Next off the shelf is actor Tom Hollander. He tells us what children ought to read at school, which party from literature he’d most like to attend, and that his dream is to play Victor Hugo’s most tragic hero. The first episode of the new series of ‘Rev.’, in which he stars, airs tonight at 9pm on BBC2.
1) What are you reading at the moment?
London Fields, by Martin Amis
2) As a child, what did you read under the covers?
The James Bond books
3) Has a book ever made you cry, and if so which one?
One Day (I know, I know)
4) You are about to be put into solitary confinement for a year and allowed to take three books. What would you choose?
The collected works of Dickens, Tolstoy and Teach Yourself Mandarin
5) Which literary character would you most like to sleep with?
Helen of Troy
6) If you wrote a self-help book, what would you call it?
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