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I would always (and do, repeatedly. bear with me) recommend Martin Millar's "Ruby And The Stone Age Diet". Lightweight yet capable of reducing me to tears at the drop of a hat.
"Mason & Dixon"- that's such an OH YES. Mechanical duck. Singing dog. Jenkins' Ear (famous from battle of said name). All this and the Ghastly Fop too. It's very cool.
If, however, you want something that'll really upset you (if you're me, anyway) but is bloody good nonetheless, and one of the finest pieces of war writing I've read- after Michael Herr's "Dispatches", Tim O'Brien's "If I Die In A Combat Zone", and Anthony Loyd's "My War Gone By, I Miss It So"- "The Bang-Bang Club", by Greg Marinovich and Joao Silva (which I've nearlt finished, but had to put down because it was doing my head in- it's about, and by, photojournalists in South Africa before and during the fall of apartheid).
And, just for classic (or will be realised to have been such) literature's sake: the complete works of Tove Jansson. |
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