After a brief hiatus, the Spectator’s Bookbencher interview returns. First up is Douglas Alexander, the Labour MP for Paisley and Renfrewshire South and shadow foreign secretary. He tells which books he’ll be reading this summer.
1) Which book’s on your bedside table at the moment?
Leaving Alexandria by Richard Holloway — the recently published memoir of one of Scotland’s most controversial and colourful churchman on his life’s journey from faith to doubt.
2) Which book would you read to your children?
As a family we have read and loved all the Katy Morag adventures set on the fictionalised Isle of Struay based on the actual Isle of Coll in the Hebrides. Right now I am reading with my daughter ‘Katy Morag Delivers the Mail’. And my son has introduced me to the delights of Michael Morpurgo.
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