I'm sat hear listening to a radio adaption of the John Buchan adventure yarn "The Courts of the Morning". It is a ripping tale of derring do and I'm enjoying it hugely.

I remembered that the John Buchan books are a real favourite of a pal of mine - an author probably best known for "The Thirty-Nine Steps". I don't share my pal's fondness for these books although he'll be pleased that I even gave "earspace" to one the more obscure volumes in the canon.

Regrettably, neither was I able to counter - enthuse him about one of my favourite authors - Graham Greene (Our Man in Havana, The Quiet American, The Honorary Consul and many more). The book I had selected to entice him with was the carefully selected "Travels With My Aunt", a picaresque and darkly humurous tale of a quiet bank manager whisked away in the late 1960's on to a series of jaunts by his gutsy and eccentric Aunt. The novel also has a nice twist which I won't spoil here.

If you have a favourite author, who is it and how (and with what volume) would you try to recruit further fans?