var n_files = 60;
var file_nr = Math.floor(n_files * Math.random() + 1);

if (file_nr < 1)
file_nr = 1;
if (file_nr > n_files)
file_nr = n_files;

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switch (file_nr)
{ case 1: document.write("<h2><i>Lucky Jim</i> by Kingsley Amis</h2></FONT>");
document.write("<FONT color='FFFFFF'>Kingsley Amis's first popular novel; an extremely funny book about the trials and tribulations of a young would-be academic.</FONT>"); 
break;

case 2: document.write("<h2><i>Cosm</i> by Gregory Benford</h2></FONT>");
document.write("<FONT color='FFFFFF'>Excellent near-future SF.</FONT>");
break; 

case 3: document.write("<h2><i>Stormchild</i> by Bernard Cornwell</h2></FONT>");
document.write("<FONT color='FFFFFF'>The best of Cornwell's 'sailing' books.</FONT>");
break; 

case 4: document.write("<h2><i>To Serve Them All My Days</i> by R. F. Delderfield</h2></FONT>");
document.write("<FONT color='FFFFFF'>The life of a schoolmaster in a British minor public school. Made into an excellent (albeit none too faithful) TV series by the BBC.</FONT>"); 
break;

case 5: document.write("<h2><i>The Neverending Story</i> by Michael Ende</h2></FONT>");
document.write("<FONT color='FFFFFF'>One of the best fantasy novels ever written. Much, much better than any of the films that were spawned by the book.</FONT>");
break;

case 6: document.write("<h2><i>The Day of the Jackal</i> by Frederick Forsyth</h2></FONT>");
document.write("<FONT color='FFFFFF'>Perhaps the best thriller ever written.</FONT>");
break; 

case 7: document.write("<h2><i>The Heart of the Matter</i> by Graham Greene</h2></FONT>");
document.write("<FONT color='FFFFFF'>Quite simply, the best novel of the twentieth century.</FONT>");
break; 

case 8: document.write("<h2><i>Skallagrigg</i> by William Horwood</h2></FONT>");
document.write("<FONT color='FFFFFF'>A moving story of cerebral palsy. The best book I read in the 1980s. Extremely hard to find, for reasons that are a complete mystery to me. This book should be on everyone's 'must-read' list.</FONT>");
break; 

case 9: document.write("<h2><i>A Prayer for Owen Meany</i> by John Irving</h2></FONT>");
document.write("<FONT color='FFFFFF'>An excellent, quirky novel; perhaps Irving's best.</FONT>");
break; 

case 10: document.write("<h2><i>Redwall</i> by Brian Jacques</h2></FONT>");
document.write("<FONT color='FFFFFF'>After a while this series became tedious and rather stale, but the first few books are fresh and exciting.</FONT>");
break; 

case 11: document.write("<h2><i>Therapy</i> by David Lodge</h2></FONT>");
document.write("<FONT color='FFFFFF'>Archetypal Lodge: clever, funny and hard to put down. Great therapy, in fact.</FONT>"); 
break;

case 12: document.write("<h2><i>The First Man in Rome</i> by Colleen McCullough</h2></FONT>");
document.write("<FONT color='FFFFFF'>The first of her 'ancient Rome' series. Astonishing in its richness and quality.</FONT>"); 
break;

case 13: document.write("<h2><i>Coming Home</i> by Rosamunde Pilcher</h2></FONT>");
document.write("<FONT color='FFFFFF'>Perhaps I liked this book so much because it is set in West Cornwall (albeit with many of the place names changed), which is where I grew up. Anyway, a gentle read that passes the time in a suitably pleasant manner.</FONT>"); 
break;

case 14: document.write("<h2><i>Swallows and Amazons</i> by Arthur Ransome</h2></FONT>");
document.write("<FONT color='FFFFFF'>The book that started one of the most popular series in children's literature. Adapted numerous times for films and TV, the book remains a classic. I've lost count of the number of times I've read it.</FONT>"); 
break;

case 15: document.write("<h2><i>The Warden</i> by Anthony Trollope</h2></FONT>");
document.write("<FONT color='FFFFFF'>The first of the Barchester Chronicles. A short book (Victorian novels were usually published in three volumes; this was a single volume) but one that is both highly enjoyable and humourous.</FONT>"); 
break;

