WHAT BOOK would author Terry Deary take to a desert island?

WHAT BOOK would author Terry Deary take to a desert island?

  • Terry Deary says he is currently reading Only to Sleep by Lawrence Osbourne
  • He would take The Napoleon Of Notting Hill by G.K. Chesterton to a desert island
  • He admits that he has never finished a book written by Charles Dickens 

 …are you reading now?

Only to Sleep by Lawrence Osborne, a new Philip Marlowe story based on Raymond Chandler’s creation. Marlowe is the man I want to be, both the book character and as played by Humphrey Bogart on film. Here is Marlowe at 72 . . . which just happens to be my age.

…would you take to a desert island?

Horrible Histories creator Terry Deary says he is currently reading Only to Sleep by Lawrence Osbourne

I never tire of The Napoleon Of Notting Hill by G.K. Chesterton. A book written in technicolour.

…first gave you the reading bug?

As a child I read The Ladybird Book of British Birds to destruction. I saw eagles in our back garden and dodos in the trees (though my dad insisted they were sparrows).

…left you cold?

I risk being dismissed as a philistine — which may well be true. But I have to confess I have started many — but not finished any — books by Charles Dickens. Mea culpa.

Wiggott’s Wonderful Waxworld by Terry Deary (Scholastic £6.99).

 

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