This week’s Shelf Lifer is the indefatigable Joan Collins. She tells us which literary character she’d pick to share a bed with and exactly how many self-help books she’s written.
What are you reading at the moment?
Frank Sinatra: The Boudoir Singer by Danforth Prince and Darwin Porter
As a child, what did you read under the covers?
Forever Amber by Kathleen Windsor
Has a book ever made you cry, and if so which one?
Yes, Charles Dickens’ Oliver Twist when Bill Sikes murders Nancy because it’s the most harrowing description of a murder that I’ve ever read
You are about to be put into solitary confinement for a year and allowed to take three books. What would you choose?
Gone With the Wind, Samuel Pepys’ Diaries and War and Peace, and then I’d stare at the wall for the other half of the year.
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