John Wells (1) (1936–1998)

"Princess Caraboo," with an all-star cast will win the heart of any romantic. It is indeed a fairytale, tho based loosely on fact. Phoebe Cates, Jim Broadbent, Wendy Hughes, Kevin Kline and Stephen Rea are uniformly splendid in their parts.

This is undoubtedly the greatest epistolary novel ever written about a man who has sex with trees. Brilliant and hilarious.

This book was first recommended to me by one of my teachers about 15 years ago. It took me a number of years to finally track down a copy but when I did I found it to be a very enjoyable read. Definitely quite weird and perhaps slightly disturbing, but extremely funny.

The London Library claims to be the largest lending library in the world. This informative and entertaining history was written to celebrate the library's 150th birthday. The author's affection for the place is shared by some 8,000 fellow members. His book, together with more than one million others, can be found on the open-access shelves.