Anyone have a list of Morrissey's favorite books?

[Nicholas]

I have some cash to burn and I'm looking to purchase some of the books that inspired Morrissey's Smiths lyric "borrowing" and whatnot.

Anyone have a list?

[Johnny]

> I have some cash to burn and I'm looking to purchase some of the books
> that inspired Morrissey's Smiths lyric "borrowing" and whatnot.

> Anyone have a list?

Poetry wise A.E Houseman.

Authors I remember are :-

Thomas Hardy , Nancy Friday, Germaine Greer, Charles Dickens, Virginia Woolfe.

[Tingle]

My contributions: Radclyffe Hall's 'The Well of Loneliness'

Viv Nicholson's 'Spend, Spend, Spend' (only available 2nd hand)

> Poetry wise A.E Houseman.

> Authors I remember are :-

> Thomas Hardy , Nancy Friday, Germaine Greer, Charles Dickens, Virginia
> Woolfe.




Synopsis

[Shaun Goater MBE]

[Johnny]

> I have some cash to burn and I'm looking to purchase some of the books
> that inspired Morrissey's Smiths lyric "borrowing" and whatnot.

> Anyone have a list?

How could i forget :_ Elizabeth Smart "By Grand Central Station"

[JAMESDEANISNOTDEAD]

> I have some cash to burn and I'm looking to purchase some of the books
> that inspired Morrissey's Smiths lyric "borrowing" and whatnot.

> Anyone have a list?

>ALAN SILLITOE : SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY MORNING.FIRST PUBLISHED 1958.
THERE IS ALSO A MOVIE BASED ON THIS BOOK. THIS IS KNOWN INFORMATION.

AND WHAT ABOUT THE MOVIE : BILLY ELLIOT. ALL IN THE LINE OF MORRISSEY, WITH
A FANTASTIC OUTBURST UNDERLINED WITH "A TOWN CALLED MALICE" , BY THE JAM.
IF YOU LIKE FOOTBALL NICK HORNBY'S "FEVER PITCH" , DRAMATIC AND IRONIC.
OR WHAT TO THINK OF THE BOOK ANGELA'S ASHES BY FRANK McCOURT.

[Bluenose]

> AND WHAT ABOUT THE MOVIE : BILLY ELLIOT. ALL IN THE LINE OF MORRISSEY,
> WITH
> A FANTASTIC OUTBURST UNDERLINED WITH "A TOWN CALLED MALICE" , BY
> THE JAM

'Billy Elliot' also uses the T-Rex version of 'Cosmic Dancer' in the opening credits.