case 16: document.write("<h2><i>Couples</i> by John Updike</h2></FONT>");
document.write("<FONT color='FFFFFF'>Rather explicit, but highly enjoyable, account of life in a small town on the East Coast.</FONT>"); 
break;

case 17: document.write("<h2><i>The Chrysalids</i> by John Wyndham</h2></FONT>");
document.write("<FONT color='FFFFFF'>Superb post-apocalypse novel about a group of mutant children living in a society dedicated to expelling all mutants.</FONT>"); 
break;

case 18: document.write("<h2><i>Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency</i> by Douglas Adams</h2></FONT>");
document.write("<FONT color='FFFFFF'>Mind-bogglingly brilliant novel about Oxford, software and a sofa stuck on a stairway.</FONT>"); 
break;

case 19: document.write("<h2><i>Freedom and Necessity</i> by Stephen Brust and Emma Bull</h2></FONT>");
document.write("<FONT color='FFFFFF'>Epistolary novel set during the time of the Chartists in England. Published as SF/Fantasy, for no reason that I can see.</FONT>"); 
break;

case 20: document.write("<h2><i>Without Remorse</i> by Tom Clancy</h2></FONT>");
document.write("<FONT color='FFFFFF'>Possibly the best of Tom Clancy's novels. Set in the late 1960s, one man wages war against a drug and prostitution ring.</FONT>"); 
break;

case 21: document.write("<h2><i>Martin Chuzzlewit</i> by Charles Dickens</h2></FONT>");
document.write("<FONT color='FFFFFF'>Vastly underrated novel, worth reading for the sardonic commentary on life in frontier America alone. Disappointing ending, though --it reads as if he simply decided to end the novel and wrote the first ending that came to mind. The question that always bothers me about this book is: to which Martin Chuzzlewit does the title refer?</FONT>"); 
break;

case 22: document.write("<h2><i>Pillars of the Earth</i> by Ken Follett</h2></FONT>");
document.write("<FONT color='FFFFFF'>Cathedral-building in the Middle Ages transformed into a brilliant, enthralling novel.</FONT>"); 
break;

case 23: document.write("<h2><i>Jude the Obscure</i> by Thomas Hardy</h2></FONT>");
document.write("<FONT color='FFFFFF'>Wrenching tragedy about the pointlessness of trying to escape one's background. Hardy's best; greatly underrated.</FONT>"); 
break;

case 24: document.write("<h2><i>The Hotel New Hampshire</i> by John Irving</h2></FONT>");
document.write("<FONT color='FFFFFF'>Typically idiosyncratic novel featuring bears, hotels and Irving's usual mix of impossible-but-all-too-believable characters.</FONT>"); 
break;

case 25: document.write("<h2><i>This Perfect Day</i> by Ira Levin</h2></FONT>");
document.write("<FONT color='FFFFFF'><i>1984</i> redux, but none the worse for that.</FONT>"); 
break;

case 26: document.write("<h2><i>The Book of Knights</i> by Yves Meynard</h2></FONT>");
document.write("<FONT color='FFFFFF'>Wonderful little fantasy about a boy's journey to knighthood.</FONT>"); 
break;

case 27: document.write("<h2><i>1984</i> by George Orwell</h2></FONT>");
document.write("<FONT color='FFFFFF'>All right, so none of this actually happened by 1984. Even so, everyone should read this at least once. A truly ominous glimpse at what the future might hold.</FONT>"); 
break;

case 28: document.write("<h2><i>The Emperor's New Mind</i> by Roger Penrose</h2></FONT>");
document.write("<FONT color='FFFFFF'>Not an easy book, but there's a lot here to think about, even if you don't agree with some of it. Stephen Hawking gets all the press, but for my money Penrose is the more insightful thinker.</FONT>"); 
break;

case 29: document.write("<h2><i>Sarum</i> by Edward Rutherfurd</h2></FONT>");
document.write("<FONT color='FFFFFF'>Micheneresque treatment of a town in southern England.</FONT>"); 
break;

case 30: document.write("<h2><i>Anna Karenina</i> by Leo Tolstoy</h2></FONT>");
document.write("<FONT color='FFFFFF'>Justifiably classic story of a woman's refusal to adhere to the constraints placed on her by society.</FONT>"); 
break;

case 31: document.write("<h2><i>The Witches of Eastwick</i> by John Updike</h2></FONT>");
document.write("<FONT color='FFFFFF'>Engrossing story of three women with supernatural powers.</FONT>"); 
break;

