Peter Wishart is the SNP Member of Parliament for Perth and North Perthshire, and the party’s Westminster spokesman on culture, media and sport, among other areas. He shares his own books choices with Spectator readers this weekend.
1) Which books are on your bedside table at the moment?
On my bedside table (or rather bedside ipad) just now is Skagboys by Irvine Welsh, the prequel to Trainspotting, and tributes and selected writings about Douglas Crawford, my SNP predecessor from the 70s.
2) Which book would you read to your children?
Given he is now 21, and a student, it would probably be the current condition of the bank of dad. But when he was small he, and I, loved The Tiger Who Came to Tea by Judith Kerr (that was one bad cat) and the tales of Katie Morag.
3) Which literary character would you most like to be?
Could only ever be James Bond, but the Sean Connery version
4) Which book do you think best sums up ‘now’?
5) What was the last novel you read?
Read lots of novels, but just finished the excellent And the Land Lay Still by James Robertson: a tour-de-force of a novel covering the last 30 years of Scottish politics.
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