Music:
Coldplay, Zero 7, Thievery Corp, The Strokes, Incubus, Jeff Buckley, Al Green, David Gray, Interpol, Damien Rice, Finley Quaye, Elefant, Edith Piaf, Björk, D'Angelo, Sugababes, Richard Ashcroft, a lot of 80's hits ( from Bowie to The Police to Mr.Mister to New Order)
Books:
Shel Silverstein's Falling Up, The Harry Potter Series, Orwell's Animal Farm, Austen's Sense and Sensibilities, Pride and Prejudice, Dickens D.Copperfield, Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things...what else?.... oh Jamie Oliver's Naked Chef and Nigella's Forever Summer. Lovely.