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Julian Cope's double autobiography.

What a book that is.

The Escape Artist - the man who broke out of Auschwitz - by Jonathan Freedland. 100 pages in. Incredibly powerful & devastatingly brilliant.

I found Marr's book very disappointing. Reading Keef Richard's autobiography, which even as a not a big Stones fan, I'd recommend. Very entertaining.

Read this many, many years ago and it made a lasting impression on me. What a devastating book. Might well re-read it.

You're clearly a man of good literary taste. I loved The North Water too. Brilliant, brutal and bloody. A real pager turner wasn't it. It was the ship's surgeon of course, not the captain, who was the other protagonist. How are you getting on with the Booker list? Any recommendations?

Just finished the Narrow Road to the Deep North. I thought was a slow burner to begin with but then became electrifyingly intense and whilst that was impossible to maintain post POW camp, I loved the aftermath and found it moving. It's a brilliant written and memorable book which I'd throughly...

On my list. Good to hear.

Started on the Karl Ove Knausgaard's marathon... really good.

Do No Harm by Henry Marsh, a brilliant, moving and very honest account about his life as a neuro-surgeon. I can't recommend it enough.

Yes... Any Human Heart is a brilliant book, a vivid and deeply moving account of what it means to be human. If you're enjoying that, I'd strongly recommend Boyd's The New Confessions. It's literary equal if not better.

Talking to Terrorists by the BBC journalist Peter Taylor. Fascinating behind the scenes material, from the IRA to Al Qaeda.