It’s that time of the week again – the Sunday Times Culture section has been devoured, and I have a new want list of books. Like a penniless urchin, grubby nose pressed against the window of the sweetshop, I can look but not touch! Listed below are the lovely, shiny books I’d buy if I could…
- On Monsters: An Unnatural History of Our Worst Fears by Stephen T Asma
- Waking up in Toytown by John Burnside
- Smile or Die by Barbara Ehrenreich
- The Children’s Book by AS Byatt
- How to Live: A life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer by Sarah Bakewell
And unusually, there is a novel in this lot…it’ll be interesting to look back and see how many ‘must haves’ turn into ‘well, maybes’ once you don’t yield to the impulse of the moment.