case 32: document.write("<h2><i>Leave it to Psmith</i> by P. G. Wodehouse</h2></FONT>");
document.write("<FONT color='FFFFFF'>It's by Wodehouse. What more need be said? Indeed, what more can be said?</FONT>"); 
break;

case 33: document.write("<h2><i>Flatland</i> by A. Square (Edwin A. Abbott)</h2></FONT>");
document.write("<FONT color='FFFFFF'>As it says on the cover: 'A Romance of Many Dimensions'. A very short book, justifiably a classic.</FONT>"); 
break;

case 34: document.write("<h2><i>The Snow Tiger</i> by Desmond Bagley</h2></FONT>");
document.write("<FONT color='FFFFFF'>A cave-in in a New Zealand mine leads to a mystery of the first order.</FONT>"); 
break;

case 35: document.write("<h2><i>King Rat</i> by James Clavell</h2></FONT>");
document.write("<FONT color='FFFFFF'>Brilliant novel that is a sort of <i>The Admirable Crichton</i> in reverse.</FONT>"); 
break;

case 36: document.write("<h2><i>The Dreaming Suburb</i> by R. F. Delderfield</h2></FONT>");
document.write("<FONT color='FFFFFF'>The first in his <i>The Avenue</i> series. Life in a suburban avenue, 1919 to 1949.</FONT>"); 
break;

case 37: document.write("<h2><i>Silas Marner</i> by George Eliot</h2></FONT>");
document.write("<FONT color='FFFFFF'>What begins as a dark, brooding novel becomes a delightful treasure as the story unfolds.</FONT>"); 
break;

case 38: document.write("<h2><i>The Power and the Glory</i> by Graham Greene</h2></FONT>");
document.write("<FONT color='FFFFFF'>An alcoholic priest on the run from the authorities is forced to confront his spiritual responsibilities. Brilliant.</FONT>"); 
break;

case 39: document.write("<h2><i>Raffles: the Amateur Cracksman</i> by E. W. Hornung</h2></FONT>");
document.write("<FONT color='FFFFFF'>A thoroughly enjoyable collection of short stories featuring Raffles, the gentleman thief.</FONT>"); 
break;

case 40: document.write("<h2><i>The Cider House Rules</i> by John Irving</h2></FONT>");
document.write("<FONT color='FFFFFF'>A New England orphan tries to escape his fate. Somewhat uneven, but definitely worth reading.</FONT>"); 
break;

case 41: document.write("<h2><i>The Bourne Identity</i> by Robert Ludlum</h2></FONT>");
document.write("<FONT color='FFFFFF'>A man with amnesia gradually learns the truth about himself. Ludlum's best.</FONT>"); 
break;

case 42: document.write("<h2><i>The Source</i> by James A. Michener</h2></FONT>");
document.write("<FONT color='FFFFFF'>Michener on Israel. Apart from the end, where he deals with modern Israel with surprising stodginess, this is his most riveting book.</FONT>"); 
break;

case 43: document.write("<h2><i>The Godfather</i> by Mario Puzo</h2></FONT>");
document.write("<FONT color='FFFFFF'>All right, it's a potboiler; but it's a very good potboiler.</FONT>"); 
break;

case 44: document.write("<h2><i>The Death of the Necromancer</h2></i> by Martha Wells</FONT>");
document.write("<FONT color='FFFFFF'>A brilliant book. Gripping from beginning to end, and what more could one ask? It didn't win a Nebula, which just goes to show that there's no justice (which we all knew anyway, right?)</FONT>"); 
break;

case 45: document.write("<h2><i>The Three Musketeers</i> by Alexandre Dumas</h2></FONT>");
document.write("<FONT color='FFFFFF'>All right, it's a classic. But not a <i>boring</i> classic. Instead, it's a great swashbuckling adventure, full of humour and derring-do.</FONT>"); 
break;

case 46: document.write("<h2><i>Strong Poison</i> by Dorothy L. Sayers</h2></FONT>");
document.write("<FONT color='FFFFFF'>I'm not a great fan of the Lord Peter Wimsey books, but this one is an exception. Much the best of the lot, in my opinion.</FONT>"); 
break;

