This week Ian Rankin tells us which Jilly Cooper heroine he would sleep with and the title he’d give his self-help book.
1) As a child, what did you read under the covers?
Enid Blyton books and lots and lots of comics (Victor, Hotspur, plus annuals dedicated to those same comics).
2) Has a book ever made you cry, and if so which one?
I had a lump in my throat towards the end of David Nichols’ One
Day….
3) You are about to be put into solitary confinement for a year and allowed to take three books. What would you choose?
Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon,
Bleak House by Charles Dickens,
Lanark by Alasdair Gray.
4) Which literary character would you most like to sleep with?
I’m going to forget her name, but the American TV executive from Jilly Cooper’s novel Rivals. Sexy
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