Favourites

Our Favourite Novels from Other Cultures
– Corner Shop – Roopa Farooki
– The White Giraffe – Lauren St John
– The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
– A Thousand Splendid Suns – Khaled Hosseini
– Born Confused – Tanuja Desai Hidier
– Memoirs of a Geisha: A Novel – Arthur Golden
– Bittersweets – Roopa Farooki
– Baking Cakes in Kigali – Gaile Parkin
– Greetings from Bury Park: Race. Religion. Rock ‘n’ Roll – Sarfraz Manzoor
– Half of a Yellow Sun – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
– Tears of the Desert: One Woman’s True Story of Surviving the Horrors of Darfur – Halima Bashir

Our Favourite 19th Century Novels 

– Far From the Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy
– The Mayor of Casterbridge – Thomas Hardy
– Tess of the d’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
– Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
– Emma – Jane Austen
– Middlemarch – George Eliot
– The Mill on the Floss – George Eliot
– War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
– Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
– Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
– The Time Machine – H.G Wells
– The Invisible Man – H. G Wells
– The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde
– Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert

Our Favourite 20th Century Novels

– The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
– The Secret History – Donna Tartt
– Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
– The Age of Innocence – Edith Wharton
– 1984 – George Orwell
– The Outsider – Albert Camus
– The Catcher in the Rye – J.D Salinger
– Gone With the Wind – Margaret Mitchell
– The Lord of the Rings- J.R.R. Tolkein

Our Favourite Dystopian Novels

– 1984 – George Orwell
–  A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess
– Fahrenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury
– Atlas Shrugged – Ayn Rand
– Love Among the Ruins: A Romance of the Near Future – Evelyn Waugh
– Oryx and Crake – Margaret Atwood
– Watchmen – Alan Moore (graphic novel but COME ON)
– The Thousand Summers of Jacob de Zoet – David Mitchell

Our Favourite Films Set in London

– Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)
– Snatch
– Match Point
– About a Boy
– My Fair Lady
– V for Vendetta
– Withnail and I (At least, it’s set there for some of the time…)
– Shaun of the Dead
– Shakespeare in Love
– An Education

Our Favourite Sci-Fi Films

– 2001: A Space Odyssey
– Alien
– District 9
– Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind
– Blade Runner
– Star Wars (Original Trilogy)
– The Matrix Trilogy
– Inception
– Jurassic Park
– Moon

Our Favourite Historical Films

– Frost/Nixon
– Hotel Rwanda
– Letters from Iwo Jima
– Schindler’s List
– Apollo 13
– Downfall
– The King’s Speech

Our Favourite Book to Film Adaptations

– Gone With the Wind
– To Kill a Mockingbird
– The Godfather
– Remains of the Day
– The Lord of the Rings
– The Shawshank Redemption
– The Silence of the Lambs
– Apocalypse Now
– One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
– Trainspotting

Our Favourite Films for a ‘Girls Night In’
– Pretty Woman
– Some Like It Hot
– When Harry Met Sally
– Breakfast At Tiffany’s
– Fried Green Tomatoes
– Mean Girls
– Easy A
– Amelie
– Bennie and Joon
– Bridget Jones’ Diary
– Gone With the Wind
– Love Actually
– Four Weddings and a Funeral
– My Big Fat Greek Wedding
– The Devil Wears Prada
– Mamma Mia
– Chicago
– Legally Blonde
– My Fair Lady