| 1 | Best short story I’ve ever read The Aleph by Borges. |
| 2 | Book that should be on the national curriculum The Joy of Cooking (so that no student ever asks ‘What’s the use of books?’)
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| 3 | Best film of the book I’ve seen To Kill a Mockingbird. |
| 4 | Author I’d most like to talk to In this, I must defer to Margaret Atwood who said something along the lines of 'wanting to meet a writer because you like their books is like wanting to meet a duck because you like pate’. |
| 5 | Book I would blush to be seen reading on the tube I’m shameless about the books I read. |
| 6 | Best question about fashion posed in fiction ‘Was there such a thing as a good poncho? asked Charlotte’ — from Lorrie Moore’s Willing.
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| 7 | The book I’d most like to reread, if I could find it again All Dogs Go to Heaven. I read it when I was 11, and it prompted me to sit down with a friend and write my first novel (entitled, A Dog's Life and After), also when I was 11. Have no idea who wrote it, and no, it has nothing to do with the cartoon movie of the same name. |
| 8 | My favourite bookshop It closed in 1998, but remains my favourite: Wootton’s in Amherst, Massachusetts.
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| 9 | Author I’d like to nominate for the Nobel Prize for Literature Michael Ondaatje |
| 10 | Deceased author I’d most like to resurrect so s/he could write some more. Shakespeare. Because, who else? |
