Peter Lilley MP is the Conservative MP for Hitchin and Harpenden, and has been an MP since 1983. He was a Cabinet minister in both the Thatcher and Major governments, and today talks to us about Waugh, Tolstoy, and his quest for timeless literature.
1) Which book is on your bedside table at the moment?
The Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe by Roger Penrose
2) Which book would you read to your children?
I think I would read them the Chronicles of Narnia, I am told they’re very good.
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3) Which literary character would you most like to be?
Alyosha in The Brothers Karamazov.
4) Which book do you think best sums up ‘now’?
I don’t quite understand what that question means and I’m not sure that I am terribly interested in ‘now’ – as it were – when I’m reading books.
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