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Alistair MacLean

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5 days ago

Richard Flanagan: ‘When I reread Evelyn Waugh’s Scoop it had corked badly’

The Booker-winning author on taking inspiration from Kafka, and a youthful passion for Jackie Collins

My earliest reading memory
My mother reading Kenneth Grahame’s The Wind in the Willows to me – and …

6 days ago

I’d lost my childhood love of reading – but rediscovered it when I set aside my iPhone | Adrian Chiles

You can keep your ebooks. There is no better way to engage with words than through a paperback

Everything changes so everything can stay the same. In the beginning I read a lot. I read paperback books…

26 days ago

Geoff Dyer: ‘I don’t go to books for comfort; I have a memory foam pillow for that’

The author on Marxist revelations, returning to Don DeLillo and reading all of Elizabeth Taylor

My earliest reading memory
Beatrix Potter when I was having my tonsils out. No point saying how much I …

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