My earliest reading memory Mum and Dad reading to me before bedtime. I can't remember reading much of my own volition as a young boy, other than football scores. I hated getting picked to read at school but loved listening to the other kids read.
The book that changed me as a teenager Robert Tressell's The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists and George Orwell's Animal Farm. ... using characters as symbols and archetypes.
The writer who changed my mind Orwell. If you read his novels today they inform us about the dystopian mess we're in. ... are about the reduction and disassembly of our humanity.
The book that made me want to be a writer Men at Arms by Evelyn Waugh, or all of what has come to be known as the Guy Crouchback Trilogy. Waugh writes beautifully about the rivalry and loyalty between men.
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