- MP for the Scunthorpe constituency.
My all time favourite five reads are…
- Lord of the Rings
- Gerald Durrell’s books, particularly My Family and Other Animals
- The Ragged Trousered Philanthropist
- Travel books, particularly Bill Bryson’s Notes from a Small Island
- Peter Scott’s biography, Eye of the Wind
My favourite word is…
Crepuscular
(Find the meaning in the Oxford English Dictionary)
My favourite book from my childhood was…
The Biggles series – full of daring do if a bit unsound these days!
The last thing I read before answering these questions was…
Constituents mail … never a shortage!
My favourite place to read would be…
I think under the shade on a hot summer’s day in my garden with a nice cold beer.
If I could only read one last thing in my life it would be…
The Complete Works of Shakespeare - that would keep you going for a bit, and such a wealth of material from history to poetry.