 Not only did Marion Turner read widely, she was also a great one for taking notes from, and writing commentaries on, books of particular interest. The following is a list of works of interest, which she compiled in the latter 1990s.
001 The Question of Hu — Jonathan Spence
002 The Scottish Insurrection of 1820 — Peter Berresford Ellis and
Seumas Mac a'Ghobhainn
003 The Night Sky — Richard Grossinger
004 Lure the Tiger out of the Mountains — Gao Yuan
005 The Collision of Two Civilisations — Alain Peyrefitte
006 The Silent Traveller in London — Chiang Yee
007 The Story of Jodrell Bank — Bernard Lovell
008 The House of Confucius — Kong Demao and Ke Lan
009 Afterglow of Creation — Marcus Chown
010 The Orion Mystery — Robert Bauval & Adrian Gilbert
011 China Through Western Eyes: The Nineteenth Century — J. A. G. Roberts
012 China Through Western Eyes: The Twentieth Century — J. A. G. Roberts
013 Creation Revisited — P. W. Atkins
014 Inside a Planet — G. H. A. Cole
015 Earth: The Making, Shaping and Workings of a Planet — Derek Elsom
016 The Nature of the Chinese Character — Barbara Aria
017 Universe — Michael Rowan-Robinson
018 The Star Raft — Philip Snow
019 Atlas of Neptune — Garry E. Hunt & Patrick Moore
020 The Explorations of Antarctica — Professor G. E. Fogg and David Smith
021 The Teeth of the Dragon — Roy Belmer
022 Wise Daughters from Foreign Lands — Elisabeth Croll
023 Antarctica — Peter Johnson, Creina Bond and Roy Siegfried
024 The Peripatetic Astronomer: The Life of Charles Piazzi Smyth —
H. A. and M. T. Brück
025 The Women of the Caesars — Guglielmo Ferrero
026 Cosmic Impact — John K. Davies
027 New Views on an Old Planet — Tjeerd H. van Andel
028 Nero — Michael Grant
029 The Marvellous Century — George Woodcock
030 Echoes of the Ancient Skies — E. C. Krupp
031 The Tribulations of a Chinese Gentleman — Jules Verne
032 Doom, Gloom, and Very Funny Money — Neil Innes & Richard Robinson
GCSE Economics — Barry Harrison
033 China Seas — John Harris
034 East Asia — Arthur Cotterell
035 The Great Pyramid — Charles Piazzi Smyth
036 Yuriwaka Erik & Masako Haugaard with Birgitta Saflund
037 Mao Tse-tung and His China — Albert Marrin
038 The Empty Throne — Tony Scotland
039 Chinese Diary & Album — Cecil Beaton
040 God's Chinese Son — Jonathan Spence
041 Imperial Exits — Julius Cicatrix & Martin Rowson
042 Grass Soup — Zhang Xianliang
043 Watching the Weather — John and Mary Gribbin
044 China and Japan: Myths & Legends — Donald A. Mackenzie
045 The Tyranny of History — W. J. F. Jenner
046 The Evening Star: Venus Observed — Henry S. F. Cooper, Jr
047 The Rise of Modern China — Immanuel C. Y. Hsü
048 The Search for Modern China — Jonathan Spence
049 Crime and the Académie Française — Patrick Marnham
050 World War II The Aftermath: Asia — TimeLife
051 Zhuangzi Speaks — Tsai Chih Chung
052 Greeks and Romans — Michael Grant
053 The Chinese Century — Jonathan Spence & Annping Chinn
054 The Ancient Historians — Michael Grant
055 The Roman Commonwealth — R. W. Moore
056 The Five Foot Road — Angus McDonald
057 The Hermit of Peking — Hugh Trevor-Roper
058 Number — Prof. John McLeish
059 T'ung Shu: The Ancient Chinese Almanac — Martin Palmer (Editor)
060 Chinese Almanacs — Richard J. Smith
061 The Shape of the World — Simon Berthon & Andrew Robinson
062 Astronomy before the Telescope — Christopher Walker (Editor)
063 The Day before Yesterday — Colin Tudge
064 Caesar's Invasion of Britain — Peter Berresford Ellis
065 Kanzi — Sue Savage-Rumbaugh
066 The Lopsided Ape — Michael C. Corballis
067 The Journey from Eden — Brian M. Fagan
068 Medicine, Mind, and the Double Brain — Anne Harrington
069 The Runaway Brain — Christopher Wills
070 The Calendar — David Ewing Duncan
071 Time Counts — Harold Watkins
072 Forgotten Kingdom — Peter Goullart
073 The New History:
Caesar and Rome — Charlotte Bernard
Alexander and his Times — Frederic Theulé
074 Lao Lao of Dragon Mountain — Margaret Bateson-Hill, Manyee Wan,
Francesca Pelizzoli, Sha-Liu Qu
075 The Primary Colours — Alexander Theroux
076 The Astronomical Scrapbook — Joseph Ashbrook
077 Tutor to the Dragon Emperor — Raymond Lamont-Brown
078 King James: VI of Scotland, I of England — Antonia Fraser
079 Eldest Son: The Life of Zhou Enlai — Han Suyin
080 China Correspondent — Agnes Smedley
081 Scotland's Last Royal Wedding — David Stevenson
082 Zarafa — Michael Allin
083 The Face of Tutankhamun — Christopher Frayling
084 Tutankhamen — Christine El Mandy
085 Yangtze — Lyman P. Van Slyke
086. Phantom Islands of the Atlantic — Donald S. Johnson
087. With the Empress Dowager of China — Katharine A. Carl
088. History in Three Keys — Paul A. Cohen
089. China: A History — Arthur Cotterell
090. Human Antiquity — Kenneth L. Feder & Michael A. Park
091. Isaac Newton — Michael White
092. Eclipse — J. P. McEvoy
093. The Genius of China — Robert Temple
094. The Neptune File — Tom Standage
095. The Search for Cleopatra — Michael Foss
096. Cleopatra — Pat Southern
097. Impact Earth — Austen Atkinson
098. China - A Literary Companion — A. C. Grayling & Susan Whitfield
099. Eve Spoke — Philip Lieberman
100. Falling Leaves — Adeline Yen Mah
101. Watching the Tree — Adeline Yen Mah
102. Akhenaten: Egypt's False Prophet — Nicholas Reeves
103. Eclipse — Duncan Steel
104 Fire on Earth — John and Mary Gribbin
105 The Worlds of Galileo — Michael Hanlon
106 The Tutankhamun Deception — Gerald O'Farrell
107 The Murder of Tutankhamen — Bob Brier
108 The Quest for Mars — Laurence Bergreen
109 Nagel's Encyclopedia-Guide to China — Nagel Publishers
110 Experiences of China — Percy Cradock
111 Mao: A Life — Jonathan Spence
112 China since 1911 — Richard T. Phillips
113 Ramesses — Joyce Tyldesley
114 Calendars and Constellations — Emmeline Plunket
115 Kingdom of the Ark — Lorraine Evans
116 The Phoenicians — Gerhard Herm
117 Worlds Without End — R.A.S. Hennessey
118 The Discovery of a World in the Moone — John Wilkins
119 Jardine Matheson — Robert Blake
120 Foreign Mud — Maurice Collis
121 Treason by the Book — Jonathan Spence
122 The Sextants of Beijing — Joanna Waley-Cohen
123 Marking Time — Duncan Steel
124 Albert Camus: A Life — Olivier Todd
125 The Measure of All Things — Ken Alder
126 A History of Language — Steven Roger Fischer
127 The Daily Life of the Etruscans — Jacques Heurgon
compiled in May 1997
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