What was the first book to make an impression on you? Two books stand out: Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness and JD Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye. What was your favourite book as a child? Island of the Great Yellow Ox by Walter Macken. And what is your favourite book or books now? Right now, it would probably be Raymond Carver’s Collected Stories or – if it existed – the Collected Poems of Seamus Heaney, as I find myself returning continually to his verse since his death last year. What is your favourite quotation? “You’re on Earth. There’s no cure for that” –...
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