Book Suggestions

Books make great gifts. Here is a condensed and diverse group of my recommendations:

• Edward Abbey: "Desert Solitaire"


• Godfrey Blunden: "The Time of The Assassins"


• Michael Burleigh: "Moral Combat"


• Charles Dickens: "Bleak House"


• Martin Dugard: "Into Africa"


• Loup Durand: "Daddy" and "Jaguar"


• Ben Elton: "Dead Famous" and "Popcorn"


• Alexandra Fuller: "Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight"


• George MacDonald Fraser: "Flashman"


• Carl Hiassen: "Tourist Season" and "Skin Tight"


• Gabriel Garcia-Marquez: "Love in the Time of Cholera"


• Romain Gary: "The Roots of Heaven"


• Gwyn Griffin: "An Operational Necessity"


• John Hersey: "The Wall"


• Howard Jacobson: "The Making of Henry"


• Thomas Keneally: "A River Town"


• Elmore Leonard: "City Primeval"


• Hilary Mantel: "Wolf Hall" and "Beyond Black"


• Gerald Seymour: "Rat Run"


• Paul Theroux: "The Great Railway Bazaar"


• Rose Tremain: "Restoration" and "The Road Home"


• Anthony Trollope: "Barchester Towers," "The Way We Live Now" and "The Warden"