Les 6 livres préférés de MC Beaton

Dans un article de l'Express qui date du début du mois, MC Beaton a livré une liste de ses 6 romans favoris.  

Citation :

The Hamish Macbeth books inspired a TV series in the 1990s and an adaptation of the Agatha Raisin stories is being filmed.

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KIDNAPPED by Robert Louis Stevenson; Penguin, £7.99

This really inspired me. I read it when I was young but still think it’s great. Forget the Booker Prize, storytelling is what I love and this is storytelling at its best. 



MURDER MUST ADVERTISE by Dorothy L Sayers


This Lord Peter Wimsey book is where I discovered that detective stories could also be funny – I ended up writing detective stories because I read virtually nothing else. This is a very cynical look at advertising. You won’t believe a thing you see in an advert after reading it.

LIGHT OF DAY by Eric Ambler

I like anti-heroes and there’s a ghastly one in this. He’s a nasty little crook yet you desperately want him to win through. He gets caught up in a far bigger robbery than he has anticipated and ends up working for the Turkish secret police. It’s very funny. 



COLLECTED POEMS 1909-1962 by TS Eliot

A lot of poetry is pastoral but Eliot wrote about the city and I identified with that. Although I live in the country now, I’m basically a city person because I was brought up in Glasgow in the days of trams, gaslight and fog. There’s always beauty in cities.

VANITY FAIR by Thackeray

I have always had a sneaking sympathy for Becky Sharp as a rebellion against the sentimental heroine Amelia. I was also fascinated by the Regency period and have written more than a hundred books set in that era. The snobbery and cynicism of the time is very well executed here.

THE DUKE by Philip Guedalla

A biography of the Duke of Wellington, this is the way history should be written. It goes at a tremendous pace but has all the facts. Wellington was a first-class commander which is interesting because it seems he was quite sensitive.

Enlevé ! de RL Stevenson vient d'être édité chez Sillages. Comme je n'arrête pas de lire des éloges sur ce roman, je vais l'ajouter à ma PAL.

C'est chouette de découvrir cette liste parce que ce ne sont pas forcément les livres les plus cités habituellement.
Je ne connais pas le Stevenson non plus.

Merci Emjy!
La série de Dorothy L. Sayers me tente bien!