MemberPaulCranswick

Real Name

Paul Cranswick

About My Library

Some would call it eclectic I would say it was a real hotch-potch of stuff: "serious" fiction, thrillers (classic yarn merchants such as Ambler, MacLean, Innes and Bagley), westerns, series detectives (especially the scandanavian crowd), history, biography and current affairs. With the exception of Tolkein not too keen on fantasy nor romance literature although of course not averse to the odd sex scene well placed!

About Me

Principal of a Project Management company in Malaysia. Originally from Wakefield in West Yorkshire have been living in Johor Bahru, Singapore and Kuala Lumpur since 1994. Married to Hani with three children: Yasmyne, Kyran and Belle. Love reading and listening to my extensive CD collection usually at the same time.

Location

Kuala Lumpur

Memberships

LibraryThing Early Reviewers

Currently Reading

The Complete Fairy Tales by The Brothers Grimm

Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson

Years of Renewal by Henry Kissinger

Two on a Tower by Thomas Hardy

Strumpet City by James Plunkett

Favorite Authors

Eric Ambler, Honoré de Balzac, Melvyn Bragg, André Brink, Pearl S. Buck, Andrea Camilleri, Albert Camus, Peter Carey, Charles Dickens, Sebastian Faulks, Robert Goddard, Robert Graves, Graham Greene, Thomas Hardy, Paul Krugman, Henning Mankell, W. Somerset Maugham, Rohinton Mistry, Brian Moore, Alice Munro, R. K. Narayan, Jo Nesbø, Sharon Kay Penman, Muriel Spark, Howard Spring, John Steinbeck, Graham Swift, J. R. R. Tolkien, William Trevor, Elie Wiesel, , Émile Zola

Favorite Lists

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die, 150 Best Novels Selected by Brander Matthews (1883), Best 21st Century Books (So Far), Best Contemporary Literary Fiction (Around the Last 30 Years), Books Read in 2021, Books Read in 2022, Folio Society, The Guardian's 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read, Maybe This Year? Books to Look Forward To, Oprah's Book Club (original and 2.0), , TML 200 Best Books 1950-1999

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