| 1 | Best short story I ever read: J.D Salinger’s ‘For Esme With Love. Like a razor slicing through a peach — exquisite and perfectly painful all at the same time. |
| 2 | Book I finished reading but wanted my time back afterwards: Helen Fielding, Novel number 2. |
| 3 | Book I would blush to be seen reading on the tube Ulrika Jonsson’s autobiography. |
| 4 | Best ‘film of the book’ I've seen: Butcher Boy, directed by Neil Jordan, from the novel by Patrick McCabe. |
| 5 | Worst Film of a book Mad Cows directed by Sara Sugarman — great book, dreadful adaptation. |
| 6 | Most out of date author photo I’ve seen John Irving, The Cider House Rules. |
| 7 | Most famous author I’ve met who acted like a prat Robert Kilroy-Silk. Being in his presence was like being swiftly eradicated by a very tall fly-squatter. |
| 8 | My favourite bookshop Off Stage – specialist film/theatre bookshop, Camden. Mosey inside, pick up a screenplay then mosey outside, find a bench on the canal and enter the world of Woody Allen or Hal Hartley. Perfect! |
| 9 | Author I’d like to see presented with all kinds of awards Eve Ensler author of ‘The Vagina Monologues’ — hats off to anyone who makes ‘vagina’ a popular word. |
| 10 | 10 Celebrity author I'd like to see beaten with a stick, then never again Jeffrey Archer — poor stick. |
