What are your five favorite books, and why?
The Passion by Jeanette Winterson. The most perfectly written story of unrequited love and pain, war and beauty.
Something by John Irving, probably A Prayer for Owen Meany. JI brings this strange little character to life and makes I him and his tortuous voice so real and vivid that I've been back to it many times.
Fragile Things. Wonderful collection of Short Stories, intelligent, dark, and also brings the poorly treated Susan from the Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe in from the clutches of CS Lewis.
The Cement Garden. Creepy, sordid tale from the writer of his generation. Perfect from start to finish.
A brief history of nearly everything. Bill Bryson. The best book of popular science I've read. Brings difficult subjects to life.
What are you working on next?
Always writing stories, fragments in many cases, and re-writing and re-writing my novel, Ordinary about a man who travels to other realities and discovers in each that the versions of himself as the same boring berks as he in every world he visits.
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