What was the first book to make an impression on you? The one that I watched my mother read in her chair in the corner of the kitchen. What was your favourite book as a child? Roald Dahl’s Matilda. When I was 10 or 11 years old, I was lucky enough to meet Dahl at a signing in Dublin. He scribbled on my copy of Matilda: “Gavin, Love Roald Dahl.” It’s the only book that I still possess from my childhood. And what is your favourite book or books now? At gunpoint I’d probably say Marguerite Yourcenar’s Memoirs of Hadrian or Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita. What is your favourite quotation? If, with the literate, I am Impelled to try an epigram, I never seek to take the credit; We all assume that Oscar...
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