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The prize-winning author on a masterclass from Hilary Mantel, rereading James Joyce, and coming back to Wuthering HeightsMy earliest reading memory
I was seven. It was a book called Run With the Wind, by Tom McCaughren, which is like an Irish riff on Watership Down but with foxes instead of rabbits. I loved it.My favourite book growing upAlexandre Dumas’s The Three Musketeers. I think I was 12. I remember finding it funny, gripping and yet also much darker than I’d expected. When I discovered there was a sequel called Twenty Years After, I asked the local bookshop to order it in (the first time I had ever done this), which felt momentous. Continue reading...