[BITList] Books

[HUGH]

Colin,

Books, fiction.  Everything John Steinbeck wrote, for a start, but 
definitely Tortilla Flat, Cannery Row and The Grapes of Wrath.  Lindsey 
Davis' series on M. Didius Falco, a "spy" in the employ of the Emperor, 
mostly employed on solving crimes - The Body in the Bathhouse, A Dying Light 
in Cordoba, among others.  The series by Mary Renault on the ancient Greek 
period .... The King Must Die (I've lost my copy), The Bull From the Sea, 
etc.  Also her trilogy on Alexander the Great : Fire From Heaven, The 
Persian Boy and Funeral Games.

These will keep you going for a wee while.  A comment on the previous 
sentence.  Why is it that in Scots usage, "a wee while" is longer than "a 
while" ?

Hugh.