Jonathan Davidson (N)

Writer and compere at the North Lincolnshire Readers' Festival in October 2008.

My all time favourite five reads are...

1. Shakespeare's sonnet "Let me not to the marriage of true minds..." (No. 116)
2. The Making of the English Landscape by W G Hoskins
3. Jennings and Derbyshire by Anthony Buckeridge
4. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
5. Poem by Geoffrey Hill, Mercian Hymns

My favourite word is...

• Tumblehome
  
  (Find the meaning in the Oxford English Dictionary)

My favourite book from my childhood was...

• Poems by Walter de la Mere

The last thing I read before answering these questions was...

• An e-mail I had just sent to check it said exactly what I wanted it to say to someone I admire

My favourite place to read would be...

• On a big sofa, in a garden, in spring, not in England

If I could only read one last thing in my life it would be...

• The poem my ten year old daughter wrote about the sky.