My Favourite Reads - by Caroline Kenyon

I read books quite quickly - and then sadly when I look back at them I can't remember very well what happened!
I think it's partly down to a bad memory but also I get so engrossed in whatever I am reading at the time that I find it hard to recall anything I have read previously - a bit like listening to one song and trying to remember the tune of another.

But I can confidently recommend the last three books I have read, they were all brilliant. All were funny, insightful and with amazing characters - though that is where the similarity ends.
They are: Salmon fishing in the Yemen by Paul Torday - about a fisheries scientist asked to create a salmon river in the Yemen;
Two caravans by Marina Lewycka - really funny tales of refugees working on strawberry fields and in chicken factories by the author or A short history of tractors in Ukrainian, another brilliant novel;
The 2 and a half pillars of wisdom by Alexander McCall Smith, my current favourite author. He is the author of the No One Ladies Detective Agency series - gently humorous tales of Botswanan life. The star of 2 and a half Pillars is a cultivated but rather pompous professor whose staid character is in contrast to the strange adventures which befall him.

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