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A walk through any Maltese town will throw up many names on shop fronts, sides of vans etc familiar to Cardiffians. Just had a look a popular Maltese surnames and a bit surprised how many were the surnames of schoolday contempories, Borg, Camilleri, Farrugia, Galea, Micallef, Grech, Attard, Spiteri, Azzopardi, Lia, Xuereb, Xiberras, Caruana, Pace, Debono, Portelli, Grima, Bussutil, Garcia, Psaila, Cachia, Bonello, Darmsnin, Tanti, Brincat and the infamous Callus. All names from my Lady Mary days, should have been called Lady Malta!!
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To Kill a Mocking Bird helped changed my perspective on the equal value of human life whilst living in a place where, at the time 99.5% of people were white.
Catch 22 The gratitude that I have never had to test myself in the theatre of war but the fear I might end up like one of the key characters.
I don't think either author had much more to say after those novels, but in reality didn't need too!
' The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet' by David Mitchell.
Incredible novel about Dutch traders in Japan late 18th century
No specific order:
A History of the World in 10.5 Chapters - Julian Barnes
The Gift of Stones, Harvest - Jim Crace
Notes from a Small Island - Bill Bryson
Zorba the Greek - Nikos Kanatzakis
Far From the Madding Crowd, Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
The Maltese Falcon, The Thin Man - Dashiell Hammett
The Natural, God's Grace - Bernard Malamud
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - Stieg Larsson
Animal farm - George Orwell
The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
God is Not Great - Christopher Hitchens
His Bloody Project - Graeme Macrae Burnet
Joseph Heller wrote several really good books after Catch 22. His work is always targeted, funny, painful, political, social. But mainly makes me laugh while reading.