Tall tales

Cheers Channel 4 - although what I saw of your four-part 'The Story Of The Novel' series, which finished on Saturday, was very good albeit a little sketchy (understandably so), you have left me immersed deep in feelings of shame and inadequacy. It saddens and appals me that I have read nothing by the likes of Evelyn Waugh, Martin Amis, Saul Bellow, Phillip Roth, Salman Rushdie, William Faulkner... I swear henceforth that this state of affairs cannot and will not be allowed to continue.