Q: What book are you reading right now?
A: I’m halfway through the biography of Steve Jobs.
Q: If you were stranded on a desert island, would you prefer to find a poetry anthology, a novel, a non-fiction book (History; Biography; Art; Cookery?) or a collection of short stories buried in the sand?
A: A novel please – but I would need a whole library buried in the sand!
Q: What’s the best novel you’ve ever read?
A: Best can mean many things but I like novels that make you think so I’m going to pick two political novels – Animal Farm by George Orwell and The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell.
Q: What books or stories do you most remember reading and enjoying as a child?
A: I read a lot of Enid Blyton’s novels when I was a child – but my favourite was the Faraway Tree series. The children met all kinds of interesting characters in the tree such as Moon-Face, Dame Washalot and Silky the fairy but the best part was the magical lands which they could enter from the top of the tree. Each one was different – sometimes pleasant (Land of Goodies) and sometimes not-so-nice such as the Land of Dame Slap. As a child, I so wanted to find a tree like that!
Q: What book would you give to your closest friend?
A: Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell – it makes you re-think what success is and where it comes from.
Q: Who is Literature’s greatest Hero?
A: It has to be Harry Potter – he battles his way through seven books to defeat the dark wizard, Lord Voldemart.
Q: Who is Literature’s greatest Villain?
A: You can’t get worse than a blood-sucking vampire – I vote for Count Dracula!
Q: What do you like most about the Emirates Airline Festival of Literature?
A: Different cultures, different genres – it is an international celebration of the richness of the written word.
Q: Who would be your first choice to hear/see at the Emirates Airline Festival of Literature?
A: I would like to listen to Lynne Truss, author of Eats, Shoots and Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation. Someone who can make a book about punctuation humorous is definitely worth listening to.
Q: What book are you reading right now?
A: I’m halfway through the biography of Steve Jobs.
Q: If you were stranded on a desert island, would you prefer to find a poetry anthology, a novel, a non-fiction book (History; Biography; Art; Cookery?) or a collection of short stories buried in the sand?
A: A novel please – but I would need a whole library buried in the sand!
Q: What’s the best novel you’ve ever read?
A: Best can mean many things but I like novels that make you think so I’m going to pick two political novels – Animal Farm by George Orwell and The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell.
Q: What books or stories do you most remember reading and enjoying as a child?
A: I read a lot of Enid Blyton’s novels when I was a child – but my favourite was the Faraway Tree series. The children met all kinds of interesting characters in the tree such as Moon-Face, Dame Washalot and Silky the fairy but the best part was the magical lands which they could enter from the top of the tree. Each one was different – sometimes pleasant (Land of Goodies) and sometimes not-so-nice such as the Land of Dame Slap. As a child, I so wanted to find a tree like that!
Q: What book would you give to your closest friend?
A: Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell – it makes you re-think what success is and where it comes from.
Q: Who is Literature’s greatest Hero?
A: It has to be Harry Potter – he battles his way through seven books to defeat the dark wizard, Lord Voldemart.
Q: Who is Literature’s greatest Villain?
A: You can’t get worse than a blood-sucking vampire – I vote for Count Dracula!
Q: What do you like most about the Emirates Airline Festival of Literature?
A: Different cultures, different genres – it is an international celebration of the richness of the written word.
Q: Who would be your first choice to hear/see at the Emirates Airline Festival of Literature?
A: I would like to listen to Lynne Truss, author of Eats, Shoots and Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation. Someone who can make a book about punctuation humorous is definitely worth listening to.
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