Our Xmas dinner

We did a sort of desert islands choice this year - with each person not needing to take the Bible if they so wished. 

Sheila

Dictionary with a magnifying glass.

Opera 101: A Complete Guide to Learning and Loving Opera by Fred Plotkin, Placido Domingo.

Under Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas with the Richard Burton recording.

Luxury: sun cream and a self-fluffing towel.

Chris

Tinker, Taylor, Soldier Spy by John Le Carré

Swiss Family Robinson, unabridged, by Johann Rudolf Wyss

Remembrance of Things Past by Marcel Proust

Instead of the Bible – The Nations Favourite Poems

Luxury: bed

Jo

The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway

Half a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by Tobias Smollett
The Prophet - Kalil Gibran

Luxury: never-ending diary and supply of pencils.

Donna

First edition Geographers’ A-Z Atlas of London and Suburbs with House Numbers, produced under the direction of Phyllis Pearsall.

The Good Soldier, by Ford Maddox Ford

Maus by Arte Spiegleman

Luxury: bath with continual running hot water and equally self-fluffing towels as Sheila.

Caroline

Smile for the Camera by James Gray

My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell

The Balkan Trilogy by Olivia Manning

Luxury: iPad to view photos and compile crossword puzzles.

Bridget

To Kill and Mocking Bird by Harper Lee

Fairy Books Collection of Andrew Lang

David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

Luxury: hot shower and the another self-fluffing towel

Marion

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

A book about code breaking

The Education of Hyman Kaplan by Leo Rosten

The largest possible book about plant identification/a global compendium of flora and fauna

Luxury: pair of tweezers.

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