- When Jerry Levitan met John Lennon
Completely wonderful animation. Watch it, watch it!
- Tone Matrix
I never get tired of playing with these. Love, love, love the way it stops, too. Have a look at his other sound work – it's all good.
- 'Important Artifacts...', Leanne Shapton
My book of the year!
- 'The White Tiger', Aravind Adiga
India, now.
- The Unnamed, Joshua Ferris
Brilliant new novel from author of And Then We Came To The End
- Generation A, Douglas Coupland
I'd say give it a miss
- Legend of a Suicide, David Vann
Fabulous, dark, funny, surprising first novel
- Michael Palin: Halfway to Hollywood, diaries 1980-1988
Entertaining & charming
- Terra Incognita, Sara Wheeler
Wise, funny, adventurous Antarctic travelogue
- The Sartorialist, Scott Schuman
Beautiful pictures of the beautifully dressed
- The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Sherman Alexie
One of my favourites from 2009, brilliant coming-of-age novel set in the native-American community
- The Love of Stones, Tobias Hill
Excellent page-turner of a thriller, with layers of history and evocative prose
- Bookshelf: June
It's Nice That 3, Starburst, It's Only A Movie, Zeitoun and Magiciens Galactiques