This week’s bookbencher is Gloria De Piero, the Labour MP for Ashfield. She has a soft spot for Wuthering Heights and Karl Marx’s Das Kapital.
Which book’s on your bedside table at the moment?
Race of a Lifetime. I’m half way through it. It’s a behind the scenes tale of the last Presidential race. It has real fly on the wall stuff on Barack and Michelle, Hillary and Bill, John and Elizabeth Edwards and John and Cindy McCain. It covers the highs and the lows of their campaigns as well as their personalities, their foibles, their strengths and the tensions between their staff. It’s written by two US journos so it zips along and is really good fun to read.
Which book would you read to your children?
I don’t have children. My sister in law has 2 young boys who talk about Moshi Monsters a lot.
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