case 47: document.write("<h2><i>The Winter King</i> by Bernard Cornwell</h2></FONT>");
document.write("<FONT color='FFFFFF'>The first in Cornwell's Arthurian trilogy. Don't be misled by the word <i>Arthurian</i>, though. This is a series or Arthurian books unlike any other.</FONT>"); 
break;

case 48: document.write("<h2><i>Magician's Ward</i> by Patricia C. Wrede</h2></FONT>");
document.write("<FONT color='FFFFFF'>A delightful book about a teenage magician in Regency times.</FONT>"); 
break;

case 49: document.write("<h2><i>The Grass Crown</i> by Colleen McCullough</h2></FONT>");
document.write("<FONT color='FFFFFF'>The second of her series on ancient Rome. Note quite up to <i>The First Man in Rome</i>, but still far better than your average historical novel. Chronicles the decline of Gaius Marius and the ascendancy of Lucelius Cornelius Sulla.</FONT>"); 
break;

case 50: document.write("<h2><i>The Einstein Paradox</i> by Colin Bruce</h2></FONT>");
document.write("<FONT color='FFFFFF'>An imaginative series of entertaining Sherlock Holmes stories in which the detective applies his capacity for logic to some of the puzzles engendered by relativity and quantum mechanics. I spotted only one minor error, which was more than made up for by the fact that I had not seen several of these layman-friendly approaches before.</FONT>"); 
break;

case 51: document.write("<h2><i>Under Milk Wood</i> by Dylan Thomas</h2></FONT>");
document.write("<FONT color='FFFFFF'>The last major piece finished by Dylan Thomas, and in my book the best thing he ever did. His use of the sound of the English language is without peer.</FONT>"); 
break;

case 52: document.write("<h2><i>Whirlwind</i> by James Clavell</h2></FONT>");
document.write("<FONT color='FFFFFF'>Compelling story of an aviation company caught in the turmoil of Iran's 1979 revolution.</FONT>"); 
break;

case 53: document.write("<h2><i>The Complete Stories of Saki</i> by H. H. Munro (Saki)</h2></FONT>");
document.write("<FONT color='FFFFFF'>Many of Saki's short stories are classics of the genre; but even those that aren't are worth reading for the sheer pleasure of reading writing of such quality. Saki's novels may seem rather depressing and jingoistic to readers reading his work a century after it was written but, like the short stories, I find his writing to be so enjoyable that the lack of political correctness in the content is irrelevant. (Besides which, I'm not the most politically correct of people myself.)</FONT>"); 
break;

case 54: document.write("<h2><i>The Fist of God</i> by Frederick Forsyth</h2></FONT>");
document.write("<FONT color='FFFFFF'>Super thriller set during the Kuwait war of the early 1990s.</FONT>"); 
break;

case 55: document.write("<h2><i>The End of the Affair</i> by Graham Greene</h2></FONT>");
document.write("<FONT color='FFFFFF'>Poignant wartime story of love, loss and a miracle.</FONT>"); 
break;

case 56: document.write("<h2><i>The Other Boleyn Girl</i> by Phillipa Gregory</h2></FONT>");
document.write("<FONT color='FFFFFF'>Excellent novel about the political and emotional battles surrounding Henry VIII's determination to dissolve his marriage to Catherine of Aragon.</FONT>"); 
break;

case 57: document.write("<h2><i>Rainbow Six</i> by Tom Clancy</h2></FONT>");
document.write("<FONT color='FFFFFF'>John Clarke returns in Clancy's best novel since <i>Without Remorse</i>.</FONT>"); 
break;

case 58: document.write("<h2><i>Ancient Shores</i> by Jack McDevitt</h2></FONT>");
document.write("<FONT color='FFFFFF'>In North Dakota, a farmer finds a sailboat buried in a field. Great SF. I never did figure out why this didn't win a Nebula</FONT>"); 
break;

case 59: document.write("<h2><i>Shantaram</i> by Gregory David Roberts</h2></FONT>");
document.write("<FONT color='FFFFFF'>A wonderful novel about an Australian escaped convict living in the Bombay slums. Writtem by an Australian escaped convict who lived in the Bombay slums.</FONT>"); 
break;

case 60: document.write("<h2><i>Coming Back to Me</i> by Marcus Trescothick</h2></FONT>");
document.write("<FONT color='FFFFFF'>True story of how depression ended the international career of a great sportsman.</FONT>"); 
break;

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