Some contrived, some entirely accidental. They make a kind of ‘poetic’ sense. The brain can’t help but make associations. I think of them as unruly haikus. (They are way off the required syllable count.)
Cod
Very Like a Whale
but beautiful
The White Goddess
Weeds
New Grub Street
Last Friends
Waiting for the Barbarians
In Patagonia
Philosophy 1
Metaphysics
The Inland Voyage
Black Swan Green
Loving
Cony Catchers and Bawdy Baskets
The Long March
Death at Intervals
Rule of the Bone
Lucy
Interpreter of Maladies
On the Road
Junky
Annie John
At the Bottom of the River
Bonnie and Clyde
Trout fishing in America
Cooking for Crowds
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
French Cheeses
The Adventures of Dougal
Ulysses
Surfacing
One Moonlit night
All my Sons
Wild
Mosquitos
The House of Whacks
Sex Habits of American Women
A Study in Scarlet
Bandits of Cisterna
Alamut
The Magick of Thelema
Rabbit Rich
V.
Rigadoon
Ratman of Paris
In the Skin of a lion
Eisenstein
Wide Sargasso Sea
Dark as the Grave wherein my Friend is Laid
Mimes et poètes antiques
The Red Widow Murders
The White Priory Murders
Forbidden Colours
The Painted Word
Nederlands zilver
The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh
Some Prefer Nettles
Training the young horse
Cults: faith, healing and Coercion
Desperate characters
On Chesil Beach
Beyond Desire
We Fought them in Gunboats
Mr Stone and the Knights Companion
Lord Malquist & Mr Moon
The Witch’s Daughter
Reading the Cantos
Being good
Colette
A Girl at the Helm
Innocent Libertine
The Long Song
Nothing Like the Sun
In the Heart of the Sea
A Dead Man In Deptford
The Castle of Crossed Destinies
Conundrum
Bluff
What Life Could Mean to You
The Politics of Jesus
Listen to Danger
A Lesson before dying
Terrorist
The Kidnapped King
The Prince
Dragon Captives
On the Black Hill
The Yellow House
A Parcel of Trees
South Moon Under
Sands of Mars
Desert Solitaire
People of the Deer
The Charging Buffalo
From Adversaries to Comrades-In-Arms
A History of Spanish Firearms
Comrades
Men without women
Lucy
Save me the Waltz
The Price of my Soul
Hilbert
Working With Singing Bowls
Interaction Ritual
A High Wind in Jamaica
A House Unlocked
Muses Are Heard
Jane Steele
Girl, 20
Love’s Executioner
Heed the Thunder
Signalman’s Apprentice
To Sunset and Beyond
Marx
Cooking with Wine
Civilization and Capitalism
The Veiled Sun
Transparent Things
Pursuit of Signs
Recipes from the White Hart Inn
Everlasting Syllabub and the Art of Carving
The Chef at War
Graceland
Consumption
The Favourite Game
The Great ship from Amacon
Bloody Sun at Noon
The Living and the Dead
The Tiger’s Wife
Dreams from Bunker Hill
The Spoilt Kill
From Ritual to Romance
The Story of Juliette
The Elusive Embrace
Book of Ireland Folk
Tales of the Borders
The Gipsy’s Baby
The Singing Sands
The Stones of Venice
The divers of Acapulco
God Is Not Great
When You Are Engulfed In Flames
The Black Death
Guns, Germs & Steel
Politics
Murder, Inc.
The Tiger’s Wife
No Beast So Fierce
Without Feathers
The English Opium-Eater
A Taste of the Sun
Narcopolis
The Three Hostages
Theory of War
The Ideas behind the Chess Opening
Billiards at Half-Past Nine
41 Degrees
Fearless Symmetry
The British Museum is Falling Down
Picture
The Mermaids in the Basement
Sun Came Down
Between the World and Me
I’m Gone
Access To History: The British Empire, 1815-1914
Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism
The Anatomy of Disgust
Troubles
Running in the Family
Way of the World
The Last of England
Lions and Shadows
1066 And All That
Henri Rousseau
Scenes from the Back of Beyond
The Jungle
Pigeon
Flight to Arras
Distant Water
I, Leonardo
Borrobil
Shart
The Monkey’s wrench
Springhaven
The Catcher in the Rye
Pleasant Valley
Scenes of Clerical Life
The Blind Watchmaker
A Glass of Blessings
Cider with Rosie
Portable Utopia
Clandestine in Chile
The French Lieutenant’s Woman
Envisioning Information
Tobacco Road
Nicotiana tabacum
Light Years
Hell’s Angels
A Long Way from Verona
O Pioneers!
The Porcupine
Views
His First Kangaroo
Emperor Julian
Spellbound
Soldier of the Great War
Drunkard’s Walk
Across the Common
The Bay Of Noon
Chairman Rolf Fehlbaum
The Man who went into the West
Living With Killer Whales, Bald Eagles, and Kwakiutl Indians
Elizabeth and Essex
Fiesta
That Night
The Worm in the Bud
Ladies of Llangollen
Geography of the Heart
Radical Evil
Little cabbages
When Least Is Best
All That Is
Wood and Stone
Labyrinths
Mr Peanut
A Single Man
The Outsider
Cock and Bull
Amazing Bone
Portnoy’s Complaint
Bring Me the Head of Willy the Mailboy
Sigmund Freud
Invitation To A Beheading
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
The Black Book and the Mob
The Devil in the White City
Life on Waller Creek
Soldiers’ Pay
Black Eagle Child
Mary Reilly
The Spirit Woman
Dreams from Bunker Hill
Tomorrow in the Battle Think Of Me
Picture
The Laughing Policeman
Beatrice and Virgil
Midnight’s Children
Journey to the End of the Night
Notes of a Native Son
In Darkest England and The Way Out
Hawksmoor
Earth and Water
The Sunlight Dialogues
The Universe for Beginners
Archipelago
Coral Reef Fishes
Learning to Dream
Indian Schintzes
Japanese Porcelain
The Web and the Rock
The American twenties
Scarface Al and the Crime Crusaders
Murder Michigan
Brazen Head
Thomas Willis
Up in the Old Hotel
The Sutra on the Eight Realizations of the Great Beings
The Gate of Angels
Inner Circle
Captain Conan
Robinson Crusoe
The Discoverers
Clock Without Hands
Of light and sounding brass
The Infinite Plan
The Plough and the Stars
Poetry of resistance in occupied Palestine
Today the Struggle