Well, it is finally Summer: the weather is warm, graduations are done, the campus is deserted, the post-grads are all relaxed with annual reviews submitted, supervisors are talking about holidays and the queues are short at the cafes. It means one thing. Time for SUMMER READING.

I have put together a couple of nice big piles of books to get through before February is over. There is a whole mix of stuff, some thesis related, most of it not. Anyway, what I was thinking was this; why not write a review of one, or more, of these books for the FOCUS website? Why not indeed!

So here I am with a question for you all. Which book do you want to know about? I have a few suggestions from my Summer Reading Piles below but if there is one that you want me to review then I will go out, buy it, read it, review it, just for you! That way you can read it, not read it, or we can have a debate about it.

So, here is what I have, post your votes below;

• Albert Camus: The Plague (Famous existentialist novel)

• J. C. Ryle: Holiness (21 papers/sermons on themes related to holiness)

• Umberto Eco: The Name of the Rose (Eco's first novel, a mystery set in a castle run by monks)

• Laura A. Smit: Loves Me, Loves Me Not; The Ethics of Unrequited Love (A discussion of romantic love and how it relates to God's love.)

• Cormac McCarthy: The Road (A novel about a post-apocalypic world with a man, a boy and a road)

• Antony Beevor: The Battle for Spain; The Spanish Civil War 1936-1939 (A not very concise history of the conflict in Spain)

• John Carroll: Humanism; The Wreak of Western Culture (A history and a critique of Humanism in art, literature, politics and thought)

• Oliver O'Donovan: Resurrection and Moral Order; An Outline for Evangelical Ethics (What the subtitle says only it is rather more substantial than an 'outline')

So, there are my offerings up front. Any other suggestions are welcome. What do you want reviewed?