The acclaimed author on writing his most personal novel to date, finding inspiration on Twitter, and why he was horrified by Granta’s list of the best young British writers
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During my brief hiatus from boring you to tears I was forcibly reminded that, as a child, I was a UK subject. I read the best UK literature including Dickens, Tennyson, Austen, Burns and Shaw. But I always preferred humour so gravitated towards.
JUSTIN WEBB: My mum hinted later life that boarding school was to get me away from my troubled stepfather Charles But was it also due to a fear of the intense bond with me that she had created?