Here are ten books I would take with me on an island.

  • The Lais of Marie de France (I'm writing my thesis on these!)
  • Ion, by Euripides
  • The Idylls of Theocritus
  • Howl's Moving Castle, by Diana Wynne Jones
  • Chime, by Franny Billingsley
  • The poems of Sappho
  • Henry IV, Part I, by Shakespeare
  • The Iliad of Homer
  • King Lear, by Shakespeare
  • The Merchant of Venice, by Shakespeare