Tim Farron is president of the Liberal Democrats and shares his reading list with Spectator readers. Hopefully he is not thinking of the state of his own party when he suggests Lord of the Flies as the book that best sums up ‘now’, but in case he is, the next book he plans to read is all about ‘the empty promises of love, money and power’.
1) Which book’s on your bedside table at the moment?
The Redeemer by Jo Nesbo.
2) Which book would you read to your children?
Currently reading The Horse and His Boy by CS Lewis.
3) Which literary character would you most like to be?
Ellie Arroway, the hero in Contact by Carl Sagan.
4) Which book do you think best sums up ‘now’?
Lord of the Flies by William Golding.
5) What was the last novel you read?
A Troubled Man by Henning Mankel.
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