Shelf Life: Jeremy Clarke

Jeremy Clarke, our Low Life correspondent, has sobered up to answer our impertinent questions this week. His latest book, One Middle Aged Man in Search of The Point, is available in hardback.

1) What are you reading at the moment?


Classic Crews: A Harry Crews Reader


2) As a child, what did you read under the covers?


Richmal Crompton, E Nesbit

3) Has a book ever made you cry, and if so which one?


No book has so far, but a Dickens journalism piece called A Walk in the Workhouse usually makes my eyes prick a bit

4) You are about to be put into solitary confinement for a year and allowed to take three books. What would you choose?


Solitary Fitness
by Charles Bronson, Matchstick Model Making for Beginners, Improve Your Matchstick Model Making

5) Which literary character would you most like to sleep with?


Falstaff

6) If you could write a self-help book, what would you call it?


‘50 ways to get a busy barman’s attention’

7) Michael Gove has asked you to rewrite the GCSE English Literature syllabus.