Paul Daniels, whose first name is actually Newton, is this week’s Shelf Lifer. He tells us what he’s reading at the moment and what he thinks about Janet Street Porter.
His website is found at pauldaniels.co.uk
1) What are you reading at the moment?
Charles Dickens by Michael Slater
2) As a child, what did you read under the covers?
The Water Babies by the Reverend Charles Kingsley
3) Has a book ever made you cry, and if so which one?
No, never
4) You are about to be put into solitary confinement for a year and allowed to take three books. What would you choose?
This is an old survey! I’d take an iPad, a Kindle and a charger. If they HAD to be books: Greater Magic; An Encyclopedia; World Atlas that incorporates facts/statistics
5) Which literary character would you most like to sleep with?
Scheherazade
6) If you could write a self-help book, what would you call it?
Just Do It
7) Michael Gove has asked you to rewrite the GCSE English Literature syllabus. Which book, which play, and which poem would you make compulsory reading?
Toad of Toad Hall, Macbeth, Phenomenal Woman by Maya Angelou
8) Which party from literature would you most like to have attended?
The Mad Hatter’s Tea Party
9) What would you title your memoirs?
I already did…. Under No Illusion
10) Which literary character do you dream of playing?
The Child Catcher11) What book would you give to a lover?
A log book
12) Spying Mein Kampf or Dan Brown on someone’s bookshelf can spell havoc for a friendship. What’s your literary dealbreaker?
Any book by Janet Street Porter
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