Below is a list of authors and occasional titles that we are interested in although this is not inexhaustible:
FICTION
John Buchan
Joel Chandler Harris (Uncle Remus)
Raymond Chandler
Leslie Charteris
Agatha Christie
Arthur C. Clarke
Arthur Conan Doyle
Ian Fleming (Bond titles)
Patricia Highsmith
Hammond Innes
John le Carré
Ngaio Marsh
Baroness Orczy (Scarlet Pimpernel)
Edgar Allan Poe
Terry Pratchett
Nevil Shute
P. G. Wodehouse
John Wyndham
LITERATURE
Jane Austen
“BB”
Harriet Beecher Stowe (Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
John Bunyan (The Pilgrim’s Progress)
Anne, Charlotte & Emily Bronte
Jeffrey Chaucer
Erskine Childers (Riddle of the Sands)
Winston Churchill
Wilkie Collins
James Fenimore Cooper (Last of the Mohicans)
Charles Darwin
Daniel Defoe
Alexandre Dumas
Daphne du Maurier
George Eliot
T. S. Eliot
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Graham Greene
Thomas Hardy
Ernest Hemingway
Aldous Huxley
Henry James
M. R. James (ghost titles)
Samuel Johnson (Dictionary of the English Language)
James Joyce
Rudyard Kipling (Kim & Jungle Books)
D. H. Lawrence
T. E. Lawrence
Harper Lee (To Kill a Mockingbird)
Gaston Leroux (The Phantom of the Opera)
C. S. Lewis (Christian & other Literature)
Herman Melville (Moby Dick)
John Milton (Paradise Lost)
Nancy Mitford
Iris Murdoch
Vladimir Nabokov (Lolita & Camera Obscura)
George Orwell
Boris Pasternik (Doctor Zhivago)
Anthony Powell
Vita Sackville West
J. D. Salinger (The Catcher in the Rye)
Walter Scott
Mary Shelley
John Steinbeck
Robert Louis Stevenson
Bram Stoker
Flora Thompson (Cranford)
J. R. R. Tolkien
Mark Twain
Jules Verne
Evelyn Waugh
H. G. Wells
Oscar Wilde
Virginia Woolf
POETRY
Seamus Heaney
Ted Hughes
Philip Larkin
Sylvia Plath
Dylan Thomas
CHILDRENS & ILLUSTRATED
Aesop’s Fables
The Rev. W. Awdry (Tank Engine titles)
Helen Bannerman (Little Black Sambo)
J.M. Barrie
Frank L. Baum (Wizard of Oz titles)
“Beano” Annuals (1940’s & 1950’s)
Enid Blyton
Michael Bond (Paddington)
“The Broons” Annuals (1940’s, 1950’s & 1960’s)
Lewis Carroll (Alice in Wonderland & Alice Through the Looking Glass)
Carlo Collodi (Pinocchio)
Richmal Crompton (William titles)
“Dandy” Annuals (1930’s, 1940’s & 1950’s)
Roald Dahl
Edmund Dulac
Ian Fleming (Chitty Chitty Bang Bang)
Kenneth Grahame (Wind in the Willows)
Hergé
Capt. W. E. Johns
Andrew Lang (Fairy Books)
C. S. Lewis (Narnia titles)
A. A. Milne
Edith Nesbit
Kay Nielsen
“Oor Wullie” Annuals (1940’s, 1950’s & 1960’s)
Beatrix Potter
Arthur Rackham
Arthur Ransome
Rupert (Mary Tourtel)
Dr Seuss
Anna Sewell (Black Beauty)
Dodie Smith (101 Dalmations & Capture a Castle)
J. R. R. Tolkien
Louis Wain