Screenwriter for The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel and now promoting his latest film Now Is Good starring Dakota Fanning and Olivia Williams, filmmaker Ol Parker tells us which book is the funniest ever written, when he might find himself in bed with Martin Amis and what he does exactly when his wife, Thandie Newton, is asleep.
1). What are you reading at the moment?
I tend to have about fourteen books on the go, keeping at least one under my pillow in the hope of absorbing it osmotically. But a current few are the new James Meek, Heart Broke, Jess Walter’s Beautiful Ruins, the magnificent 102 Minutes, about the extraordinary feats of heroism in the Twin Towers as they fell, and the genuinely game-changing HHhH.
2). As a child, what did you read under the covers?
I still read under the covers; my wife likes sleep more than I do. But back then, Mervyn Peake.
3). Has a book ever made you cry, and if so which one?
It’s cheesy to say Before
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