Interests

The Storytellers in my Bookshelf 
John Banville, Jorge Luis Borges, Albert Camus, Anton Chekhov, John Le Carre, Colette, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Arthur Conan Doyle, Graham Greene, Henrik Ibsen, James Joyce, Christopher Marlowe, Francois Mauriac, Charles Morgan, Edna O’Brien, Flannery O’Connor, George Orwell, Boris Pasternak, Harold Pinter, Ian Rankin, Jean-Paul Sartre, Natsume Soseki, Sophocles, Wole Soyinka, Muriel Spark, Rabindranath Tagore, J.R.R. Tolkein, Arnold Wesker, Oscar Wilde, P.G. Wodehouse

The Poets in my Mind 
W.H. Auden, Dante Alighieri, John Betjeman, William Blake, Yosa Buson, E.E. Cummings, John Donne, T.S. Eliot, Seamus Heaney, George Herbert, Geoffrey Hill, Robert Lowell, Czeslaw Milosz, Eugenio Montale, Pablo Neruda, Stuart Merrill, John Milton, Publius Ovid, Christina Rossetti, William Shakespeare, Gary Snyder, St John Perse, Dylan Thomas, R.S. Thomas, W.B. Yeats, Virgil, Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Music in my Ears 
J. S. Bach, The Chieftains, Miles Davis, Claude Debussy, Edward Elgar, Gabriel Faure, GF Handel, Django Reinhardt, Gustav Holst, Carlos Jobim, Georgy Ligetti, Witold Lutoslawski, Oliver Messiaen, Astor Piazzolla, John Rutter, Sakamoto Ryuichi, Domenico Scarlatti, Dmitri Shostakovich, Igor Stravinsky, Karlheinz Stockhausen, John K. Tavener, Takemitsu Toru, Michael Tippett, Antonio Vivaldi, Hector Villa-Lobos, Kurt Weill, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Frank Zappa