John Tyrrell
My blogs
Blogs I follow
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Retired |
| Location | Manchester, United Kingdom |
| Introduction | East Anglian melancholic, long exiled in Manchester. |
| Interests | Gardening, theatre, biography, wine, investment, Napoleon, St. Helena, Ipswich Town |
| Favorite movies | Death in Venice, Paris Texas, Man of Flowers, Babette's Feast, Sideways |
| Favorite music | Johnny Cash,Iris DeMent,Queen,Bob Dylan, Sibelius,Mahler,Elgar, Verdi,Puccini |
| Favorite books | Boswell's life of Johnson, Pirsig: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, John Berger:Ways of Seeing, W.G. Sebald: Austerlitz, W.G. Sebald: The Rings of Saturn, Jean-Paul Kauffmann:The Dark Room at Longwood, Valerio Massimo Manfredi: Alexander Child of a Dream, Francis Wheen: Karl Marx, Laurie Lee: As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning,Marina Lewycka A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian, Nassim Taleb: The Black Swan, Winston Churchill:My Early Life, Henry Fielding: Tom Jones, Voltaire: Candide, Gustave Flaubert: Madame Bovary, John Preston:The Dig, Evelyn Waugh: Brideshead Revisited, Jostein Gaarder: Sophie's World, Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby, George Eliot: Middlemarch, Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa: The Leopard |