Shelf Life: Mark Mason

Mark Mason, author of Walk the Lines, is in the hot seat this week. He tells us that no woman is truly attractive unless you can imagine going to the pub with her, and admits to a fear that he may be one of Holden Caulfield’s ‘phonies’.

1) What are you reading at the moment?
 
Bob Woodward’s biography of John Belushi. Yes, that Bob Woodward. Strange choice of subject for the man who brought down Nixon (as Woodward himself admits) – but it’s a great read.

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

Agatha Christie. Once boasted to my mother that I’d been awake until 4am finishing Dead Man’s Folly. She was less impressed with this feat than I was.

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

Bizarrely I never seem to cry at books, even ones that move me.