The book that changed my lifeI read to learn and with the hope of being changed and transformed, and so I would hope that every book I read changes me to some degree. It’s one of the great, but still neglected modernist texts, and changed my way of seeing and thus of writing. The last book that made me laughI am reluctant to admit Four Crowded Years: The Diaries of Auberon Waugh, 1972-1976. My earliest reading memoryPippin, the comic; I aspired to live in Pogles’ Wood and on many days still do. My comfort readThe 2017 and 2019 Labour party manifestos; never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never.

Source: The Guardian July 30, 2021 09:00 UTC