Top 5 romantic reads - selected by Librarian Mr Ian Corkett

Librarian Mr Corkett selects his top 5 romantic reads this St. Valentine's Day.
Ian's top 5 books can be loaned by pupils from the school library and all feature a common theme; not just love, but love across boundaries. Click on the links below to listen to his short synopsis of each of his chosen literary works.
1) Persuasion by Jane Austen
2) The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
3) Heat and Dust by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
4) Blade Runner by Philip K. Dick
5) Poems of 1912-13 and Other Poems About Emma by Thomas Hardy