More farm life than park life, the only cheese Alex James now produces is in his dairy. He lets us in on which books he’s reading in his country house, what he’d get girls & boys to read for school and why he thinks literature is what a good camembert could never be: past its sell-by date.
His latest book All Cheeses Great and Small: A Life Less Blurry is out now. Mark Mason has reviewed it for the current issue of the Spectator.
1) What are you reading at the moment?
Treasure Island. I haven’t stopped
reading it for five years. It’s a masterpiece.
2) As a child, what did you read under the covers?
Everything: Enid Blyton, Willard Price, Roald Dahl, Diana Wynne Jones was a favourite, and Eric Linklater,
3) Has a book ever made you cry, and if so which one?
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Hmmm.
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