Shelf Life
Irene Knox
Favourite book from childhood:
CS Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.
Book I didn't make it through:
War and Peace (Tolstoy), Ulysses (Joyce) and many more!
Secret reading vice:
James Patterson
Most under-rated book:
Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code
Most over-rated book:
William Trevor
Irish Writer I keep going back to:
I only wish I had the talent to write a book – any book!
One book I'd love to have written:
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
The book I go back to time and again:
Rachel’s Holiday by Marian Keyes. I’m not a great fan of reading the same book over and over again, but with this gem I can totally lose myself in the plot. It’s powerful, uplifting and hilariously funny. I was nearly going to have this as ‘book I’d love to have written’ but I seriously don’t think anyone but Marian, with her life experience of addiction and depression, could have written it so well.
Five for a rainy day:
Alice Sebold, Lovely Bones
Charlotte Bacon, Lost Geography
Ruth Rendell, Any of her novels, the most recent that I read was Going Wrong
MM Kaye,The Far Pavilions
Sue Miller, Family Pictures
Irene Knox was appointed as Chief Executive (Designate) of the proposed Northern Ireland Library Authority in August 2007. A Librarian by profession, Irene previously worked for the South Eastern Education and Library Board (SEELB).
