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I have a new book out, and it’s got a brilliant, bright and dazzling cover. I hope you like it. Not surprisingly, I love it.…

I’ve just finished reading I am Zlatan Ibrahimovic, the autobiography of the Swedish football who currently plays for Paris Saint-Germain. It arrived in my possession accompanied…

‘I never need to find time to read. When people say to me, ‘Oh, yeah, I love reading. I would love to read, but I…

It was just over a year ago that I stood in front of my book shelves and decided that I should actually start reading some…

‘The healing place of the soul.’ Inscription over the door of the Library at Thebes (ancient Greece, circa 1800BC)   Earlier this year I embarked…

In the 44 years of the Booker Prize, I have only read seven of the winning books, and a further six books that were short-listed.…

I have a number of ambitions that could well be filed under ‘strange’. I want to learn to drive a bus. I don’t remember when…

I think I’m getting old. Well, actually I know I’m getting old, having celebrated my 45th birthday last month, and I hate to tell you…

Elmore Leonard famously published his ’10 Rules of Writing’, and they are wise words indeed. I can’t say that I follow them all, but there…

I have nothing against Pippa Middleton. Apparently, if the newspapers are to be believed, she has a nice arse and I have no reason to…