Kate Hoey, the independent minded Labour MP for Vauxhall, is in the hot seat this week. She’s reading Boris on London and would save The Pilgrim’s Progress from a burning
library.
1) Which book’s on your bedside table at the moment?
Johnson’s Life of London by Boris Johnson
2) Which book would you read to your children?
Every Child’s Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan, retold by Derek McCulloch and illustrated by Geoffrey Fletcher.
3) Which literary character would you most like to be?
Jo from Little Women by Lousia
May Alcott
4) Which book do you think best sums up ‘now’?
Londoners: The days and nights of London Now, as told by those who love it, hate it, live it, left it and long for it, by Craig Taylor.
5) What was the last novel you read?
One Day by David Nicholls
6) Which book would you most recommend?
Black Diamonds: The Rise and Fall of a great English Dynasty – Catherine Bailey
7) Given enough time, which book would you like to study deeply?
The Natural History of Ulster by John Faulkner and Robert Thompson
8) Which books do you plan to read next?
Atlee’s Great Contemporaries: The Politics of Character by Frank Field
9) If the British Library were on fire and you could only save three books, which ones would you take?
The King James Version of the Bible, Mukiwa:
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