What was the first book to make an impression on you? The Wizard of Oz, and especially the very weird sequel The Marvelous Land of Oz, where the hero undergoes a sex change in the penultimate chapter. Very disturbing to a five-year-old boy. What was your favourite book as a child? Randolph Stow’s Midnite about a good-hearted but not very intelligent bushranger. The funniest book in the world. And what is your favourite book or books now? Thomas Mann’s Buddenbrooks. What is your favourite quotation? “Nothing matters very much, and...
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