A Page of Lists

When I'm visiting someone for the first time, there's no better way to learn about them - what kind of person are they? am I going to like them? get on with them? than studying their bookshelves.

This page is a bit like that: a page of lists that would help a visitor find out more about me. And naturally, I like to be liked; so if you like the same things I do, let me know.

Ten Favourite Films

But not necessarily in this, or always the same, order.

1. Fever Pitch
2. Chariots of Fire
3. Groundhog Day
4. Leon
5. Alien
6. Shakespeare In Love
7. Witness
8. Galaxy Quest
9. Michael Collins
10. Full Metal Jacket

These are films I can watch over and over again.

Some of my main contributions to Wikipedia

If you've never visited Wikipedia, do so without delay! It's one of the things the Web was invented for.

• Marston, Oxfordshire
• Norman Heatley
• Elsfield
• Long Mynd
• Mary Webb
• J. L. Carr
• Greenmantle
• Bishop of Oxford
• Lincoln College, Oxford
• The Funniest Joke in the World

Wikipedia is a good place to be, where you feel you are helping to make a universal encyclopedia of the people, by the people, for the people.

Robert McCrum's All Time Top Ten Works of Literature

Published in the Observer, May 30, 2004

1. The King James Bible
2. The Works of Shakespeare
3. Ulysses
4. Pilgrim's Progress
5. Johnson's Dictionary
6. A Room of One's Own
7. Emma
8. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
9. Middlemarch
10. Wuthering Heights