Instead of writing reviews of the books I release I pick a quote which I think will give an impression of the book - the subject matter and the writing. The books I release are not my favourites - I cannot release those because they are my friends (unless I have a spare one) and I keep them to read again. But one day, of course, they will move on into someone else's life.

The following is a list in no particular order of some of the writers whose books I cannot part with -
Barbara Hanrahan, Elizabeth Harrower, Jim Harrison, Elizabeth Jolley, Lorrie Moore, Nina Berberova, Thomas Hardy, Eudora Welty, Tess Gallagher, William Maxwell, Richard Ford, Willa Cather, Alistair MacCleod, Colm Toibin, Carson McCullers, Virginia Woolf Kirsty Gunn, Jamaica Kincaid, Anita Brookner Tobias Wolff, Tim O'Brien, William Trevor, Ann Beattie, Jane Austin, Bobbie Ann Mason, Ellen Gilchrist,Alice Munro, J. D. Salinger,Richard Bausch, Reynolds Price, Joy Williams, Gerald Murnane, James Galvin, Igmar Bergman, Brian Kiteley, Christina Stead, Gustave Flaubert, Marilynne Robinson.