Jacob's Room is Full of Books Read online

  The Raj Quartet // 156

  William Shakespeare

  Much Ado about Nothing // 253

  David Shields

  How Literature Saved My Life // 184

  Osbert Sitwell

  The Scarlet Tree // 57

  Alexander McCall Smith

  What W. H. Auden Can Do for You // 74

  Zadie Smith

  On Beauty // 197

  White Teeth // 199

  C. P. Snow

  The Masters // 42

  Muriel Spark

  ‘The Portobello Road’ // 161

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde // 53

  Treasure Island // 225

  Catherine Storr

  Tales of Polly and the Hungry Wolf // 191

  Nahum Tate

  King Lear // 254

  D. J. Taylor

  The New Book of Snobs // 38

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  ‘Break, break, break’ // 29

  Edward Thomas

  ‘Adlestrop’ // 69

  Alison Uttley

  Little Grey Rabbit series // 62

  Bruno Vincent

  Five Go Gluten Free // 240

  Edith Wharton

  The Age of Innocence // 63

  The Custom of the Country // 63

  The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton // 63

  The House of Mirth // 63

  Gilbert White

  The Natural History of Selbourne // 111

  Oscar Wilde

  Lady Windermere’s Fan // 236

  The Importance of Being Ernest // 236

  The Picture of Dorian Grey // 236

  John Williams

  Stoner // 7

  Michael Williams

  On the Slow Train Again // 68

  Andrew Wilson

  Beautiful Shadow: A Life of Patricia Highsmith // 210

  James Wood

  How Fiction Works // 252

  Virginia Woolf

  To the Lighthouse // 250

  Philip Ziegler

  King Edward VIII: The Official Biography // 119

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  Susan Hill

  A year of reading from home, by one of Britain’s

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  ISBN 978 1 84668 266 7

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  The Travelling Bag: And Other Ghostly Stories

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  New chilling tales from the ‘grande dame of English supernatural fiction’.

  ISBN 978 1 78125 620 6

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