The Jack Reacher novelist on Shakespeare’s casual knack for magnificence, finally discovering the joy of Jane Eyre, and the transformative power of Margaret Atwood
… are you reading now?
Two at once. I m listening to the audio book of Empireland by Sathnam Sanghera, his eye-opening insight into just how hard-wired the imperial and colonial history of Britain is into the way we live now. It s an amazing education.
And reading with my eyes, The Last Trial by Scott Turow. Turow is something I ve been searching for for a long time, a novelist who writes like a great literary author at the level of the sentence, like Updike or Roth or Carol Shields, but with banging crime/legal drama plots.
… would you take to a desert island?