What was the first book to make an impression on you? Sons and Lovers by D H Lawrence. What was your favourite book as a child? Treasure Island bought for me by my Uncle Terence when I was eight years old. And what is your favourite book or books now? Anything by John Updike and Richard Ford. Camus’s Algerian Notebooks, Per Petterson and I’m re-reading Anna Akhmatova’s poems, both in translation. What is your favourite quotation? Use it or lose it. Who is your favourite fictional character? Gavin Burke in Brian Moore’s Emperor of Ice Cream. A role...
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