The titles chosen for these samplers are linked by their affinity with velvet - but that's where the similarity ends.
To the touch, velvet is rich, sensuous and luxurious - appropriate words to describe the type of language you will experience in many of these extracts. Although all the samplers take the same theme, titles on the lists may vary according to what is available in each format.
A Velvet Touch - Braille list
Robertson Davies - What's Bred in the Bone
Seamus Deane - Reading in the Dark
L P Hartley - The Go-Between
Susan Howatch - Glittering Images
Kazuo Ishiguro - The Remains of the Day
Jean Rhys Wide - Sargasso Sea
Michele Roberts - Daughters of the House
Vikram Seth - A Suitable Boy
Rose Tremain - Restoration
Jill Paton Walsh - Knowledge of AngelsA Velvet Touch - Calibre Cassette list
Seamus Deane - Reading in the Dark
Helen Dunmore - A Spell of Winter
L P Hartley - The Go-Between
Susan Howatch - Glittering Images
Kazuo Ishiguro - The Remains of the Day
G T di Lampedusa - The Leopard
Anne Michaels - Fugitive Pieces
Michele Roberts - Daughters of the House
Jean Rhys - Wide Sargasso Sea
Jill Paton Walsh - Knowledge of AngelsA Velvet Touch - RNIB Talking Books CD list
John Berendt - Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
Seamus Deane - Reading in the Dark
Susan Howatch - Glittering Images
L P Hartley - The Go-Between
Kazuo Ishiguro -The Remains of the Day
Anne Michaels - Fugitive Pieces
Michele Roberts - Daughters of the House
Vikram Seth - A Suitable Boy
Rose Tremain - Restoration
Jill Paton Walsh - Knowledge of AngelsA Velvet Touch - Large Print Book list
U = Ulverscroft I = Isis C = Chivers M = Magna
John Banville - Eclipse (C)
Ronan Bennett - The Catastrophist (I)
Michael Cunningham - The Hours (I)
Anita Desai - Fasting Feasting (C)
Helen Dunmore - Ice Cream (I)
Joanne Harris - Five Quarters of the Orange (C)
Susan Hill - Air and Angels (U)
Michael Ondaatje - Anil's Ghost (C)
Edward Rutherfurd - The Forest (C)
Vikram Seth - An Equal Music (C)
