Who/what are your favourites?
I WILL say j k Rowling and you (whoever you are) can scoff all you want. I think the books are wonderful.
I mostly read thrillers or mystery books nothing too taxing. When I was much younger it was Stephen King.
Irvine Welsh, Ian Banks, Dennis Potter and Victor Frankle.
Robert Burns & Wilfred Owen.
That should have been Iain Banks. The books are on the shelf and i couldn't be arsed walking 5 feet...
It's an amazing book. I just finished Whit and it isn't his best but he's a great author and comes across as a great guy.
I have only read "The Wasp Factory" of his, but it was a brilliant book, I am hoping to buy some more of his stuff soon.
Oh make sure the first one you get is the crow road its brilliant.
My vote for best non-fiction writer is Shelby Foote. His 3000-page The Civil War kept me from losing my mind during the six months that I spent sleeping on the couch after the twins were born. Each chapter is practically a self-contained narrative; in fact, the "Stars in Their Courses" chapter (about Gettysburg) is sold separately as its own book.