Music:
Charlotte Martin, Death Cab For Cutie, The Cure, Imogen Heap, Joseph Arthur, Postal Service, Radiohead, Snow Patrol, Leona Naess, Martha wainwright, Sigur Ros, ray lamontagne, Royksopp, Jon Hopkins, Sheila Nicholls, Heather Nova, Arcade Fire, Laura Veirs, Joanna Newsom, Reindeer Section, Decemberists, Elliott Smith
Books:
Poetry: Auden, Dickinson, Plath, Blake, Wordsworth Fiction: Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, Sue Townsend, Kiran Desai, Philip Pullman, George Eliot, Clare Boylan, Philip Roth, Umberto Eco, Daphne du Maurier, Rob Penn, J.K Rowling