Nigel Havers is in the hotseat this week. He tells us about his intimacy with the Racing Post and his dreams of playing Casanova. You can catch him tonight in Corrie.
1) What are you reading at the moment?
Fifty Shades of Grey – EL James
2) As a child, what did you read under the covers?
The Racing Post
3) Has a book ever made you cry, and if so which one?
The White Hotel – DM Thomas
4) You are about to be put into solitary confinement for a year and allowed to take three books. What would you choose?
War & Peace – Leo Tolstoy, The Darling Buds of May – HE Bates, and Nostromo – Joseph Conrad
5) Which literary character would you most like to sleep with?
Marian Maudsley in The Go Between, but only if she looked like Julie Christie in the film!
6) If you could write a self-help book, what would you call it?
The Nigel Havers Guide to the Great Vintage Years of Claret
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