Bookbenchers: Douglas Alexander MP

After a brief hiatus, the Spectator’s Bookbenchers interview recommences this week. Over at the books blog, Douglas Alexander MP, the shadow foreign secretary, tells us what he plans to read his children over the summer, as well what he hopes to read for himself. He says:

‘My mother, who herself was born in China — the daughter of Scottish medical missionaries — just leant me a book called Through Earth Wind and Fire which is a history of the Scottish missionaries in China which I hope will help fill in some of the gaps in my family history.’

You can read his answers in full.