Jeffrey Archer is on this week’s Shelf Life. He lets us know what practical gift he’d give a lover for Christmas (apart from his latest bestseller Only Time Will Tell) and what spotting the Labour Manifesto on someone’s shelf might make him do…
1) What are you reading at the moment?
Boomerang by Michael Lewis
2) As a child, what did you read under the covers?
Ian Fleming
3) Has a book ever made you cry, and if so which one?
A Time to Love and a Time to Die, Erich
Maria Remarque
4) You are about to be put into solitary confinement for a year and allowed to take three books. What would you choose?
I was, for two years! Bleak House by Charles Dickens, Ulysses (I’ve still never made it past page 17) and the complete works of P
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