a lazy formulation: Yoruba culture had its own internal, and very interesting, tensions before and during the colonial encounter.
Teju Cole - 12/09/2012 |
I was trained as a historian of 16th century Northern European art, and this brilliantly-written study, which matches aesthetic considerations with social context, is my model for what art historical writing can be.
Teju Cole - 12/09/2012 |
Virginia Woolf; Lyndall Gordon I value Woolf’s diaries as much for their pathos as for the insight they give into her modernist technique. Woolf’s life was as full of epiphanies as it was of sadness, and each page reads like an intimate note from a sensitive friend.
Teju Cole - 12/09/2012 |