Not all all, Eliza. One of these days I'm going to track down and re-read Malcolm Saville's Lone Pine series, which I loved as a kid. And last year I re-read Alan Garner's The Owl Service and read Diana Wynne Jones' wonderful Fire and Hemlock for the first time, at the urging of Suibhne O'P (who also put me onto the Herefordshire detective stories of Phil Rickman, which I urge anyone who likes a bit of semi-pagan Church of England sleuthing to read immediately!).

Silas, glad you backtracked a bit. I don't think my mixture of trash fiction, popular history and the odd literary novel in my earlier post could be characterised as "showing off". All I know is that if I haven't got a book on the go and several more to choose from when the current one is finished, I start to get very twitchy....