@ Charles
Requiem for a Wren is FANTASTIC!

I read it when I was in my teens and I remember crying for ages. Brilliant book, brilliant author.

Now I'll go back and read the rest of the replies.

EDIT
I've read the replies now and I'll add what I'm reading at the moment - just the fiction though because I shouldn't think anyone wants to read The Poetry Handbook...
I'm still ploughing through Salman Rushdie's latest - The Enchantress of Florence which I'm thoroughly enjoying as it's just like the fairy tales I read as a child - particularly the Andrew Lang ones.
I'm also reading The Visible World by Mark Slouka which is beautiful - all about Czechoslovakia during WW2. It really reminds me of the Tarkovsky film 'Mirror' I think it is - the one about his childhood, maybe it's called 'Childhood'...hmm...Imdb calls...
( chickenlady b3ta's very own Elizabeth Taylor, Thu 4 Dec 2008, 13:42, Reply)