Reading Old Favourites

Reading Old Favourites

As anyone who knows me knows, I have spent acres of my life reading books. I’m not especially well read – I like to discover my kind of a great author and read all their books, and I’m fond of re-reading old favourites – but I don’t mind that. Over the course of a decade or so, several re-reads of a book is no punishment, as each time, I collect something new from the experience as my perspective alters.

Having come a roundabout route to writing, I suspect that re-readi...