The pleasure of reading
By: edited by Antonia Fraser
Edition: Paperback edition.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Paperbacks, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: 2015
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 329
ISBN-13: 9781408859629; 9781408859636
Subjects: Books and reading; Authors
Description: In this delightful collection forty-three acclaimed writers explain what first made them interested in literature, what inspired them to read and what makes them continue to do so.
Notes: Originally published : London : Bloomsbury, 1992.

"43 writers on the discovery of reading and the books that inspired them."--Book cover.
Table of contents: title: Stephen Spender; title: Michael Foot; title: Patrick Leigh Fermor; title: Doris Lessing; title: Brian Moore; title: Robert Burchfield; title: Judith Kerr; title: John Mortimer; title: John Fowles; title: Jan Morris; title: Philip Ziegler; title: J.G. Ballard; title: Ruth Rendell; title: Edna O'Brien; title: John Carey; title: Jane Gardam; title: Ronald Harwood; title: A.S. Byatt; title: Simon Gray; title: Roger McGough; title: Emma Tennant; title: Tom Stoppard; title: Margaret Atwood; title: Germain Greer; title: Melvyn Bragg; title: Gita Mehta; title: Buchi Emecheta; title: Sally Beauman; title: Wendy Cope; title: Sue Townsend; title: Hermione Lee; title: Timberlake Wertenbaker; title: Alan Hollinghurst; title: Carol Ann Duffy; title: Paul Sayer; title: Candia McWilliam; title: Rana Kabbani; title: Jeanette Winterson; title: Kamila Shamsie; title: Rory Stewart; title: Katie Waldegrave; title: Emily Berry; title: Tom Wells.